Hytale servers can set up automatic restarts to help maintain server health and performance. Users can configure restarts for specific times and, optionally, set warning messages to play before restarting, ensuring players have plenty of time to wrap up any activities. Automatic restarts can be especially helpful for servers that have a large number of spread-out players or multiple world teleports.
1. Log in to the BisectHosting Starbase panel.
2. Go to the Schedules tab.
3. Choose the Create Schedule button.
4. Input a Schedule Name.
5. Select the Start Time.
6. Choose the Interval for the server restart. A 12 to 24-hour interval is recommended.
7. From the Only When Server Is Online table, toggle on the setting.
8. Press the Create schedule button.
9. Select the newly created schedule.
10. Choose the New Task button.
Note: Steps 11-14 are for sending notifications before restarting the server. These tasks must be created before the server restart task to function.
11. Ensure the Action dropdown menu is set to Send Command.
12. From the Payload section, input the following: /notify <MessageHere>
13. Choose the Create Task button.
14. For incremental messages, repeat steps 10-13, creating multiple tasks and changing the Time Offset to the amount of time since the last message.
15. Choose the New Task button.
16. On the Action dropdown menu, select Send power action.
17. From the Payload dropdown menu, select Restart the Server.
18. Choose the Create Task button.
19. Below is an example of incremental notifications leading to a server restart.