Bots
Simply put, a bot is anything that automates the actions of a player. In addition to automating tasks like adventuring, there are bots that provide a wide variety of services such as automatically selling buffs, cooking, chatting, rolling dice and regulating games.
Types of Bots
Auto-Adventure Bot
This type of bot automates a player's adventuring. This can be done via a repeater script, an application such as KoLmafia or a custom program created with the /dev/null/kolbot development kit.
For more information, See Tools.
Buffbot
A buffbot is a bot which sells buffs to other player. Each buff is usually associated with a certain amount of meat. Some buffbots offer free buffs, or "free" buffs for trival amounts of meat.
For more information, See Buffbots.
Chatbot
A chatbot is generically, a bot which responds in chat to commands given in chat.
- chatbot (#142302) is easily the most famous bot in the kingdom. Among many other things, she rolls dice, announces radio songs in /c radio, and responds to certain lines in open chat.
Clanbot
A clanbot attempts to automate clan features.
Occasional uses for clanbots include announcing arrivals, exits, and ascensions; automatically attacking other clans in clan warfare; logging chat; relaying forum posts; and recording leaderboards.
An "anti-looter bot" takes out and stores all items in a clan's stash, in which an outside KoL web interface is used by a clan member to withdraw items from the bot. This gives a clan customized control over the clan's stash and how its contents are distributed.
Cooking Bots
A chefbot will cook for other players, some for meat, some for free.
Gamebot
A gamebot is a bot which runs a type of game, which may or may not involve gambling.
Mallbot
A mallbot can be a bot whose main function is monitoring mall prices. Mallbots may try to play the market by buying and selling items in an attempt to make meat.
A mallbot which goes beyond the searching-only directive is more accurately called a "buybot".
Some mallbots can be used to lookup the cheapest selling price of an item in the mall by messaging them.
- AntiMallBot (#367704) buys up underpriced Mr. As from the mall and offers them back to their owners via the trade system.
- TheMall (#463921) is a bot which will tell you the cheapest price of an item in the Mall.
Pulverizing Bot
A pulverizing bot may smash apart and/or smash combine items for players who do not currently have the Pulverize skill and/or access to The Malus of Forethought.
- Smashbot (#1533476) is a pulverizing bot which can smash and has single level Malus functionality.
- Wadbot (#1666580) (Forum) is a Clan Prolific pulverizing bot with many features for smashing and Malusing.
Shorebot
A shorebot was a type of bot which would check player profiles to determine which players were adventuring at the shore (adventures decreasing rapidly by 3). The public profile page used to update live, rather than once a day at rollover. PvPers could use the information to attack other PvPers who were shoring, for most players are not buffed (as much) when they are shoring compared to when they are adventuring or PvPing, because buffs do not affect the shoring results.
Shorebots would "hammer" on the player page, increasing lag, so the profile pages were changed to update only daily. Jick's rant on the shorebots is considered one of the most infamous moments in radio history.
Spambot
A spambot is used to mass message players via chat and/or mail messages, usually in an attempt to recruit members for their clan, begz0r for meat, or to be a jackass. This lead to much baleeting and a possible account disabling.
A positive use of a spambot is called a "Mass-Messaging Bot" or a "Giftbot". This type of bot is used to distribute meat and/or items to other players via messaging or gifts.
Miscellaneous Bots
- DoorBot (#640370) is the original Sorceress Tower door code solving bot, which solves the light door riddle for players. KMail this bot the word 'help' for more information.
- Haiku Oracle (#464776), brought to us by The Blues, is a multi-purpose bot which operates in /haiku. For more information: /msg haiku_oracle help
- itembot (#1262390) is a bot that sells many items available from NPC stores at a discount. Transactions are carried out by KMailing a designated amount of meat, in much the same way as buffbots operate. See itembot's profile or Display Case for details.
- TrustBot (#824385) is a bot run by CDMoyer and is similar to the old repbot. See TrustBot's profile for more information and a link to the current trust rankings.
- sellbot (#1053259) is an automated selling bot. After opening a trading account with the bot, players can send it items by KMail and the bot will sell them either in the Mall or The Flea Market. Sellbot takes a cut of the profits, including any applicable listing prices from the Flea Market. Much of the interaction with sellbot is via chat, including a free pricing service, which keeps track of recent mall price ranges. For assistance, see sellbot's profile or Display Case.
- kBay (#1430540) is a bot by Turias that runs auctions via kmail, with a website listing current auctions in an eBay style. See kBay's profile for a link to instructions.
- StopScam (#1459244) is an automated scammer check bot running for The Alliance to Stop Scammers. It is PM Based. Ex: /msg stopscam check bob or /msg stopscam check 1.
Creating a Bot
Some bots can be implemented via small scripts, others are complex applications.
- Fnord7's KoLBot is generic bot from the maker of chatbot.bot development kit.
- pykol is a general-purpose bot development kit for python.
