New World War Bot

New World War Bot is a DiscordBot assisting in wars by calling respawn waves.

Setup

Use the following link to setup the bot.

Usage

Basics

The bot is usable straight away with given default settings:

• The bot only listens for commands in a channel named "war-bot" and joins a voice channel "war-channel". Schedule a war with !scheduleWar [Timestamp]. The Timestamp has to be in the following format: hh:mm.
  Example: !scheduleWar 20:00
• Unschedule wars by !unscheduleWar [Timestamp]
• !leaveWar to let the bot leave the war earlier, if you managed to pull up a fast win

Advanced

To start a war in mm:ss (minutes:seconds):

!startWar mm:ss

To list all scheduled wars:

!list

To get a list of commands:

!help

The bot can be furhter customized by adjusting the settings in the following format:

!settings set [SETTING] [OPTIONAL VALUE]

Values including spaces have to be put in qoutes.

Settings can be viewed by:

!settings get [SETTING]

Settings

channelName

• Channel Name the bot listens on for commands. Make sure that the bot has access to read and write in that channel.
• Example: !settings set channelName "test-channel"
• Default value: "war-bot"

warChannel

• War Channel the bot joins on war. Make sure that the bot has access to join that channel.
• Example: !settings set warChannel "test-channel"
• Default value: "war-bot"

preJoinTimer

• Time in seconds before the bot joins the voice channel.
• Example: !settings set preJoinTimer 300
• Default value: 300

firstCallTimer

• Time in seconds before the bot starts calling respawnwaves. The first respawn waves are very frequent. This is mainly to reduce spam.
• Example: !settings set firstCallTimer 600
• Default value: 600

callRate

• List of times in seconds before a wave the bot should remind about the respawn wave (use qoutes)
• Example: !settings set callRate "5 10 15"
• Default value: "5 10 15"

timeZone

• Set the bots time calcluations to match your current time.
• Example: !settings set timeZone 19:30
• Default value: normalized for CET

Setup own Server

Install the latest node version here

Install ffmpeg here

Install Docker here

Setup an .env file in the project folder with the following entries:

Key	Value
DATABASE_URL	postgresql://nwbot:PASSWORD@localhost:5432/nwbot?schema=public
TOKEN	Discord Token
POSTGRES_PASSWORD	Standard Password for the default postgres user

Run:

docker compose up -d

connect to the running postgresql database and create a user and database named nwbot with given password defined in the .env file in DATABASE_URL

To install all npm packages, run:

npm install

To setup the database schema, run:

npx prisma migrate

To start the server, run

node ./src/main.js