Palworld – Batch Script for Auto-Restarting Dedicated Servers

How to Auto-Restart Dedicated Servers

I don’t know if this will be useful for anyone else but this is the script I’m using to restart my own dedicated server.

This checks if the server is on every minute, as well as keeping a log file of when it restarts.

I also included a failsafe to restart the server every 24 hours.

@echo off
set "restart_interval=86400"  24 hours in seconds
set "log_file=ServerLog.txt"

:check_program
tasklist | find /i "PalServer.exe" > nul
if %errorlevel% neq 0 (
    echo [%DATE% %TIME%] Restarting the program. >> %log_file%
    taskkill /f /im "PalServer-Win64-Test-Cmd.exe"    
    taskkill /f /im "PalServer.exe"
    start "" "C:\<<INSERT PATH TO PALSERVER.EXE HERE>>\PalServer.exe"
) else (
    echo [%DATE% %TIME%] Program running normally. >> %log_file%
)

timeout /nobreak /t 60 > nul

set /a "elapsed_time+=60"

if %elapsed_time% geq %restart_interval% (
    echo [%DATE% %TIME%] Restarting the program every 24 hours. >> %log_file%
    taskkill /f /im "PalServer-Win64-Test-Cmd.exe"    
    taskkill /f /im "PalServer.exe"
    start "" "C:\<<INSERT PATH TO PALSERVER.EXE HERE>>\PalServer.exe"
    set "elapsed_time=0"
)
goto check_program

Just run the server, then run this program!