Exposing Runescape 3’s Botting Underworld

Video covering a Runescape 3 Botting community with 1500 + members...

The content of this video is for entertainment purposes only.
I have tried to keep the botting server and the players in it anonymous
as my intention is not to start a witch hunt. I do not recommend players
enticed by this video to seek out the server, website or software
as it may be harmful to your computer & personal data. Botting is against the rules of Runescape and will get your account banned,
whether that's today or tomorrow.


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0:00 Disclaimer
0:09 Intro
0:40 Discord community
3:59 Script marketplace

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[MellowFellow]

4:39 I can see the reason behind this one being that the intervention machine only disassembles 60 items per hour, the same amount that we can do in a sheer 72 seconds.

[memeberfunk]

Finally somthing I wanted to see!
Sirpugger rarley touches rs3

[MrVeemonMaster]

Don't forget about the Bots that are doing 2k Zamorak Enrage, there was a streamer couple months back showcasing this. Love the idea of bringing more people in to beware of this type of stuff including selling IFB titles (since around 2017), Slayer collection logs / clue grinds for HCIM & IM for EOF's / collecting secondary herblore ingredients / ect.

[RmXs]

It's really simple from the Jagex side. People create bot accounts and these accounts need membership - more accounts - more money to Jagex. Simple math....

[tehandroidmaster]

I certainly won't lie: the temptation to bot on my main was, and still is, overwhelming ever since I was an 11-year-old skipping homework and studying to "play" RuneScape (sit at a screen and alch for 5 hours or WC yews in the Gnome Stronghold for just as long). I've come close to downloading Powerbot like a few of my friends in school did, but here's the rub: *everyone* I know IRL who botted, and whether it was their main or an alt, those accounts got *banned.* I am quite literally the *only* person in my *entire* circle of friends (IRL and online) who still has the original account he made when he was a fucking preteen.

That's a SOBERING fucking realisation to have. Imagine all those years of progress flushed down the drain because you were too lazy to git gud.

It's a pretty fucking strong deterrent to an intrepid preteen turned teenager turned adult when you know damn well just how many people got banned for botting, how fucking stupid the shit they got banned for was, and how attached I am to my main from 2007 that I have damn near max stats on after like what, 17 years of playing?

[TheRealPunisher]

I saw someone with a zuk cape botting the dg arch update. His bot literally was stuck for hours in the same spot. We all reported him. Literally saw him yesterday. No punishment for anyone.

[WigneyR]

The issue is if they deal with the bots the playerbase will halve 😅

[Bouhon]

After Vee's video, I was kinda worried that no content creator was willing to talk about this topic.

This is way over the top and I hope jagex is taking this shit seriously

[RelmOfRunescape]

Thanks for letting me know about this discord, I've been looking for a decent bot for quite a while now

[dominiontower]

I love these kind of videos, exploring things we wouldn't like to explore ourselves but are still interested in

[xSpaceInvader]

As much money as Ive spent on RS3 I should be allowed to bot whenever I fucking want lol.

I regularly report someone who is botting in divination but nothing ever happens. You can clearly tell the account is botting. Jagex hasn't done anything about it.

[SkyVoidify]

I used to bot when I was younger, never to the extent some people do. However, as I got older I noticed I'd quit playing for a long time quickly after using bots. This was because I was taking the fun out of the game. There's no sense of reward if you achieve a goal through botting, so it actually damages your experience as a player. What really solidified this belief for me was when I made my ironman at the mining/smithing rework. And if you gave a brand new player an account with a comp cape, they wouldn't know what to do or understand the time/effort it took to get there. Unfortunately, it's impossible for Jagex to get rid of all bots. Botting basically just turns any game into an idle game.

[originaldahha]

yeah, i watched furyshark's vids too with a morbid fascination. as clearly you did aswell ;). at this point i sadly don't think the game would look anything like it currently does without bots, since i don't see that many players doing all the menial tasks that bots are currently doing (those sorts of people are already playing ironman mode anyway). but who knows, i could be wrong.

[mrcash]

I botted during rs2 days (I was part of the train going from the Karamaja fishing to the noter) Now the bots that do work are so much more powerful.

[ervinas]

btw, you missed one name in the video, since you're covering all, why leave one? What should i do about it?

[WastedWay]

I completely agree. Just today, I stumbled upon a YouTuber named MN Phantom doing a botting to max series. Maybe you could pass that info along. Thanks for the video!

[WiseWoIf]

*In the current state of RuneScape 3's economy, us botters are seen as a stabilizing factor. We supply a steady flow of resources, keeping the market active and prices stable. This helps balance out the fluctuations in the lack of player activity and the overall demand. While botting has its downsides, and most of you might not like that I partake in botting, it's ultimately US that help maintain the overall stability of the game's economy. Trust me, you would be surprised..*

[holly_hacker]

The reason you need to disable anticheat is because cheat software interacts with the game in the same way some malware does (using techniques such as code injection or methods to evade detection by the runescape client). It doesn't mean they are doing shady things, and to be honest you don't need to be a genius to write malware that doesn't get detected by AV software anyway.

[PowerfulVillain]

Damn Jagex needs to launch bot buster 2.0.

[lillekagehus]

Totally gobsmacked. Thanks for putting it all together, hope they do something about it.