74 pointsby evakhoury6 hours ago11 comments
  • branon3 hours ago
    Glad to see more projects building on top of Lost City. This looks super fun and I can't wait to try it out. Writing RuneScape bots was how I first learned programming, and I think it's one of the most interesting ways to interact with the game.
  • pokpokpok6 hours ago
    Happy to answer any questions! I think one of the most interesting elements here is the way that the grounding a game environment allows agents to ratchet their engineering progress and run more autonomously than you might be able to for normal engineering tasks.
    • pagwin4 hours ago
      The demo gif uses Claude Code but looking at the readme it seems like the idea is for it to be a good environment for various machine/reinforcement learning type tasks.

      If that's the case what led to the inspiration to use Runescape and are there any notable non-LLM machine/reinforcement models you think might have an interesting time with this?

  • jsphweid3 hours ago
    I've always imagined my last few days on earth as being in a nursing home playing Runescape Classic (2001-2003 runescape) with just me and a bunch of bots, recreating the glory days.
    • OsrsNeedsf2P2 hours ago
      Open RuneScape Classic[0] literally has a live server with hundreds of bots for you to do that.. today!

      [0] https://rsc.vet

      • alexchantavyan hour ago
        Does AutoRune still work on there with auto catcher when PKing? The concept of "having catch" on another player based on player ID was just crazy. All these weird bugs that ended up being core mechanics of PKing.
      • jsphweid2 hours ago
        I used to play on the regular world (RSC Preservation, non-bot). There's not enough people. And probably won't be hardly anyone there when I'm old enough to be in a nursing home.

        I could join the bot worlds, but I'm fairly certain that they don't talk much or behave like a normal player in general (stumble through quests, make friends, trade with other random players, etc.). They probably just grind skills in some optimal way.

      • bheadmasteran hour ago
        Holy shit.

        How realistic are they?

  • mhog_hn4 hours ago
    Amazing. Would be cool to see agents end up trading at varrock bank like during the old days. Sort of a facebook/moltbook equivalent - wonder how genuine it would feel
    • pokpokpok3 hours ago
      Please try running some bots and join the discord! Totally agree that we should add communication channels for the bots, potentially a bbs or global chat?
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  • calvinmorrison4 hours ago
    Botting runescape is how many of us got into programming. Long live botting. If you want to do it, do it on an account that doesnt effect the economy.
    • ianhawes3 hours ago
      AutoRune and SCAR! Though, I never cared much for Delphi.
    • pokpokpok3 hours ago
      for me it was autoHotKey, amazing programming language with a built in recorder!
      • cremp2 hours ago
        Great scripting language, but has a pretty troubled past.

        Once the original creator moved on from ownership, the new owner also had a business with Runescape botting.

        The story is that it didn't go well for the maintainers of Autohotkey until another person took the reigns.

      • ghxst2 hours ago
        Don't forget color bots!
  • matt_lo3 hours ago
    So this is why RAM prices are increasing...
  • OsrsNeedsf2P2 hours ago
    Already logged in and playing. This is incredible!
  • ClassicRob4 hours ago
    I’ve never played RuneScape before but this was very cool, it wrote lots of scripts as it went and eventually finished a quest to gain the ability to make runes
  • kickingkeys6 hours ago
    Holy shit,I'm gonna lose so much sleep because of this...
    • tombert29 minutes ago
      I mean, I guess you won't, because the bot can play the game for you while you sleep.

      Personally I've never really seen the point of botting; I thought part of the fn of these MMOs was that you earned the leveling up.

    • websimapi3 hours ago
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  • free_bip4 hours ago
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    • isiahlan hour ago
      Please please try to read a post before commenting on it
    • jonshariat3 hours ago
      Its not connected to the main game. Its a private bot only server.

      That being said, is copying the game outright legal?

      • rileymichael3 hours ago
        > is copying the game outright legal

        no it is not. a lot of runescape servers have recently been receiving UDRP disputes (to get domain + contact info) and subsequent legal communications from jagex

    • alright25654 hours ago
      > rs-sdk runs against an enhanced web-based client (botclient) which connects to the LostCity 2004scape server emulator.
    • cremp2 hours ago
      Back before ClusterFlutter (which was just a lot of Java object type-casting, large multi-dimentional arrays, and overflow math) botting was pretty easy to write yourself with very little JVM knowledge.

      Bans were (and still are) pretty hard to come by as long as you pay for a membership.