Bot Census

An in-raid overlay that tallies the AI you're sharing the map with, custom factions included. RUAF, UNTAR, Black Division and friends register above the vanilla bot range, and Bot Census reads them off MoreBotsAPI's live registry so each lands on its own line.

What it counts

• Custom factions (via MoreBotsAPI): RUAF, Remnant, UNTAR, Black Division, each on its own line. They spawn as WildSpawnType values above the vanilla ceiling of 67. Bot Census pulls names from MoreBotsAPI's live registry by reflection rather than hardcoding a list, which means factions added after this was written show up too; with MoreBotsAPI absent it falls back to the known ID ranges.
• Custom bosses, split from their escort. A faction that fields a boss gets him on his own line with his guards beneath — Wedge and three guards read as Wedge 1 / Wedge Guard 3 rather than a single Wedge 4 you can't take anything from. Which factions those are comes off the registry, not a list of names here, so a boss added by some mod later splits the same way. Factions that are a flat squad with nobody in charge keep their single line.
• The Goons. Knight, Big Pipe and Birdeye get their own line, so you know the trio is on the map.
• The BTR gunner, on its own line.
• AI PMCs, separated from the scav side by faction (USEC / BEAR).
• Raiders and Rogues on separate lines by default. Fold them into one row from F12 if you'd rather keep the panel short.
• Bosses and their guards on separate lines too, so you can tell whether the boss himself is still up or only his guards are left. Merge them from F12 as well.
• Scavs, bosses, cultists and the infected event, with the vanilla sorting oddities put right: crazyAssaultEvent reads as a Scav instead of a boss, and cursedAssault, assaultGroup and the misspelled sectactPriestEvent all land where they should. Anything genuinely unrecognised still lands under Other rather than disappearing.
• Everything, added up. A Total Bots line under a rule at the foot of the panel. It counts off the tally rather than the lines above it, so rows you've merged or hidden still make the total.

Every line carries a glyph, drawn in that row's colour — a scav in his balaclava, the BTR on its eight wheels, the cultists' own sigil, and Black Division under the scorpion. Turn them off from F12 if you want the panel narrower.

The panel re-scans every few seconds, so patrols that spawn well into a raid (a RUAF push, a Black Division hunt) turn up on the next tick. It eases in as the raid loads in rather than snapping onto the screen, so it settles alongside the rest of the HUD instead of popping over it.

Install

Put the BotCensus folder in BepInEx/plugins and launch. Nothing to configure to get going. MoreBotsAPI (custom-faction names) and Fika (co-op) are optional; each is used automatically when it's installed and ignored when it isn't.

MoreBotsAPI is reached entirely by reflection, and Fika's types sit on a single path that only runs when Fika is actually installed — so neither can stop Bot Census loading, with or without Wedge, Black Division or any other faction mod. If one of them changes shape in a later version, the panel notes it once in the log and carries on with what it can still read: custom factions fall back to their known ID ranges.

Settings

In-game F12, or BepInEx/config/com.sipto.botcensus.cfg:

Setting	Default	Notes
Enable	on	Master toggle
Only In Raid	on	Keeps it off the menu and hideout screens
Font Size	16	10–64. Scales the whole panel, not just the text — glyphs, row height and width all key off it. Raise it on a large or high-resolution display; on 4K, 32–40 sits about where 16 does on 1080p
Offset Right / Top	20 / 40	Where the panel sits
Use Tarkov Font	on	The game's Bender face, with fallbacks
Background Opacity	0.72	Panel backing, 0 (clear) to 1 (solid)
Show Icons	on	Off drops the glyph column and narrows the panel
Icon Scale	1.0	0.6–1.5. Glyph size relative to the text, capped at the row height so it can't spill into neighbouring rows
Split Rogue And Raider	on	Off merges them into a single row
Split Boss And Guard	on	Off merges them into a single row. Also merges a custom boss back in with his guards
Update Interval	5s	5s / 10s / 15s / 30s / 1min

Every bot type also has its own visibility mode: Always keeps the row up even at zero, WhenPresent only shows it while some are alive (nice for bosses and the Goons), Hidden takes it off entirely. PMC, Scav and Total start on Always, the rest on WhenPresent.

Co-op (Fika)

On a Fika raid it counts off the shared player list, so your numbers match the host's. It only reads state and draws to your own screen; nothing networked, no patches.

Custom factions are named the same for everyone in the raid. MoreBotsAPI builds its faction list from a request only the host's machine makes, so a joining client used to see Custom where the host saw the faction's name; the names now come off the metadata each faction mod registers at startup, which every machine has.

If a Fika update ever moves what that reads, it drops back to counting locally for the rest of the session rather than leaving the panel stuck. You keep a working tally; it just stops telling a remote client's AI apart from your own.

Panel position

It draws in the top-right. If you've already got a counter living there, run one or the other, or bump Offset Top here so the two don't overlap.

Build

dotnet build -c Release, with the .NET SDK 8+ installed. Path resolution keys off SptRoot in the csproj; by default it walks three folders up to the SPT install, so override that if your checkout lives elsewhere. The build drops BotCensus.dll into BepInEx/plugins/BotCensus.