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Expeditions

Automatic OGame expeditions with oBot: quick setup, fleet, continuous or fleetsave-based expeditions, advanced configuration and statistics.

Last update: November 2, 2026

How it works

The bot sends fleets on expedition to position 16 of a system, where you find resources, ships, dark matter and items. It is the quietest income: you attack nobody.

  • The fleet is built from the ships you really own: if you don't have enough of the chosen cargo type it uses the other one, escort ships are added only if you have them.
  • The number of simultaneous expeditions depends on Astrophysics: the bot reads it from the Research page and never sets more than the game accepts.
  • Each expedition takes one fleet slot.

Start in 4 steps

  1. Open Expedition and pick a Quick setup profile.
  2. In Ship settings check how many cargoes and how many expeditions to send.
  3. At the bottom choose the automatic mode, continuous or fleetsave-based, and press Change settings.
  4. Press Start expeditions for the first departure, or wait for the bot to send them by itself.
Expedition menu

Quick setup

Expedition quick setup
  • 🛡️ Careful: expeditions on half of your slots, with small cargoes and a battleship escort, automatic only when the fleetsave is far off. To get started or for dangerous servers.
  • ⚖️ Standard: expeditions on all your slots but one, with more cargo space, a probe and a Pathfinder. The recommended compromise.
  • 🚀 Maximum: expeditions on all your slots, with large cargoes, an escort and a new departure as soon as the fleet returns.

The number of expeditions is capped at your real Astrophysics slots; the Discoverer uses all of them. The profile fills in the form but does not save.

Basic settings

Expedition basic settings
Advanced configuration
Set up each expedition one by one. Off, the bot builds the fleets by itself from the Ship settings values: that is just fine to begin with.
Notify when automatic expeditions are sent
A Telegram message at every automatic departure. It appears only with Telegram linked.
Recycle debris
Discoverer class only: before sending expeditions it recycles with Pathfinders the debris in position 16 left by pirates and aliens.
Send expeditions from moons
Leaves from moons instead of planets: handy if you keep the cargoes on the moon.
Same coordinates
All expeditions leave from the same coordinates.

Ship settings

Expedition ship settings
Cargoes (small/large)
How many cargoes to put in each expedition. Start from 4 and raise it if the loot does not fit. If you have fewer, the expedition leaves with the ones you have.
Number of expeditions to send
How many expeditions per round, within the free expedition slots.
Expeditions with small cargoes
Ticked uses small cargoes, unticked large ones. Small ones cost less deuterium, large ones carry more resources per ship. If you don't have enough of the chosen type but you do of the other, the bot uses the other: with 1 small and 11 large cargo ships, the large ones go.
Send 1 probe, 1 Battle ship, 1 Destroyer, 1 Reaper
Each adds one ship of that type to every expedition. The probe costs almost nothing; warships help survive fights with pirates and aliens.
Send Pathfinder
Adds Pathfinders to the expedition, in the number set: they increase the ships found.

Advanced configuration

Expedition advanced configuration

With Advanced configuration on, numbered tiles appear, one per expedition slot. Click a tile to choose the ships, starting coordinates and flight hours of that expedition; the form also shows a rough estimate of what you may find.

All expeditions the same
You set up a single expedition and the bot copies it to every slot.
Send expeditions (+1 SS / -1SS)
With identical expeditions, it starts from the home system and then alternates the neighbouring systems, one above and one below.
Number of expeditions to send
The slider chooses how many slots to use.

Automatic expeditions

Automatic expeditions

Choose only one mode:

Continuous automatic expeditions
Each expedition leaves again as soon as it returns, ignoring the fleetsave. Pair it with activity based on expeditions.
Automatic expeditions based on fleetsave
Expeditions leave only if the fleetsave is due back in at least the time set, so they return first and do not keep it busy.
Minimum fleet time
Written with its unit: 30m, 2o or 2h, 1g or 1d, 100s. With 2h, if the fleetsave is back in 1 hour 59 minutes the expeditions do not leave.

Statistics

Show statistics opens the summary of the recorded expeditions: total, resource gain (resources found plus the value of the ships found, with the average per expedition), dark matter, ships found, pirates and aliens, delays and early returns, fleets destroyed, merchants, items and empty results, each with its percentage. The data is read from the expedition reports in every language.

If only one expedition leaves

Check Number of expeditions to send and that the bot knows your Astrophysics: open the Research page once. The bot sends no more expeditions when those in flight already reach the number set.

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