Palworld – Server Powershell Automation for Nightly Reboots

Server Powershell Automation

Use as a logon script with your palworld server. (Works best if you use a dedicated server/vm/pc for this with only palworld server installed via steam.) update your paths.

Theres not a api or command from steam to wait for updates so I gave it a window of 10 minutes to update the palworld server client (Feel free to adjust) and then it launches the server with command arguments for multithreading.

I reboot my server nightly at 5am since thats like the dead zone where no one is playing. And this just kicks off at bootup.

In the future i might find a way of implementing steamCMD to fetch the update but for now this is what i have.

Happy automation!

# Path to Steam executable (replace with the actual path)
$steamPath = 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe'

# Path to Palworld server executable (replace with the actual path)
$palworldServerPath = 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\PalServer\PalServer.exe'

# Launch options for Palworld
$palworldLaunchOptions = "-useperfthreads -NoAsyncLoadingThread -UseMultithreadForDS"

# Start Steam
    Start-Process -FilePath $steamPath 
    Echo "Launching Steam..."
    
# Wait for Steam to initialize (adjust the sleep duration as needed)
    Start-Sleep -Seconds 25
   
# Update all games in the library
    Start-Process -FilePath "$steamPath" -ArgumentList "-validate" -Wait
    Echo "Updating Libary..."

# Wait for 10 minutes for updating (adjust the sleep duration as needed)
    Start-Sleep -Seconds 600
    
# Start Palworld server with launch options
    Start-Process -FilePath $palworldServerPath -ArgumentList $palworldLaunchOptions 
    Echo "Launching Palworld..."
    
# Close Steam
    Stop-Process -Name Steam -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
    
    Exit