Tribal Wars Bot / Free bots

Free options

Is there a free Tribal Wars bot?

Yes. Free userscripts and self-hosted projects can be the right fit if you are happy to run and maintain them. Tribal Wars Bot takes a different route: one guided Windows installer, automatic work across your configured villages, and every available feature free for seven days before you decide.

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The free ones
Real, and the right answer for a fair number of accounts.
What they cost
Setup, a machine left on, and the upkeep when the game moves.
The risk
Automation carries account risk whether the software is free or paid.
This one
100% free for 7 days with no card, then $29.99 USD in Bitcoin for 30 days at a time.

What is out there

Four kinds of free

A search for a free Tribal Wars bot returns all four of these mixed together, which is most of why the question is hard to answer. They are not the same thing and they do not fail in the same way.

Userscripts

Free scripts you install into a script manager such as Tampermonkey and that then run inside the game page: farm planners, mass-scavenge helpers, map and report tools. This is the largest and healthiest part of the Tribal Wars scripting world, and the scripts are genuinely good.

What a userscript does is plan. It reads a screen, works out the best arrangement of what is on it, and lays the result out as a list with a button on every row. The pressing is still yours, and so is being at the keyboard when it needs doing.

Not a criticism: we drive two of them ourselves — FarmGod for farm planning and the community mass-scavenge script for scavenging, both loaded from our own mirror. How FarmGod is used here →

Self-hosted bots

Projects you download and run yourself, usually a program that drives a browser on a machine you supply. They are free of charge and free of anyone owing you anything: the environment, the browser, the login file, the machine that stays on overnight and the evening it breaks are all yours.

If you are comfortable reading code and keeping software running, this is a real option and it costs nothing. If you are not, the first afternoon is where most people stop.

Projects nobody maintains

Several of the results are repositories whose last change is years old. That matters more here than in most software, because Tribal Wars keeps editing its own screens: a bot written against the old ones stops finding what it is looking for, and it usually stops quietly — the run reports nothing rather than reporting an error.

Worth one check before you spend an evening: the date of the last change, and whether anyone has answered an issue since.

The one the game sells

The in-game Account Manager is not free — it is bought with premium points — but it is the only option on this page that is inside the rules. It repeats build and recruit templates across your villages and gives the loot assistant its list. If that is the whole of what you want, it is the cheaper answer and the safe one.

What the Account Manager does, described fairly →

The bill

What free costs instead

None of this is hidden. It is simply paid in a currency that does not appear on a price page.

The cost that is not time

Where you run it changes how often you are checked

This is the part worth knowing before you pick anything, free or paid, and it is not a sales point — it is a measurement we paid for with our own account.

Tribal Wars Bot used to run a Linux Chromium inside a container, which is the shape a self-hosted bot naturally takes, because a container is the easy way to run a browser on a server. It also proved fragile under ordinary game changes. Moving to the Windows Chrome already installed on the machine made the setup simpler and easier to recover.

Nothing about that observation is proprietary, and it is the reason this bot is a Chrome extension plus a small program on your PC rather than something you rent a VPS for. If you are choosing a free bot, prefer one that drives a real desktop browser you already use, and be sceptical of anything whose selling point is that it runs headless on a server. Read the risk answer →

Honest ending

When free is the right answer

If one of those three describes you, this is where the page ends, and none of it was an argument for paying us.

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