First run
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1. Unzip it into a folder of its own
ClashPilot comes as a zip. Unzip it into a folder of its own, say a ClashPilot folder in your Documents. Everything it saves goes into that folder: your settings, your recipes, the logs and the statistics. Move the folder and it all moves with it.
2. Open it
Open ClashPilot.exe in that folder. The first time, Windows will say the app comes from an unknown publisher. Windows shows this for new apps that are not code-signed yet. It is not a sign of a virus. Choose More info, then Run anyway.
3. Choose your emulator
Open the Settings page and pick your MuMu Player instance from the list, then choose Use this instance. ClashPilot sets the emulator up for you the first time; there is nothing to change in MuMu Player yourself.
4. Press Start
Press Start. If the emulator is off, ClashPilot starts it, opens the game and begins.
The line across the top of the window shows at a glance whether the bot is running, and the word at the top left, under the name, says which state it is in: Starting while the emulator and the game come up, then Running. Reading the window has the whole list.
Pause and Stop
Pause means hands off: the bot stops, the game stays open, and you can play. Press Resume when you are done and it carries on.
Stop ends the run. The next Start begins a new one.
When a new version is out
ClashPilot tells you. When you open it, a window says which version is out against the one you have, what is new in it and how to update, with Later and Download. A line under its name, at the top left, says so too, and the Settings page has the same notes and the download.
To update, download the new version, close ClashPilot, and put the new ClashPilot.exe from the zip into your ClashPilot folder in place of the old one. Your settings, accounts, recipes and statistics stay as they are.