NeoBot was already visible in public automation history by 2010. No surviving official launch announcement was verified, so 2010 is presented as a defensible era marker rather than an exact commercial release day.

The shutdown text, copied from the original NeoBot forum and preserved by OTLand, identifies the founder and developer as Greg. It describes the software as a pastime that became a demanding project, then announces that new license time would stop being sold and remaining accounts would expire.

Evidence classification: Contemporary community record. The date shown in the reference box is phrased to match what the surviving source actually proves.

NeoBot appeared during a shift from simpler macros and proxy tools toward products marketed around broad automation, external operation, paid account time, and claims of lower detectability. Community records discuss healing, targeting, looting, cave automation, and a time-limited trial.

Its December 2011 shutdown immediately changed the market conversation. The same OTLand thread shows users discussing alternatives, including a then-pre-release XenoBot. NeoBot's end therefore became a visible transition point between two generations of Tibia automation products.

Historically documented uses included automated healing and mana decisions, target selection, looting, route-based hunting, training, and related repetitive actions. Those descriptions explain why the product mattered; they are not instructions or a recommendation.

Players also associated the tool with paid license accounts and a trial system. That business model made software availability dependent on an authentication service, which is why the shutdown affected even users who still had local program files.

For historians, the product is useful evidence of how bot markets, game updates, anti-cheat claims, licensing, and community attitudes interacted around 2010-2011.

The most notable documented event is the December 26-27, 2011 discontinuation announcement. The developer cited a desire to pursue other projects and concern about Canada's changing legal landscape, while explaining how remaining license time would be handled.

Community reaction was sharply divided. Some users worried about lost automation or account value, while others welcomed the prospect of fewer bots. That debate makes the thread a valuable primary-era record of how strongly automation affected Tibia's economy and player culture.

NeoBot is obsolete historical software. Old executables, cracks, license bypasses, and mirror downloads create substantial malware and account-theft risk and should not be used.

CipSoft's current rule 3b forbids using unofficial software to automate play and warns that cheat programs often contain malicious code. Individual Open Tibia servers publish their own rules, which must also be followed.

This page separates a confirmed public date from an assumed development date. Its release statement is: Publicly documented by July 8, 2010.

The recorded lineage is Commercial Tibia automation project founded and developed by Greg. The source links preserve the repository, release page, official documentation, publisher archive, or contemporary discussion used to support that description.

Historical automation pages explain community impact without providing setup steps, working downloads, license bypasses, or instructions that enable rule violations.