How to Set Up a Travian Bot: A First-Day Checklist
A practical day-one walkthrough for setting up a Travian bot: proxy, build queue, troop training, schedule and alerts, in the order that avoids beginner mistakes.
Most people who try a Travian bot for the first time do the same thing: they add the account, switch everything on and walk away. Two days later they come back to a messy queue, a village that grew in strange directions, or a bot that stopped on the first night because of a login problem nobody noticed.
Setting it up properly takes about twenty minutes. Here is the order we'd do it in if we were starting from zero, and why the order matters.
Get the proxy sorted before anything else
It feels like a boring detail, but it is the one setting you cannot fix later without a restart and a fresh login pattern. Every account in Pilot Trav needs its own proxy, and the bot will refuse to start without one. You can buy one from the Proxy page in the panel or paste in a proxy you already own.
Two things are worth checking. Pick a location that makes sense for the server you play on, because a European account that suddenly logs in from another continent looks odd. And don't reuse one proxy for several accounts. If you want the longer reasoning, we wrote it up in do you need a proxy for a Travian bot.
Add the account and let it log in once
Give the panel your Travian username, password and the server URL (the address you see in your browser when you're in the game, something like a subdomain of travian.com). Your game password is stored encrypted, and we explain exactly how in is it safe to give a Travian bot your password.
Before you configure anything else, start the bot once with nothing set up and watch the Logs tab. You want to see a successful login and your villages being read. If something is wrong with the credentials, the server URL or the proxy, you find out now instead of at 3 a.m.
If you want to see what the bot sees, Live View shows the actual browser session. It's the quickest way to confirm that the login really worked and that the game isn't sitting on a cookie banner or a notice you forgot to close.
Start with the build queue and nothing else
Resist the urge to turn on every module. A build queue on its own is easy to judge: either the next building starts when resources allow, or it doesn't. Put in a short list, maybe ten or fifteen steps, and let it run.
Order matters more than people think. Crop and storage get stuck behind a fancy building often enough that it's worth putting a Warehouse or Granary step before any big upgrade. If you need a sensible order to copy, the Travian building order guide has one for raiders and one for defenders, and Travian building queue automation goes through the queue settings in detail.
Add troop training once the queue behaves
When the queue has run for a few hours without surprises, add training. Pick the building, pick the unit, and set a minimum and a maximum amount rather than one fixed number. Then look at your crop production. Troops eat crop every hour, and a bot will happily keep training units that your economy can't feed. The crop management guide explains how to check that before you commit.
The repeat interval is also a range. Something like 30 to 60 minutes works for most accounts. Don't set the range so narrow that it becomes a fixed time.
Farming comes last, and slowly
Farm lists and oasis raids are where the most can go wrong, and also where the most can be gained. Start with a small list of targets you have checked by hand, keep the interval wide, and read the logs after a day. We list the usual traps in Travian farm list mistakes, and the oasis side has its own walkthrough in the Travian oasis raid bot guide.
Set a schedule, then connect Telegram
A bot that never goes offline is easy to spot. Turning on the activity schedule gives the account quiet hours, which is both safer and closer to how a person plays. The delays between actions are randomised for the same reason, so you can leave those at their defaults at first.
Connect Telegram last. It takes one click and you'll get a message when a building finishes, an attack is detected or the bot stops. It's the difference between finding out about a problem in ten minutes and finding out the next evening.
What to check after the first 24 hours
Open the logs and read them like a story. Did the bot log in at the times you expected? Did any step get skipped, and does the reason make sense? Is the build queue ever empty? If the answer to the last question is yes, either the resources are short or the next step needs a prerequisite you didn't add.
If everything looks boring, that's a good sign. Then you can start tuning: wider intervals, more farm targets, a second village. The 7-day trial covers one account, which is plenty to run through this checklist. You can see what the bot does in the Travian bot overview or start the trial.