Black Werewolf Announcements

Bots are going offline for security updates.

Done

Enforcer update

This week's update adds two new protections against spam and people hiding their identity, fixes /ban and /unban, and fixes several smaller bugs.

NEW: Block posts made as a channel
Members can post "as a channel" to hide who they are. Telegram never shows bots the person behind it, so Enforcer acts on the channel instead.
Turn it on in /menu → Group → Block channel posts. When it is on, a message posted as a channel is deleted and that channel is banned from the group.
Anonymous admins, your group's linked channel and channels you allow are not affected.
• /allowchannel – let a channel post (reply to its post, or give its ID or @username)
• /disallowchannel – remove a channel from the allowed list
• /allowedchannels – see the allowed channels
Enforcer needs the "Delete messages" and "Ban users" rights for this.

NEW: Block inline bots
Stop members sending content through inline bots like @gif, without turning off GIFs or stickers for everyone.
• /blockinline @gif – delete everything sent via @gif
• /blockinline /^spam/ – block every bot whose username matches a pattern
• /unblockinline – remove an entry
• /blockedinline – see the list
Admins and users excluded with /disablewatch are not affected. Enforcer needs the "Delete messages" right.

FIXED: /ban and /unban
• /ban now works when you reply to a message posted as a channel, and bans the channel. /unban lifts it again. Both also accept a channel ID.
• /unban now always replies: unbanned, not banned, or what went wrong. Before, it often did nothing.
• Banning someone who was already tempbanned now stays permanent. Before, they were let back in when the tempban ran out.

Other fixes
• Blocking GIFs in the media settings works again, and so does the GIF exception in the flood settings.
• If Enforcer can't forward a reported message to the admins, the admins still see what the reporter wrote.
• Log channel entries now show the group name, the affected user and which button an admin pressed.
• Help is now available for every command, including /mute, /tempmute, /unmute, /prewarn, /info and /settempmutetime. Try /help followed by a command name.

Questions or problems? Join us with /support.

[Killers Mode Rework]

Killers has been rebuilt for sponsored groups: bigger lobbies, deadlier nights, and no more hiding behind a partner. Start one with /startkillers.

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Fixes

• Big Lobbies — Games with 30+ players no longer crash.
• Killer Count — 1 killer for every 5 players, so big games stay dangerous.
• No Lovers — Cupid and Beauty sit this mode out.
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Every Killer for Themselves

• Hunted — No teams, no team chat. Killers can target each other, and only the last killer standing wins.
• Night Stalker — Survives half of the attacks from other killers.
• Puppet Master — Controlling a killer tells you they are a killer, but not which one.

Deadlier Nights

• Escalation — From night 4, the Serial Killer and Night Stalker kill twice, the Arsonist gets a third action, and the Puppet Master gets a kill no Guardian Angel can stop.
• Silent Deaths — Deaths no longer say who did it, and dead killers show only as "a killer". Lynch one and a villager learns someone's role.
• 🩸 Blood Moon — Some nights, everyone gets a kill, but only the fastest half count.

Killers remains a sponsored-only mode.

Going live tomorrow.

Some select testing quotes:

Dora:
wtf?

Olive:
Excuse me what is this

Ayan:
Fuck this shit

Venus:
Which language is this ?

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We having some server issues that we are working on fixing. Please be patient while we resolve them

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[Black Wolf - Bug fix]
- Cultist hunter no longer gets substituted when they die, only when they AFK.
- Expanded the kinds of villager roles that can turn into Cultist Hunter in this process

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The Monarch 👑 — bonus turns

The Monarch is a role that can break the rotation. At any point before a lynch, the Monarch can reveal their crown. This grants their entire team a bonus lynch turn that fires before the scheduled team's turn, it does not replace the scheduled turn, it's on top of it.

If the Monarch dies before their bonus turn fires, the ability is lost and the normal order resumes.


🗡 Same-Role Conflicts Across Teams

When players with the same night role end up on rival teams, they can target each other — and the outcome depends on who acts first and a bit of luck:

- 🐺 Wolf vs Wolf: Mutual targeting → the faster wolf kills the slower one. One-sided → the stronger wolf wins.
- 🔪 Serial Killer vs Serial Killer: Mutual → faster SK survives. One-sided → 66% chance the attacker wins.
- 🕴 Puppet Master vs Puppet Master: Mutual → the faster one blocks both kills. One-sided → 66% chance to block and kill the rival.
- 🔥 Arsonist vs Arsonist: Every targeting attempt has a 66% chance to douse the rival. When someone ignites, the faster arsonist's fire spreads first.
- 👤 Cult vs Cult: Speed decides mutual outcomes. One-sided → 66% conversion chance. Priest aura modifies these odds.

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A big shout-out and thank you to all the /premium groups for supporting the bot and making massive updates like this possible.

You can also support the bot by sharing it with your friends and help it grow.

Phase 2: Normal rotation

Each day, one team votes per turn. When it's your team's turn you'll get a message and your vote buttons. While you deliberate, opponents get a private notification telling them it's your turn and who votes next.

Key details:
- Only the active team's votes count. Opponents who try to vote during your turn are ignored.
- Idle tracking applies only to the active team — waiting teams can't go AFK.
- Ties and no-vote outcomes still pass the turn to the next team as normal.
- If a team is fully eliminated, they're removed from the cycle automatically and the rotation continues with whoever is left.

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The Pacifist ☮️

The Pacifist can shut down any team's lynch turn. When the Pacifist blocks, the active team's vote is cancelled and no one is lynched. The cycle advances to the next team as
if the vote had happened normally.

This also applies during the establishment phase: if the Pacifist spreads while teams are racing to claim their slot, that entire round is voided. No team claims a position and the race restarts the next day.

[Mars Wolf Update - Team Lynch and Role vs Role]

With this update rounding off the work that has been done on https://t.me/marswolfbot over the years. I believe https://t.me/marswolfbot is finally the perfect team battle bot. Where skill matters more than chance.

We have 2 updates detailed below.
1. A team based Lynch system.
2. Same Role vs Role condition handling.

🗳 Team Lynch System — How It Works

Phase 1: Establishing the order

The first few lynches aren't standard lynches — they're a race. Every team that hasn't claimed a spot yet gets to vote simultaneously. Whichever team casts the first vote that day claims their position in the rotation. The round plays out fully for that team, then the next lynch another unclaimed team races to claim theirs.

If only one team hasn't claimed a spot and a new day begins, they're automatically assigned the last position.

Once every team has a position, the order is locked in and announced: e.g. Apollo → Jupiter → Ares. That sequence now repeats every day for the rest of the game.

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[Black Wolf Bug Fix Update]

🔧 Romance
Fixed a bug where the middle player in a 3-player romance chain could not chat with other parties

🔧 Watchman
Fixed an extra stats message being sent each night the Watchman acted.

🔧 Martyr / Serial Killer
Fixed two related win condition bugs: Auto lose roles not winning when paired with Martyr, and the Serial Killer's and PuppetMaster win check was killing their martyr during game end

🔧 Enemies win together
Fixed a bug where lone enemies (Arsonist, Puppet Master, etc.) weren't correctly winning together when they were the last players standing in groups with that setting enabled.

[Performance Upgrade] We will be doing some minor performance upgrades to the underlying host system. We need to take the VMs offline in order to do this. I expect bots to be offline for a couple hours.

[Performance Upgrade]
We will be doing some minor performance upgrades to the underlying host system. We need to take the VMs offline in order to do this. I expect bots to be offline for a couple hours.

[Software update Friday] Bots are just going through routine security updates. With the internet as vulnerable as it is now, updates sadly become a more frequent requirement.

[Software update Friday]
Bots are just going through routine security updates. With the internet as vulnerable as it is now, updates sadly become a more frequent requirement.

[Enforcer Update]
Enforcer, like black werewolf a couple months ago, has finally been migrated to Linux and Dotnet 10.

Which means for the first time in a very very long time I can now develop on Enforcer again, watch this space.

[Blackwolf Q1 2026 Update] Lets migrate again This is one of the biggest updates ever. Most of them are under the hood making development significantly easier on the bot in the future. Below is a list of all the great features that have rolled out: …

[Help translating bots]
If you would like to help us keep our bot translations up to date in the many languages we try support or add support for another language please reach out in https://t.me/blackwolfhelp

[Blackwolf Q1 2026 Update]
Lets migrate again

This is one of the biggest updates ever. Most of them are under the hood making development significantly easier on the bot in the future.

Below is a list of all the great features that have rolled out:

- Team message reactions — Bot reacts to team messages with team-specific emojis

- Update Name button — Players now see an "Update Name" button alongside Flee when joining, allowing them to explicitly update their display name mid-game.

- Richer game state information — now exposes game time, current day, last update timestamp, and player list

- Graceful GIF fallback — If no GIF is found, the bot falls back to a text message instead of failing

- Improved join error handling — Better error messages when membership checks fail (bot lacking admin permissions, hidden members, timeouts), with graceful fallbacks allowing join to proceed

- .NET 10 migration — Entire solution migrated from .NET Framework 4.6 to .NET 10 for cross-platform support

[Premium Updates]
- Team and lover chatting in bot — Players on the same team (wolves, cultists, serial killers, enemies, masons, lovers, seer + Beholder) can now chat with each other through private messages to the bot

- Media forwarding to teammates — Players can forward photos, videos, audio, stickers, and voice messages to their team chat (controlled by Allow Team Media setting)

- /chat command — Players can resend/access the team chat mode selector

- /premiumstatus command — Group admins can check active premium booking status and expiration date

Hey everyone. Bots are offline while we undergo a massive structural upgrade. The bots have had a massive framework upgrade from 4.6 to .net 10. Anyone who has ever done this knows how massive it is. This also means we can run the bots on Linux now and…

[Bug Fixes & Gameplay Polish]

We've cleared out a long list of bugs to make the experience smoother for everyone:

Better Menus & Commands

• Quick Buttons — Fixed annoying list sorting where buttons like "Skip" or "Random" would get mixed into the middle of the player list. They are now pinned back at the bottom where they belong.

Game Logic & Roles

• Wolf Cub Bonuses — If multiple Wolf Cubs die, the pack now correctly receives multiple "bonus eat" nights. Also, the Drunk’s bite-back will now properly wipe out any pending bonuses.
• Beauty Lovers — Fixed a bug where "stale" or dead lovers were still being counted as winners at the end of the game.
• Puppet Master Fixes — The Puppet Master can no longer force a spent Alchemist to use a potion they don't have. We also fixed an issue in @marswolfbot where a Puppet Master controlling a wolf from a rival team was accidentally blocking their own teams pack.
• Stall Protection — Added new "deadlock" detection to prevent games from dragging on forever when neither team has a way to kill the other (like specific Puppet Master vs. Martyr scenarios).
• Doppelgänger Notifications — When a Doppelgänger turns into a role like the Arsonist or Puppet Master, their teammates will now be properly notified of the change.

Achievements & Modes

• The First Stone — This achievement is now correctly given to the player who casts the first vote, rather than the person being voted for!
• Team Chaos — Fixed a crash that was preventing /startteamchaos from initiating games.

[Maintenance] Bots have been put into maintenance for Linux server upgrades to address multiple security vulnerabilities. If you haven't updated your Linux based computers, you probably should. Update: Completed

[Maintenance]
Bots have been put into maintenance for Linux server upgrades to address multiple security vulnerabilities.
If you haven't updated your Linux based computers, you probably should.

Update: Completed

[Mars Wolf Bot — Team Chaos & Team Random Update]

Team Random has been updated. Previously each team got independently randomised roles — now all teams receive the same role set, mirrored across every team.

The old behaviour isn't gone. It's been moved to a new mode:

/startteamchaos — Each team gets its own independently randomised roles. One team might have a Seer, another might not.

If you preferred the unpredictability of the old Team Random, Team Chaos is what you're looking for.

[Black Wolf Bot — Seer Team Chat Update]

In team chat games, the Seer was receiving a chat selector at the start of the game. This meant the Seer always knew a Beholder was in the game, even before any communication happened.

The selector is now delayed for the Seer. It will only appear when the Beholder first sends them a message. If no Beholder messages you, you won't know one exists.

The Beholder is unaffected — they still receive their selector and can see the Seer's name at the start of the game as normal.

[Black wolf network maintenance]
There is scheduled network maintenance on the 15th April between 00:00 GMT+0 till 05:00 GMT+0

Bots will be online but may have connectivity issues or slow response times during this time.