Woodcutting bot

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A Woodcutting bot is a macro or player that uses another program to play RuneScape for them. For a long time, woodcutting bots were the most common of all macros, and they were a major problem in free-to-play worlds and member worlds alike.In F2P worlds, one could easily count about 100 macros trying to cut down this one tree. If not taken care of, they could reach ridiculous woodcutting levels (sometimes even reaching 99) and fill up the hiscores. Woodcutting bots tend to flock around Oak, Willow, and Yew trees to collect vast amounts of logs. In member worlds, some bots would even chop down Magic trees. They will usually then sell their logs for real world cash. The programmers program their bots to run back and forth between banks and the woodcutting areas. Some of them are programmed to log out if a player moderator speaks near them. These bots are usually prone to aggressive monsters and sometimes are killed by muggers, highwaymen, tree spirits, jail guards and so on. But most have commands that make them run away if they are being attacked. Most woodcutting bots in the F2P world use Steel axes, as they are the highest level axes that can easily be bought from Bob's Brilliant Axes in Lumbridge and can be repaired for free, although some have been known to use axes from bronze to rune, and some of the P2P bots even used dragon. Bots are unfair to players as they hog resources.

Many players accused Jagex of not doing enough or not doing anything at all, because the bots that bought memberships added extra traffic on their site creating extra income. Jagex, however, in the December 10, 2007 update, stated that the majority of the credit card numbers used to pay for the memberships of the macro accounts were actually stolen, and cost Jagex thousands in fraudulent charges. It is extremely rare to see a woodcutting bot today, but if you see one and have evidence, feel free to report it under Rule 7 and Jagex will investigate.