Botting

Botting is automated resource gathering, usually done using Macromod, but other bot frameworks are used too.

Historically botting is the result of requiring enormous amounts of crops to make exp, combined with the hands-off admin policy on CivCraft.

Rules
From the subreddit.

We allow players to use MacroMod or other mods/clients to automate ingame tasks and you may use any external framework to communicate with and coordinate your bots.

All bots must adhere to the following rules:


 * Bots are allowed to read any inventory, their selected hot bar slot, their own location, their health, their hunger, their potion effects, their EXP, their boss bar, chat messages, kick reasons, player logins/logouts, the tab list and nothing else


 * Reading environmental data in particular is not allowed. This includes the location of any entities and any blocks


 * You are only allowed to read server provided chat messages, not ones generated by client side mods

Macromod
Macromod allows you to bind chat commands and scripts to keyboard keys, mouse buttons and custom menus.

You can download existing scripts or create your own.

Installing Macromod

 * 1) Download and install LiteLoader if you haven't already
 * 2) Download Macromod and move the   file to your   folder

Learning Macromod

 * Tutorials: Basics, Methods
 * All available commands
 * Discord server for botting/scripting on CivClassics

Macromod Script Collections

 * Sanwi's scripts
 * more scripts

Advanced Macros
Advanced Macros is a Forge mod that allows scripting in Lua and binding scripts to events and keys in a similar manner to Macromod. Advanced Macros is generally accepted as more powerful and reliable, but can be more difficult for newcomers to learn.

Alternatives
Since rendering the game is quite expensive and some bots need to run all day, people created Minecraft clients that run from the console/terminal/command line:


 * Minecraft Console Client
 * Angelia by Maxopoly
 * Mineflayer

Farming Methods
Before building huge Redstone-powered farms, make sure they're within the limits, you can often use water streams as a replacement.

Build farms to produce a multiple or a specific fraction of the required amount (for Exp etc.) to make planning easier.

Obsidian


Thanks to the SimpleAdminHacks plugin, Obsidian can be generated using String and Lava. An ideal place to set up such an Obsidian generator is between several cave spider spawners. Hooking those up to an automatic system killing the spiders and moving the String to a bot player allows for generating an almost infinite amount of Obsidian without actually playing the game.

Example setup, script, and usage instructions

Portal Farms
Even though there is no Nether dimension, Nether portals still spawn Pigmen. This can be used to make AFK gold farms by surrounding the player with lots of portals and putting open trapdoors on their bottom edges, allowing the Pigmen to walk and fall down into a water collection and killing system. Note that mob AI is disabled for entities more than 10 blocks away from the player, so only portals within that range will be effective.