Mother Dev Tools

Tip: Currently only a tool for writing ingame commands and routines for Mother OS.

Language mode, IntelliSense, sidebar tools, and formatting for MotherScript files.

Supported file types (MotherScript):

• .ms
• .mini

Minimum VS Code: 1.92

Features

Language + Formatting

• Syntax highlighting (headers, | pipeline lines, numbers, strings, flags, ids like #panel:1)
• Comment toggle with ;
• Folding on command blocks
• Formatter:
  • enforce a single space after the leading |
  • add required trailing ; on pipeline lines
  • configurable spacing around = in headers
  • normalized flag/option spacing

Load Blueprints for Direct Access to Grid Blocks

• Open the Mother view (Activity Bar icon).
• Click Open Blueprint and select your .sbc or .xml.
• View Blueprint Info, Terminal Blocks, and Block Groups.
• While typing a command’s first argument, you’ll get suggestions for:
  • matching block CustomNames (by xsi:type vs command targets)
  • group names (from <BlockGroups>)

IntelliSense

• Command completion (accept inserts a trailing ; and keeps a snippet session so you can Tab through args)
• Argument completion for the first argument:
  • Blocks: suggests quoted CustomName of blocks parsed from a blueprint XML/SBC, filtered by command targets
  • Block Groups: suggests quoted group names
  • Supports targets: ["*"] in commands.jsonc to target all blocks
• Option completion for each command’s options

Settings

motherscript.format.ensureSemicolons         (boolean, default: true)
motherscript.format.normalizePipes           (boolean, default: true)
motherscript.format.spaceAroundEquals        ("none" | "both" | "after", default: "none")
motherscript.format.flagSpacing              (boolean, default: true)

motherscript.lint.missingSemicolonSeverity   ("error" | "warning" | "hint" | "info", default: "error")
motherscript.lint.highlightMissingSemicolon  (boolean, default: true)
motherscript.fixOnSave.ensureSemicolons      (boolean, default: false)

motherscript.lint.missingPipeSeverity        ("error" | "warning" | "hint" | "info", default: "error")
motherscript.lint.highlightMissingPipe       (boolean, default: true)
motherscript.fixOnSave.ensurePipes           (boolean, default: false)

motherscript.catalog.path                    (string, path to commands.json/jsonc; optional)

4. Color Theme (MotherScript Theme)

This extension ships MotherScript Theme (dark).

• Command Palette → Preferences: Color Theme → MotherScript Theme

Themes apply globally. If you prefer language-specific tweaks only for MotherScript, use editor.tokenColorCustomizations targeting the source.motherscript scope, or use the Theme by language VS Code extension.