---
title: "Setup panel"
description: "Configure the bot for your Discord server with /setup, and give the bot the permissions it needs."
canonical_url: "https://docs.mute.yonn2222.com/server-setup/setup-panel"
---
# Setup panel

> Configure the bot for your Discord server with /setup, and give the bot the permissions it needs.

Every server has its own settings. You change them with the `/setup` command, not in a file.

<note>

Update the plugin and the bot together. A 3.x bot refuses 2.x plugins as outdated, and a 3.x plugin cannot connect to a 2.x bot.

</note>

## Open the panel

Run `/setup` in any channel. Only members with the **Manage Server** permission can use it. The panel is private: only you see it, in your Discord language. It has four pages, which you switch with the menu at the top.

Every change is saved immediately. If you set a [log channel](https://docs.mute.yonn2222.com/server-setup/game-features#log-channel), it shows who changed what.

When you pick a channel, the bot checks that it can post there and refuses the channel with a message if it cannot. The old value stays. Clear the selection to turn a feature off again.

## General

<table>
<thead>
  <tr>
    <th>
      Setting
    </th>
    
    <th>
      Default
    </th>
    
    <th>
      Meaning
    </th>
  </tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
  <tr>
    <td>
      Language
    </td>
    
    <td>
      English
    </td>
    
    <td>
      The language of all public bot messages (English or German). Private replies use the language of the person who clicks.
    </td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>
      Log channel
    </td>
    
    <td>
      off
    </td>
    
    <td>
      Where the bot writes its <a href="https://docs.mute.yonn2222.com/server-setup/game-features#log-channel">
        server log
      </a>
      
      .
    </td>
  </tr>
</tbody>
</table>

The page also shows whether the Among Us plugin is connected right now.

On the hosted bot, this page also holds the plugin secret: you create it once and can generate a new one later. See [hosted setup](https://docs.mute.yonn2222.com/getting-started/hosted-setup).

## Links

<table>
<thead>
  <tr>
    <th>
      Setting
    </th>
    
    <th>
      Default
    </th>
    
    <th>
      Meaning
    </th>
  </tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
  <tr>
    <td>
      Link overview channel
    </td>
    
    <td>
      off
    </td>
    
    <td>
      A message that lists every linked player and updates itself. See <a href="https://docs.mute.yonn2222.com/server-setup/game-features#link-overview">
        Link overview
      </a>
      
      .
    </td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>
      Show pending links
    </td>
    
    <td>
      off
    </td>
    
    <td>
      Also list members who started <code>
        /link self
      </code>
      
       and are still waiting.
    </td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>
      Relink returning players
    </td>
    
    <td>
      on
    </td>
    
    <td>
      Keeps links working when a player renames their Among Us account. See <a href="https://docs.mute.yonn2222.com/server-setup/game-features#automatic-relink">
        Automatic relink
      </a>
      
      .
    </td>
  </tr>
</tbody>
</table>

## Voice

<table>
<thead>
  <tr>
    <th>
      Setting
    </th>
    
    <th>
      Default
    </th>
    
    <th>
      Meaning
    </th>
  </tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
  <tr>
    <td>
      Living players during tasks
    </td>
    
    <td>
      Muted
    </td>
    
    <td>
      What happens to players who are alive while a round runs: Free, Muted or Deafened.
    </td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>
      Dead players during tasks
    </td>
    
    <td>
      Muted
    </td>
    
    <td>
      The same for dead players during a round.
    </td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>
      Living players in meetings
    </td>
    
    <td>
      Free
    </td>
    
    <td>
      The same for living players in a meeting.
    </td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>
      Dead players in meetings
    </td>
    
    <td>
      Muted
    </td>
    
    <td>
      The same for dead players in a meeting.
    </td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>
      Ghost chat
    </td>
    
    <td>
      off
    </td>
    
    <td>
      Dead players talk during tasks while the living are deafened. Read the <a href="https://docs.mute.yonn2222.com/server-setup/game-features#ghost-chat">
        warning
      </a>
      
       first.
    </td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>
      Voice members who are not in the game
    </td>
    
    <td>
      Leave alone
    </td>
    
    <td>
      Members in the voice channel without a linked player: Leave alone, Mute, or Treat as dead.
    </td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>
      Fallback voice channels
    </td>
    
    <td>
      none
    </td>
    
    <td>
      Hosted bot only. Channels the bot mutes when it cannot tell which channel the host is in.
    </td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>
      Delays
    </td>
    
    <td>
      0 s each
    </td>
    
    <td>
      Waits before a change is applied: game start, meeting start, meeting end, back to the lobby. Each value is 0 to 5 seconds. You can type <code>
        1.5
      </code>
      
       or <code>
        1,5
      </code>
      
      .
    </td>
  </tr>
</tbody>
</table>

In the lobby, everybody is unmuted and undeafened.

## Game

<table>
<thead>
  <tr>
    <th>
      Setting
    </th>
    
    <th>
      Default
    </th>
    
    <th>
      Meaning
    </th>
  </tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
  <tr>
    <td>
      Status message channel
    </td>
    
    <td>
      off
    </td>
    
    <td>
      A live message about the running game. See <a href="https://docs.mute.yonn2222.com/server-setup/game-features#status-message">
        Status message
      </a>
      
      .
    </td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>
      Lobby code in the status message
    </td>
    
    <td>
      Spoiler
    </td>
    
    <td>
      Always show, Spoiler (hidden until clicked) or Hide.
    </td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>
      Match summary channel
    </td>
    
    <td>
      off
    </td>
    
    <td>
      Where the result of every game is posted. See <a href="https://docs.mute.yonn2222.com/server-setup/game-features#match-summary">
        Match summary
      </a>
      
      .
    </td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>
      Delete the summary after
    </td>
    
    <td>
      Never
    </td>
    
    <td>
      Never, or 5 min, 15 min, 30 min, 1 h, 4 h or 24 h.
    </td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>
      Nickname sync
    </td>
    
    <td>
      off
    </td>
    
    <td>
      Shows the Among Us name as the server nickname during a game. See <a href="https://docs.mute.yonn2222.com/server-setup/game-features#nickname-sync">
        Nickname sync
      </a>
      
      .
    </td>
  </tr>
</tbody>
</table>

## Bot permissions

Give the bot these permissions. Without them the matching feature silently does nothing, or reports the problem in the log channel.

<table>
<thead>
  <tr>
    <th>
      Permission
    </th>
    
    <th>
      Needed for
    </th>
  </tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
  <tr>
    <td>
      Mute Members
    </td>
    
    <td>
      Muting players.
    </td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>
      Deafen Members
    </td>
    
    <td>
      Deafening players (the Deafened rule and ghost chat).
    </td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>
      Manage Nicknames
    </td>
    
    <td>
      Nickname sync.
    </td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>
      View Channel
    </td>
    
    <td>
      Every channel you pick in the panel.
    </td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>
      Send Messages
    </td>
    
    <td>
      Every channel you pick in the panel: log, overview, status and summary.
    </td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>
      Manage Messages
    </td>
    
    <td>
      The link overview and status channels. The panel refuses these two channels when the bot does not have it.
    </td>
  </tr>
</tbody>
</table>

<warning>

Discord only lets a bot change members whose highest role is **below** the bot's own role. Move the bot role above the roles of your players, otherwise muting and nicknames are refused. The log channel reports this.

</warning>


## Sitemap

See the full [sitemap](https://docs.mute.yonn2222.com/sitemap.md) for all pages.