Welcome to ARCbots — Start Here
Welcome! ARCbots is a bot for your xat.com chat group — it greets visitors, moderates the room, answers questions, runs games, plays radio info and much more, all from one easy control panel. This page is your map; pick a guide below.
New here? Start with Add your bot to your chat, then follow the New bot owner flow on the guides home page.
First steps
- Getting-started tutorial — register, create your bot, and connect it, step by step.
- Add your bot to your chat — the (bot) power, the bot id, and
!confirmbot. - Bot time & payments — how bot time works and how to add it.
Make it yours
- Customize your bot's appearance — name, avatar, status, hat and name decoration.
- Welcome messages & greetings — per-rank greetings with variables.
- Auto-responses & custom commands — teach your bot to reply and add your own commands.
- Timed messages — post announcements on a repeating schedule.
- Make your bot multilingual — let the bot speak and translate other languages.
Keep your chat safe
- Auto-member setup — decide who gets membered automatically.
- Moderation & anti-spam — spam/caps/flood limits, anti-AFK and raid protection.
- Ranks & permissions — give rank, temp ranks, and lock down commands.
- Banished users & link filter — auto-ban troublemakers, control links.
- Profanity filter — multilingual bad-word filtering.
Account & upkeep
- Bot time & payments · Share access to your bot · Back up & restore
- Account security — password, 2FA and staying safe.
Extras & help
- Radio & music — song info, requests and new-song announcements.
- Bot Games — set up and play the games your bot can run.
- Editing your bot from chat — quick
!editbotand rank commands. - Logs & history, Troubleshooting and the FAQ.
Handy links
- Your control panel dashboard
- The full, searchable bot command list
- Buy bot time
- Support chat: xat.com/ARCbot · or open a support ticket