Mods / VS Server Restarter
Author: rhetorical
Side: Server
Created: Sep 18th at 6:34 PM
Last modified: Sep 18th at 6:35 PM
Downloads: 46
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Latest release (for Vintage Story 1.21.0 and 1.21.1, potentially outdated):
vsserverrestarter-1.0.0.zip
1-click install
This is a simple mod that simply stops the server once each day at a configurable time. Useful when you have a script to automatically restart the server.
Once the time configured is reached, it will give announce to the server at 5 minutes, 1 minute, and 30 seconds out to the server that a restart is coming so players have an opportunity to act accordingly.
There is a config generated in which you may set the time for a restart in a "hh:mm" format. Example: "03:25" for 3:25 AM, "15:25" for 3:25 PM.
The default time is "03:25".
Example script I'm using (Windows):
autostarter.cmd
@echo off
Title Vintage Story Server
:start
VintageStoryServer.exe
timeout /t 10
cls
goto start| Mod Version | Mod Identifier | For Game version | Downloads | Released | Changelog | Download | 1-click mod install* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | vsserverrestarter | 46 | Sep 18th at 6:35 PM | Empty | vsserverrestarter-1.0.0.zip | 1-click install |
Why is this called server restarter if it doesn't actually restart the server? It's like if a mod that added chicken was called "More Chickens", but then it only adds eggs, with the description saying "Useful when you have a mod that adds more chickens"
FYI on Ubuntu/Linux, this can also be achieved by setting up a cron job. I have one set that checks for players online, and if there is player, it will ask them to logoff then check every 1 minute, and ask again, until everyone is logged off. Once logged off it will auto save. then soft stop the server, wait a bit, then reboot the server box. Then you also just have a startup service that auto starts the game on boot up.
here is the .sh code for what the cron job scheduler goes too.
#!/bin/bash
# Configuration
SCREEN_NAME="vintagestory"
VS_DIR="/home/xxxx/vintagestory"
TEMP_LOG="/tmp/vs-check-output.log"
LOG_FILE="$VS_DIR/reboot-log.txt"
RESTART_NOTICE="[SERVER AUTO-MESSAGE] [!] Server restart needed. Please finish what you're doing and log off. Next check in 1 minute."
WAIT_SECONDS=60 # Set to 20 for testing, 60 (1 min) for live
# Loop until no players are online
while true; do
echo "🔄 Checking for active players..."
# Clean previous log
rm -f "$TEMP_LOG"
screen -S "$SCREEN_NAME" -X logfile "$TEMP_LOG"
screen -S "$SCREEN_NAME" -X log on
# Send command to server
screen -S "$SCREEN_NAME" -X stuff "/list clients$(printf \\r)"
sleep 6 # Give server time to respond
# Stop log capture
screen -S "$SCREEN_NAME" -X log off
# Show what's in the log (for debug)
echo "--- Raw log output ---"
cat "$TEMP_LOG"
echo "----------------------"
# Check for real player connections
HAS_PLAYERS=$(grep -P "^\[\d+\] .+ \[::ffff:" "$TEMP_LOG")
if [ -z "$HAS_PLAYERS" ]; then
echo "✅ No players online. Proceeding with autosave, sync, and reboot..."
echo "$(date): No players online. Reboot sequence started." >> "$LOG_FILE"
# Save world
screen -S "$SCREEN_NAME" -X stuff "/autosavenow$(printf \\r)"
sleep 5
# Stop server
screen -S "$SCREEN_NAME" -X stuff "/stop$(printf \\r)"
echo "$(date): /stop issued. Waiting 15s before reboot..." >> "$LOG_FILE"
echo "⏳ Waiting 15 seconds for server to shut down gracefully..."
sleep 15
sudo /sbin/reboot
exit 0
else
echo "❌ Players online. Sending in-game warning and retrying in $((WAIT_SECONDS / 60)) minutes..."
screen -S "$SCREEN_NAME" -X stuff "$RESTART_NOTICE$(printf \\r)"
sleep "$WAIT_SECONDS"
fi
done