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Discord.JS V13 client.on messagecreate not firing

I've just recently finished upgrading my Discord.js bot to v13 and now the client.on(messageCreate) function doesn't fire? None of my code in it ever runs and I'm really confused as to why.

Before anybody asks, I have already set my intents.

const client = new Discord.Client({
  intents: [ Intents.FLAGS.GUILDS, Intents.FLAGS.GUILD_MESSAGES, Intents.FLAGS.DIRECT_MESSAGES ],
  partials: ['MESSAGE', 'CHANNEL', 'REACTION'], 
});

I have two functions, the client.on fires but the message doesn't

client.on('ready', () => {
  console.log(`Logged in as ${client.user.tag}!`);
});

client.on('messageCreate', msg => {
  console.log(anything)
}
about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza
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Make sure you include GUILDS in your list of intents. Otherwise, the bot can only see messages that have been sent after the bot itself sent a message.

In my case, I needed to set these:

partials: ['MESSAGE', 'CHANNEL', 'REACTION']
intents: ['DIRECT_MESSAGES', 'DIRECT_MESSAGE_REACTIONS', 'GUILD_MESSAGES', 'GUILD_MESSAGE_REACTIONS', 'GUILDS']

but the particulars will vary by your use case.

about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza Report

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You could try replacing your messageCreate with an async option, probs don't fix your issue but you can always try

client.on('messageCreate', async (message) => {
      console.log("DEBUG");
}

See if there are any errors on your console or does it send "DEBUG" message when you sent a message to the channel that the bot can see.

On my own bot, I do not have partials set, so you probably don't need them either.

Make sure you have also included your discord.js properly, here is example:

const { Client, Intents } = require("discord.js");
about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza Report
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