Screeps has recently introduced a token-based auth system, and the old authentication system will be deprecated by 01 February 2018. The starter kit has been updated to support this new authentication process.

Migrating to the new auth system

If you have an existing copy of your starter kit, follow these steps:

• Remove the "username" and "password" keys from your screeps.json file, and replace them with "token".

• Upgrade rollup-plugin-screeps to version 0.1.1.

• Follow the authentication steps as defined below.

Seting up Screeps authentication

The authentication token is pulled by the starter kit from a file named screeps.json. A sample config file (screeps.sample.json) is provided within the project, to use it, simply make a copy and rename it to screeps.json.

cp screeps.sample.json screeps.json

Generating an auth token

To generate an authentication token, click [your username] > Manage account. You should see the Auth tokens in the options now, click it.

On the next screen, we'll create a full access token. We pick the Full access option, then click the Generate Token button.

Your generated token should now be shown on your screen. Copy it to your clipboard.

Note: This token will be displayed only once! Make sure to never lose it. However, if you did lose it, simply remove said token from your account, and create a new one.

Now, paste it to your screeps.json file.

Sanity check

Now we'll do a quick check if things are running properly. Let's perform a quick deploy.

npm run push-main

Now go to your Screeps client and check if the main branch is created, or if said branch already exists, the code is overwriten to it.

It works? Good, you've successfully authenticated!

Next up, we'll configure our environment and run our first code deploy.