How to restart your Icarus server on a schedule

Your Icarus server installs game updates only when it starts, and there is no ready-made restart schedule for it. Build one on Quick Tasks from Send Restart, then switch on Skip while players are online and choose a wait, so it restarts once the server is empty.

Why restart on a schedule

• With Auto Update on, each start checks Steam for a new Icarus server build. A daily restart keeps your server on the same build as your players' game.
• Players whose game has updated cannot join a server still on the old build: Players cannot join your Icarus server after a game update.

Build the restart schedule

1. Open your server in the panel and click Quick Tasks in the left menu.
2. Under All tasks, choose Default tasks and find Send Restart.
3. Open its menu and choose Schedule….
4. Give the schedule a Name, for example Daily restart, then click Next step.
5. Choose Repeats, set How often to Every day and pick the time under At. Pick a time your group does not play.
6. Keep Enabled on and click Schedule.

The time cannot be changed once the schedule exists. For another time, delete the schedule and make a new one.

Wait until nobody is playing

1. Under Schedules, open your new schedule.
2. Switch on Skip while players are online.
3. Under When players are online, choose Wait up to 1 hour for the server to empty (or another length), or Skip that run.

With a wait, the panel looks again every 5 minutes, restarts as soon as nobody is on, and restarts anyway when the wait is over. If the server cannot report its players, the schedule runs at its time.

A restart disconnects anyone still playing. Warn them with /AdminSay in the game chat: How to become admin on your Icarus server.

Test it, switch it off, remove it

• Run now in the schedule's menu runs it straight away.
• The switch on the schedule's row turns it off and on.
• Delete schedule removes it.

All of the page: How to use Quick Tasks on your Icarus server and How to schedule tasks and automatic backups.