What Is a Shakes & Fidget Bot?

A Shakes & Fidget bot (often shortened to SF bot or S&F bot) is a program that plays the idle RPG Shakes & Fidget for you — running the repetitive daily tasks automatically so your character keeps progressing without you clicking through every menu.

This page explains what an S&F bot actually does, how it works under the hood, and where Mercy SF fits in.

What does a Shakes & Fidget bot automate?

Shakes & Fidget is built around a daily loop of small, repeatable actions. A good bot handles all of them:

• Quests — accepting quests, buying beer, and running the "Thirst for Adventure" loop
• Arena — fighting daily arena battles and climbing the rankings
• Scrapbook — targeting opponents and monsters that still have missing scrapbook items
• Dungeons — clearing both light and legendary dungeons
• Fortress — gathering wood, stone, and silver, and queuing building upgrades
• Underworld — collecting souls and silver and upgrading underworld buildings
• Pets — feeding pets, exploring pet dungeons, and fighting pet arena battles
• Guild — portal, hydra, raids, attacks, and defense
• Tavern — calendar rewards, wheel of fortune, dice game, and the toilet

Doing all of that by hand, every day, across multiple characters, is what drives most players to look for automation in the first place.

How does an SF bot work?

There are two broad approaches, and the difference matters a lot for safety:

1. Client modification / macros — some tools inject code into the game client or replay mouse clicks on screen. These are fragile and are what most people mean by a "Shakes and Fidget mod."
2. API automation — other tools talk to the same official Shakes & Fidget servers that your browser already talks to, sending the same requests the game itself sends.

Mercy SF uses the second approach. It is a standalone SF bot, not a mod — it never modifies the game client. It logs in through the official S&F single-sign-on and drives your account through the game's own API. Your credentials are stored locally and encrypted.

Are Shakes & Fidget bots safe?

Two different questions hide inside "safe":

• Is my computer/account safe from the bot itself? With Mercy SF, credentials stay on your machine, encrypted, and nothing is sent to a third-party server. The desktop app is built with Tauri (Rust + native WebView) rather than a bulky Electron runtime.
• Is botting allowed? Automation may violate the game's terms of service. That is a risk you take with any S&F bot, Mercy SF included. Use it at your own risk.

See the FAQ for more on this.

Which platforms does Mercy SF support?

Mercy SF runs on Windows, macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon), and Linux, plus a console/CLI build for headless or server use. Most bots are Windows-only, so cross-platform support is one of the things that sets it apart.

Getting started

If you want to try it, the Getting Started guide walks through downloading the bot, logging in, choosing which modules to run, and starting automation — usually under a minute. The core bot is free; see Pricing for what the Premium and Supporter tiers add.