# TugMe

Buy, own and modify Tugboats – and fight Pirate Tug events.

TugMe turns the Tugboat into a full player vehicle: vendors to buy from, an owner list, teleport-to-me, auto-navigation, towing, torpedoes, water mines, minicopter latching, powered electricals, a working planter/water system and more. It also runs configurable Pirate Tug events with NPCs, turrets and a locked loot crate.

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Buying and owning tugs

Tugboat vendors – NPCs are spawned at Harbors, Fishing Villages and the Ferry Terminal (each can be toggled). Custom vendor positions are supported and vendors can be marked on the map.

Costs – Free, ServerRewards, Economics or a list of items/resources (including custom-skinned items).

Spawn limits – Max alive tugs per player, plus safe-spawn checks (open water, blocked prefabs, players, other tugs, building privilege).

Commands – Spawn with /tugboat, list/remove with /tugremove, teleport with /tugtome, mark on the map with /tugfind.

Native tug control – Optionally block or move vanilla tugboat spawns, or only apply mods to player tugs.

Driving and gameplay

AutoNav – A button (or /autonav) lets the tug sail the ocean path by itself when you leave the wheel, clearing water junk piles in the way.

Torpedoes – Reload key fires a torpedo from the driver's inventory (cooldown configurable).

Water mines – Duck drops an inner tube and C4 mine.

Tow winch – Add an anchor/hook to tow other boats, with collision protection to stop lag machines.

Minicopter latch – Minis (and attack helis) land and lock onto the tug, and unlock when the pilot takes off.

Tune your tug – Health, engine thrust, fuel per second, starting fuel, no-fuel mode, global broadcast, driver check bypass, auto-flip and deep-sea blocking.

Building on the tug

Placement override – Place a whitelist of normally blocked deployables (turrets, SAM, planters, candles, lights, CCTV, cannons, purifiers and more) with per-tug SAM and turret limits.

Rotate items – Hammer hit plus reload rotates supported deployables.

Engine power – Electricals on the tug can be powered while the engine runs.

Water system – Powered Water Purifiers feed planter boxes automatically. /tugplant fills a planter with seeds or clones.

Auth sharing – Boat auth also authorises gun traps, flame turrets and SAM sites.

Cannons and cameras – /tugcannon to mount a cannon, /tugcam to name CCTV cameras.

Copy / paste – Admins can save a tug (including signs and photo frames) with /tugcopy and paste it with /tugpaste.

Safe-zone protection – Optional periodic door damage for tugs idling in safe zones.

Pirate Tug events

Spawn on the ocean path and sail on their own with unlimited fuel.

Configurable NPCs, auto turrets, SAM sites, gun traps and doors with health, ammo and positions.

A loot crate (unique code lock optional) filled from a loot profile with a multiplier. Fires start on the boat after the crate is broken, and the boat is cleaned up after a timeout.

Better NPC, Kits and alternate NPC support; announcements by toast or chat; map markers; FPS and player-proximity safeguards.

PVE support (TruePVE hooks) and Oxide hooks for other plugins: EventTugStarted, EventTugStopped, EventTugLooted.

Start one manually with /tugevent or the console command starttugevent x y z.

Permissions

| Permission | Grants |
|---|---|
| TugMe.Spawn | /tugboat |
| TugMe.Buy | Buy from vendors |
| TugMe.Remove | /tugremove |
| TugMe.Find | /tugfind map markers |
| TugMe.Tome | /tugtome |
| TugMe.Tomeanywhere | /tugtome and spawning without the distance and water-area checks |
| TugMe.Event | /tugevent |
| TugMe.Announce | Receive Pirate Tug announcements |
| TugMe.AutoNav | Enable AutoNav |
| TugMe.Button | See the AutoNav button when driving |
| TugMe.Place | Placement override |
| TugMe.Rotate | Rotate deployables with the hammer |
| TugMe.Torpedo | Fire torpedoes |
| TugMe.Mine | Drop water mines |
| TugMe.Latch | Minicopter latching |
| TugMe.VendorMap | Vendor map markers |

Commands

Players: /tughelp /tugboat /tugremove /tugtome /tugfind /autonav /tugmount /tugplant /tugcannon /tugtow /tugcam /tugevent

Admin: /tugtoken /tugcopy /tugpaste

Console: starttugevent x y z (admin / RCON)

Controls

| On the tug | Driving |
|---|---|
| Rotate = Reload + hammer hit | Fire torpedo = Reload |
| Use anchor / cannon = Duck + hammer hit | Drop mine = Duck |
| Place = Hold fire | |

Optional dependencies

ServerRewards, Economics, Kits, NpcSpawn (Better NPC), TruePVE (via hooks).

Installation

1. Drop TugMe.cs into oxide/plugins.
2. Edit oxide/config/TugMe.json to taste – every feature above is configurable.
3. Grant the permissions you want, for example oxide.grant group default TugMe.Buy.