Linking Twitch to CarbonNetwork stream actions

Twitch links straight to CarbonNetwork. There is nothing to install and no password to type in game. For the menu, the board and what everything looks like, see Streaming.

What you need

• The Media role on CarbonNetwork. Ask with /apply in our Discord.
• A Twitch account, and a browser to approve the link in.
• For Channel points, Bits, New sub and Gift subs: Twitch Affiliate or Partner. Follow, Raid and Hype train work on any channel.

Link your channel

1. /stream → Twitch → Link Twitch. The menu closes and chat says Asking Twitch for a code.

2. Chat says Approve the link on Twitch. with an [Open Twitch] button. Click it. Twitch's activation page opens with your code already filled in.

3. On Twitch, sign in as the channel you stream on, and approve.

4. Back in game, chat says Linked to twitch.tv/yourname. The Twitch tile now reads Linked to twitch.tv/yourname.

• Check the name. If it isn't your channel, you approved with the wrong account. Shift-click Unlink and start again.
• Closed the chat line? Click Link Twitch again while it says Waiting for you to approve on Twitch, and the button comes back.
• On Bedrock, a form shows the code instead. On a phone or computer, open twitch.tv/activate, type the code, and approve.
• Nothing for a minute? Chat says Twitch didn't answer. with [Link again]. Click it. If it keeps happening, tell staff.

Set up your first action

1. /stream → Actions → pick one, like Confetti.

2. Click a Twitch trigger. Follow is the easiest to test. A trigger with a number asks for it: for Channel points that number is what the reward costs.

3. The action's tile now reads On, and the trigger tile glows.

4. Optional: set Cooldown, Colour, Sound, and a Title in your own words.

5. Back on the first menu, switch Live on.

That's it. Repeat steps 1 to 4 for each action you want. One action can have several triggers: a follow and a 100-bit cheer can both throw Confetti.

The triggers

Click a trigger with a number to change it. Right-click any trigger to remove it.

A gifted sub plays once for the gift, never once per sub. A cheer with no name on it reads "a viewer".

Channel points

When you add Channel points to an action, CarbonNetwork makes a reward on your Twitch channel for it. You don't make it yourself.

• One reward per action, named after it: Hearts, Confetti, Spiral, Ring, Sparkles, Flames, Music notes, Your name, Screen title, Hotbar message. Its description reads Plays on the streamer's screen in CarbonNetwork.
• It costs your number. Change the number and the price on Twitch changes.
• Switch the action off, or remove the trigger, and the reward goes from your channel. Switch it back on and it comes back. Unlink removes all of them.
• While the trigger tile says Waiting for Twitch to make the reward. and That needs Twitch channel points., Twitch hasn't made it. Your channel needs Affiliate or Partner. Once it's made, the tile says The reward is on your channel.
• Rewards you made yourself on Twitch are never touched, and never set anything off here.

Points come back when it can't play. If a redemption can't be shown, the viewer gets their points back. That happens when:

• you're not on any CarbonNetwork server;
• Live is off;
• the action is cooling down;
• you're in a fight with Quiet in combat on;
• you've hit the limit of 30 a minute, or three animations at once;
• staff have paused you.

When you're offline the refund comes after about a minute and a half. Bits and subs are never refunded: that's Twitch's rule, not ours.

Your own redemption doesn't play. Redeeming your own reward on your own channel shows in your recent list and on your board, and that's all. To test a reward, have a second account redeem it.

The hype train

Add Hype train to the Hype train action. It's the only action that offers it.

While a hype train runs, a purple bar under the news bar fills as the level does, and reads Hype train level 2. Change the words with Wording: {gift} is the level. The bar goes when the train ends.

Preview shows the bar at level 2 for five seconds.

Test it

Twitch has no button that sends a test event to a real channel. Its command-line tool only reaches a pretend server on your own PC, never CarbonNetwork. So:

Before each test, check Live is on, on the server you're on.

Your link to Twitch

• A link lapses if it isn't used for a long time (about 30 days), or if Twitch takes the permission back. Chat says Link expired. with [Link again], and the tile reads Twitch link expired. Click [Link again], or Link Twitch, and approve again. Your actions and triggers are kept.
• Unlink takes a shift-click. It removes the link and the channel-point rewards CarbonNetwork made. The tile reads Unlinking for a few seconds.
• CarbonNetwork never sees your Twitch password, and never sees a message a viewer typed.

Troubleshooting

More, for every platform: Streaming.