Bounty Hunter (2024)

Colluding with other players, or using alternate accounts to boost point gain may result in a ban from Old School RuneScape.

On death, Hardcore Ironmen will lose their status.
Unprotected items will be lost to the player who kills you.

• The chance of rolling the ancient artefacts sub-table upon opening bounty crates has been increased from 1/15 to 1/10.
• Combat experience purchased from the Bounty Hunter Store has been increased by 2.5x.

The required amount of game time played required to access Bounty Hunter has been reduced from 48 to 12 hours.

Players who die in Bounty Hunter will no longer be assigned new targets for 1 minute.

• Ancient statuettes have been added to the Bounty crates drop table.
• The quantity of Blighted supplies received from Bounty crates has been increased.
• Players may now find out their Earning Potential by talking to any corrupted warrior.
• Upon entering Daimon's Crater for the first time, players will now be given a dialogue about Bounty Hunter rules.
• Killing a target who has an Esoteric emblem no longer rewards additional bonus points.
• Dying with an Esoteric emblem will reduce its tier by 1, rather than deleting it outright.

• Players will now be able to Teleport to Target while inside the Crater if they have not been in combat within the last 12 seconds.
• Players should now receive the correct warning when skipping their final target before incurring a penalty.
• Players will no longer be able to leave the Crater immediately after using a special attack, similar to the special attack delay present on PvP Worlds.
• When a target goes into combat with their target, rogues will no longer have the priority for receiving the loot.
• Players are no longer able to leave the Crater while dying. This is to resolve an issue where leaving the Crater would take priority over the death.
• A chat message has been added upon entering/exiting the Crater to let you know that you have a penalty timer if you've skipped too many targets. A reminder message will also be sent approximately every 5 minutes.
• The 'Target' dialogue with corrupted warriors will now fittingly inform player that a penalty of 30 minutes will be given after skipping 3 Skulled targets.

• Increased the time added back to players’ 2:00 timer when re-entering the Crater from 6 seconds to 15 seconds.
• Skipping an unskulled target no longer contributes to matchmaking penalties.
• The UI will now indicate that you have a matchmaking penalty. Speak to the Corrupted Warrior to see your current penalty timer.
• Perdu can now be found in the lobby area.
• Players now have 6 seconds of immunity from rogue players after entering the Crater. Your target can still attack you, and you will lose immunity upon attacking another player.
• Blighted supplies are now usable in the lobby area.
• Bounty Hunter World 541 (US West) has been replaced with World 573 (US East).

Bounty Hunter reworked significantly into a minigame located at Daimon's Crater, Target Worlds removed.

Target worlds no longer have misleading messages about the non-existence of PJ timers.

The Bounty Hunter Reward Shop has now closed and all existing Archaic and Antique Emblems have been removed, although you may still encounter the former on Deadman Worlds, where you will still be able to trade them as before.

• Hotspots and tasks were removed.
• Players are now protected for 20 seconds after killing their target.
• Bounty Hunter worlds were renamed to 'Target world'.

Bounty Hunter emblem upgrades are now capped at ten per day in order to limit farming.

Bounty Hunter is re-enabled.

Bounty Hunter was temporarily disabled due to concerns with gold farming.

• The Bounty Hunter messages warning you that you've failed certain types of tasks are now less spammy.
• The Bounty Hunter tasks for finishing off a target with a specific combat style have been adjusted to better handle unusual attacks that apply damage simultaneously.

• The Bounty Hunter minigame now requires a player to have 48 hours of in-game time, 20 quest points and a combat level of 40.
• In various Bounty Tasks, players are asked to deal the finishing blow with a specific combat style. These tasks are now better able to detect that they've done so, if the finishing blow is part of a flurry of other hits that they're dealing at the same time.
• Bounty Hunter now waits slightly longer after your previous target kill before assigning you a new one, since players had concerns of not getting enough time after a kill.
• The duration permitted for a Bounty Hunter task is now 20 minutes, reduced from 30.
• Prices for bounty crates, looting bags and rune pouches have been changed.

In order to reduce player boosting, only one emblem from the target and killer will be upgraded, rather than up to three.

• The Bounty Hunter interface has been updated, giving more details about the target and other minigame-related info.
• Points are no longer granted from exchanging mysterious emblems, now being earned from killing targets.
• Mysterious emblems that existed prior to 17 October were transformed into archaic emblems, which can still be exchanged to purchase items from the original Bounty Hunter Shop.
• Bounty Tasks have been added, giving additional points if successfully completed.
• Hotspots have been added, giving additional benefits if killing targets there.
• New items have been added to the store: bounty crates, target teleports, decorative emblems and bounty hunter hats.

• The Bounty Hunter timer for a new target is now 60 seconds so that it is possible to collect the loot from your last victim.
• Monsters in the low-level Wilderness north of Edgeville are now unaggressive on the Bounty world (world 18).

The Bounty Hunter Rogue hat will now be kept as expected upon death under the current temporary death system.

The Bounty Hunter streak overlay can once again be toggled on or off.

• The Hunter's Honour is added to the game for 2,500,000 bounties.
• The Granite Clamp is added to the game for 250,000 bounties as a cosmetic for the Granite Maul

Wilderness bosses and demi-bosses on a Bounty Hunter world now have a chance of dropping tier 1 mysterious emblems.

• After killing a target players will now receive a 1 minute timer before being assigned another.
• Emblems now downgrade when dropped on death.
• Players can now attack their targets even if their target is already in combat with a monster or another player.
• The Bounty Hunter Kill streak overlay toggle setting is now remembered over logout.

In order to discourage players from selling lives, several game integrity updates were made to the Bounty Hunter system and some items in the Bounty Hunter rewards shop were tripled in price.

• Emblem Trader
• Corrupted Warrior

• Daimon's Crater

• Chambers of Xeric
• Theatre of Blood
• Tombs of Amascut

• Champions' Challenge
• Shooting Stars
• Treasure Trails

• Blast mine
• Camdozaal Vault
• Chompy bird hunting
• Creature Creation
• Dorgesh-Kaan market trading
• Keldagrim tasks
• Managing Miscellania
• Shayzien Combat Ring
• Stealing valuables
• Underwater Agility and Thieving
• Wise Old Man tasks