🔄 HyRestart - Automatic Server Restart Plugin

A comprehensive and configurable automatic restart plugin for Hytale servers with Discord integration and customizable warning messages.

📖 Why?

Server stability is crucial for multiplayer games. Regular restarts help maintain performance, clear memory leaks, and apply updates. HyRestart automates this process with:

Scheduled restarts at configurable times
Progressive player warnings before restarts
Discord webhook notifications
Fully customizable messages

Whether you're running a small community server or a large Hytale network, HyRestart ensures smooth, predictable server maintenance without surprising your players!

✨ Features

🕐 Scheduled Restarts

Configure multiple daily restart times (24-hour format)
Configurable restart threshold and delays

⚠️ Player Warnings

Customizable warning intervals (30min, 15min, 5min, 1min by default)
Broadcast messages to all online players
Configurable warning messages with placeholders

🔔 Discord Integration

Rich embed notifications via webhooks
Customizable embed titles, descriptions, and colors
Separate messages for warnings and final restart
Time placeholder support

🔧 Fully Configurable

All messages configurable in config.yml
System log messages customizable
Warning intervals and messages
Discord webhook settings
Easy to translate to any language

📥 Installation

1️⃣ Download the plugin

# Download HyRestart-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar from releases

2️⃣ Install on your server

# Place the JAR in your mods folder
cp HyRestart-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar /path/to/hytale/mods/

3️⃣ Start your server
The plugin will automatically create a default config.yml in mods/HyRestart/

4️⃣ Configure your settings
Edit mods/HyRestart/config.yml to customize restart times, messages, and Discord integration

⚙️ Configuration

Basic Configuration

# Restart times (24h format: HH:mm)
restartTimes:
  - "03:00"
  - "09:00"
  - "15:00"
  - "21:00"

# Cooldown after a restart to prevent immediate re-restart loops (seconds)
restartCooldownSeconds: 60

# Final restart message
finalRestartMessage: "[Restart] Restarting server NOW!"

Warning Configuration

# Restart warnings
warnings:
  - seconds: 1800  # 30 minutes
    message: "[Restart] The server will restart in 30 minutes."
    discordTime: "30 minutes"
  - seconds: 900   # 15 minutes
    message: "[Restart] The server will restart in 15 minutes."
    discordTime: "15 minutes"
  - seconds: 300   # 5 minutes
    message: "[Restart] The server will restart in 5 minutes. Get ready!"
    discordTime: "5 minutes"
  - seconds: 60    # 1 minute
    message: "[Restart] The server will restart in 1 minute. DISCONNECT NOW!"
    discordTime: "1 minute"

Discord Integration

discord:
  enabled: true
  webhookUrl: "https://discord.com/api/webhooks/YOUR_WEBHOOK_URL"
  embedTitle: "🔄 Server Restart"
  embedDescription: "The server will restart in **{time}**.\n\nPlease save your progress and disconnect."
  embedColor: 16711680  # Red color in decimal
  finalEmbedTitle: "⚠️ SERVER RESTARTING"
  finalEmbedDescription: "The server is restarting NOW.\n\nThe server will be back in a few minutes."

🎯 Placeholder System

HyRestart supports placeholders in messages for dynamic content:

{time} - Restart time or time remaining
{count} - Number of players
{message} - Message content
{error} - Error details
{username} - Player username
{code} - Response code
{discordTime} - Human-readable time for Discord

Example:

broadcastingToPlayers: "[HyRestart] Broadcasting to {count} players: {message}"

🚀 Building from Source

1️⃣ Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/alesixdev/HyRestart.git
cd HyRestart

2️⃣ Add libraries

Add HytaleServer.jar on libraries

3️⃣ Build with Gradle

./gradlew clean build

4️⃣ Ready!

# The built plugin will be at:
build/libs/HyRestart-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

🔧 Development

Project Structure:

HyRestart/
├── src/main/
│   ├── java/dev/alesixdev/hyrestart/
│   │   ├── HyRestartPlugin.java          # Main plugin entry
│   │   ├── config/
│   │   │   ├── ConfigManager.java        # Config loading/saving
│   │   │   ├── ConfigData.java           # Config data model
│   │   │   └── WarningConfig.java        # Warning data model
│   │   ├── scheduler/
│   │   │   └── RestartScheduler.java     # Restart logic
│   │   └── utils/
│   │       └── DiscordWebhook.java       # Discord integration
│   └── resources/
│       ├── config.yml                     # Default configuration
│       └── manifest.json                  # Plugin manifest
├── build.gradle                           # Build configuration
└── README.md

📞 Support

Issues: GitHub Issues

📜 License

Licensed under the MIT License. Use, modify, and redistribute freely.

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