Self-hosting the bot

I only recommend self-hosting the bot if you are experienced in running and maintaining software.

You have two options for running the bot, using docker and running on bare metal. I generally recommend running it as a docker container as it reduces the maintenance effort and simplifies the configuration on your end.

Hosting the bot using docker-compose

Find the latest docker image here. You can also build it from scratch by cloning the repository and then running mvn clean package spring-boot:build-image.

There are two docker images available. The docker image with the -native suffix is a highly optimized version of the bot that runs with a lower memory footprint as it does not require a JVM. The image was generated using GraalVM and currently only supports the x64 architecture. I generally recommend you to use that version if you can.

services:
  v-rising-discord-bot:
    image: ghcr.io/darkatra/v-rising-discord-bot:2.8.0-native
    command: -Dagql.nativeTransport=false
    mem_reservation: 128M
    mem_limit: 256M
    user: "1000:1000"
    volumes:
      - /opt/v-rising-discord-bot:/data/v-rising-discord-bot
    environment:
      - BOT_DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN=<your-discord-bot-token>
      - BOT_DATABASE_PATH=/data/v-rising-discord-bot/bot.db
      - BOT_DATABASE_PASSWORD=<the-database-password>
    restart: unless-stopped

The container uses user 1000:1000. Make sure that this user has read and write permissions on the volume, in this case /opt/v-rising-discord-bot. Also, if you’re on windows, please replace /opt/v-rising-discord-bot in the example above with any valid window path, e.g. /C/Users/<username>/Desktop/v-rising-discord-bot.

Hosting the bot without docker

1. Install a Java Virtual Machine. You’ll need at least Java 17.
2. Find the latest jar here or build the application yourself using mvn clean verify
3. Copy the jar file to any directory of you choice and create a file application.yml with the following content in the same directory:

   bot:
     discord-bot-token: <your-discord-bot-token>
     database-password: <the-database-password>
   

4. Run the application using java -jar v-rising-discord-bot-<version>.jar

If you run the application in a Linux environment, make sure that you use a separate user. This user only needs read and write permissions for the bot.db database file and read permissions for the application.yml, both of which are located in the applications working directory by default.

You can change the location of the database file by modifying the application.yml slightly:

bot:
  discord-bot-token: <your-discord-bot-token>
  database-password: <the-database-password>
  database-path: /data/bot.db

Discord Commands

Refer to the commands documentation for a list of all available discord commands.

Required Discord Permissions

There are the permissions that your discord-bot-token must have:

Support

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