There are hundreds of hacks promising a RuneScape autominer, which is basically a program that will auto mine while you're away from the computer. The autominer will mine, collect and deposit the ore and hone your mining skill at the same time. Could you ask for more?



But a word of caution. If Jagex's servers detect the autominer, you will be banned from playing the game. Some hacks claim they are able to work around the detection process by factoring in anti-ban features like resting and auto talking to mimic human actions as much as possible.

The RuneScape autominer was first devised when Runescape was just launched in 2001. It was a time when the game required skills that were both boring and repetitive and a whole lot of clicks were needed to ore metal. These autominers could also help with skills that required a substantial number of clicks to perform tasks like fishing and wood cutting.

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It may be the most popular game on the globe but getting it right is still hard work. At the heart of the online game, RuneScape, is earning what the creators call "items", which can eventually be traded for real money. But earning an item needs skill and lots and lots of practice.

Enter the world of hacks, bots, private servers and programs that can do your work for you. Sounds like something a lot of people would love to have in real life, right? But in the world of Gielinor, it's actually possible. Such is the interest in finding a shortcut that the Internet is populated with sites, forums and chat rooms dedicated to cracking the code so carefully devised by Jagex.

Surf the net for a while, and moparscape will come up as the most-favoured RuneScape site for RuneScape cheats. Others like sythe, fagex or eliteneo are also recommended for the unscrupulous player intent on hitting the jackpot without really earning it.

So just how does one earn a RuneScape item? One way to earn an item is to perform a specific skill. Others, like party hats, are dropped by monsters when monsters are killed. Still others are released by the game at appropriate moments, like holiday drops at the beginning of the holiday season.

Some of the skills that earn items are mining, fishing and woodcutting. But practising a skill is hard work. For instance, it takes time to train yourself to mine the more expensive ores and metals. Another way to collect items is to buy them from other players but, again, that takes money.

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For instance, before Runescape 2 was launched, players had to click an inventory bag, after which they would select a mining pick axe and then the rock they wanted to mine. Imagine how many movements of the mouse this required!

So what exactly did the Runescape autominer do? It basically was a macro that let you to select the on-screen areas you wanted the mouse to click on, and then a sequence of clicks and time delays between them. But this process required to be monitored. This was so because if you left the autominer running, you would be automatically logged out of the game if you hadn't moved for five minutes.