See what your game sends

Everything you do in Dofus turns into messages between your game and Ankama's servers. This tutorial shows a few of them live on the MITM bot from Your first bot, while you walk and chat. No package is needed.

1. Bring your bot online

1. On your bot's page, click Start waiting.
2. Start Dofus from the Ankama Launcher, sign in and enter the game with your character.

The bot's status turns to Connected to game server.

2. Choose a few messages

1. On the bot's page, click Tools. The Network tool opens on its Traffic panel.
2. Click Settings. The list holds every message Asterobot can name, with a box to tick for each.
3. Type MapMovement in Filter messages..., then tick MapMovementRequest and MapMovementEvent.
4. Replace the filter with ChatChannelMessage, and tick ChatChannelMessageEvent. If you turned on Live chat in Your first bot, it's ticked already.
5. Click Apply. The button shows how many messages are ticked, and a notification confirms how many message types the bot now mirrors.

3. Play and watch

1. Click Traffic.
2. In Dofus, click a cell to walk there. A MapMovementRequest row marked Out appears, and a MapMovementEvent row marked In comes after it.
3. Wait for other players to move on your map: each of their walks adds a MapMovementEvent row.
4. When a chat message reaches you, a ChatChannelMessageEvent row appears, marked In.

New rows arrive at the bottom, and the list follows them while you're at the bottom. Pause freezes the list, but messages that arrive while it's on aren't kept. The colour of each row tells the kind of message: Network traffic explains them.

4. Read a message

1. Click a MapMovementEvent row. It opens and shows every field of the message as JSON.
2. Find cells: the path the character walks, as a list of cell numbers. Another field holds the id of the character that moves, which tells your own walks from other players'.
3. Click a ChatChannelMessageEvent row and find content: the text of the message.

Large numbers, such as ids, show as text in quotes. To keep one kind of message in the list, type name:MapMovementEvent in the search box above it. The Dofus protocol reference describes every message and field.

5. Tidy up

The messages you chose stay selected with the bot, and Asterobot keeps passing them on to Asteroboard, until you untick them. When you no longer need them, untick them in Settings and click Apply again. Clear, on Traffic, empties the list, and removes the chat lines from the Console tab too.

When you're done, quit Dofus, and click Disconnect if you want the bot to stop waiting.

Where to go next

• Network traffic, for the search syntax and every part of the panel.
• Send messages by hand
• React to messages, to act on a message in a script of your own.