Activity types

Type	What members see
playing	Playing text
streaming	Streaming text (needs a valid http or https URL, otherwise it falls back to Playing)
listening	Listening to text
watching	Watching text
competing	Competing in text
custom	The text alone, with no verb, like the custom status of a user

Custom Status

The Custom Status is Discord activity type 4. It shows only your text, with no “Playing” or “Watching” in front of it, for example Ready to help, type /help.

• It is available to all bots, Premium or not, Dart or JavaScript.
• The text is the activity name you type in the editor (128 characters at most). Bot Creator sends it to Discord in the state field and sets the required name to Custom Status, which Discord does not display.
• The URL field is ignored for this type.
• Discord only shows one Custom Status per bot. Mixing it with another activity in the same rotation is fine: each step replaces the previous one.

Several statuses and rotation

Add more than one activity to rotate between them. Each activity has a minimum and a maximum interval in seconds; the next change happens after a random delay in that range. Discord limits how often a presence can change, so the runner never rotates faster than every 15 seconds.

Text can contain runtime variables such as ((bot.uptime)) or ((bot.guildCount)) on Dart bots.

In the app and the Studio

Open the bot, then Settings, then the status section. Pick the type Custom status in the drop-down, type your text and save. The change is applied to the running bot.

With a JavaScript bot

{
  "presence": {
    "status": "online",
    "activities": [
      { "type": "custom", "name": "Ready to help, type /help" }
    ]
  }
}

With the AI Copilot

Ask for it in plain words, for example “set my bot’s status to the custom status Back in 5 minutes”. The Copilot and a connected AI assistant use the same custom type.