hatebringer's Guide to Busting Hunter Bots

[hatebringer]

hatebringer’s Guide to Busting Hunter Bots

 

Update - As there is a seemingly unlimited number of bots currently in every world, This method now takes much more effort to work. Suggest doing so with 2-3 more people

 

Hello and welcome to my guide to breaking the current Hunter bots. If you are like me, you are trying to hunt chinchompa’s either for your own monetary gain, or to gain precios hunter levels OR to save money for ranging and catch them yourselves. However recently a large amount of botters have appeared again and it can take away from your experience and your money per hour. Bots may have been mostly taken out with the Bot Nuke, but unfortunately there are still some bots that function but to a lesser degree of intelligence, and these are the Hunter "Line Bots"

Note: Please always report ALL bots, they are ruining the game for me and you.

 

Here is a quick set up I like to use to maximize xp and fun:

Head/Body/Legs: Lapuria Hunting Gear

Ring: Any(Flame Ring for FM xp boost)

Gloves: Any(Flame Gloves for FM xp boost)

Weapon: Inferno Adaze>D hatchet>any hatchet>bow

Boots: Any(Not really needed)

Cape: Anything Flashy :P (bragging rights)

 

And ofcourse your invent :

Yellow: Take atleast 9 box traps I feel that its good because when trying to break multiple bots at once you sometimes loose box traps.

Red: These are all box traps I’ve gotten from botters so ignore these

Green: logs, the jungle trees that are around you are a plentiful source of logs for the FireBaiting method of breaking bots.

Red : Chins (what you ARE here for anyways, after breaking all the bots)

 

Okay so now that all the minor details are out of the way, on to the guide :

 

 

The main type of bot that you will encounter is the line botter.

 

These Botters place their traps (4 or 5) in a straight line and then go down the line of traps, dismantling and resetting them regardless if there is a chinchompa or if they have even closed due to a failed chin catch attempt. So basically this bot runs on a script that tells it to set up its max amount of box traps then go box1:remove/replace ; box2:remove replace etc. until all the boxes have been dealt with and then repeat the process.

 

underTrapping

 

The main way to deal with these bots is to perform the method I call underTrapping, which is where you stand under their next box they are going to remove and wait patiently until they move on top of you and then watch your feet until the box disappears and spam click to place your trap before they get a chance to place yours. There are two possible outcomes to this:

 

This is the main trapping method you want to happen in which the bot will be attempting to lay their box trap but will be unable to as your trap will already be blocking theirs. The best outcome is the bot simply stands their for long enough that all their other traps fall and they do not pick them up and thus lose all their traps.

 

 

Here are two examples of the bot’s traps being under your box trap and all their other traps falling.

NOTE: ALWAYS pick up their trap when you see it. This will almost fully break the bot. Once your trap either gets tripped or catches a chin, pick it up and while the animation is still playing click to lay the next trap while STANDING on your trap you are taking down. Since the bot is slow it usually cannot place theirs in time and you will stop them.

 

This does not always happen on the first try and sometimes the bot will have extra traps. If they do simply repeat until fully broken.

 

This path I have drawn is what most bots in this area will do. They will run away and always head east. This is what your goal will be and what you will strive for.

 

FireBaiting

 

Sometimes the bots will lay traps much faster, which is probably a different bot or whatever they are doing but it is much harder to get rid of them. They will not stop either when attempting an underTrapping break and will continue on their loop as if nothing happened. They will just leave out that space. FireBaiting is your attempt to get them to move away.

Here is the final product. The yellow spaces are where the bot was when I began this method, and I was able to push him all the way to where he remains in the red spaces. Please note that this method can take awhile to get to work but it does eventually work for most of the botters I see. I’ve only failed 3 times using this method.

 

Step1:

 

First step is to get the underTrapping box set up in their second the end west box set. Set up a box trap under their box when they remove it and you will get the bot to skip over the space. After you successfully get a box trap under this trap, set fires on both the east and west ends of their traps indicated by the red boxes. Remember to keep these fires going 95% of the time. Also note that some of the bots do not even need the end fires all you need to do is constantly block off the western traps in line and it will cause the bot to "adjust" and move anyways. This method is just the most consistent and full-proof method I have come up with.

 

Step2:

 

Next step is to attempt to get a fire going on their western trap. This may be a bit difficult at first since you cannot simply spam click the log, unless you only have a tinderbox in your toolbelt. An easier way is to also underTrap this box and when the bot moves away to remove your own trap and set a fire.

 

Step3:

 

Continue these steps to slowly move towards the eastern traps one at a time remembering to keep all your fires burning. Eventually you will see one of two things happen to the bot. Either 1, the bot will move further east and eventually out of your hunting way, or 2, the bot will continue his box setting up, but when moving east he will move 1 square north. This is the best success and will cause the bot to use up ALL his traps as he will set up Westward then head east to pick them up BUT he will be 1 square north and will not know that all the boxes are just to the south. This will continue in a vicious cycle until the bot exhausts all its box traps and runs East to log.

 

Misceleanous Stuff:

 

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• Unfortunately there are a few types of bots that cannot be broken fully by these methods, but they can be underTrapped to stop them from getting xp, which can be done to all line botters.
  
• ALWAYS report any bots you may see before starting any bot breaking as this will vastly improve your feeling of self-worth and will help (I hope) remove these bots from the game.
  
• If you enjoy messing with cheaters in the game, then this will be fun lol
  

 

I may make a video to better show the method, but I'm not sure if anyone would be interested in it.

Thanks for taking your time to check out my first official guide on tip.it :)

[the_korny]

Nice!

 

Going to do this when I have some time before/after red sandstone mining.

[hatebringer]

Bots that are there generally have an auto talk feature as well now, when you trap them from putting a box trap, they something along the times of "please leave" or "F*%&U" etc

[Jeit_Thorne]

This is absolutely hilarious. Will definitely do this if I ever go chin hunting.