DiscordConnector

Discord Connector

Connect your Valheim server (dedicated or served from the game itself) to a Discord Webhook. (Find mod documentation on the official website.)

Features

• Set your own webhook, lets you configure icon, title, and a target channel
• Enable or Disable any messages
• Set what text gets sent for most messages
• Set more than one message for each type and have one randomly chosen!
• Record number of logins/deaths/pings and flavor the Discord messages
• Works with non-dedicated server (games opened to lan from the client)
• Configure custom leader boards to be sent periodically, listing rankings for any of the tracked stats

Supported Message Notifications

• Server startup (server starting, loading the world)
• Server started (world loaded, ready to join)
• Server shutting down (server stopping)
• Player join
• Player leave
• Player shouting
• Player pinging
• Player death
• Random events start/pause/resume/end

Abridged Changelog

3.2.0 (Valheim 1.0 fixes)

Built and tested against Valheim 1.0.20 (network version 41).

Fixes: server events

• "Server has started!" and raid/event messages were missing on new worlds and on worlds from before Valheim 1.0
• Players were counted as dying when they reconnected after a crash or respawned without dying (e.g. teleporting home) (#412, #271, #286)
• Leaving was only recorded on a clean quit; timeouts, crashes and kicks now count too
• "Server stopping/stopped" messages were often lost when the server shut down
• On servers hosted from the game (not dedicated), the host's joins, deaths, shouts and leaves weren't counted

Fixes: shouts and pings

• Shouts no longer reached Discord since Valheim 0.219; the server now sees them without needing the client plugin

when two or more players are online (#338, #319)

• The automatic "I have arrived!" shout is no longer posted, in any game language
• Embedded shout messages ignored the configured message format (#353)
• %POS% was left in the text of shouts that didn't come from a player

Fixes: Discord messages

• Messages could arrive out of order; each webhook now sends one message at a time, in order
• Messages are retried when Discord rate-limits them instead of being lost
• Webhook event names in the config now ignore upper/lower case, accept other (#382), and accept commas,

colons or spaces between names (#357)

• A new connection was opened for every message and never cleaned up

Fixes: stats and leaderboards

• Weekly and other date-range leaderboards dropped records when the range crossed a month or year boundary
• "Monday to Sunday" leaderboards covered 13 days when posted on a Sunday
• "Past 7 Days" leaderboards covered 8 days
• Leaderboard 5 posted leaderboard 4's contents
• Time online now follows the "How to discern players" setting, no longer lists players with 0 seconds,

and correctly splits sessions that cross midnight

• Long leaderboards could go over Discord's 1024-character limit, which made Discord reject the whole post
• Tied players are listed in name order instead of a different order on each post
• The startup log showed leaderboard periods of a day or more without the days (3 days was logged as 00h:00m)
• Characters whose names end in a space were treated as new players on every join (#190)
• Leaderboards and stats no longer crash when the stats database failed to open (#357)
• Stats are saved with each world save, so less is lost if the server is killed (#214)
• Closing the stats database could throw an error at shutdown (#326)
• Stored positions always read back as (0, 0, 0)
• Stats were written on background threads, which could lose events and hide errors
• Errors in leaderboard and active-player announcements are now logged instead of silently stopping them (#319, #356)
• vdc.log could fail with "Sharing violation" when two messages were logged at once

Development

• New in-server test suite (tests/run-tests.ps1) with a fake Discord webhook server: 46 tests covering joins,

deaths, shouts, webhooks, the stats database and leaderboards

The client plugin is on Thunderstore or can be downloaded from the GitHub releases.