Admin Guide

Create the department

In the sidebar, enter an internal name and a display label.

The internal name must match a job name in your framework — ambulance on a stock server. This is the job that gets set on a medic when they are hired, and the job other resources check. Lowercase, no spaces.

The display label is what players see on blips, panels and notifications.

Add grades

Go to Grades and add at least two: one entry-level rank and one boss rank.

Each grade has:

• a rank number — 0 is the lowest, and higher numbers outrank lower ones
• an internal name and a display label
• a salary, paid each interval while on duty
• a boss flag

The boss flag is what unlocks the management desk. Without at least one boss grade, nobody can open it.

Rank numbers govern everything else too: minimum ranks on garages, fleet vehicles, uniforms, radio channels and supply shop rows are all compared against them. A boss can only hire, promote or fire below their own rank.

Create a facility

Go to Facilities, pick a type, and create it.

• Hospital — beds, respawn point, x-ray machines, operating tables
• Doctor's office — walk-in reception

Give it a label and pick the type, and the panel closes so you can place the building anchor in the world. The anchor sets the map blip position and the station-marker fallback position; it is not an interaction point of its own. The panel reopens with the new facility once you have placed it.

A facility's label, type and anchor can all be changed later from its Overview tab — including moving the anchor with the same picker.

Place its interaction points

This is the bulk of the work, and all of it is done by walking to the spot.

For each point type, press Add, then place it in the world. The panel closes while you place, and reopens automatically when you are done.

Every facility:

• Clock-in — where medics go on and off duty. At least one is required, or nobody can work there.
• Personal locker — the private stash and the uniform wardrobe
• Management desk — the boss panel
• Supply counter — the supply shop
• Reception — a hospital's check-in desk, or a doctor's office's "Request a Doctor" bell

Hospitals also get:

• Beds — placed with a ghost patient lying in position so you can see exactly how they will lie.
• X-ray machines — two placements: the screen (a translucent preview quad, sized while you aim) and the patient spot where the patient lies or stands.
• Operating tables — the same two placements: the monitor and the table spot.
• Respawn point — one per facility. Players who give up wake up at the nearest one across all your hospitals.

Points can be placed by pointing at the ground, or snapped to the centre of an object you aim at.

Placement controls

An on-screen hint card shows the controls the whole time. Placement has two phases.

Aiming — the preview follows your crosshair:

Fine-tune — the preview stops following you, so you can place it exactly:

Fine-tune is the answer to any spot the crosshair cannot reach — inside a wall, under an MLO's floor, or behind an object that swallows the ray.

Set up the map blip

Each facility has its own blip icon, colour, size and an on/off switch. Leave the custom name blank and the blip is named "Department - Facility"; fill it in to override.

Add a garage and vehicles

Go to Garages, create one, and give it:

• an interaction point — where medics stand to pull a vehicle
• one or more spawn bays — placed with a ghost vehicle preview so you can see the fit. Several bays let several medics pull vehicles at once.
• a type (car, boat or helicopter) and an optional minimum rank

Then go to Fleet and add vehicles. As an admin you add them directly with no cost. Each entry takes a model, a label, a garage, a quantity, an optional minimum rank, a livery, extras and a replacement cost.

Adding a quantity of 5 creates five real vehicles, each with its own plate. The UI groups them into one row for readability.

Editing a fleet row edits every vehicle in that group. Deleting one deletes the whole group, and is refused while any of them is checked out.

The buy catalog bosses use is separate and lives in /ems settings under Fleet — it ships empty.

Add supply shop items

Go to Supply Shop and add rows. Each row takes an item, a label, a price, a category, a sort order and an optional minimum rank.

• Leave the rank blank for a public row anyone can buy — the cures civilians should be able to get for themselves.
• Set a rank for a staff row that only an on-duty medic of that department at that rank or above can buy.

Locked rows are still visible to everyone, marked as staff-only.

Add radio channels

Requires oxide-radio. Each channel takes a frequency number, a label, a minimum rank, an optional duty-only flag and an optional default flag.

The default channel is the one medics are tuned to automatically when they clock in. Only one per department.

Frequencies are globally unique. Trying to take one another resource already owns is refused.

Without oxide-radio installed, the screen says so and nothing is registered.

Build uniforms

Uniforms are captured from what you are currently wearing, so:

1. Dress your character exactly how the uniform should look.
2. Open Uniforms and create one.
3. Capture your current outfit.
4. Choose which clothing slots the uniform owns.
5. Give it a label and an optional minimum rank, and save.

Step 4 is the one that matters. A uniform only overwrites the slots you tick — everything else stays the medic's own clothes. A uniform that owns only the shirt and trousers will not wipe out somebody's hairstyle, shoes or accessories.

The slots you can choose from are the twelve clothing components — face, mask, hair, torso, legs, bag, shoes, accessories, undershirt, body armour, decals and top — and five props: hat, glasses, earpiece, watch and bracelet.

Male and female variants are stored separately. Capturing writes into whichever gender your own character currently is, and the editor tells you which one it saved. To fill in the other, either capture again as a character of that gender, or use the copy buttons to mirror one variant onto the other — a reasonable starting point when the outfit uses the same drawable numbers for both.

Medics change at a personal locker point. Uniforms revert to civilian clothes automatically on clock-out.

Hire somebody

/ems hire 3 ambulance 0

Or hire from the management desk as a boss. Or simply set their framework job to the department's name by any other means — oxide-ems picks that up and enrols them automatically.

New medics are issued a badge number automatically: one higher than the highest badge currently issued in that department. Bosses can change it afterwards from the management desk.