Travian Hero Adventures: When to Send and How to Automate

How Travian hero adventures work, why health matters more than speed, and how to automate adventures without losing your hero.

Your hero is the most useful thing you own in Travian for the first few weeks, and also the easiest thing to waste. Adventures are a big part of why. They're free, they give items and resources and experience, and they're always there waiting. Most players send the hero when they remember to and then wonder why it's sitting at 12% health with nothing to show for it.

This is how we think about adventures, and how the bot handles them.

What an adventure actually costs

Every adventure takes the hero away for a while and costs health. Harder adventures cost more health and give better rewards. While the hero is out, it can't do anything else: it can't lead an oasis raid, can't defend your village and can't be used for anything that needs it at home.

That last point is the one people forget. If you also raid oases with the hero, adventures and raids compete for the same unit. A hero that is mid-adventure is simply not available when the raid is due.

Health is the real limit

The common mistake is sending the hero as soon as an adventure appears. A hero that is already hurt can die on a hard adventure, and a dead hero means paying to revive it, losing time and, depending on your setup, losing production bonuses and any attributes you've been counting on.

A safer habit is to set a floor. Don't send the hero below roughly 40% health unless you have a specific reason. In Pilot Trav this is a setting, and 40% is the default. The bot treats an adventure as a task and only runs it when the hero's health is above the minimum you set. The task is also skipped if the hero is dead, already out on an adventure, or if there simply isn't an adventure on the list, and it won't send a hero whose health it can't read, because guessing wrong is worse than waiting. Each time, the log says why, so you can see it happening instead of guessing.

What the bot does when it sends the hero

Once the conditions are met, the bot opens the adventure list, finds the first adventure whose button is active and clicks it. If every button is greyed out, it logs that and leaves the hero alone. It reads the hero's state before it acts, so a dead hero never gets an adventure request.

It's deliberately simple. The bot doesn't try to pick the "best" adventure, because the value of one over another depends on what you need that week.

Things the hero should be doing besides adventures

An idle hero is a waste, but so is a hero that never rests. A reasonable split looks like this: adventures when health is high and the hero isn't needed, oasis raids when you have a list of weakly defended oases, and plain rest when health is low.

If you farm oases, the live garrison check and the battle estimate protect the hero much more than a fixed schedule does. We go through that in the Travian oasis raid bot guide.

You can also use the hero for things that don't involve leaving. Spending hero inventory resources on construction is one, and the bot can do it, including a mode that only uses them when they cover the missing amount completely. Attribute points are the other: you can have the bot distribute them in a fixed ratio between power, offence bonus, defence bonus and resource production, which saves you from logging in every time the hero levels up.

Which attributes to push

There's no universal answer, but there is a sensible default for each play style. If your hero mostly goes on adventures and does the occasional raid, power and offence bonus pay off. If you play defensively and mostly keep the hero home, defence bonus is worth more. In the early weeks, resource production is quietly one of the best returns of all, because it works every hour whether the hero is home or not.

Whatever you choose, set it once and let the bot spend the points. Changing your mind every day is how you end up with a hero that is average at everything.

A simple routine that works

Turn on adventures with a health floor of 40%, turn on automatic attributes with a ratio you actually believe in, and keep an eye on the hero's state in the logs for a day or two. You'll see how often it goes out and how quickly it recovers, which tells you whether the floor needs to be higher.

To see the rest of what the bot can do for your hero, read the Pilot Trav features overview, or start the 7-day trial and try it on one account.