Quick start | oBot for Ikariam

What oBot for Ikariam is

oBot for Ikariam is an assistant that runs inside the game tab, through the Tampermonkey extension. It keeps the construction site of every town busy, can develop your towns by itself towards a goal (for example the first colony), puts citizens to work, starts research, buys merchant ships and trains spearmen. It warns you about incoming attacks and economy problems (warehouse full, wine running out, gold dropping), in the page and on Telegram, and keeps a log of everything it does.

Testing version

oBot for Ikariam is at version 0.2.9: every feature is tested in game, but the bot is young. If something looks wrong, write to us at the address at the bottom of the page.

First steps

Install Tampermonkey and the script. Install the Tampermonkey extension in Chrome or Firefox, then open https://js.obot.it/ikariam/obot-ikariam.user.js and press Install. Details are in the Installation section.
Enter your Ikariam server. The oBot button appears at the bottom left of the page: open it. The first time, the bot creates your oBot account by itself, with no sign-up and a few days of premium trial.
Switch on automatic development. In the Buildings tab switch on Build queue active and Automatic development, choose the First colony goal and press Save. From now on the bot picks the next building of every town by itself. If you prefer to decide yourself, add buildings to the queue by hand (Build queue section).
Put citizens to work. In the Citizens tab switch on Automatic citizens and save: a newly founded town has everyone idle and produces no wood.
Switch on research. In the Research tab switch on Automatic research and save: with the First colony goal the bot researches Seafaring first.
Check the alarms. In the Alarms tab the attack alarm and economy warnings are already on: press Test the alarm to see what the alert looks like.
Link Telegram (recommended) to get alarms and warnings on your phone and, if you like, the alert when the bot stops: see the Telegram and Alarms sections.

Saving is always explicit

Changes in the panel apply only after you press Save. Undo changes restores the saved settings.

The panel

Home

Your oBot account: player, server, premium status with expiry date and the link to renew it, number of towns, and what is free and what is premium.

Empire

All towns in one table with resources, gold and warnings: see the Empire overview section.

Buildings

The queue of every town, new buildings, automatic development with its goal and the state of the construction site: see the Build queue section.

Citizens

Workers and scientists assigned by themselves: see the Citizens section.

Research

The next research started by itself, in the branch order you choose: see the Research section.

Ships

Merchant ships bought by themselves up to the chosen number: see the Ships section.

Army

Spearmen trained by themselves with spare wood: see the Army section.

Alarms

Attack alarm, economy warnings and the alert when the bot stops: see the Alarms section.

The token to link Telegram and the check buttons: see the Telegram section.

Log

Started buildings, automatic development choices, moved citizens, research, ships, training, alarms and warnings, with date and time.

Every tab opens with three lines: What it does, How to start and Good to know. Under each option it says what it does, and the What it is doing box tells what the bot decided at its last round.

Free and premium

Free

Attack alarm, in the page and on Telegram
Economy warnings and the alert when the bot stops
Empire overview
Build queue: the first 2 upgrades of every town
Telegram link and log

Premium

Unlimited build queue, with new buildings on free plots
Automatic development with goals
Jobs started «meanwhile» while the first one waits for resources
Automatic citizens, research, ships and army

Premium is the same as oBot for OGame (same packages) and every new account gets a few trial days. Without premium, the settings of premium features are saved anyway: they start as soon as premium is active.

How it works

The bot works only while a game tab is open, even in the background. With the browser closed, the PC asleep or the tab frozen by Chrome nothing happens: see the FAQ The bot stopped for hours.
With several tabs open on the same server only one works, the «leader tab»: the others stay idle, so the same building never starts twice and the same alarm never arrives twice. If you close or reload the leader tab, another one takes its place.
The bot does not reload the page while you play: when it starts something it tells you with a notice in the page. The town view shows the construction site at the next page change.
Settings are stored on the oBot server, tied to your game account: they survive a reinstall and follow you to another PC.
Updates arrive by themselves through Tampermonkey; before running new code the bot checks its fingerprint.