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Opinion: Minigame rewards and bots

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Opinion: Minigame rewards and bots

Opinion: Minigame rewards and bots
Type Opinion
Videos 1 (first 2025-04-03, latest 2025-04-03)
Main source CASTLE WARS - The New Bot Farm (OSRS)

Opinion: Minigame rewards and bots is an opinion topic that Gnomonkey covers in 1 video on 2025-04-03. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

Contents

Stats and numbers

  • Jagex stated that there have been 1.2 million Lil' Creator pets, which are the most obtained pet, from Soul Wars, which Gnomonkey says shows massive bot armies there.1
  • Soul Wars Spoils of war give about 76k gp per crate for 30 zeal; you get about 20 zeal per game and games take about three minutes, so a bot gets roughly a crate every five minutes.2
  • Gnomonkey cites a comment from someone who ran bots saying a full Soul Wars lobby of bots made 18 million every 10 minutes, or about 108 million an hour.3

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey says Soul Wars is apparently the most botted activity in the game and that Soul Wars worlds routinely hold 50 to 100 bots, likely owned by the same bot runner, though Jagex banned a good chunk.4
  • Gnomonkey says Soul Wars bots probably explain why blood runes have fallen so much in price.5
  • Gnomonkey says Last Man Standing is also riddled with bots despite a 750 total level requirement, including Terminator bots that switch prayers perfectly and bots that simply run up and die.6
  • Gnomonkey predicts that in about two weeks, after hyped players stop AFKing for loot, hundreds of bots will descend on Castle Wars.7
  • Gnomonkey says Jagex keeps making minigames profitable to raise engagement, but instead nobody plays them and people abuse them for rewards (under 50 people really enjoy Soul Wars, he guesses).7
  • Gnomonkey says adding gp rewards to minigames does not make them better and hampers them, and that Last Man Standing would still have players but fewer bots without a gp incentive.8
  • Gnomonkey says minigames do not need gp incentives shoved on them, and if a minigame's fun does not merit people playing it, that is okay.9
  • Gnomonkey says adding a level requirement would not solve the issue, since Last Man Standing at 750 total level still has plenty of bots.10

Trivia

  • Ironmen go to Last Man Standing for rewards including a rune pouch and rune arrows to sell for gp.6

Revision history

Date Video Change
2025-04-03 CASTLE WARS - The New Bot Farm (OSRS) Page created: 12 statements (opinion, stat, trivia)
## References

  1. CASTLE WARS - The New Bot Farm (OSRS), 2025-04-03. ▶ 1:59 ↩

  2. CASTLE WARS - The New Bot Farm (OSRS), 2025-04-03. ▶ 3:05 ↩

  3. CASTLE WARS - The New Bot Farm (OSRS), 2025-04-03. ▶ 4:25 ↩

  4. CASTLE WARS - The New Bot Farm (OSRS), 2025-04-03. ▶ 2:31 ↩

  5. CASTLE WARS - The New Bot Farm (OSRS), 2025-04-03. ▶ 4:30 ↩

  6. CASTLE WARS - The New Bot Farm (OSRS), 2025-04-03. ▶ 6:25 ↩↩

  7. CASTLE WARS - The New Bot Farm (OSRS), 2025-04-03. ▶ 6:55 ↩↩

  8. CASTLE WARS - The New Bot Farm (OSRS), 2025-04-03. ▶ 8:26 ↩

  9. CASTLE WARS - The New Bot Farm (OSRS), 2025-04-03. ▶ 12:44 ↩

  10. CASTLE WARS - The New Bot Farm (OSRS), 2025-04-03. ▶ 13:24 ↩

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