Set Up a Custom Mission on Your Arma 3 Server

You can run any custom mission on your Arma 3 server by uploading the mission PBO file and updating your server.cfg. For a list of built-in missions you can use without uploading anything, see default missions.

Upload and Configure the Mission

1. Log into your game control panel.
2. View your game service.
3. Click the File Manager icon.
4. Navigate to the mpmissions folder and open it.
5. Click the Upload icon and upload your mission .pbo file.
6. Once uploaded, open the Configuration Files menu in the control panel.
7. Open server.cfg.
8. Find the mission template setting. By default it reads ChangeMe.Altis.
9. Replace it with the exact filename of your uploaded .pbo file, without the .pbo extension. For example, if you uploaded MyMission.Altis.pbo, set it to MyMission.Altis.
10. Save server.cfg.

Enable Auto Initialize (Optional)

To have the server load the mission automatically on startup:

1. Open the Commandline Manager and go to the Custom Commandlines tab. Create a new command line if you have not already done so.
2. Enable the Auto Initialize option.
3. Save your command line.
4. Click Select to activate it.

Note: PBO files need to be packed before uploading. See PBO files for instructions on compiling and decompiling PBO files.