Ribbon Bar

The ribbon is the row of buttons along the top of the main window. Most buttons act on the accounts you have ticked in the account grid. If nothing is ticked, the bot shows Please Select Account(s) before using this function.

Above the ribbon is a smaller top bar with Settings, Help, Refresh Grid, Themes and a colour palette picker.

Ribbon buttons #

The buttons appear in this order: Purchase, Import, Create, Proxies, Start, Stop, Delete, Templates, Filters, Functions, Global Settings, Quick Settings.

Purchase #

Opens your account page at https://account.lords-bot.com in your browser, where you can buy time, extra slots or the PC Mod. See Payments and Refunds.

Import and Create #

Add game accounts to the bot. See Add Your Accounts.

Proxies #

Opens the proxy settings. See Proxies.

Start and Stop #

• Start starts the ticked accounts. Click the small arrow for Start All, which starts every account.
• Stop stops the ticked accounts. Click the small arrow for Stop All.

When you start or stop several accounts, the bot waits between each one. You set this wait in Other Settings, on the General tab under Connection.

Delete #

Asks Are you sure you want to delete N accounts?, then removes the ticked accounts. Their folders go to the Windows Recycle Bin.

Templates #

Applies a saved template to the ticked accounts, or opens the Template Editor or the templates folder. See Templates.

Filters #

Saves and loads views of the grid. A filter stores the grid’s current filtering, sorting and grouping, so you can switch quickly between, for example, “accounts in guild XYZ” and “accounts below castle 25”.

Item	What it does
A filter’s name	Loads that filter.
Save Filter	Saves the current view as a new filter. You type a name.
Save Current [name]	Shown after you load a filter. Saves your changes back into it.
Filter Editor	Rename or delete filters.

Filters are files in the Filters folder of your install. The menu updates as soon as a file is added or removed there.

Functions #

Bulk actions such as rename, relocate, shields and gift codes. See Functions Menu.

Global Settings #

Changes settings on all ticked accounts at once. It opens a window that looks like the account Settings tab, with a Selected Settings list on the right. It remembers the values you used last time.

Tip: Not sure whether to use Quick Settings, Global Settings or a template? See Which tool to use.

Button	What it does
Save All Settings	Asks Are You Sure?, then copies every setting in the window to the ticked accounts.
Save Selected Settings	Copies only the pages you ticked in the Selected Settings list. Each ticked page is copied in full.
Default Settings	Resets the values in the Global Settings window to the bot’s defaults. Accounts don’t change until you save.

Each account keeps its own proxy, saved gear sets, the heroes picked for monster hunting and its guild stats options. The Manage Guild and Guild Bank pages are not shown in Global Settings.

Note: Save Selected Settings copies the whole page, not just the options you changed. Check every option on a page before you tick it.

Quick Settings #

Turns one feature on or off for all ticked accounts, without opening their settings. The options are Building, Research, Training, Hero Stages, Supplying, Gathering, Hunting, Schedule and Send Help.

The boxes are always clear when the menu opens. Ticking a box turns that feature on for the ticked accounts. Unticking it turns the feature off. Changes are saved straight away, also for accounts that are not running.

Top bar #

Settings #

Item	What it does
My Account	Shows your Lords Bot email, expiry date and account limit.
View Changelog	Shows what changed in each version.
Check for updates	Opens the Lords Bot updater for your update channel. See Updates and the Beta Channel.
Simulator Status	Shows what the battle simulator is doing, and how many searches it runs at once. See Simulator Status.
Options	Opens the Options menu.

Simulator Status #

The battle simulator works out hero lineups and battles for all your accounts, for example for Hero Stages, the Colosseum, Limited Challenge, hunting and Vergeway. Open Settings > Simulator Status to see what it is doing right now. Use it when battles or lineup searches seem slow, or when the bot uses too much CPU.

The window updates every second. Its table has one row for each kind of request, such as Hero stage lineup search or Colosseum battle:

Column	What it shows
Request	The kind of request.
Lane	Search for lineup searches, which can take a while, or Quick for single battles and checks.
Asked	How many times accounts asked for this.
Ran	How many actually ran.
From cache	How many were answered from a saved result, without running again.
Gave up	How many gave up waiting for a free slot. Shown in orange when above 0.
Cancelled	How many were dropped because the account stopped while waiting.
Running and Waiting	How many are running or waiting for a slot right now.
Avg wait, Max wait	How long requests waited for a slot.
Avg run, Max run	How long requests took to run.

Above the table, a summary shows how many Search and Quick slots are in use, how many requests are waiting, and how many gave up. A second line shows how many accounts are using the simulator for the Colosseum and for Limited Challenge, out of how many may at once, and how many were turned away.

Simulator slots: sets how many simulator slots the bot uses, which is how many searches can run at once. 0 (the default) means automatic: half of your PC’s CPU cores. More slots finish searches sooner but use more CPU. Changes apply at once and are kept when you restart.

Reset counters sets the counts back to zero. Close closes the window.

Options #

Option	What it does
Other Settings	Opens the Other Settings window.
Clear Stats Cache	Deletes cached guild stats files older than 7 days for every account, then tells you how many files it removed. The bot also deletes cache files older than 30 days by itself each time it starts.
Run at startup	Starts Lords Bot when you sign in to Windows.
Auto Start Accounts	When the bot opens, starts every account that has Auto-Start ticked in the grid. This is the same setting as Auto Start on the sign-in screen.
Allow Maintenance Watcher	On by default. The bot keeps track of game maintenance times and stays offline while the game is down. Turn it off only if you know you need to.
Show grouped columns	Keeps the column you grouped by visible in the grid as well.
Hide resource pane	Hides the resource totals below the grid.
Performance Mode	For slow PCs or many accounts. The bot runs fewer battle simulations, picks Colosseum heroes without testing team options, and checks for game messages less often. Expect slightly worse battle results.

Help #

Opens this guide.

Refresh Grid #

Gets your account keys from the server again, then reloads all accounts from the config folder. Use it after you copy an account folder into config, or restore a deleted account from the Recycle Bin.

Themes and palette #

Themes changes the look of the whole app. The palette button next to it changes the colour scheme of the chosen theme, where the theme has more than one.

Other Settings #

Open it from Settings > Options > Other Settings. It has four tabs: General, Updates, Customization and Chat Bot. Changes are saved when you close the window.

General tab #

Connection

Option	What it does	Default
Use Random Times	Used with the startup delay. Starts accounts at random gaps of up to about 6 minutes instead of a fixed gap. With a stop delay, each account stops after a random wait of up to 5 minutes.	Off
Enable Startup Delay	Waits between starting each account.	On
Startup Delay:	Seconds to wait between accounts.	3
Enable Stop Delay	Waits before stopping each account.	On
Stop Delay:	Seconds to wait between accounts.	3

Grid

Option	What it does	Default
Auto Expand Groups	Opens every group in the grid when the bot starts.	Off
Real Time Sorting	When the grid is sorted by a column, rows move as soon as their values change.	On
Visible Only Update	Refreshes only the rows you can see, instead of redrawing the whole grid every cycle. Helps on slow PCs.	Off
Grid Update Speed (MS):	How often the grid updates, in milliseconds. Values below 1000 are treated as 1000.	1000

Maintenance

Option	What it does	Default
Shield before maintenance	When the game announces maintenance, each online account puts up a shield if it has none, or if its shield ends too soon.	On
Use Gems	Buys the shield with gems if the account has none in its bag.	On
Preferred Shield:	The shield to use: 4 Hour Shield, 8 Hour Shield, 12 Hour Shield, 24 Hour Shield, 3 Day Shield, 7 Day Shield or 14 Day Shield.	4 Hour Shield
Redeploy Time (Minutes):	A new shield is used if the current one ends within this many minutes (plus 5).	120

Updates tab #

Update Channel: choose Public (stable releases) or Beta (test versions). See Updates and the Beta Channel.

Customization tab #

Option	What it does
Use 24 Hour Time	Shows times in 24-hour format.
Multiline Tabs	Shows the settings page tabs in the account window on several rows instead of one.
Show Item Messages	Writes a line in the account log each time the account receives items. On by default.
Use Abbreviated Numbers	Shortens large numbers, for example 2,500,000 becomes 2.5M. On by default.
Export Date Format:	The date format used in exported files. Preview: shows how it looks.
Font and Font Size	The font used in the app. A restart is required to apply new font.

Chat Bot tab #

Connects a Discord or Telegram bot. See Chat Bot (Discord and Telegram).

Closing the bot #

If accounts are still running when you close the main window, the bot asks Accounts are still active. Are you sure you want to exit? Choose No to keep it open.

Closing the bot also signs your Lords Bot login out, so you can sign in again straight away, on this PC or another one.