Bounty Hunter (historical)

Bounty Hunter (also known as BH) is a player-killing minigame for both P2P and F2P players on specific worlds. Bounty Hunter was formerly limited to the "Volcano" craters north of Stealing Creation. As of the May 6 revamp, the game of Bounty Hunter was changed to take place in the entire wilderness, and only on specific worlds. On other worlds, there are Revenants in the wilderness, and the ability to attack other players is no longer there. It was released on 10 December 2007.



On 25 March, Mod Mark posted a thread in the future updates forum stating that when Bounty Hunter returned, it would take place across the entire Wilderness and Edgeville, using the current Wilderness levels to restrict the players whom you can attack, which is like how the Wilderness used to be before it was changed on 10 December. In other words, the new "Bounty Hunter" is essentially an upgraded and modified version of the Old Wilderness before the December of 2007 updates, with the only difference being the drops.

On 6 May Jagex released the New Bounty Hunter.here

A few hours after the release of the New Bounty Hunter on 6 May, another update took place; more New Bounty Hunter worlds were added.'''

Banking
Players can only bank in Edgeville, at the banker near the volcano, who is called Maximillian Sackville, the Mage Arena bank, and the Fist of Guthix bank.

Entrance
To enter Bounty Hunter, you must be on a Bounty Hunter world, and you must also be in Edgeville or in the Wilderness when logging onto these worlds. To enter Bounty Hunter, just cross the Wilderness Ditch.



Playing
In the Bounty Hunter minigame, you are able to fight throughout the Wilderness, you cannot attack someone if their combat level is too far away from yours, based on the Wilderness level band system (See Wilderness), for example, a level 40 player can attack players with a level of 39-41 in level 1 wilderness, and 10-70 in level 30.

Targets
After you have spent 30 minutes in a dangerous area on a Bounty World, the system will start looking for suitable ‘bounty targets’ for you. After 60 minutes, the chance of being assigned a target increases further. (Note: this doesn’t have to be all in one go, and isn’t reset by leaving.) Your target will always be a similar level to you, and you will also be your target's target. If you kill your target, it will add 1 to your ‘bounty kills’ highscore, and you will receive a generous boost to your drop: the average size of these drops is boosted by an extra hour of drop potential (just as if you’d spent an hour in a hot zone), on top of the drop you would receive normally.

The spell Bounty Locate was removed and thus you can not teleport to your target.

It is common to get a drop worth 50K+ even if you and your oppenent are risking nothing, as long as they are your target.

If another player attacks your target and removes more than half of their health and they happen to die from the damage, it will not affect the fact that they are your target. They will remain your target until they die with most of the damage dealt by you.



Leaving
You can leave Bounty Hunter by jumping over the Wilderness Ditch or by going into a safe spot in the Wilderness, for example: Stealing Creation and the Bounty Hunter lobby.

Due to a glitch, people can actually leave Edgeville by clicking on a forbidden location on the map and opening a skill guide or the house options menu. Certain locations in the forbidden locations, however, will teleport you back to the Wilderness Ditch if walked upon. Others will teleport you back to where you were standing before you moved.

Death
If you die in Bounty Hunter, you may lose all your items, if you are skulled. You will become skulled if you attack a player that isn't in retaliation. If you have protect Item, you will save one extra item on death. You will respawn in Edgeville on death. Note that you can not use any teleports from magic book to teleport out, in addition most of the jewelery teleport do not work.

Trivia

 * It is possible to use a Ring of Life to get away safely. You will be teleported to Edgeville.


 * It is possible to cast teleports that are on the Ancient Magicks spell book as long as they go to Edgeville or into the wild, you can also cast the Ice Plateau Teleport from the Lunar Spells. You can use items such as games necklace to teleport to Bounty Hunter bank or Clan Wars. Ring of duelling may also be used to teleport to Fist of Guthix. As long as one is below level 20 wild or in a safe zone.


 * The first hour that the 'new' bounty hunter was released, there was a terrible bug. If you were lending something out to someone, and the person that you lent your item to died, you would lose your item. This caused some players to panic. Some of them reported lost items totaling 20M+, such as Dragon claws and an Armadyl godsword.


 * On the day of release, the wrong worlds were accidentally designated as bounty worlds. This led to people logging in to play Bounty Hunter just to find that they could not attack other people. This started a minor riot in the old bounty hunter lobby. About 10 minutes after the minor riot started there was another system update in which the bounty hunter functions were activated, and the correct worlds were designated for Bounty Hunter. Additionally, a short while later there was another system update that added more worlds for Bounty Hunter due to the large demand.