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Have you heard of Pterodactyl? It support Valheim fine. For game servers in general a container approach is the way to go.
i agree with everything u/~defron~ has mentioned so far. I'd like to add a bit more to the whole OS thing. Windows is a straight no go, unstable, bloated, memory hog, the list goes on. As for linux, there are plenty of choices, although options like UnRaid/Truenas/OpenMediaVault all are great aesthetically wise, gui for managing your users, permissions, storage, containers you will generally always find yourself limited by them at one point or another, especially with the use case you described. Something like ubuntu with mergerfs and snapraid and a samba share took me around 20 minutes to configure. Vallheilm i've not had experience with but after 2 minutes of googling i found this. Minecraft on the other hand is incredibly easy to set up, if you take a look at this repository you can have a paper minecraft server with one command install that auto updates and sets it up for you within 2 minutes. For power saving I'd recommend you set up a systemd script to set powertop --auto-tune to autostart on boot and use hdparm to set hdd sleep time. With all drives spun down I get around 10W idle on ubuntu and around 18W on TrueNAS. ZFS is great, but i don't see it's use for a personal home build. As for your discord scripts, since you mentioned you use docker profesionally, i don't see why you couldn't just make a dockerfile for each bot and run them as containers.
i agree with everything u/~defron~ has mentioned so far. I'd like to add a bit more to the whole OS thing. Windows is a straight no go, unstable, bloated, memory hog, the list goes on. As for linux, there are plenty of choices, although options like UnRaid/Truenas/OpenMediaVault all are great aesthetically wise, gui for managing your users, permissions, storage, containers you will generally always find yourself limited by them at one point or another, especially with the use case you described. Something like ubuntu with mergerfs and snapraid and a samba share took me around 20 minutes to configure. Vallheilm i've not had experience with but after 2 minutes of googling i found this. Minecraft on the other hand is incredibly easy to set up, if you take a look at this repository you can have a paper minecraft server with one command install that auto updates and sets it up for you within 2 minutes. For power saving I'd recommend you set up a systemd script to set powertop --auto-tune to autostart on boot and use hdparm to set hdd sleep time. With all drives spun down I get around 10W idle on ubuntu and around 18W on TrueNAS. ZFS is great, but i don't see it's use for a personal home build. As for your discord scripts, since you mentioned you use docker profesionally, i don't see why you couldn't just make a dockerfile for each bot and run them as containers.