Viking Rise auto gather: how to farm resources automatically

How gathering works in Viking Rise

Food, wood, stone and gold come mostly from Resource Points on the world map. You send a squad led by a hero, the squad marches to the point, gathers until it is full or the point is empty, and marches back. The amount a squad brings home depends on its load capacity, the gathering speed bonuses you have, and how much is left in the point when the squad arrives.

The catch is the march cycle. A squad that comes home and sits idle for an hour earns nothing for that hour. With several squads per account and several accounts, the real limit on your income is not your research — it is how often somebody sends the squads out again.

Why players automate gathering

Viking Rise has no built-in “auto gather” that keeps squads working while you are offline. Every new march needs a tap, and returning squads have to be sent again by hand. That is fine for one account in the evening; it falls apart at night, at work, and on the third or fourth farm.

An auto gather bot does the boring loop for you: it opens the map, finds a suitable Resource Point, sends the squad and comes back when it returns. Accounts keep gathering around the clock, so the same farm produces several times more per day than one you check twice.

Choosing what to gather

The right resource depends on what the account is for. Early on food and wood disappear fastest, because they go into almost every building and into troops. Later, stone and gold become the bottleneck for higher Chief Hall levels and research.

The Fbots bot gives three gathering modes, chosen per account:

• By priority — you set an order (for example stone, gold, wood, food) and squads go to the first resource that has a free point nearby.
• Lowest resource first — the bot looks at your stock and sends squads to whatever you have least of, which keeps a farm balanced without thinking about it.
• Random — squads spread across all four resources; useful for farms whose stock you ship to the main account anyway.

Per-squad settings

If you want finer control, every squad from 1 to 5 can get its own resource plus a fallback. A common setup is two squads on stone, two on gold and one on wood, with food as the fallback when no matching point is free. The fallback matters: without it a squad stays home whenever its favourite resource is taken by other players.

Full points and Tribe Territory

Two filters change where squads go. “Only full Resource Points” skips half-emptied points, so each march brings back a full load instead of a squad returning with a fraction of its capacity. “Only within Tribe Territory” keeps squads inside your clan’s land — the game calls this area Tribe Territory — instead of sending them across the map.

Both are worth turning on for farms in an active kingdom. In a quiet kingdom with few clan buildings you may get more marches out with the filters off.

Gathering boosts

A gathering boost raises gathering speed for a period of time, so each squad fills up faster and gets home sooner. The bot can switch the boost on automatically. By default it uses boosts from your bag only; spending gems on them is a separate switch you have to turn on yourself.

Boosts also show up in the Tribe Shop. The bot can buy gathering boosts there with clan points and activate them right away, which turns points that would sit unused into extra resources.

Setting up auto gather with Fbots

1. Sign up at fbots.org and add your Viking Rise account using its IGG ID.
2. Open the account’s “Resources” settings and pick a mode: by priority, lowest first or random.
3. Optionally assign each squad its own resource and fallback in “Resource collecting by squad”.
4. Turn on “Only full Resource Points” and “Only within Tribe Territory” if they suit your kingdom.
5. Enable gathering boosts, and decide whether gems may be spent on them.
6. Save the template and apply it to every farm at once — the bot picks it up on the next visit.

Tips that make gathering pay more

• Use your strongest gathering heroes on squads that go for gold — gold points take the longest.
• Research the economy branch first on farms; the bot can follow the economy branch automatically.
• Keep porters in training: they carry more, so each march brings more home.
• Do not leave squads idle overnight — that is where most players lose the bulk of their daily income.