News

June 20, 2009
Version 2.3.0 beta 05 for Travian 3.5b

May 23, 2009
Version 2.3.0 beta 02 for Travian 3.5

December 25, 2008
10000th download

November 29, 2008
Version 2.2.4

November 28, 2008
VilloNanny featured on "Les Trophées du Libre" home page

November 23, 2008
The new VilloNanny Forum in online

October 11, 2008
Version 2.1.0

September 4, 2008
1000th download

September 2, 2008
Rank 20 on SourceForge

September 1, 2008
Second release,
version 2.0.0

August 1, 2008
First binary release, version 1.0.0

July 27, 2008
First disclosure of VilloNanny

Frequently Asked Questions

• Will I get banned for using VilloNanny?
• When will you release the next version?
• I'm getting the message "Village has error (retrying later)". What's wrong?
• I'm getting an error while running VilloNanny and can't find a solution by reading the manual and forum posts. What can I do?
• Is VilloNanny a Travian cheat?
• I get the error Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/villonanny/VilloNanny when running on Windows
• On the Mac it doesn't start: I get the error startVilloNanny.sh: Not a directory when running startVilloNanny.sh

Will I get banned for using VilloNanny?

Maybe if you are too greedy.
VilloNanny uses short and long pauses to simulate the activity of a human user, and by default pauses much more at night. You can shorten those pauses or make it as quick at night as in daytime... but don't get upset if too many people get suspicious!
Xtian used VilloNanny for more than one year on www.travian.it - server1 (the first italian travian 3 server) from beginning to end. His ally won the server (despite his lazyness). He was managing 35 villages with very little effort and ranked 221 at the end, without spending any money in gold points. Nobody ever suspected (or at least complained) that he was using a robot.

When will you release the next version?

The version after v2.3.0.b02 will be released in the first half of June 2009.

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I'm getting the message "Village has error (retrying later)". What's wrong?

If you are on a non-english server, the most common reason is that your language configuration file is not in utf-8 format. To check it, open it in Notepad, then open the "Save As" dialogue box; if at the bottom it says "Encoding: ANSI" then you might have a problem and should save it in UTF-8 by choosing it from the Encoding box.

Otherwise you should check the logs\log.txt file for a more specific error message that could give you a hint to the solution.

I'm getting an error while running VilloNanny and can't find a solution by reading the manual and forum posts. What can I do?

You can ask for help in the forum, but try to give as much details as possible about your problem. The best thing to do is to paste the content of the "log.txt" file located in the logs directory. The "configuration.xml" file might also be useful. If you give more information you have better chances that someone will answer with the proper solution.

Is VilloNanny a Travian cheat?

Personally we don't think that using VilloNanny is cheating in Travian. Anyone can have a sitter. You are just having a very special one which is not human ;-)

I get the error Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/villonanny/VilloNanny when running on Windows

Move the VilloNanny directory to a path that does not contain spaces. So, for example, if you unzipped VilloNanny under "C:\Documents and Settings\..." move it to "C:\" instead.

On the Mac it doesn't start: I get the error startVilloNanny.sh: Not a directory when running startVilloNanny.sh

We don't have a Mac so we don't know how to fix this for everybody. You'll need to edit the startVilloNanny.sh script and modify the line

export APP_HOME=${0%/*.sh}

export APP_HOME=/Users/JohnSmith/Downloads/VilloNanny