EVE Looter is a looting and salvaging bot for EVE Online. It can collect jettisoned containers or loot and salvage wrecks after doing missions or anomalies. It can be used in any other situation in which you have created wrecks or containers in specific location. EVE Looter can use tractor beams, salvagers, afterburner as well as any other active modules to increase the efficiency of the bot. To find the location of wrecks or containers EVE Looter uses personal or corporate bookmarks. Bot settings for using personal or corporation bookmarks are different and will be explained separately.

In order to start Looter you need to be in a suitably fitted ship. The recommended ship for looting containers is an industrial type ship. By far the best ship to loot/salvage wrecks is a Noctis as it has bonuses for tractor optimal range/tractoring speed and a good cargohold volume. Create one personal bookmark near a station or corporate hangar array at a POS to unload loot. If you have several personal bookmarks in the system, the bookmark to unload loot must be the first bookmark as described here. If you plan to use corporate bookmarks, you should still define a personal bookmark to unload loot. To start Looter you should select 'Looter' algorithm as below: 

 Then define Looter settings. Click 'Settings' button in the right panel and expand the 'Looter Settings' expanded panel.

• 'Looter Activation Interval' is used with personal bookmarks only. Read using personal bookmarks for details (at the bottom of this page).
• 'Maximal Targets' is the number of active targets you may have. It is defined by your targeting skill. You should level the skill 'targeting' till 3 to be able to lock 5 targets.
• 'Targeting Timeout' - set this value to the maximum number of seconds required to lock a target (wreck or container). This speed may be increased if you fit sensor booster module and activate it in settings.
• 'Tractor Optimal Range'. Looter may use tractors to drag wrecks or containers instead of approaching. If you have tractor beam fitted, define its optimal range here. The fastest way to detect the optimal range of your tractor beam is to hover over the module with the mouse while in space and read this number from the tooltip.
• 'Salvager Optimal Range' - if you have salvagers fitted and plan to use them, define the salvager optimal range.
• 'Max # of BMs' may be used to define the maximum number of bookmarks to use while working with personal bookmarks. You should have the first bookmark to unload cargo, bookmarks 2-7 should be used to travel to belts and bookmarks 7+  for anything else. To visit the top 7 bookmarks and skip the others set this value to 7.
• 'Max Approach Distance' - define max approach distance if you want to limit looter's working area.
• If you want to work in missions, you should tick the 'Check Warp Gate' checkbox. After finishing looting operations the bot will check if a warp gate is present and will approach and activate the nearest warp gate. You may create corporation bookmarks in any pocket or at the deadspace entrance, this does not matter.
• Switch between personal bookmark and corporation bookmark modes. These modes will be explained separately because other settings will work differently depending on the selected mode. Corporation bookmarks mode has additional settings:
  • If you plan to loot anomalies in a particular system, you don't need to use bookmarks located in different system. Check 'Use Green Bookmarks Only' and the bot will not travel to corporation bookmarks located in different systems (not green). This option is not tested when you have yellow lines (i.e. when autopilot route is active). Don't set autopilot routes for your looter manually.
  • 'Use Bookmark With Text' - this is a useful option if you have several corporation bookmarks and want to use only a particular bookmark type to visit and loot. If you want to split work between several looters, you can define different bookmark names for each separate looter. Bookmarks will be used if the defined text visible in the first part of the bookmark name.
  • 'Delete Bookmark After Use' should be checked if you loot anomalies and missions and don't need the bookmark when area has been cleared. Looter uses only one corporation bookmark, if you don't delete the corporation bookmark after the completion of the looting/salvaging job, the bot will check the same location again the next time.
• Switch between 'Loot Wrecks' and 'Loot Containers' - used to select between looting wrecks or containers. Looting wrecks and containers at the same time is not implemented. The bot will look for white containers (personal, corporate), or white and blue wrecks. 
  • To loot all wrecks, including yellow wrecks, tick 'Loot Yellow Wrecks' checkbox. If you loot yellow wrecks you may be attacked by the owner of the wrecks. Also you may not drag yellow wrecks with tractor, so this option should only be used with a fast and cheap ship.
  • 'Salvage Wrecks' option will enable the use of salvagers. It is recommended to use salvagers to remove empty wrecks from the overview. If you have a lot of wrecks in the overview, the furthest wrecks may not be visible and the bot will not scroll the overview up and down. You cannot salvage wrecks without looting first.
• 'Use Orehold' - tick if you loot containers and load ore to orehold
• 'Symmetric Mode' - a special mode useful if you have a Noctis fitted with 4 tractors and 4 salvagers. The bot will target several wrecks at once and work on them as a group. If this option is disabled and there is at least one target present, the bot will target one wreck, wait while the target is locked and activate the tractor beam, then lock next wreck etc. Targeting takes time and in the case of many wrecks, symmetric mode makes sense. Symmetric mode will also work when looting containers. You must have tractors to use symmetric mode when looting containers.
• 'Avoid NPC' - the bot will check for NPC's and warp out if NPC's are present. This option may be useful if you loot belts and new NPC's appear near the Looter. Looter does not fight the NPC, but may tank them.
• 'Incursion' - bot will detect if incursion present in the system and stop operation if required.
• 'NPC Check Period' will define how frequently to open the NPC overview preset and check NPC's during the looting/salvaging task.
• 'Max Cargoload (%)' used to define at what cargoload the bot should return to station or POS and unload cargo. Useful if you want to loot one full container per trip.
• Levels of shield to warp out and log off can be defined using scroll bars at the bottom of this expanded panel. If you use a station and have the Looter in a fleet with bonuses for shield amount, decrease the warp out level a bit, or the bot will unnecessarily trigger a warpout.
• 'Disable Emergency LogOffs' - to disable log offs on damage tick this option.
• 'Disable ReWarps'. Looter may rewarp from container/wreck to another container/wreck if distance between containers/wrecks higher then 155km. You may need to disable this functional if you work in deadspace or if looter may get caught in mobile warp disruptor.

  Using personal bookmarks:

Personal bookmarks may be used to revisit the same locations multiple times. It is useful when you want to loot jettisoned containers created by your miners, or plan to salvage wrecks in belts. Each location where you want to send Looter, should have a bookmark. You may create bookmarks using the BeltMarker function (requires Miner license), but BeltMarker cannot work with a POS. If you use the bot with miners, create the same set of bookmarks as your miners have. Names of these bookmarks may be different, but bookmark order should be the same for miners and looter. This will allow you to find your miners faster. This special mode will be explained in example below. Looter will visit all personal bookmarks starting from the second till last. The first bookmark is reserved for a station or POS. If the location is empty of wrecks or containers, the bookmark is temporarily marked as visited and the bot will not use this bookmark for a period of time defined by 'Looter Activation Interval'. The Looter activation interval should not be too short. If you have 10 bookmarks and spend about 5 minutes to visit the belt and collect containers, looter may need 50 minutes to visit all belts, so set this value to 3000 seconds. If this interval is too short, looter will find that the first location is not marked as visited anymore and bot will start checks from the first location.

1. Traveling mode. Traveling mode allows looter to visit a range of systems, find and loot / salvage wrecks or containers in these systems. This may be useful if you plan to find and steal yellow wrecks with a noobship for your first ISKs. This is probably the fastest way to make your first ISKS, especially if you visit 0.5-0.6 systems. To activate traveling mode you need to create personal bookmarks in every system you're going to use for traveling. Then open traveling settings and activate traveling:
   

   

   Add systems you want to visit in the list. If you want to return to the first system every time you start, check 'Return To Home System On Start/DT'.

2. Setting up looter to work as a remote hauler with miner in the same system using personal bookmarks. Make sure your looter and miner have the same set of bookmarks. Neither looter nor miner should have traveling enabled. In miner's settings set it to be a selected tank.
   

   

   Open 0.0 sec support expanded panel from looter and check 'Use With Tank' checkbox:
   

   

   The bot will go directly to your miner as soon as the miner jettisons a container in space, it will then loot it and unload it to a POS or station. Other 0.0 sec. support settings may be used to setup looter in low/zero security systems. Please visit this page for 0.0 sec expanded panel manual.
   

Using corporate bookmark:

Looter will always use the first found corporation bookmark, which meets its filtering rules. It is recommended to delete corporation bookmarks after use automatically. 'Looter Activation Interval' setting is not applicable when you use corporation bookmarks. If no corporation bookmarks are present, looter will reopen people and places to update bookmarks while sitting in the home location (station or POS). This is a normal situation, because corporation bookmarks only become visible to all corporation members a few minutes after creation.