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What is UltraBot? UltraBot is a project I started for MPF around 2019 summer (first commit on Git). The purpose of this bot is to make game server monitoring for Discord members easier (for example, viewing player counts, detailed server data, notifications), add several fun features for activity, and for small internal purposes. Late in 2019, I finished the bot and started hosting it on my own computer sometimes as I didn't had any provider to host it. After few months due to impossibilities I had to completely suspend UltraBot and discontinue it. Since then the project was dead and sitting on my drives. In the beginning of this summer (2021 June), I decided to have another go for this project and decided to rewrite bot from scratch using today's technologies + support from @unknown. Members in Discord might have noticed that recently I've been slowly developing + testing UltraBot time to time in public channels. I worked so hard to get the bot done (even paused other projects I was working on), and now I'm proudly presenting you the UltraBot, the Discord bot of MPF! For nerds, UltraBot is written in C# language using Discord.Net library (currently using Discord.Net-Labs for interactivity support), and IRC support is planned. What UltraBot can do? What can't UltraBot do? It can do everything you can imagine. From sending notifications of Renegade servers to view every single map ever created for Renegade with their downloads, viewing MPF Minecraft network status to fun features and commands, UltraBot can do everything! Tell me more about features. • All MPF hosted servers has special commands for them in UltraBot. You can use these special commands to browse servers easily, and get notified about events. For example, you can type "/ultraaow show" to see UltraAOW's information within seconds. Or you can type "/ultraaow help" to see commands available about what you can do with the server. • UltraBot can send notifications from MPF servers to you when a map starts, when your buddy joins, or when server is populated enough. This notification system is called "Subscriptions". All you need to do is using "/ultraaow subscribe" command! Using this command, you can get notified about a map, or a player, or ingame counts. Subscriptions are not just limited with UltraAOW and can be used in all MPF hosted servers. You can use "/mpfservers" to list all special commands for servers. • UltraBot can open an interactive embed-based server list and let you join server with 1 click. (Requires RenLauncher or MasterList) You can switch between servers and view server's detailed information on GSA by clicking on buttons under embed. You can then click on "Join via MasterList" or "Join via RenLauncher" links to join into the server. (Joining is WIP) • UltraBot can access MPF Map Database which contains over 400 maps, and show all these maps in Discord, and internally, we can use this data to build a server rotation. You can also rate these maps without leaving Discord. • UltraBot can detect down services across MPF. Using "/uptime" command, UltraBot can show if there are any down services or unhealthy services. ~ All features and commands of UltraBot can be viewed by typing "/" and clicking on UltraBot's avatar in command list. Is that all, no future plans? I am planning bigger changes for UltraBot. For example, a REST API for developers, server embeds, classic server lists, an AI chatbot, and more. Aim of the API is to provide Renegade server lists, maps in our database to developers in many ways including JSON, XML, CSV to make developer's job easier. Server embeds is the idea I am most excited about. Idea is to create very configurable and themeful images that updates as the server map and players change. I've had experiments about this before and it was awesome. Classic server lists purpose is to create an image containing all Renegade servers in a text-based table (good for shareability). AI chat bot will chat with people like a human, and understands the commands from your sentences to perform as if you are using / commands. Unfortunately due to some other impossibilities and lack of knowledge (only for AI), I don't have the time, patience, and ability to do the stuff above. But currently, a game framework for Discord is in works. Which means members in Discord can play mini games in threads like Tic-Tac-Toe, Uno, and more! Can I have that bot in my server? No, UltraBot is meant to be a private bot for only our Discord server. But we might do some exceptions, maybe. Likely will not happen though. Several commands can be used from DM, but permission system as in server will still be enforced while executing commands. You can join our Discord from https://multiplayerforums.com/discord or https://discord.gg/Czu7xeR to test and play with UltraBot. Comments, suggestions, complaints, bug reports are welcome. But I'd be happier if you let me know them in Discord. Thank you for reading! UPDATE 10/05/2021 Bot has been moved to a different host, responses and load times are now significantly faster.