{
  pkgs,
  config,
  lib,
  inputs,
  ...
}: let
  nixservice = "podman-valheim";
  service = "valheim";
  cfg = config.gameservers.${service};
  sec = config.sops.secrets;
  homelab = config.homelab;
in {
  options.gameservers.${service} = {
    enable = lib.mkEnableOption "enables ${service}";
    # set port options
    port = lib.mkOption {
      type = lib.types.int;
      default = 2456;
      description = "set port for ${service} (default: ${toString cfg.port}";
    };
    url = lib.mkOption {
      type = lib.types.str;
      default = "${service}.${homelab.base_domain}";
      description = "set domain for ${service}";
    };
    data_dir = lib.mkOption {
      type = lib.types.str;
      default = "/var/lib/gameservers/${service}";
      description = "set data directory for ${service}";
    };
    ids = lib.mkOption {
      type = lib.types.int;
      default = cfg.port;
      description = "set uid and pid of ${service} user (matches port by default)";
    };
    motd_gs = lib.mkOption {
      type = lib.types.nullOr (lib.types.listOf lib.types.str);
      default = ["podman-valheim"];
    };
    backup = lib.mkOption {
      type = lib.types.bool;
      default = false;
      description = "enable backups for ${service}";
    };
    backup_repo = lib.mkOption {
      type = lib.types.path;
      default = "/var/backup/gameservers/valheim";
      description = "path to take hourly backups to with borg!";
    };
    offsite_user = lib.mkOption {
      type = lib.types.str;
      default = "lifeboat";
      description = "user to connect to offsite host with";
    };
    offsite_target = lib.mkOption {
      type = lib.types.str;
      default = "lifeboat.holocron.blue";
      description = "ip or domain for offsite backups";
    };
    offsite_dir = lib.mkOption {
      type = lib.types.str;
      default = "lifeboat/holocron/archives/gameservers";
      description = "path to rsync offsite backups to";
    };
  };

  config = lib.mkIf cfg.enable {
    # declare ${service} group
    users.groups.${service} = {gid = lib.mkForce cfg.ids;};

    # declare ${service} user
    users.users.${service} = {
      description = "${service} server user";
      uid = lib.mkForce cfg.ids;
      isSystemUser = true;
      home = cfg.data_dir;
      createHome = true;
      group = service;
      extraGroups = [];
    };

    virtualisation.oci-containers.containers = {
      ${service} = {
        image = "ghcr.io/community-valheim-tools/valheim-server";
        autoStart = true;
        extraOptions = [
          "--cap-add=sys_nice"
          "--stop-timeout=120"
        ];
        ports = [
          "2456-2457:2456-2457/udp"
          "2456:80/tcp"
        ];
        volumes = [
          "${cfg.data_dir}/config:/config"
          "${cfg.data_dir}/data:/opt/valheim"
        ];
        environment = {
          SERVER_NAME = "recpro";
          SERVER_PASS = "recoil727pro";
          #WORLD_NAME = "";
          STATUS_HTTP = "true";
          TZ = homelab.tz;
          PUID = toString config.users.users.${service}.uid;
          PGID = toString config.users.groups.${service}.gid;
        };
      };
    };

    # override umask to make permissions work out
    systemd.services.${service}.serviceConfig = {
      UMask = lib.mkForce "0007";
    };

    # open firewall
    networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [cfg.port];
    networking.firewall.allowedUDPPorts = [2456 2457];

    # backups valhiem with borg!
    services.borgbackup.jobs.${service} = {
      archiveBaseName = service;
      repo = cfg.backup_repo;
      paths = cfg.data_dir;
      compression = "auto,zstd";
      #preHook = "systemctl start mysql-backup.service";
      postHook = ''
        ${pkgs.sshpass}/bin/sshpass -f ${sec."lifeboat_rsync".path} \
          ${pkgs.rsync}/bin/rsync -aHAX --partial --numeric-ids --info=progress2,name1,stats2 --delete \
          -e "ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no" \
          ${toString cfg.backup_repo} \
          ${cfg.offsite_user}@${cfg.offsite_target}::${cfg.offsite_dir}
      '';
      startAt = "*-*-* *:00:00";
      group = "archives";
      encryption.mode = "repokey-blake2";
      encryption.passCommand = "cat ${config.sops.secrets."borg_passwd".path}";
      extraArgs = ["--verbose" "--show-rc" "--umask" "0007"];
      extraCreateArgs = ["--list" "--stats" "--filter" "AME"];
      prune.keep = {
        within = "1d"; # Keep all archives from the last day
        hourly = 24;
        daily = 7;
        weekly = 12;
        monthly = -1; # Keep at least one archive for each month
      };
    };
  };
}