Windrose Enforcer

Windrose Enforcer is server-authoritative anti-smuggle protection for Windrose dedicated servers. If you run a fresh-start server, a PvP server, an ironman challenge, or any community where progression has to be earned here — this is the mod that makes that rule actually true.

It works by capturing every connected player's complete state once per second: talents, stats, level, XP, every inventory item with its stack count, every piece of equipped gear, every ship they own, every cargo slot in every ship's hold, every recipe they've unlocked, every ship-customization they've earned, and every quest scenario completed. That snapshot becomes your server's source of truth.

When a player joins, the mod runs a comparison against the last verified snapshot the server has on file for them. Anything that appeared from outside — smuggled items, imported XP, stolen ships, off-server cargo, talents they didn't grind here — gets caught immediately. By default the player is disconnected with a kick message that points them at a repair tool. Prefer to watch and learn before pulling the trigger? Flip to log-only mode from the bundled web tool's password-gated toggle bar — takes effect within seconds, no server restart needed.

Fresh characters join cleanly. Windrose's default starter inventory (clothes, broken pistol, starter ammo, ship cosmetic unlocks) is pre-whitelisted out of the box, so a brand-new player never gets falsely flagged.

Returning players keep everything they legitimately earned. The mod isn't a save wipe or a state reset — it's a fence. Whatever was on the server last time they logged off is what they come back to.

The only people who hit the wall are the ones trying to cheat their way in. And they get a clean, polite message about it, with a link to fix their save and try again.

No admin needs to be online. No chat commands to learn. No false positives. No telemetry. One mod that does one job, and does it on every join, for every player, on every tick of the server clock.

Main features

• []Fully automated enforcement — Set the policy, walk away. The mod catches smugglers on every single join without an admin watching the server.[/]

  []Complete state monitoring — Talents, stats, level, XP, inventory, equipped gear, ships, ship cargo, recipes, ship-customization unlocks, and quest progress. Nothing slips through.[/]

  []Two modes, one click to swap —

  kick (disconnect on violation) or

  log_only (audit entry, no action). Flip live via the web tool's password-gated toggle bar. No server restart, ever.[/]

  []Bundled Save Repair web tool — Browse any player's snapshot history. Inspect inventory by category with item tiers, equipped gear, talents, stats, ships with full cargo manifests, recipes, ship customization, and quest progress. Built-in search.[/]

  []Smart starter-inventory whitelist — Windrose grants every fresh character ~36 starter items at creation. Pre-whitelisted out of the box so new players join cleanly. Editable in one config file if Windrose ever changes the set.[/]

  []Forensic snapshot history — Every saved snapshot writes a timestamped copy. The latest 5 per player are retained for after-the-fact investigations.[/]

  []Runtime pattern scanner — The C++ DLL resolves native game functions by byte signature at server startup. Survives most game patches without a mod rebuild.[/]

  []Hot-reload config — Edit

  enforcer_data/config.json while the server is running. The mod picks up changes within ~3 seconds.[/]

  []Standalone and self-contained — No upstream framework dependency, no chat-command bus, no admin commands to learn. One DLL, one Lua mod, one config file.[/]

  []100% local, zero telemetry — Everything stays on your server. The web tool runs on localhost. No phoning home, ever.[/]

Requirements

• []Windrose Dedicated Server — May-14-2026 or May-18-2026 build, Windows 10/11 x64[/]

  []Visual C++ 2022 Redistributable — usually already installed on Windows 10/11[/]

  []Node.js 18+ — only required if you want to run the bundled Save Repair web tool[/]

Shout outs

Built on UE4SS — the open-source Unreal Engine scripting framework that makes server-side modding viable. Pattern scanning + binary analysis pipeline made the runtime signature resolution possible. Big thanks to every admin running fresh-start, PvP, and ironman Windrose servers who articulated what a real anti-smuggle solution actually needed to do.