The monster list#

The table has four columns: Monster, Priority, Settings and On screen (how many are visible right now). To add one:

• type the name in the monster name, * = any field and click Add
• or use Add to targeting on the Overview battle list

Up and Down change the priority by 1. Higher priority wins when several monsters are on screen.

Edit Target#

Double-click opens the editor:

With Distance -1, paladins and mages keep 3 sqm while knights and monks go melee. With a distance above 0, the bot switches to stand by itself so the server does not walk the character in. When the monster gets too close, the bot steps to the tile furthest from every monster. It prefers straight steps and open ground, so it does not back into a corner, and it accepts 1 extra sqm before walking back in, so the character does not step back and forth.

Tab options#

• Enable Hunting: turns Targeting on
• Stick to target: stays on the same monster until it dies, instead of switching every tick. A monster of higher priority that shows up takes the target at once, even with the option on
• Skip unreachable: for melee characters, ignores monsters with no path to them (behind walls, across water). They also stop holding the CaveBot. Ranged characters keep shooting at them
• Bestiary notices: shows the creature's bestiary progress at milestones
• Max distance: 1 to 10 sqm (default 5) for picking a new target

Between similar monsters the current target is preferred: the bot does not switch from one to the other at every step. And a melee character with two or more monsters next to it stays on the pack, instead of chasing one that fled.

If the server drops the target (Target lost), the bot ignores that monster for 10 seconds and moves on to the next one.

How Shooter decides#

Shooter looks at every attack rule that can fire right now and uses the one that deals the most damage in total: the strength of the attack times the number of monsters it hits. On a pack the area spell wins; on one or two monsters the single-target attack wins. A tie follows the order of the list, top to bottom. Each rule has:

Runes and items always need the attacked target in range. Area spells only count the monsters around you. An area rune is aimed at the monster where it catches the most monsters, never at one Targeting is ignoring.

Avoid players in area#

The Avoid players in area option is on the Shooter tab itself and comes off. With it on, no area attack (spell around you, wave, beam or area rune) fires while a player outside the party is inside the area. Single-target attacks carry on as usual.

Why a rule did not fire#

Next to each rule the panel shows why it did not fire. Three of the reasons:

Directional spells#

Some spells only hit where your character is facing: exori min and exori infir min (the 3 squares in front), exori mas pug (front and sides), exori mas nia, the beams exevo vis lux, exevo gran vis lux and exevo max mort, and waves such as exevo flam hur, exevo frigo hur, exevo vis hur and exevo tera hur.

For these, Shooter counts the monsters on each of the 4 sides, picks the side with the most monsters, turns your character that way and only then casts the spell. The Monsters field applies to that side. If you are already facing the best side, it does not turn again.

Examples#

• exevo gran mas vis with Monsters 4, range 3 and MP >= 40%
• exori gran with Monsters 2, range 1
• exori vis with Needs target ticked and Target HP% >= 30
• sudden death rune with Creatures Dragon Lord and Target HP% >= 50

Your own health and mana conditions also apply here. Combine with MP >= X% so you never run out of healing mana.

Shooter does not fire inside a protection zone.