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How to disable admin tools
I have trouble keeping myself from cheating when resources are a click away, and it's ruining survival for me.
Originally posted by weiler.vivien:
Is it really fun to play a game when you just skip all the challenge it gives you ?
Wouldn't you be happy if you did what no one thought you could do ?
Yes, it is hard to do things the hard way, but it's also boring to do things the boring way.
To be honest I used to skip the difficulty too in video games and every time something wasn't *perfect* I just ragequit... And in the end, it wasn't fun at all.
But now, if something goes wrong, I just try again until it finally works, and seeing the result of the challenge is what makes me happy.
You should try doing something without "easy mode" in *any* game and you'll see.

And if you sometimes want to say "omg what I just made is sooo bad", believe me, it's not. Because even if it's your first try and what you made is objectively bad, it's actually great relative to your skill, and what matters is that you did your best.
Also, you will always improve, so even if right now you're unable to do anything without cheats, maybe in the future you'll be the best at... I don't know, anything you could think of...

But hey, if I couldn't convince you, no problem, it's your life, do what you want with it... But if you're asking how to remove admin tools, it must mean you'll at least try not to use them, so I'm not really worried about that.

P.S. : If this "motivational speech" sounds a little bit... rude ...please understand that this is not what I mean at all. I'm not trying to give you a lesson : I'm just trying to give you an advice.

Anyways, if somehow my half-an-hour-of-writing is useless, as someone said above : take a knife and anihilate your keyboard's f10 key x) I'd rather recommend the hammer however, because it's more fun to smash something than stab it ;)
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Lander1 (Banned) Jun 19, 2019 @ 9:15am 
Or.. Use a butterknife to pry out the F10 Key from the keyboard.
Dan2D3D  [developer] Jun 19, 2019 @ 9:26am 
lol, I use the SM because I want to create right away, I am a creative Guy! :selike:
(I am not a survival player)

I am more in creative mode because of this so that would be my advice > Go creative!
Last edited by Dan2D3D; Jun 19, 2019 @ 9:26am
Revale08 Jun 19, 2019 @ 10:39am 
I too would like this as a feature as I am also lacking in self discipline like Areotale :)
Dan2D3D  [developer] Jun 19, 2019 @ 11:12am 
The only thing I can think of, as "workaround" would be to play on a server so you will not be the host and not have access to the SM.

Some of you could add this suggestion to the community Votes by creating a new "Feedback" on the Portal so all can vote on it.
Last edited by Dan2D3D; Jun 19, 2019 @ 11:12am
Originally posted by AreoTale:
I have trouble keeping myself from cheating when resources are a click away, and it's ruining survival for me.
try nonpopular survival servers
this would help ;)
zachiyo123 Jun 19, 2019 @ 5:34pm 
Is it possible to demote your own status in the player menu to below admin while by yourself? also a suggestion could be to get a friend to join the game for a bit and promote him to admin then have yourself get demoted
Zoekoff Jun 19, 2019 @ 10:22pm 
You do of course realize that if there where a way to disable it, there is also a way to enable it, which means it would not help you. Admin tools are available, but not turned on by default. you have to go into the menu and turn them on yourself.

Adding another option to enable/disable access to admin menu would not help you to not enable access again.

Adding an option to permanently disable them would only work until you reinstall the game to get them back.

Perhaps you should look at why you feel the need to use them?

Do you feel like you do not have enough time to finish what you want to do?

Is something causing you to lose focus on what you are doing?
Originally posted by Zoekoff:
You do of course realize that if there where a way to disable it, there is also a way to enable it, which means it would not help you. Admin tools are available, but not turned on by default. you have to go into the menu and turn them on yourself.

Adding another option to enable/disable access to admin menu would not help you to not enable access again.

Adding an option to permanently disable them would only work until you reinstall the game to get them back.

Perhaps you should look at why you feel the need to use them?

Do you feel like you do not have enough time to finish what you want to do?

Is something causing you to lose focus on what you are doing?

I just find it hard to do things the hard way when its so easy to just enable admin tools
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weiler.vivien Jun 24, 2019 @ 1:46am 
Is it really fun to play a game when you just skip all the challenge it gives you ?
Wouldn't you be happy if you did what no one thought you could do ?
Yes, it is hard to do things the hard way, but it's also boring to do things the boring way.
To be honest I used to skip the difficulty too in video games and every time something wasn't *perfect* I just ragequit... And in the end, it wasn't fun at all.
But now, if something goes wrong, I just try again until it finally works, and seeing the result of the challenge is what makes me happy.
You should try doing something without "easy mode" in *any* game and you'll see.

And if you sometimes want to say "omg what I just made is sooo bad", believe me, it's not. Because even if it's your first try and what you made is objectively bad, it's actually great relative to your skill, and what matters is that you did your best.
Also, you will always improve, so even if right now you're unable to do anything without cheats, maybe in the future you'll be the best at... I don't know, anything you could think of...

But hey, if I couldn't convince you, no problem, it's your life, do what you want with it... But if you're asking how to remove admin tools, it must mean you'll at least try not to use them, so I'm not really worried about that.

P.S. : If this "motivational speech" sounds a little bit... rude ...please understand that this is not what I mean at all. I'm not trying to give you a lesson : I'm just trying to give you an advice.

Anyways, if somehow my half-an-hour-of-writing is useless, as someone said above : take a knife and anihilate your keyboard's f10 key x) I'd rather recommend the hammer however, because it's more fun to smash something than stab it ;)
Dan2D3D  [developer] Jun 24, 2019 @ 7:07am 
Your request is iimpossible, the more I think about it tho you may add it to the community Votes but I am sure it will never be added.
Last edited by Dan2D3D; Jun 24, 2019 @ 7:07am
Mricecool60_NL Jun 25, 2020 @ 6:31pm 
if you able to make a virtual machine and run SE dedi server on it, i found that is was was a good way for me, but yea a non cheat mode would be nice
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