This seems like a pretty common topic for some reason. So I’m going to make a quick and easy to follow tutorial on how to shut down a server by a script.
Important note: This is heavily unrecommended for updates. Please use a soft shutdown system for restarting servers for an update.
First, of course, we want to get the Players service, just incase.
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
Then, we want to make sure that no new players can join.
To do this, we simply just write
Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
player:Kick("\nThis server has shutdown.")
end)
This function will take the player instance that the PlayerAdded event provides and runs the :Kick method. This method allows you to provide a string to the kick message, so when they get kicked, you can do something like provide a reason! In this case, the reason is that the server has shut down.
Now, we want to kick all the players that are currently in the server.
To do this, we use a for loop.
for _,player in pairs(Players:GetChildren()) do
player:Kick("\nThis server has shutdown.")
end
We don’t need the index, so we replace i with _, and we can name the value player instead of v.
Then we use this for loop to go through the children of Players, and then kicks the players, with the same reason, individually.
Then, the server should automatically shutdown due to the absense of players!
Here is the full script:
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
player:Kick("\nThis server has shutdown.")
end)
for _,player in pairs(Players:GetChildren()) do
player:Kick("\nThis server has shutdown.")
end
I hope this tutorial has helped you, and for all the experienced users, made your jobs easier!