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Blueprints installs on the server. Your players install nothing by hand: Garry’s Mod delivers the interface and its assets to connecting clients automatically, and the interface itself is admin-only.

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Requirements

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July 2021 update or newer
required
A dedicated or listen server you control the files of.
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included in the download
required
The shared runtime, interface and licensing. It ships inside the same archive. Do not install it separately and do not take it from anywhere else.
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from the server
For activation, licence verification, and the cloud-backed features while you use them. See Working offline for what happens without it.
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optional
Only needed if you want the job-spawn adapter. Everything else works on any gamemode.
No Workshop content packs are required. Fonts and interface assets ship inside the addon.

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Install

1

Download the archive from your GmodStore purchases

Your download is personalised to your account. Use your own copy, not one a friend or a forum handed you.
2

Extract it

You get three folders:
vetra-example-adapter is documentation, not part of the product. Install it only if you are writing your own adapter and want a working example to read.
3

Copy the two required folders into garrysmod/addons/

Do not rename the folders. Garry’s Mod mounts every addon into one virtual file system, and the names are how the parts find each other.
4

Start or restart your server

That is the whole installation. There is no config file to edit, no key to paste and no database to set up.
vetra-blueprints needs vetra-framework. On its own it will not load, and the server console says so.

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Confirm it worked

Give it up to ten seconds after the map loads, then run this in the server console:
You want to see ONLINE.
The two lines that matter are state and blueprints. ONLINE and allowed mean everything is working. action always tells you what to do, and says None. when there is nothing to do. Anything else, and Licensing and servers names the state and what to do about it.
vetra_license_status runs from the server console, or in-game from a superadmin. Activation binds a machine to a licence, which is an owner action rather than a moderator one.

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First start and activation

Your download is personalised to your GmodStore account. On first start, Blueprints uses that to activate itself against the Vetra service automatically. There is no code to enter, no dashboard to open and nothing to click. Nothing is sent that you did not already give GmodStore. Activation sends your GmodStore account id (which is in the file you downloaded), your purchase reference, a server name, and an identifier generated locally for this installation. It does not send your player list, your addon list, your configuration files, or the contents of your server. One purchase activates Blueprints on up to three servers at a time. See Licensing and servers.

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Open it

Typed in chat by an admin. Full detail, including the console alternative, in Opening Blueprints.

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Next

Opening Blueprints

The chat shortcut, the console command, and who is allowed in.

Quick start

Capture, change, compare, restore.