Several Installs on One PC

You can install Lords Bot more than once on the same PC, each copy in its own folder. To run them at the same time, each copy must be signed in to a different Lords Bot login, and each login needs its own active plan.

Do you need more than one install? #

Usually not. One install can run as many accounts as your plan allows. If you need more accounts, you can add account slots to your plan instead (Full plan only), from your account page at account.lords-bot.com.

A second install is useful when you have a second Lords Bot login, for example one for a friend or a separate group of accounts, and want both running on one PC.

What you need #

• One Lords Bot login per running install. A login can only be signed in on one copy of Lords Bot at a time. If a second copy signs in with the same login, it gets You are already logged in.
• An active plan on each login. Each login has its own licence and its own account slots.
• A separate folder for each install. Never point two installs at the same folder.
• Accounts added to each install separately. Account settings are locked to the Lords Bot login that saved them, so don’t copy account folders between installs that use different logins. Add the accounts in each install with Import or Create; see Add Your Accounts.

Install a second copy #

LordsBotSetup normally finds your existing install and offers to update it. To add a second copy instead:

1. Download LordsBotSetup.exe from lords-bot.com and run it.
2. On the screen for your existing install, click Install another copy… under the status.
3. The setup suggests a free folder next to your first install, for example Lords Bot 2. Change it under Install location if you like.
4. Click Install. To go back without installing, click Back to the existing install.

Tip: If your LordsBotSetup doesn’t show Install another copy…, download it again from lords-bot.com. You can also run it with a folder from Windows key + R, for example: "%USERPROFILE%\Downloads\LordsBotSetup.exe" --dir "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Lords Bot 2"

The second install gets its own shortcuts and its own entry in Installed apps, named after its folder, for example Lords Bot (Lords Bot 2). It does not replace the first install’s shortcuts.

Lords Monitor with several installs #

Every install has its own Monitor.exe. You can set them up in either of two ways:

• One Monitor per install. Open each install’s Monitor.exe. Each one watches only the bot in its own folder, and turning on Run at Windows startup in each one starts all of them with Windows.
• One Monitor for everything. In one Monitor’s settings, turn on Supervise all bot installs. It shows one card per bot. Bots that are running are found by themselves; add each install’s folder under Watched bot folders so its bot is also started when it isn’t running.

A bot is only ever driven by one Monitor at a time, so the two setups don’t fight if you mix them. Discord alerts name the install folder they are about.

See Lords Monitor for all the settings.

Tip: To start several installs with Windows, use each Monitor’s Run at Windows startup (or one supervising Monitor). The bot’s own Settings > Options > Run at startup also works per install.

Updates and uninstalling #

Note: Updating one install only closes that install’s Lords Bot and Lords Monitor. Your other installs keep running.

Uninstalling one install only closes that install’s Lords Bot and Lords Monitor. It removes only that install’s folder, shortcuts and Installed apps entry.

Each install checks for updates and is updated separately. See Updates and the Beta Channel.

An install shows no accounts #

If you run LordsBotSetup.exe from your Downloads folder, it finds the install you already have and offers to update it. Older setups made a new, empty install instead, so the bot opened with no accounts while they were still in the old folder.

When the copy you open has no accounts but another install on this PC does, the bot tells you that folder’s location once it has loaded the account list. Close this copy and open the bot in that folder. To update that install, run LordsBotSetup.exe from its folder.