Auction House & mail Automation

[codxbre]

Just an idea: logging in, walking to the auctioneer, buying stuff based on data and trends, selling stuff, getting mailbox, sending extra gold to the main char, etc. Market manipulation at scale, across multiple servers.

[sergio-ivanuzzo]

Of course this is doable with tentacli. I’ve experimented with its capabilities and even wrote a fish‑bot that was pretty effective—it could pack my bags with fish (and locked chests) in an hour. But the internet already has plenty of AI‑based bots for auction houses, farming, and so on; they read screen pixels, crunch the data, and steer the client. Why not just use those?

Tentacli is a nuclear bomb in the botting world. It’s way more efficient: tiny memory footprint, thousands of instances can run side‑by‑side while sharing data, and it talks low‑level packets exactly like the official WoW client. To run it on a popular private realm, though, you’d have to bypass Warden. Hand people that bypass and it’s curtains for private servers—you could wire in Namigator/DBC support etc and even modern neural nets, and the bot would be indistinguishable from a human. Private realms already have their share of bots, but with tentacli they’d be overrun, leaving the game to bots alone—indistinguishable bots, at that. That’s not what I want.

When I began, I really did set out to build a bot. I even have ideas on how to bypass the anti‑cheat. Am I going to publish that? No. Over the years, people kept asking me for a bypass, but my drive to head down that path died quickly once I saw no one was willing to pay—everyone wanted a free, absolute edge. Naturally, I declined.

Now imagine I’d agreed to sell tentacli with a Warden bypass on subscription. Before long everyone would be running it. Would you enjoy playing on a server where only bots are left? I wouldn’t.

And if it were paid, tentacli would soon land squarely in the anti‑cheat team’s crosshairs. They’d roll out detections, and I’d have to fight back—an impossible job for one person, forcing me to build a whole crew. My passion project, my creative outlet, would morph into a service, and I’d become its hostage, pouring all my energy into propping up something I hate: a plague of human‑like bots. Honestly, I’m glad nobody flashed cash at me—these principles took time to grow.

Bottom line: tentacli today is a framework for developers, and that’s where I’m taking it. It’s also a live network‑traffic analyzer that shows packets in a human‑readable way. It’s a solid tool for research and server administration—though you’ll have to write code yourself. But it is not a classic bot and never will be released as one. Accordingly, I won’t give anyone an anti‑cheat bypass, and I’m not publishing it.

[rashidaokeefe]

Interesting concept, but I think that’s exactly where the line between convenience and killing the in-game economy gets blurry. Auction house and mail automation at scale would give a massive advantage to anyone running it — and like Sergio said, once you have something like tentacli bypassing protections, it’s not just “helping with chores,” it’s turning the market into a bot-driven system. Maybe a safer middle ground would be limited, in-client QoL tools that still require manual confirmations so the human stays in the loop.