Safe Osrs Bots
How To Avoid Bans and Stay Safe [OSRS Botting Guide]
After being part of the OSRS botting scene for quite a while now, I have learnt some pretty usefull tips and tricks on how to keep your botting accounts safe from bans.
From my experience there are 3 main ways Jagex uses to detect and ban bots on Runescape.
Monitoring User BehaviorMonitoring Client and User InteractionBig Data / Heuristic Examination
Monitoring User Behavior
After tinkering with over one hundred different bots that have been banned I have noticed that Jagex monitors your account’s behavior to determine your accounts legitimacy. After dealing with the common issues that come up with user behavior, like broken scripts repeating the same action over and over again or botting an unnatural amount of time (24/7), one of the most interesting things I came across was that your account stats and quests really make a huge difference in Jagex’s bot detection system.
From what I have experienced, the more your account build is built inefficiently the lower your ban rate it. For example, when creating a red chinchompa bot, you should first get some random levels like 15 woodcutting, 11 firemaking, and 18 fishing. Throughout these levels you should also be training your hunter. Once you complete these levels, you should start doing some simple quests like Romeo and Juliet, Sheep Shearer, and the Cooks Assistant all while still training your hunter. So once your account is complete, you will have 63 hunter, 15 woodcutting, 11 firemaking, 18 fishing, Eagles Peak, Romeo and Juliet, Sheep Shearer, and the Cooks Assistant. I dont know about you, but this account does not look like a bot to me!
Another way to go about acquiring an account is by purchasing a hand made account from a reliable account seller like RSGoldRush. This makes it so the account you bot on has a many hand played hours giving Jagex the false assumption that you are a legitimate player.
Monitoring Client and User Interaction
Jagex also looks at your client to determine if you are using an accepted client like OSBuddy, RuneLite, or the default OSRS client. As common intuition implies, if you want to be the safest while botting, you should use a bot that interfaces with the official accepted clients. Some bots that do this are Tribot with their Looking Glass feature and screen scrapers/color bots/auto clickers.
From my experience, when I created a custom color and screen scraping bot with basic antiban, my account lasted for over 3 months without a ban. This was a free to play account that was killing rats on route to Varrock using a rune 2h. My bot interfaced with OSBuddy and could only have been detected if Jagex uses some kind of heuristic / big data detection.
Big Data / Heuristic Examination
The final aspect of Jagex’s bot detection software uses machine learning and mathematical models to try and determine whether your account is a bot or not. This problem is perfectly suited for a neural network where your behavioral information is fed to the network, and it will tell Jagex whether you are a bot or not. This system is trained on past manual or other types of bans to make it more accurate and versatile.
Since previous data is fed in to determine whether your account is a bot or not, using private scripts greatly reduces your accounts ban rates. There simply isn’t enough information on your private script yet for them to make an accurate estimate on your account’s genuineness.
Conclusion
In conclusion my top tips on keeping your account safe are;
Do not bot 24/7Create accounts with random skills and quests completedUse a botting client that interfaces with an official clientCreate or buy a custom script
If you follow these simple rules you should see a great decrease in your ban rates across your accounts!
Most amount of time to “safely” bot? – Runescape – DreamBot
9 hours ago, ahow said:
I’ve botted for 10+ hours multiple times per week without ban, all on the same account. I think it really depends on what you are botting, something like green dragons are a heavily botted area so I can’t imagine you would get away with much more than 3 Hours.
This is all a personal anecdote, I could easily just be one of the lucky few.
I’ve been doing some trial and error but I have not come to a conclusion as of yet, the problem could well be that I’m running the bot in a heavily botted area like you are saying.
4 days ago I created and ran 2 bots, used a script to complete the tutorial island and then ran a script that collects bones around the lumby area for 3 hours, both bots were in the same word. Both banned the next day.
Yesterday I created 2 more bots, I used the script to complete the tutorial island for one of them and did the other one manually, to see if they are getting flagged in the island itself, also this time they were in two different worlds. They ran for 2:30 hours. Both were banned this morning.
Getting back to your post, I’d say there is probably a bit of luck that is factored but the majority of it is something else since I’m consistently getting bad results.
Is botting illegal? | Sell & Trade Game Items | OSRS Gold | ELO – Sythe
Is botting illegal? | Sell & Trade Game Items | OSRS Gold | ELO
#1 –
Jun 16, 2012 at 5:38 PM
Joined:
Apr 29, 2009
Posts:
343
Referrals:
0
Sythe Gold:
puffels
Forum Addict
Is botting illegal?
Would jagex be able to prosecute a individual for botting? They have prosecuted illegal botting sites is it in there rights to do so for the consumers of the botting companys?
#2 –
Jun 16, 2012 at 5:39 PM
Imagine if Jagex went after every user that botted. Would be alot of money wasted for no gain/profit.
Easier to go after the websites that destribute the clients and the people that script them and profit on there sales.
As a user you are safe for any legal actions.
#3 –
Jun 16, 2012 at 5:40 PM
No, in there toss it only says they are aloud to ban your account permentantly, learn to read what you agree too.
#4 –
Jun 16, 2012 at 5:45 PM
No……
The Snellman Bros got sued to copy-write infringement for using RS image and deobfuscating the client.
In no way can you get in any legal trouble for USING a bot….
#5 –
Jun 16, 2012 at 5:54 PM
also snellman made profit, thus jagex can bs up a reason for “damage”
#6 –
Jun 16, 2012 at 6:07 PM
Apr 1, 2012
2, 734
169
Lvl 75 Def
Always confirm through PM!
banning is the only action they may take. no legal issues as far as i know
#7 –
Jun 16, 2012 at 6:18 PM
It’s not illegal, as there is now law against using an automated program to play a game for you. There’s no legal consequences as an individual botter, the only people at risk are bot developers which breach Jagex’s copyright by using their own code/manipulating it.
#8 –
Jun 16, 2012 at 6:21 PM
I think in some countries the bot companies are vunarable to laws/fines however they usually get somthing to prevent JaGeX from filing a law suite against them.
#9 –
Jun 17, 2012 at 4:25 PM
Didn’t jagex send an inbox message to individual botting customers threatening legal action if they used them again? Did anything come out of that?
#10 –
Jun 17, 2012 at 10:41 PM
I can remember this happening before, I think it was probably more than anything just scare tactics.
Although at the end of the day, I guess when you create an account you agree to Jagex’s terms and conditions which underline that you cannot use third party software which is against this ‘contract’ and therefore would probably have a chance of brining civil action against a person for breach of contract.
#11 –
Jun 17, 2012 at 10:47 PM
Apr 25, 2005
707
1
XWX
Apprentice
I’m quite sure this pertains to iBot & NeXus users.
#12 –
Jun 17, 2012 at 11:05 PM
Jun 9, 2012
136
Rafii
Active Member
Not illegal, just breaking a game rule.
#13 –
Jun 17, 2012 at 11:17 PM
A ToS isn’t a legally binding document though. It is just to let you know your rights as a consumer and their rights as the supplier. There is no legality in a ToS.
#14 –
Jun 18, 2012 at 10:33 AM
They have made threats in the past. However, I highly doubt anything will happen.
#15 –
Jun 19, 2012 at 12:19 PM
No unfortunately you aren’t correct, while most of the time ToS are used in order to restrict access and remove a persons use of service, it is a contract. For example when Sony corporation took George Hotz to court for breach of contract following the violation of their ToS.
#16 –
Jun 19, 2012 at 12:30 PM
also he caused a lot of damage.
TOS is loosely used in minor cases, but in big cases where damage has been done, the TOS is considered but not does not have a significant effect on the verdict.
#17 –
Jun 19, 2012 at 12:36 PM
That’s what I’m saying, so therefore the ToS does, to some degree, have legal significance.
#18 –
Jun 19, 2012 at 6:04 PM
It is not illegal to use the bots, however it IS illegal to design any client that loads the to RAM. By creating a client that loads RS, without the permission of Jagex themselves, you are legally breaking the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.
Some might say, ‘Oh what about Swiftkit? ‘ Well, when Swiftkit first came out, there were bans from players using it, and Jagex actually threatened Swiftkit with legal action, causing them to meet and Swiftkit to sign contracts and agreements with Jagex, allowing them to continue with the development of said client. Jagex obviously isn’t going approve a Bot Client.
#19 –
Jun 19, 2012 at 6:09 PM
It’s against their ToS, so they have every right to ban botters from playing their game.
They don’t, however, have the right to take any legal action whatsoever.
#20 –
Jun 19, 2012 at 6:10 PM
yes, but chance of some one getting sued for a large amount for only breaking tos is very VERY unlikely.
contract is a different thing.
Users viewing this thread
Frequently Asked Questions about safe osrs bots
Are there any safe bots for Osrs?
DreamBot is the most user friendly bot available today. You’ll be up and running in under 3 minutes, with almost no setup required. Our client runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux! We’re always looking for ways to make things easier for you, it’s one of our main priorities.
Are RuneScape bots safe?
Unfortunately there’s no such thing as botting safe. Some people get banned after botting for three hours, others take month before getting banned.Jul 16, 2018
Are Bots legal in Osrs?
It’s not illegal, as there is now law against using an automated program to play a game for you. There’s no legal consequences as an individual botter, the only people at risk are bot developers which breach Jagex’s copyright by using their own code/manipulating it.Jun 16, 2012
