Minecraft Server Events

A simple Node event emitter I made because one didn't exist yet.

Emission Types

• all
• connected
• disconnected
• time (time set changes)
• died
• mode (game mode changes)
• chat

How it works

1. Uses Chokidar to listen for change events on the server log file.
2. When a change is detected, it finds out how many new lines have been added and processes each line individually using tail to get only the relevant lines.
3. Parses the message and emits a Node event if a relevant message is found.

Example Usage

const McServerEvents = require('mc-server-events');
const events = new McServerEvents('../minecraft-server/logs/latest.log');

events.on('all', data  => {
	console.log(data.status, data);
});

Example Output

connected {
  user: 'kyjus25',
  id: 248,
  coordinates: { x: 224.5, y: 66, z: 110.5 },
  status: 'connected',
  context: 'kyjus25[/127.0.0.1:61599] logged in with entity id 248 at (224.5, 66.0, 110.5)',
  timestamp: '11:53:50'
}
disconnected {
  user: 'kyjus25',
  status: 'disconnected',
  context: 'kyjus25 left the game',
  timestamp: '11:54:07'
}
time {
  time: 13000,
  status: 'time',
  context: 'Set the time to 13000',
  timestamp: '11:54:17'
}
died {
  user: 'kyjus25',
  reason: 'drowned',
  status: 'died',
  context: 'kyjus25 drowned',
  timestamp: '11:54:57'
}
mode {
  user: 'kyjus25',
  mode: 'Creative',
  status: 'mode',
  context: "Set kyjus25's game mode to Creative Mode",
  timestamp: '12:16:22'
}
chat {
  user: 'kyjus25',
  message: 'Hello world!',
  status: 'chat',
  context: '<kyjus25> Hello world!',
  timestamp: '12:16:44'
}

Requirements

• Created using the latest Minecraft (1.16.3), no support prior to this release.
• Needs the tail command, so you probably need Linux or OSX
• Needs access to the Minecraft server log file, so it needs to be running on the same machine as the one running the Minecraft server.

Need an event added?

Create an issue ticket on this repo, or feel free to add it yourself and send me a PR