Bridge Minecraft and Discord Chat with DiscordSRV

What DiscordSRV Does

DiscordSRV pipes Minecraft chat into a Discord channel and Discord chat back into Minecraft. Bonus: a hidden Discord channel can run console commands.

Create The Discord Bot

1. 1Go to the Discord Developer Portal → New Application → name it
2. 2Open Bot → Reset Token → copy and save the token. You can't see it again
3. 3Enable SERVER MEMBERS INTENT under Privileged Gateway Intents
4. 4Open OAuth2 → URL Generator → scope bot, permissions Send Messages, Manage Messages, Read Message History
5. 5Visit the generated URL → invite the bot to your Discord server

Get Channel IDs

In Discord: User Settings → Advanced → Developer Mode ON. Right-click a channel → Copy ID.

You need:

• One public channel ID for chat bridging
• One private channel ID (staff-only) for the remote console, see below

Install On The Game Server

1. 1Drop DiscordSRV.jar into /plugins/
2. 2Start the server once to generate /plugins/DiscordSRV/config.yml
3. 3Stop the server
4. 4Edit config.yml:

BotToken: "your-bot-token-here"
Channels:
  global: "1234567890123456789"

1. 1Restart. Run /discord reload in console

A test message in #global should appear in the in-game chat, and vice versa.

Remote Console (Optional, Very Powerful)

Add a private staff-only channel ID for the console:

DiscordConsoleChannelId: "9876543210987654321"

• Live console output streams into Discord
• Any message typed in that channel runs as a console command

Restrict the channel to trusted staff only. Anyone with write access has full op over the server.

Quality-Of-Life

• DiscordSRV respects VanishNoPacket, silent staff don't trigger join/quit broadcasts
• Configure MessageFormats in config.yml to clean up the chat formatting
• Pair with /discord link so player accounts map to Discord users for role-syncing

Need More Help?

Bot online in Discord but messages don't bridge? Run /discord debug in console and post the report URL in our Discord.