Why clean your mission files?
Comments and whitespace are invaluable during development — they help you navigate your own code, leave notes for yourself, and make working with others easier. But once your mission is live, that context becomes a liability on two fronts.
First, every byte of your mission folder is downloaded fresh by every client on each server connect. Bloated files mean slower loads and a worse first impression. Second, and more importantly, well-commented code is essentially a guided tour of your work — it tells a would-be thief exactly what each script does, how your custom systems are wired together, and where to find the interesting parts. Stripping that commentary out makes your mission significantly harder to read, copy, and redistribute without permission.
- Smaller mission size — less to download on every player (client) connect
- Faster loading — leaner files parse quicker at mission start
- Harder to steal — comment-free, minified code is far more difficult to reverse-engineer and repurpose
Keep comments in your dev environment
Writing comments is a good habit — they help you understand your own code weeks later, make onboarding collaborators easier, and are invaluable when tracking down bugs. Don't stop writing them.
The right workflow is: develop with comments → clean before deploying. Use this tool as the final step when pushing your mission files from your local dev folder to your hosted production server.
1 Select Folder
Select your mission folder (e.g. DayZ_Epoch_11.Chernarus). All
.sqf, .hpp, and .ext files will be detected automatically.
No mission handy? Load the example DayZ_Epoch_11.Chernarus mission to try it out.
2 Cleaning Options
Choose what to strip. Hover each option for details.