Valheim Server Walmart Greeter

This script posts in Discord whenever someone joins or leaves your Valheim server. Users are identified by their SteamID and greeted using their realname or personaname attribute. If you recognize a steamID and would like to customize the user's name (e.g. your friend didn't enter their real name into steam), you can add them to the Known ID's using greeter_config.ini and customize their name.

Users who are in the Known ID's list are sometimes greeted in a more familiar way.

To customize the greetings, edit discord_post.generate_greeting.

Background

I don't game anymore, but I was asked to host a Valheim Server on my Ubuntu Server. After building a really bad shack in the game and hunting a few deer, I got bored and decided to make Discord Bot that greeted my friends on the server when they joined or left the game.

Setup Instructions

1. Fork this repo and clone to your Server
2. Create a Discord Webhook, note the URL
3. Update the following variables in log_update_watchdog.sh:
   1. LOG_PATH: Should be the path to your instance of vhserver-console.log,
   2. RECENT_PATH: Is where the shell script will grep to, this is a new file created by the script
   3. PROGRAM_PATH: Points to discord_post.py, where you cloned the repo to
4. Update greeter_config.ini:
   1. RECENT_LOG should match RECENT_PATH above.
   2. WEBHOOK_URL should be added for whatever channel you want to post to in Discord.

Adding Known Users

To add a known user, add a line under the [Known Users] heading, following the format shown in the comment in greeter_config.ini

Disclaimer

This software is provided with no support or warranty, use at your own risk. I no longer host a Valheim server, so things may not work correctly.