Actions

Actions

Actions are what Watchdog does when an alert fires. Each alert can have multiple actions that run in order (or randomly, if Random Notifications is enabled). Actions can be added, reordered, and individually enabled or disabled.

📷 Screenshot needed: The action + dropdown showing all action types grouped into Text, Audio, Visual, and Advanced categories

All actions share a common set of settings for focus/AFK behaviour and firing delays. See Common Settings for details.

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Text

Send messages or annotations that display as text.

Action	What it does
Game Message	Writes a colored message into your chat box
Overhead Text	Displays text above your player character
Tray Notification	Sends an OS desktop notification to the system tray
Plugin Message	Sends a message event to another RuneLite plugin (advanced)
Notification Event	Fires a RuneLite NotificationFired event, which other plugins can react to

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Audio

Play sounds or synthesized speech.

Action	What it does
In-Game Sound Effect	Plays a built-in OSRS sound by its numeric ID
Custom Sound	Plays a local .wav or .mp3 audio file
Text to Speech	Synthesizes spoken audio via Eleven Labs or a legacy TTS service

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Visual

Show overlays, markers, or flashes on the screen.

Action	What it does
Screen Flash	Flashes the game screen a custom color
Overlay	Displays a text banner on screen, optionally with a countdown or image
Popup	Shows a popup notification styled like a collection log entry
Screen Marker	Draws a rectangle marker on a 2D screen region
Object Marker	Highlights a world object or tile in the 3D game view
Dismiss Overlay	Dismisses a sticky Overlay, Screen Marker, or Object Marker by ID

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Advanced

Automate plugin behaviour, track counts, or integrate with other tools.

Action	What it does
Counter	Increments a persistent counter stored in the alert
Alert Toggle	Enables, disables, or toggles another alert
Plugin Toggle	Enables, disables, or toggles a RuneLite plugin
Request Focus	Brings the RuneLite window to the foreground
Dink	Sends a Discord webhook notification via the Dink plugin
Shortest Path	Sets or clears a route in the Shortest Path plugin
Plugin Message	Sends a typed message to another plugin's event listener