Build queue | oBot for Ikariam

What it does

Ikariam has one construction site per town: when an upgrade finishes, the site stays idle until you come back and click. The oBot queue starts the next job as soon as the site is free and resources are enough, so you never lose building hours. With automatic development the bot also picks by itself what to build.

Free and premium

Free: the bot works on the first 2 upgrades in the queue of every town. The panel does not let you add more («Without premium the queue holds 2 items per town»): when one is done, you add another.
Premium: unlimited queue, new buildings on free plots, automatic development with goals and jobs started meanwhile while the first one waits for resources.

Preparing the queue

Open the oBot panel and the Buildings tab.
In Add to queue choose the town: its buildings appear with their current level.
Next to the building write the level to reach and press Add. Repeat for the other buildings.
In Queue put the items in the order you want with Up and Down; Remove deletes one, Empty queue removes them all (after a confirmation).
Switch on Build queue active and press Save.

«All +1» preset

Adds one level to every building of the shown town, lowest first. It fills the queue without saving: check it, then press Save.

New buildings (premium)

Below the town buildings there is a Free plot row for each kind of empty plot (with how many there are): its menu lists the buildings the game allows there, with their cost. Pick one and press Add: it shows up in the queue tagged new. Once built it becomes an upgrade like the others.

If the game does not allow that building yet (a research or a requirement is missing) the bot says so in What it is doing and retries after 10 minutes.

Automatic development (premium)

With Automatic development on (and Build queue active on), when a town queue is empty the bot picks the next job by itself, queues it tagged auto and starts it as soon as resources are enough. It works for every town, including those where you never queued anything. Each choice goes into the log and can be removed from the queue like the others; jobs you add by hand always come first. A building waiting for a resource the town does not produce (for example marble without a mine), or one the game will not let you upgrade, is skipped and the bot picks another; it comes back as soon as the resource arrives. If the goal is stuck, it builds and upgrades carpenter, forester and architect, which cut costs.

With no goal (none) the bot follows these rules, in this order:

Slow growth: if the town gains less than 1 inhabitant per hour and is still below 85% of its maximum population, it lacks satisfaction, not space: first the tavern (built or raised), then the museum.
Missing basic buildings: warehouse, tavern, port, museum, as soon as a free plot offers them.
Town hall when the population is at 85% of the maximum.
Warehouse when a resource goes over 70% of the capacity.
Otherwise the lowest building among town hall, academy, warehouse, tavern, port and museum.

The goals

The Goal tells the bot what you are aiming at. With automatic development on it decides buildings, research order and citizens together: in that case the manual choices of the Research and Citizens tabs stay saved but apply only when you go back to «none». The Research and Citizens tabs must still be switched on.

First colony

To found a colony in Ikariam you need 40 citizens, 9,000 gold, 1,250 wood and a Palace. The bot first builds warehouse, Palace (as soon as it is unlocked), port and tavern, then grows town hall, warehouse, academy and tavern. Research goes straight for Expansion, with the research it requires (including Wealth). Before the Palace, gold above 1,500 does not sit idle: until Expansion is researched it fills the academy with scientists (over 48 hours, at most 80 gold per hour), then it keeps more citizens at work (over 72 hours, at most 40 per hour). Only once the Palace is built is gold saved up to 9,000: the bot works out a minimum income per hour (between 10 and 60 gold) to get there in about 4 days.

Production

More resources and cheaper buildings: warehouse and cost-reducing buildings (carpenter, forester, architect), then tavern and port. Research starts with Economy and all citizens go to work (no scientists).

Population

Bigger towns: town hall already at 70% of the maximum population, tavern and museum for satisfaction. Research starts with Science (wells give +50 inhabitants) and scientists are half of the academy.

none (general rules)

The rules above, with no preference; research and citizens follow the choices of their tabs.

Options

Build queue active

On: the bot starts the queued jobs by itself. Off: the queue stays saved but nothing starts (automatic development neither).

Telegram message for every started building

A Telegram message each time the bot starts a queued building (Telegram must be linked).

Automatic development (premium)

With an empty queue the bot picks the next job of every town by itself, following the goal.

Goal

None, First colony, Production or Population: see above.

What the bot does

Every 2 minutes it looks, for each town, at the first item of its queue. Towns are independent: each one has its own queue.
If the building has already reached the wanted level, it removes it from the queue and moves to the next one.
If the construction site is busy, it comes back when the works end.
If resources are missing, it waits and retries after 5 minutes; the What it is doing box says which resources are missing and how much.
Meanwhile (premium): if the first job would wait for resources more than half an hour, the bot looks at the next 3 upgrades of the same town and starts the first one it can pay right now. The first job stays at the top and starts when resources arrive; the log says «Started … meanwhile».
If the game does not allow the upgrade (for example because of missing requirements) it retries after 10 minutes.
When it starts a job it writes it in the log and in the page (and on Telegram, if you asked for it) with the time the works end.