Techniques that made the run

Five dialogue clicks in one tick

Quests are told in pages of dialogue, and a player reads each page before clicking on, one page a tick. Where a page offered no choice, the run clicked blind, five times in one tick, the most the server accepts. Across every quest the plan priced that at 878 ticks. The server takes five actions a tick from any player, and the swarm’s coordinator ruled the blind clicks fair.

Used in Doric’s Quest, the Grand Tree quests, the Dwarf Cannon quest, Monkey Madness and the other quests on the route.

Wine that ferments without a Cooking check

Brewing wine needs Cooking level 35, and the experience arrives when a timer ferments the wine. The run banked stacks of unfermented wine that a helper had brewed and let the timer ferment them all at once. In the last attempt the first firing took Cooking to 60, and the second, one relog later and about 15 seconds after it, to 99. The fermenting timer is a game script with no level check, so it pays out at any level.

Used in the Cooking step near the end of the run.

Working through the Thieving stun

Pickpocketing a knight sometimes fails, and a failure stuns the thief for 11 ticks in which they cannot steal. In the run each stocked stun cast Superheat Item on ore twice, then Charge, then fletched arrows, while a courier beside the knights traded in the first load of runes and ore but never managed a top-up, so Superheat ran out of ore at Smithing 41; Magic and Fletching both reached 99 inside the Thieving step. The lab measured the first form, three bone burials with Charge and arrows in every stun: Thieving took no longer, and 470 to 510 ticks of other work moved inside it. The stun blocks stealing, not burying, casting or fletching.

Used in Thieving, from level 57 to 99.

In the last attempt the courier never topped up the food, and Thieving stopped for nine hours.

Charge, recast with no cooldown

Charge is a Magic spell unlocked by the Mage Arena quest, and a spell normally makes its caster wait before the next cast. Charge has no wait, so it can be cast again at once: in the lab, Magic went from 80 to 99 in 156 to 163 casts over 32 to 33 ticks. In the run, Charge went inside the Thieving stun pack, one or two casts a stun, and Magic reached 99 about 85 seconds into the Thieving step. Each cast is a legal click, and the spell’s script checks no timer.

Used in the Thieving stun pack.

A cannon carried by a helper

The Dwarf Cannon fires at monsters on its own and pays its owner Ranged experience, but the set and its cannonballs fill a pack. A helper held the set and the balls, the run’s account set the cannon up and picked it up again, and the cannon did the Ranged training. The cannon is ordinary game content, unlocked by the Dwarf Cannon quest.

Used in the Dwarf Cannon quest, the cannon step and the last cannon session.

Both of the rehearsal account’s deaths, and the last attempt’s only death, came at the cannon step.

Answering the level-up page at once

Each new level opens a congratulations page, and the player is busy until it closes. A bot that waits to see the new level loses a full cycle of work. The run answered the page in the tick it appeared, alongside the next action, so the work loop never paused. Closing the page is an ordinary click that arrives early.

Used in every skill loop on the route.

In the last attempt a Strength level-up page left open after the Dragon Slayer fight stopped the run until a resume closed it.

A relog that sees the world on its first tick

The swarm’s bots relogged by reloading the browser tab, and the account stood in the world for about 20 ticks before the bot could act. The rebuilt relog logs in again inside the same page, so the bot sees the world on the new session’s first tick, and the game’s own logout button leaves the world at once where a dropped connection can leave the player standing for hundreds of ticks. In the run’s own order the login turns run on first, so the first click goes out on the third tick: in the lab, the bank booth clicked on tick 3 was open on tick 4. Both are ordinary logins and logouts.

Used in the two logins of the Cooking step, the relog before the body-altar Runecrafting and every helper hand-off.

In the last attempt the game refused a logout in the middle of combat, and the account died in the world.

Burying bones between woodcutting rolls

Prayer is trained by burying bones, one click each, usually beside a bank, and Prayer 1 to 99 takes 555 dragon bones. The knife reset left a free moment in every woodcutting cycle, and the run buried a bone in it while helpers traded fresh bones at the tree. In the last attempt Prayer reached 99 inside the woodcutting step. A burial is one item click, and five clicks fit in a tick.

Used in the willow woodcutting band and the iron mining band.

Attempt 2 stalled in the willow band when no helper delivered its bones.

Banking five clicks at a time

The standard bot library deposits one item a tick, so 24 kinds of item take 24 ticks. The swarm’s library sends every bank click at once and the server takes them five a tick; it withdraws a whole stack with the fill button. Five actions a tick is the server’s own limit.

Used in every bank visit, from the starting kit to the bank booths late in the run.

Trading in one burst

A trade runs through screens of offers, accepts and confirms, and the standard library clicks through them one at a time, then waits two ticks. The helper offers everything and accepts in one burst, and the run’s account accepts the moment the items arrive. Every click is one the trade screen offers.

Used in every helper hand-off.

In the last attempt a hand-off stopped because the account had three free slots and needed four.

One tick per dialogue page, not two

The standard bot client spent two ticks on every dialogue page, one to see it and one to click. The swarm’s client publishes the game’s state once a tick, so the click goes out in the tick the page appears. The fix is in the bot’s own client, and the server sees the same click a tick sooner.

Used in every conversation on the route.

A fresh account that skips the tutorial

The swarm’s first account already carried 547 ticks of play, and a new player starts on Tutorial Island. The run used a new account, and on this server the tutorial guide offers to skip the island in one conversation, which took 6 ticks in the lab. The demo server runs without its production setting, and that leaves the skip on.

Used in the run’s first login.