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Licence & server seats

Every purchase comes with a licence key. It looks like XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX.

Getting your key

1. Join our Discord and link your BuiltByBit account with the BuiltByBit bot. You get the NovaUI Buyer role.
2. Run /get-license (or press Get your license in the license channel). The bot shows your key (only to you) and sends it to you in a DM.
3. Give the key to NovaUI, one of two ways:
   • in the server console: novaui license <key>. Saved to config.yml and checked at once, no restart. novaui license on its own shows the status.
   • in plugins/NovaUI/config.yml: under license: set key: "<key>", then restart the server.

/novaui license only works from the console (or RCON). Players can’t use it, not even ops. The key is never shown in full: chat, console and logs show it like NOVA-****-****-AKOD.

Server seats: one key = up to 5 servers

• A server takes a seat the first time it checks your key.
• Run /servers in our Discord, or press Manage servers under your key, to see 2 of 5 server seats used with every server’s name, IP:port and last check.
• Add server - give a name, the server’s IP and port. That seat is kept for that server, and the server at that address takes it on its first check.
• Remove a server - frees its seat right away.
• When all 5 seats are used, another server is refused with “License slot capacity maxed” until you remove one.

Lost your key, or think it leaked?

Run /get-license again. You get a new key and the old key stops working (a server still using it locks at its next check, within 6 hours). Your server seats stay - just give those servers the new key.

How the check works

• NovaUI checks the key online when it starts and every 6 hours.
• A good check is remembered for 3 days, so a short outage of the licence server changes nothing.
• Without a valid key NovaUI stays locked: no HUD, no editor, no pack, and every command except /novaui license says it is locked. The console tells you why (no key, wrong key, revoked, no free seat…).
• What is sent: the key, the product name, a random id for your server (plugins/NovaUI/license/server-id), the server’s port, and the BuiltByBit download ids that BuiltByBit stamps into your copy of the jar. Nothing about your players.