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# Settings › Gathering
- URL: https://help.kingshot-bot.com/settings-gathering/
- Published: 2026-10-29T22:03:53.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-29T22:03:53.000Z
- Description: Automate resource gathering — march slots, tile levels, troop formation, resource priority, and speed-boost items.
- Author: Kingshot Bot
- Tags: Settings

**Gathering** controls what the bot farms on the map: which resources, from which tile levels, with how many marches, in what order, and whether it spends items or gems to speed the farming up.

> The values in the screenshots below are one account's configuration, not the defaults. Each option's default is listed in the tables.

## Gathering

![The Gathering section of the Gathering settings tab](https://help.kingshot-bot.com/content/images/2026/08/settings-gathering--gathering-2.png)

| Option                              | What it does                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | Default             |
| ----------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------- |
| **Enable Gather Resources**         | Master switch for automated gathering.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | Off                 |
| **March Slots**                     | Maximum number of march slots (1–5) the bot is allowed to use for gathering at once.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | 3                   |
| **Tile Level (Min/Max)**            | Only gathers tiles whose level falls in this range (1–8).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    | Min 1, Max 5        |
| **Formation**                       | Troop composition preset used to build gather marches. The default (Balanced) splits the march capacity roughly 33/33/34 across Infantry/Cavalry/Ranged so a single resource type doesn't drain one barracks while the others sit idle; within each type it still fills with the highest-cargo soldiers first.                                                                                               | **Balanced**        |
| **Strategy**                        | How dispatches are balanced across Food/Wood/Stone/Iron. **DeficitWeighted** picks resources by demand and yield (roughly Food/Wood/Stone/Iron ≈ 39/39/13/10% under default weights); **RoundRobin** cycles the four types 1:1:1:1 using the order set in Resource Priority below.                                                                                                                           | **DeficitWeighted** |
| **Iron priority**                   | A 0–200% multiplier on Iron's weight, used only in DeficitWeighted mode. 100% is the data-driven default; raising it biases dispatches toward Iron (useful for a tech rush).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | 100%                |
| **Include Alliance Resource Tiles** | Also sends alliance\_collect\_resource marches onto alliance-owned resource tiles, not just neutral map tiles.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | Off                 |
| **Gather without boost hero**       | Normally a gather march waits for a hero whose skill boosts that specific resource. Enabling this lets the bot dispatch anyway — using a boost hero of a different resource (spending its cooldown) or, as a last resort, a soldier-only march with no hero at all. The strict, boost-aware behavior stays the default because the server accepts hero-less marches but they gather without any speed bonus. | Off                 |

## Gathering Speed Boost item

![The Gathering Speed Boost item section of the Gathering settings tab](https://help.kingshot-bot.com/content/images/2026/08/settings-gathering--gathering-speed-boost-item-2.png)

The Gathering Speed Boost items (8h or 24h) grant +100% gather speed to every march launched while the buff is active.

| Option                                   | What it does                                                                                                                                                     | Default     |
| ---------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- |
| **Activate boost item before gather**    | Before dispatching a gather march, activates a boost item from the backpack if the speed buff isn't already running.                                             | Off         |
| **Boost duration**                       | Which variant to use when the option above is on: 8-hour item (250 gems) or 24-hour item (600 gems).                                                             | **24-hour** |
| **Auto-buy with gems if backpack empty** | If the chosen duration isn't in the backpack, buys and activates it with gems in one step, at the live in-game price. Only applies while the option above is on. | On          |

## Resources to Gather

![The Resources to Gather section of the Gathering settings tab](https://help.kingshot-bot.com/content/images/2026/08/settings-gathering--resources-to-gather-2.png)

Per-resource on/off switches: **Food**, **Iron**, **Stone**, **Wood**. All four are on by default; unchecking one removes it from consideration entirely, in both gathering strategies.

## Resource Priority

![The Resource Priority section of the Gathering settings tab](https://help.kingshot-bot.com/content/images/2026/08/settings-gathering--resource-priority-2.png)

An ordered list of the four resource types. This order only matters in **RoundRobin** strategy, where it decides the 1:1:1:1 rotation; DeficitWeighted ignores the order and picks by demand instead. Select a resource and use **▲ Up** / **▼ Down** to reorder.