Q: Where are the config files stored?
Everything lives under your Streamer.bot base directory:
Chat Games/Slot Machine Game/SMG-Settings.json ← all settings, messages & emote pools
Chat Games/Slot Machine Game/SMG-Settings.json.bak ← automatic backup, written before every save
Chat Games/Logs/SMG-log-yyyy-MM-dd.txt ← daily action log (one file per day)
You should never need to edit SMG-Settings.json by hand — use the built-in Settings GUI instead.
Q: The Settings GUI won't open / crashes immediately. What do I do?
- Check the Streamer.bot log for error details and report it here.
- If
SMG-Settings.jsonis malformed, delete it (or restoreSMG-Settings.json.bak) and reopen the GUI — a fresh default file is generated automatically if none exists.
Q: How do I reset all settings to defaults?
Open the Settings GUI and click Reset to Defaults (red button, bottom-left). After confirming, this rewrites the entire settings file, including the default emote pools for every platform, and re-applies the default cooldown durations to the Streamer.bot command. The GUI then reopens automatically.
Q: I saved settings but nothing changed in-game. Why?
Save and Save & Exit both write immediately to SMG-Settings.json. The game script reloads settings fresh on every command execution, so the very next !slots (or whatever your trigger is) picks up the change — no Streamer.bot restart needed. Cancel discards anything unsaved and just closes the window.
Q: What's the ☀️/🌙 button in the bottom-left corner?
Toggles the Settings GUI between light and dark theme. It saves your preference and reopens the window immediately.
Q: How does a bet amount get chosen?
Whatever the player types after the command maps to an amount:
| Input | Result |
|---|---|
| (nothing) | Uses Default Bet |
all / alles / all in |
Entire balance |
half / hälfte / 50% |
Half of balance |
third / drittel / 33% |
A third of balance |
quarter / viertel / 25% |
A quarter of balance |
random / zufall / rnd |
A random amount between Min Bet and Max Bet (clamped to what the user can afford) |
| any number | That exact amount |
Aliases are matched case-insensitively, and both English and German phrasing work.
Q: My bet got rejected — why?
A bet fails validation (and sends the configured error message) if it's non-numeric/negative/has decimals, exceeds your current balance, falls below Minimum Bet, or exceeds Maximum Bet. Set Minimum/Maximum Bet to 0 to disable that particular ceiling/floor.
Q: How do I block specific users or groups from playing entirely?
Set Blocked Groups (General tab) to a comma-separated list of Streamer.bot user groups — members are silently blocked from playing at all, with no message sent. This is different from the Addicted List (see below), which still lets users play but with penalties.
Q: What points system does the game use?
Auto-detected in this priority order:
- StreamUP Currency Core — reads the
currency_ProductSettingsglobal. - tawmae Loyalty Points — reads the
tawmae_Settings_LOYALTY POINTSglobal. - Config fallback — uses Points Var / Points Name from the General tab.
If you're on a custom currency with a different variable name, set Points Var/Points Name yourself.
Q: How is a win actually calculated?
rawPayout = bet × MatchPayout% × emoteWeight ÷ 100
basePayout = max(round(rawPayout), bet)
payout = basePayout × RoleBoostMultiplier (Subscriber/VIP, if applicable)
payout += JackpotPool (only on a jackpot win, if eligible)
payout = round(payout × (1 − AddictedPayoutCut)) (only if the user is on the Addicted list)
MatchPayout% is whichever tier (2- through 6-Match Payout) matches how many slots came up the same, and higher-weight emotes pay proportionally more per match.
Q: What determines whether a spin wins at all?
Allow Match Chance (%) is the odds of a spin producing any match, and Allow Jackpot Chance (%) is the odds of every slot matching (jackpot). Reroll Attempts controls how hard the game tries to avoid an accidental match on a spin that wasn't meant to win — with a small Emote Pool Size, accidental matches can still slip through even after all reroll attempts.
Q: What does Emote Weight actually do?
Weight selection is inverted: low-weight emotes appear more often but pay less per match, high-weight emotes are rarer but pay more. Only emotes whose weight falls within Min/Max Emote Weight are eligible to appear at all — you can use this to exclude the cheapest or the most valuable emotes from a spin entirely.
Q: How do I edit the emote pool?
Platform Emotes tab → pick a platform sub-tab → fill in the Emote/Weight fields (Kick also needs an ID and Name) and click Add. Click an existing entry in the list to edit or remove it. Reset to Default replaces the whole pool for that platform with the built-in 10-emote set.
Q: Why does Kick need an ID and a Name?
Kick emote codes are built from the numeric ID, e.g. [emote:1730803:emojiRich]. Open the emote graphic in a new browser tab to find its ID in the URL.
Q: How does the Jackpot Pool grow?
Every losing bet (from a non-addicted, non-Free Mode spin) adds the lost amount to the pool. It's tracked separately per platform. A player only has a chance at winning the pool on top of their normal jackpot payout if they hit the jackpot and their bet was at least Min Jackpot Bet — winning it resets the pool back to 0.
Q: I disabled the Jackpot Pool but my messages still mention it. Why?
They shouldn't — wrap any pool-specific wording in your custom message with {jackpot}...{/jackpot}. That whole segment is automatically stripped out whenever Enable Jackpot Pool is off, so you can write natural sentences without leftover broken text like "got added to the pool of now Points!".
Q: How do Subscriber/VIP boosts stack?
Additively:
RoleBoostMultiplier = 1.0 + (SubBoost% if subscribed) + (VipBoost% if VIP)
Example: 10% sub boost + 20% VIP boost on a 500-point win = 500 × 1.30 = 650. Both are Twitch only — there's no subscriber/VIP concept on YouTube or Kick, so they have no effect there.
Q: What does putting someone on the Addicted list actually do?
Three things, configured on the Game tab:
- Their win (including any jackpot pool bonus) is reduced by Addicted Payout Cut — default 50%, hard-capped at 99% so a win can never turn into a net loss.
- If a User Cooldown is configured, they always wait twice as long between spins as everyone else.
- Their losses never contribute to the Jackpot Pool, so they can't intentionally grow it hoping to win it back later.
Q: Individual users or whole groups?
Both — Addicted Users (comma-separated usernames) and Addicted Groups (comma-separated Streamer.bot groups) can be set at the same time; matching either flags the user.
Q: Do addicted users get a different chat message?
Yes — Addicted Win, Addicted Loss, and Addicted Jackpot (Messages tab) are used instead of the normal ones. The default Win/Jackpot messages include an {addictedCutPercent} placeholder to spell out the penalty, e.g. "Addiction Fee: your win was cut by 50%". These only apply outside of Free Mode — the Free Game messages always take priority for free spins, since no real currency changes hands there.
Q: Can I preview the effect before saving?
Yes — the Live Preview panel at the bottom of the Game tab includes a 🎯 Addicted row that recalculates live as you type, showing the exact payout range an addicted user would receive.
Q: How do I let people play without risking points?
Enable Free Mode globally in the Game tab. No currency changes hands either way, and dedicated Free Win/Loss/Jackpot messages are used instead of the normal ones.
Q: What placeholders are available?
Placeholders vary per message — hover any field's label in the GUI for a full tooltip listing what it supports (e.g. {user}, {amount}, {currency}, {newBalance}, {jackpotPoolCurrent}, {addictedCutPercent}). Every message is fully rewritable in the Messages tab.
Q: A number in chat looks like 52467 instead of 52,467 — how do I fix that?
Set Number Separator (General tab) to whatever character you want as a thousands separator, e.g. . or ,.
Q: How are cooldowns enforced?
Global Cooldown and User Cooldown (Cooldown tab) are written straight into Streamer.bot's own per-command cooldown system when you save — the game script itself doesn't gate anything except reacting with a chat message when Streamer.bot reports an active cooldown. Addicted users get an additional, independently tracked wait on top of the normal User Cooldown (see Addicted List above).
Q: How do I let a Channel Points reward trigger a spin?
- Enable Only Channel Points (Other Modules → Twitch Channel Points tab) — this disables the chat command entirely and only accepts reward redemptions.
- Paste your Target Reward ID (leave blank to accept any reward redemption).
- Pick a Bet Mode.
Channel Points redemptions are a Twitch-only concept, so this has no effect on YouTube or Kick.
Q: What does each Bet Mode do?
| Mode | Behaviour |
|---|---|
cost |
Bet equals the reward's channel point cost |
fixed |
Every redemption bets the exact Fixed Bet Amount |
input |
User types their bet into the reward's text field |
free |
Bet is forced to 0 — free play, no points wagered |
Max Bet is only enforced for input/fixed modes — cost is left uncapped since the reward cost is already streamer-controlled.
Q: Where do I review past spins?
Other Modules → Action-Log tab. It automatically merges every day's log file into one searchable, filterable table (filter by Result or Platform, free-text search, click any row to see the full raw log line at the bottom). Enable/disable logging entirely with Write Log (General tab).
Q: Which platforms are supported?
Twitch, YouTube, and Kick — toggle each on in General → Select Platform(s). The platform is auto-detected from the incoming event, and the Jackpot Pool, points balances, and command cooldowns are all tracked independently per platform.
Q: How do I know if a new version is out?
Every time you open the Settings GUI, it checks the GitHub releases API (3-second timeout, fails silently if you're offline). If a newer version exists, you'll get a one-time popup asking whether to open the releases page, and the window title shows a 🔔 marker until you update.
Partially it is. This script has been developed with input from the streamer.bot community and is supported by AI. But I spent a lot of time putting heart and soul into it, and my goal was to create a robust, fair, and easy-to-use gambling minigame for everyone. I understand that people, especially IT-savvy people, will dislike the project because of the use of AI, and I absolutely understand and support their point of view. But I had a lot of fun making it, as with all my other projects, so I used it to "learn" coding and used AI for something valuable.
AI can create bugs, and I am not a developer in classical terms. But I spend a reasonable amount of time fixing any bugs that occur while testing. If you still find bugs or have something to say, please let me hear it :)