Set your bot token (environment variables)

Your bot token is a password for your bot account. Anyone who has it can control the bot completely, so it must never be written in your source code or committed to Git. On Victus you supply it as an environment variable and your code reads it at runtime. There are two ways to do that.

Option A — Startup variable (simplest)

1. 1Open your bot in the panel and go to the Startup tab.
2. 2Paste your token into the token / environment-variable field the egg provides. Values set there are injected into the container as real environment variables.
3. 3Save, then Restart so the new value is picked up.
4. 4Read it in code with process.env.DISCORD_TOKEN (Node) or os.environ["DISCORD_TOKEN"] (Python).

Option B — a .env file via the Files tab

# .env  (create this in the Files tab, in the server root)
DISCORD_TOKEN=MTA1... your token here ...
CLIENT_ID=123456789012345678
GUILD_ID=987654321098765432

// Node.js — install "dotenv" (add it to package.json)
require('dotenv').config();
const { Client, GatewayIntentBits } = require('discord.js');

const client = new Client({ intents: [GatewayIntentBits.Guilds] });
client.login(process.env.DISCORD_TOKEN);

# Python — add python-dotenv to requirements.txt
import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv
load_dotenv()

TOKEN = os.environ["DISCORD_TOKEN"]