RS-SDK: Drive RuneScape with Claude Code

jsphweid 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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OsrsNeedsf2P 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Open RuneScape Classic[0] literally has a live server with hundreds of bots for you to do that.. today!

[0] https://rsc.vet

	▲	alexchantavy 38 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		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.
	▲	jsphweid an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		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.
	▲	bheadmaster 26 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Holy shit. How realistic are they?

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pokpokpok 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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pagwin 4 hours ago | parent [-]

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?

	▲	pokpokpok 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I am super curious about using and fine-tuning smaller vision-language-action style models! There are also some interesting RL projects out there focused only on PvP: https://github.com/Naton1/osrs-pvp-reinforcement-learning

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free_bip 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is called botting and is against the terms of service of the game. People with common sense generally consider it to be a dick move. You WILL be banned.

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alright2565 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> rs-sdk runs against an enhanced web-based client (botclient) which connects to the LostCity 2004scape server emulator.

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isiahl an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Please please try to read a post before commenting on it

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cremp 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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jonshariat 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Its not connected to the main game. Its a private bot only server.

That being said, is copying the game outright legal?

	▲	rileymichael 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> 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

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branon 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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mhog_hn 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

	▲	pokpokpok 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		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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matt_lo 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So this is why RAM prices are increasing...

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calvinmorrison 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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ianhawes 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

AutoRune and SCAR! Though, I never cared much for Delphi.

	▲	branon 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This is also how I learned programming, though mainly with Simba, the spiritual successor to SCAR: https://github.com/Villavu/Simba

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pokpokpok 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

for me it was autoHotKey, amazing programming language with a built in recorder!

	▲	cremp 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		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.
	▲	ghxst 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Don't forget color bots!

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OsrsNeedsf2P 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Already logged in and playing. This is incredible!

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ClassicRob 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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kickingkeys 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Holy shit,I'm gonna lose so much sleep because of this...

	▲	tombert a minute ago \| parent [-]
		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.