Stay up-to-date with Lost Ark using a Discord Bot

After some time, I’ve decided to make a topic about my Lost Ark Discord bot.

Links

Rant

I would add more links here but I guess new users can post only two links. I’ve planned to add a showcase for every feature but… yeah the link limit.

Why?

I’ve started working on this bot a few months back when I and friends of mine started playing Lost Ark. There were really long queues and we did not want to turn on the game to see if there are queues - so I’ve decided I would make a bot which shows current Lost Ark’s server statuses. As time went by, I’ve added more functionality to this bot, mainly suggested by the bot’s community.

Current features

There are somewhat 4 distinct features of the bot:

  • Server Dashboard
  • Server status changes notifications
  • News and Forums notifications
  • Twitter notifications

Server Dashboard

As the name says, this feature allows you to create a dashboard that shows current server statuses. This dashboard can be highly customized! (Hide regions, add servers to the Favorite section, change the language of the dashboard, etc.)

Server status changes notifications

This is a part of the “Notifications” feature.

This feature allows you to be informed when servers change their statuses. Simple as that. You can also whitelist/blacklist certain statuses to suit your needs.

News and Forums notifications

This is a part of the “Notifications” feature.

You can also receive News from Lost Ark’s News page and Forums topics from this Forums page. Pretty handy!

Twitter notifications

This is a part of the “Notifications” feature.

If News and Forums aren’t enough, you can also follow Lost Ark’s Twitter accounts with this bot. You can even filter their Tweets with keywords!

This bot is open-source

And it is made in Java. And… The code is not beautiful, but it is working. Also, the README is old haha

Hope someone will find this bot useful. Have a great day!

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What a great idea! I’ve downloaded Discord, but I’ve never used it. I am frustrated with the server cues as well and I may have to stop playing. I don’t want to, but if I can run your bot, it may help.
Sorry for the noobe question, how to run it? I would like to try it out…

Q: Do you know why at 3, 4, 5 in the morning, western server cues are overloaded? Are players staying logged in? Are these off continent VPN’s? I can’t seem to find answers, but it would help to know. Thx for any info you can help me with!