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# How to create console commands

This tutorial is intended to guide you through creating custom console commands using the new console attributes.

Console commands are method attributes, that means that you just have to add `[ConsoleCommand(name: "...", docs:"...")]` or `[ConsoleCommand("...","...")]` above your method.\
The **name** argument is the command name itself.\
The **docs** argument is the command description.

{% hint style="info" %}
**Your method does not need to be public but it needs to be static!**
{% endhint %}

If you want to get the arguments of your command when its ran you can simply add a string\[] parameter named `args` as shown below.

```csharp
[ConsoleCommand(name: "useful", docs: "this command is useful.")]
public static void MyCommand(string[] args)
{
    Debug.Log("You entered " + args.Length + " arguments!");
}
```

The method can also have a string return type and will display the returned value as shown below.

```csharp
[ConsoleCommand(name: "useful", docs: "this command is useful.")]
public static string MyCommand(string[] args)
{
    return "You entered " + args.Length + " arguments!";
}
```

As said above, commands needs to be static, so in order to access your non static variables you can use the mod instance as shown below.

```csharp
public string myNonStaticVariable = "some stuff";
public MyModType instance;

void Start(){
    instance = this;
}

[ConsoleCommand(name: "useful", docs: "this command is useful.")]
public static string MyCommand(string[] args)
{
    return "My Variable : " + instance.myNonStaticVariable;
}
```

{% hint style="info" %}
The commands are automatically registered and automatically unregistered when the mod is unloaded.
{% endhint %}