I created this bot to have a simple and easy way to get informations from a minecraft server and interact with it.

• Get dynamic informations about the server

  • Server Status
  • CPU Usage
  • Memory Usage
  • Player Count
  • Online Players Usernames

• Interact with the service that runs the server

  • Restart
  • Shutdown
  • Start

• Auto-restart the server if it crashes

• Logs messages in a separate Discord Channel

• Player Play time
• Send command via Discord
• Player Count as status
• If there is a features that you would like to see, tell me about it !

• Linux based Host
• Python 3.8+
• A Discord Bot
• Discord.py
• A Discord server !

This install is based on a FTB server with all the server files in the home directory of the user.

foo@bar:~$ sudo apt-get update
foo@bar:~$ sudo apt-get install screen

Login as the user that runs the minecraft server and execute those commands :

foo@bar:~$ cd ~/
foo@bar:~$ wget https://github.com/Padi1111/discord-minecraft-server-bot/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
foo@bar:~$ unzip main.zip
foo@bar:~$ rm main.zip
foo@bar:~$ mv discord-minecraft-server-bot-main discord-minecraft-server-bot

Move the start script to the root of the minecraft server folder. In my case, this is the root home of the user.

foo@bar:~$ mv ~/discord-minecraft-server-bot/start.sh ~/.

You can then edit it to make it work with your minecraft server

foo@bar:~$ nano ~/start.sh

You can now edit the bot to your desire and configure it for your discord server. To do so, edit the file called user_settings.py in the discord-minecraft-server-bot folder.

foo@bar:~$ nano ~/discord-minecraft-server-bot/user_settings.py

To be able to run all the files in the Commands directory as sudo without giving any password we will be addind the scipts to our /etc/sudoers file. To do so, open it, as sudo, with your any editor :

foo@bar:~$ sudo nano /etc/sudoers

Go to this section :

# Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
%sudo   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

And bellow it add the following command, making sure to change the [USERNAME] by the username of the user running the bot :

[USERNAME]  ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /home/[USERNAME]/discord-minecraft-server-bot/Commands/service_stop.sh
[USERNAME]  ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /home/[USERNAME]/discord-minecraft-server-bot/Commands/service_start.sh
[USERNAME]  ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /home/[USERNAME]/discord-minecraft-server-bot/Commands/service_restart.sh

You can now save and close this file.

We will now be creating the service for the Minecraft Server.

foo@bar:~$ sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/minecraft-server.service

Copy paste this, making sure to change the [USERNAME] by the username of the user running the bot :

[Unit]

Description=Minecraft Server
After=network.target

[Service]

Type=simple
RemainAfterExit=true

WorkingDirectory=/home/[USERNAME]
User=[USERNAME]

Restart=on-failure

ExecStart=/usr/bin/screen -dmS mc-server bash start.sh

ExecStop=bash discord-minecraft-server-bot/stop.sh

[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target

Save and close this file.

Enable the serivce and start it :

foo@bar:~$ sudo systemctl enable minecraft-server.service
foo@bar:~$ sudo systemctl start minecraft-server.service

If everything whent well, your minecraaft server should now start. To check, login as the user that runs the server and execute this command :

foo@bar:~$ screen -ls

You should see something like this :

There is a screen on:
        2590603.mc-server       (15. 04. 23 16:00:18)   (Detached)
1 Socket in /run/screen/S-mcserver.

We will now be creating the service for the discord bot.

foo@bar:~$ sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/discord-minecraft-bot.service

Copy paste this, making sure to change the [USERNAME] by the username of the user running the bot :

[Unit]

Description=Discord Minecraft Bot
After=network.target

[Service]

Type=simple
RemainAfterExit=true

WorkingDirectory=/home/[USERNAME]/discord-minecraft-server-bot/
User=[USERNAME]

Restart=always
RestartSec=10

ExecStart=/usr/bin/python discord_bot.py


[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target

Save and close this file.

Enable the serivce and start it :

foo@bar:~$ sudo systemctl enable discord-minecraft-bot.service
foo@bar:~$ sudo systemctl start discord-minecraft-bot.service

If everything whent well, the bot should be online in your discord server and you should see the embedded message with all the informations about the minecraft server.