Not sure if anything is being done about a merge into the main base code, although I don't recommend it at this time.
I've made it easier to patch in by surrounding the bot code in blocks of #ifdef EQBOTS and I have been making fixes to things that were causing crashes and added extra helpful text when using #bot commands.
I'm still at build 1090 with this code because I have come across an issue with upgrading the database that I'm relying on another person to fix for me since I'm more of a c++ guy than a database guy. What happens is, during an upgrade of the database you generally run drop_system.sql which deletes the npc_types table where all the bots are, so you lose all your bots. It wouldn't be so tough to backup the bots and then source them back in but there's a problem with that part.
It is likely that the new database will at some point add new npc's and these new npc's could have the same ID as one or more of the bots. The bot ID is also referenced in the botowners and botinventory tables so in this case, the bot would need to be merged into the npc_types table with a new id and the botowners and botinventory tables updated to reflect this.
Not a huge problem and this other guy is working on a vbscript or some tool like that to solve this, so I'll be moving to more recent builds soon.
I have been posting updated binaries and source in my link above, the latest version is dated feb 29th.
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