You seem to have a few problems. Please check and if you haven't got it, fix the following: Make sure BotName is a registered name on your server already (saves the trouble and makes it sure it isn't an unregistered name problem) Make sure BotName is on vip.txt (if you want the bot to have staff powers, put the bot name on moderate.txt / smod.txt / sysop.txt aswell) make sure the bot is allowed to enter your zone in the first place - have server.ini allow subspace clients Remove all empty (no name specified)-lines from operators.txt . You don't need to specify a password, this is only usefull for when the biller goes offline and everyone can get on your name. (Best is to specify a different name + password to use when biller goes offline) You have specified a staff password twice ("yekoms" and "mod") in spawns.txt. If you want the bot to be a moderator, put the name on moderator.txt and that should be enough. If you want the bot to be sysop, specify the sysop password behind the normal password seperated by a * . set NoTerminal to 0 in Mervbot.ini so you can see what goes wrong in the Mervbot window Try your bot, it should work. If it doesn't, check the window and try to get the error why it can't connect or why it disconnects. If the bot tries reconnecting over and over, set MaxConnectionTries to 0 in mervbot.ini so the biller/server doesn't "ban" you for trying to connect too many times. Good luck!