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How to add bots to your Urban Terror server via RCON

First of all you need to configure your server first! For more info about that check here.

Now you should have your server all up and running, next thing is having control over your bots.

bot configuration

First enable the use of bots

/rcon bot_enable 1
/rcon reload

Next, lets add bots.

/rcon addbot <type> [level] [team] [ping] [nick]

addbot arguments

type
Define the name of the bot type here, chose one from the list below.
level
Define a number from 1 to 5 here to set how good the bots will try to hunt you down!
team
Define the color name Red or Blue to set the team this bot belongs to.
ping
Define the average ping time the bot will have, if you define this to a low value the bots will respond fast, I recommend setting this to 40 on a local LAN and 75 on a WAN connection.
nick
Define the nickname of the bot, I usually give a simple name like Bot1, Bot2, Bot3, etc...

addbot examples

/rcon addbot Chicken Blue 75 Bot1
/rcon addbot Cockroach Blue 75 Bot2
/rcon addbot Mantis Blue 75 Bot3

In case you want to get rid of one or all bots, simply kick them!

/rcon kick [nickname]
/rcon kick allbots

Here is a simple Bash example that you could use to add or remove bots:

#!/bin/bash
 
# Add bot
echo -e "\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFFaddbot Chicken Blue 75 BOTNAME\n" | /usr/bin/nc -D -4 -d -n -u 127.0.0.1 27960
 
# Remove bot
echo -e "\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFFkick BOTNAME\n" | /usr/bin/nc -D -4 -d -n -u 127.0.0.1 27960

Here is a list of the bots names, weapons and their accessories they are carrying.