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+# Discord Bot for Minecraft Whitelist
+
+A simple Discord Bot designed to allow your server members to add themselves to the whitelist of a configured Minecraft server. Each member assigns one MC username to their discord username. Currently, there is no verification for MC usernames so deploy only on trusted servers with trustable members.
+
+# Discord Usage
+
+The bot adds 3 slash functions:
+
+`/whitelist-add <MC username>` assigns MC username to the calling Discord member
+
+`/whitelist-remove` removes the assignment from the calling Discord member
+
+`/whitelist-show` prints whether an assignment to the calling Discord member exists and its value
+
+# Installation
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+Create a new Discord App using the developer portal and invite the bot to your server with at least the following scopes:
+- bot
+- application.commands
+and the following permissions:
+- Send Messages
+
+## Installation
+
+1. Download `discord-minecraft-whitelist-bot` binary and `template.config.json` from from [releases](https://git.tronnet.net/alu/discord-minecraft-whitelist-bot/releases)
+2. Rename `template.config.json` to `config.json` and modify:
+    - app-id: Discord App ID from the developer portal
+    - guild-id: Server ID which can be obtained by right clicking the server in Discord and clicking `Copy Server ID`
+    - token: Discord App Token from the developer portal
+    - mc-rcon: `IP:port` or `hostname:port` formatted ip/hostanme and port number of the MC server rcon
+    - mc-rcon-password: Password for the MC server rcon
+3. Run the binary
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 require (
 	github.com/bwmarrin/discordgo v0.28.1
-	github.com/gorcon/rcon v1.3.5
+	github.com/gorcon/rcon v1.4.0
 )
 
 require (
 	github.com/gorilla/websocket v1.5.3 // indirect
-	golang.org/x/crypto v0.28.0 // indirect
-	golang.org/x/sys v0.26.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/crypto v0.29.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/sys v0.27.0 // indirect
 )