[Software] Archi's Steam Farm (ASF), Steam idler (and much more) [Windows/Linux/OS X]

You send trade request to your bot, and bot accepts it.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>

<!-- Every bot should have it's own unique .xml configuration file, this is example on which you can base on -->

<!-- Master switch to turn account on and off, set to "true" after you're done -->
<!-- TIP: This bot instance won't run unless below switch is set to "true" -->
<Enabled type="bool" value="true"/>

<!-- This is your steam login, the one you use for logging in to steam -->
<!-- TIP: You can use "null" if you wish to enter login on every startup -->
<SteamLogin type="string" value="STEAM-USERNAME"/>

<!-- This is your steam password, the one you use for logging in to steam -->
<!-- TIP: You can use "null" if you wish to enter password on every startup -->
<SteamPassword type="string" value="STEAM-PASSWORD"/>

<!-- This is steam nickname, the one you want to use for bot. Can be anything up to 32 characters -->
<!-- TIP: You can use "null" if you wish to preserve your actual nickname -->
<SteamNickname type="string" value="XYZ"/>

<!-- This is your bot's API key, get one at https://steamcommunity.com/dev/apikey while logged in as bot, domain doesn't matter -->
<!-- TIP: You can use "null", but it will disable all API-based functionalities such as trading -->
<SteamApiKey type="string" value="null"/>

<!-- This is your parental PIN if you use steam parental functionality -->
<!-- TIP: Most likely you don't want to change it. You can use "null" if you wish to enter PIN on every startup, 0 means there is no PIN -->
<SteamParentalPIN type="string" value="0"/>

<!-- This is steamID of the bot-master - you, in steamID64 format -->
<!-- TIP: You can use "0", but bot won't accept steam cd-keys or trades from anybody" -->
<SteamMasterID type="ulong" value="76561198102710877"/>

<!-- This defines clan of the master, bot will join chatroom of that clan automatically after logging in -->
<!-- TIP: Most likely you don't want to change it -->
<SteamMasterClanID type="ulong" value="0"/>

<!-- Comma-separated list of IDs that should not be considered for farming -->
<!-- TIP: Most likely you don't want to change it -->
<Blacklist type="HashSet(uint)" value="368020"/>

</configuration>

I don't have anything to idle on my main account at the moment, but I logged on to Steam on one of my other accounts and then fired up ASF and it seems to be working fine. I won't be able to confirm 100% until something new actually drops, but it looks good so far. :)

No, it is completely legal. The only thing you're not allowed to do is sharing your account with other people.

mono --version ?

It's most likely caused by outdated mono.

A simple apt-get install mono-complete will mostly likely work.

I had trouble running on one my Debian VPS and worked after import some certificates:

$ mozroots --import --machine --sync
$ certmgr -ssl -m https://go.microsoft.com
$ certmgr -ssl -m https://nugetgallery.blob.core.windows.net
$ certmgr -ssl -m https://nuget.org

Yes.

https://github.com/JustArchi/ArchiSteamFarm

The most minimalistic setup to make ASF working is changing only Enabled, SteamLogin and SteamPassword properties, everything else is more or less optional to enable additional features.

In fact, you don't even need changing SteamLogin and SteamPassword, but if you don't do that, ASF will ask for login and password on each startup.

Undertale is new Touhou ;_;

Bot with ASF 2FA is supposed to work the same as it did back in before-escrow days. The current logic is quite simple - If ASF 2FA is enabled, apart from accepting all trades, ASF will also accept all pending 2FA confirmations.

It's meant to be as transparent as possible, and as automated as possible. So instead of two solutions you have:

• Keep 2FA turned off, get annoyed by 3-days holds
• Keep 2FA turned on, manually confirm all trades

You get third option:

• Keep 2FA turned on, let ASF automatically confirm all trades

BTW, I've just released pre3 for testing.

HAh ah Nice one. Missed it But thanks :D

It depends how much effort you want to put in.

Consider you have average amount of accounts, such as 5. 4 are your alts, and 1 is your main.

Very often sites such as IG are dropping free steam keys, with cards-enabled games. This for you means that for every cd-key you get, you actually get ~half of the badge in steam cards, usually worth at least 0,20 euro (looking at deadbits right now), we can say up to 0,40 euro.

So with every free game, you're earning around 1,50 euro, after like ~3 minutes of work spent on getting 5 cd-keys. Moreover, those cards don't have to be sold, you can actually use them just to craft badges if you prefer that way instead.

Another story is with bundles. Some bundles such as IG Friday bought during happy hours cost like 0,93$, and have 9-12 games. We can assume one game is worth around 0,10$ then. Cards farmed from that game are worth more than the game itself, so we can use the same technique to get our money spent on the bundle back, to buy even more bundles, and so on.

ASF is not meant to be your main source of steam profit. You could earn much more in any job working for minimal wage in your country. ASF is meant to automate the process of farming cards on many accounts, and get cards out of them, in order to give you small, yet noticable profit, and the question is if you want to get that profit for free (because you already have free games and bought bundles), or if you decide that spending 3 minutes on setting everything up and running is too much for you.

I created it for lazy people like me. I have free keys, I have many leftovers, and I have alt accounts. Why I should bother trading games worth 0,10$ if I can send them to my ASF, and get the profit equal to 0,30$ out of it? It costs me nothing but 10 seconds of my life. I'm exchanging something worth nothing, or as little as 0,10$ into 0,40$. Why would I not want to do that, considering I can?

No, even Valve suggests doing so.

It doesnt connect to my master clan group chat, it is connected to your chat group though

1. My master clan group is invite only
2. Testing bot has already been invited and added to group

Do i need to make a public group? i dont want anyone else joining the group except me and my bots

I just tried this version, received the SMS almost instantly and it's running great with 2FA enabled :)

It has recreated the .bin, the .key and the .auth files, thank you!

You can blacklist any id to prevent farming editing the XML, add 425280 in this line:

<Blacklist type="HashSet(uint)" value="303700,335590,368020"/>

No, accepting trades actually doesn't use api key at all.

I'll need to test that part to tell you more.

It doesn't, at least not yet.

GUI is not planned, this is supposed to be as background as possible, and able to run on servers with limited memory. GUI is useless for this case. You can use idle master if you need fancy way of telling you the status. ASF is supposed to work and do the thing.

More reading, less writing.

Bot is custom implementation of Steam Client, and requires exactly the same data which Steam Client does.

one-time use login key for password-less login.

The only purpose for login key file (for now) is to skip a need for entering 2FA token on every login, the same mechanism which steam uses, so you don't need to do that for traditional 2FA-protected accounts.

https://github.com/JustArchi/ArchiSteamFarm/issues/29

Same reason.

No.

ASF is supposed to outsmart you and it knows "better" what algorithm to use based on one and the only property which affects the choice - CardDropsRestricted.

When CardDropsRestricted is false (default), Simple algorithm is used. When CardDropsRestricted is true, Complex algorithm is used.

Simple algorithm will farm required appIDs one-by-one. It will farm one appID in maximum farming time of 10 hours per one (anti-steam malfunctions), until it drops all the cards, then it will move to the next one.

Complex algorithm will firstly use standard Simple algorithm on all games that passed 2 hours of play time, then if noone of such are left, it will farm all other games requiring farming in the same time, until at least one will pass 2 hours mark, then it will go back to the beginning (farm that one appID through Simple, finish it, farm everything again, and so on).

Don't try to outsmart ASF, it knows better how to farm the most effectively. I do not plan to change or implement any other algorithms for now, unless you give me strong reason why.