Advanced Restart
A highly-configurable plugin for automatically stopping and restarting servers.
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Advanced Restart
Advanced Restart
About
Advanced Restart is a lightweight and highly-configurable plugin. It can automatically restart your server with a variety of triggers such as runtime, lag, inactivity and you can even schedule restarts daily or throughout week.
Configurable Messages

Features:
- Schedule Restarts - Periodic Restarts - Warn players before restart - Restart if TPS drops too low - Restart if RAM usage gets to high - Multiple shutdown methods - Almost everything in the plugin is configurable - + more
Config
```yaml
AdvancedRestart by _txsla / NBT Archives
Messages are formatted with MiniMessage
Format generator: https://webui.advntr.dev/
Documentation: https://docs.advntr.dev/minimessage/format.html
set messages to null to disable
Restarts daily or a certain day/time of the week
Use the format 'ddd-hh:mm' ; Use 24h time
Days are MON, TUE, WED, THU, FRI, SAT, SUN or ALL for daily
scheduledRestart: enabled: false schedule: - 'ALL-12:00' - 'TUE-02:45' - 'Fri-14:45' message: '<green>- Scheduled Server Restart -</green>'
Restart if server has been running for a certain amount of time
periodicRestart: enabled: false duration: 1440 #minutes message: '<green>Server runtime: %RUNTIME minutes - Restarting</green>'
Sets a warning period before restart
Only applies to periodicRestart and scheduledRestart
restartWarning:
Sends a message x seconds before the server restarts
secondsWarn: enabled: true seconds: 5 countdown: true # send the message every second? message: '<red>Server restarting in %S seconds!</red>'
Sends a message x minutes before the server restarts
minuteWarn: enabled: false minutes: 5 countdown: true # send the message every minute? message: '<green>Server restarting in %M minutes!</green>'
Restarts server when there are no players online
Timer cycles from first player join
Will NOT restart server if no players have joined
inactiveRestart: enabled: false timer: 300 # seconds message: '<green>No players online: Restarting</green>'
Restart if server gets too laggy
lagRestart: lowTPS: enabled: false minTPS: 10 # TPS checks: 3 # how many consecutive failed checks before restart, lower number will restart sooner message: '<dark_red>Server TPS dropped below %TPS - Restarting<dark_red>' lowMemory: enabled: false maxMemUsage: 4096 # MB checks: 5 # how many consecutive failed checks before restart, lower number will restart sooner message: '<dark_red>Server RAM usage exceeded %MEM - Restarting</dark_red>'
Server shutdown method
1 = Bukkit.shutdown()
2 = Bukkit.spigot().restart()
3 = only run shutdown commands
shutdownMethod: 1 shutdownMessage: '<dark_red>Stopping Server</dark_red>'
Commands to be executed (as console) at shutdown
if the list is NOT null, the server shutdown is delayed 2 seconds to allow the commands to fully execute
Set to null to disable
Do not prefix '/'
shutdownCommands: - 'playsound entity.experience_orb.pickup master @a ~ ~ ~ 1' - 'title @a title {"color":"red","shadow_color":-8912896,"text":"Server Restarting"}' - 'title @a actionbar {"color":"green","text":"Please rejoin momentarily"}' - 'any number of commands are allowed (invalid commands like this one should be ignored'
debug: false ```
Commands
<pre><code> advancedrestart |disable - stops the server from restarting |enable - allows the server to restart |status - get information on the state of the plugin |soft-reload - reload the plugin's configs |config | |read - easily read current config options | reload - reload plugins configs, same as soft-reload |debug | |enable - enable debut output to console without changing config | |disable - stop debug output to console without changing config | query - outputs wether debug output is on or off |stop - stops the server | force - stop even if restarting is currently disabled </pre></code>
Support
If you stumble across any bugs, please create a support ticket.