Simple Pterodactyl Game Restart Bot

I set this up for me and my friend's palworld server due to the horrid memory leak. Do not expect support/updates, provided as-is. There's a few references to Palworld within the code, you can of course modify & change this quite easily. I would say this is a good foundational bot if you want to add a bunch of features for some kind of pterodactyl interactable bot.

What do it do?

Very simple bot that has a set interval restart_interval which by default is 12 hours. It counts down from this time and displays such a countdown in its rich presence status, updated every 5 seconds, any lower and you risk discord API hitching.

Once it reaches a predefined amount of time (15 minutes, 5 minutes & 60 seconds) it will send a Discord embed notifying a specified role (.env) that the server is restarting in x The user then has 3 buttons, restart now which immediately restarts the server ID defined in the .env Postpone Short (5 mins) & Postpone Long (15 mins) Upon a user selecting one of these options, it's logged to a file called bot_activity.log and prints to the chat what's been selected.

If left untouched, it will just restart the server.

Has the ability of using slash commands to run /postpone early to extend it by 5 or 15 minutes, just in case you have 30 mnutes remaining and want a bit more time, ahead of time.

Now, with the latest 0.2, has the ability to use/issue RCON commands to a Palworld server, such as shutdown with a timer, show players, see server details, etc.

How to use?

These instructions aren't final, nor will work on everyone's system, things will differ. This is what works on mine, so, please take it with a pinch of salt.

In most cases, you're best to run any python bot with venv for a virtual environment, especially if you've used python elsewhere.

Commands

• /broadcast [Message] # This broadcasts a message to the whole server. (admin-only)
• /info # This gets the palworld server version & server name
• /save # Saves the current game state, this is also issued on shutdowns.
• /postpone [optional: extended] # this by default postpones the restart by 15 minutes, if extended is choosen, it'll be 30 minutes.
• /showplayers [optional: include_steamids:True/False] # This gets current list of players on the server, optionally can include their steam UUID for easy kicking, which you can implement, I haven't.
• /shutdown [seconds] [message_text:] # Shuts down the server peacefully, requires time until shutdown & message.

Requirments

• Requires Python 3.9 or above.
• Requires Pterodactyl panel with API access

Windows:

• Install Python - https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/
• Clone/download this repo.
• Extract files as needed to the folder you desire.
• Move to dependency Installation

Linux:

• Install python, this will vary based on what distro you have, please check python docks - https://www.python.org/downloads/
• Clone/download this repo.
• Extract files as needed to the folder you desire.
• Move to dependency Installation

Dependency Installation

Windows:

• Open shell in directory you extracted the files in.
• (Optional) run from virtual env python -m venv venv & activate with .\venv\Scripts\activate
• Run pip install -r requirements.txt to install all dependencies for the bot
• Move to starting the bot

Linux:

• Open the .env example file and add your token, and other details, along with renaming the file to just .env
• pip install -r requirements.txt
• (Optional) Do this in venv with

Configure & start the bot

Windows:

• Open the .env example file and add your token, and other details, along with renaming the file to just .env
• Use the shell you had opened prior to run the bot with pythn main.py the comamnd may differ depending on your verison of python, eg python3.12.exe main.py (If you used the venv, it'll always be python for the launch executable, so, use python main.py)
• Done!

Linux:

The PM2 way

• pm2 start main.py --interpreter=python3 (Your may need to hardcode the correct path depending on what python your pip installed to, use venv to make life easier)

The not PM2 way

• (Optional) Run in a screen dnf/apt install screen to ensure it runs without you needing to be logged in.
• In the directory, run python3 main.py (your version/executable may differ) Do note, with the latter option, if you exit the shell, the bot will also exit, you need to use PM2/screen/tmux to keep a shell instance alive, or, run it in the background or as a service.

Will this work on x or y host?

• Likely, yes, but, support won't be provided for it, the bot is as-is.

Default .env requirements:

DISCORD_TOKEN="" # Your Discord bot token
PTERODACTYL_API_KEY="" # Your Pterodactyl account API key (NOT APPLICATION API)
PTERODACTYL_PANEL_URL="" # Your Pterodactyl's public URL (for API)
PTERODACTYL_SERVER_ID="" # Your Pterodactyl server ID, grab from admin area
NOTIFICATION_CHANNEL_ID="" # Channel you want to notify users in about the restart
RESTART_NOTIFICATION_ROLE_ID="" # Role to ping for the notification
ADMIN_ROLE_ID="" (Optional) # Role for admin RCON commands (broadcast, restart, etc)
SERVER_IP="" # (Optional) Your server's IP address.
RCON_PORT="" # (Optional) Your RCON port, this is separate from main port, default is 25575.
RCON_PASSWORD="" # (Optional) If using RCON, set the server admin password here, yes, you have to have one/.
RESTART_INTERVAL="" # This is what actually defines how often the server should auto-restart, use format of `hours=6`, `minutes=15` etc.