RS-SDK: Drive RuneScape with Claude Code

[branon]

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.

[calvinmorrison]

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.

[ianhawes]

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

[pokpokpok]

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

[pokpokpok]

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.

[pagwin]

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?

[jsphweid]

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.

[OsrsNeedsf2P]

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

[0] https://rsc.vet

[jdc0589]

same, but honestly OSRS is so good at this point I'd probably wanna be there.

[mhog_hn]

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]

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?

[tekacs]

If Jagex would release a server of RS (ideally 3, but 2 is fine) where you could control your character with an agent like this... I would probably play it all day, every day, in parallel with whatever else I was doing.

[OsrsNeedsf2P]

Why wait for Jagex? OP released something 80% of the way there

[matt_lo]

So this is why RAM prices are increasing...

[smusamashah]

It is not said very explicitly in the description. Is this for use on the real RuneScape game servers or does it run a dummy game server and run bots on that one?

[OsrsNeedsf2P]

It runs on a dummy server built on the Lost City[0] source code

[0] https://github.com/LostCityRS/Server

[ClassicRob]

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

[OsrsNeedsf2P]

Already logged in and playing. This is incredible!

[lawrenceyan]

Going to be so awesome when we have native crypto rails live in game for mmorpgs.

[Aeroi]

autominer dream setup from my childhood.

was working on an openclaw bots only game called arenaclaw this weekend, runescape auto battler fighting game spin-off.

[kickingkeys]

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

[tombert]

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.

[isiahl]

Please please try to read a post before commenting on it

[jonshariat]

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

That being said, is copying the game outright legal?

[alright2565]

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

[cremp]

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.