Bounty Hunter (historical)

Bounty Hunter or Pking (also known as PK or 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 is revenants in the wilderness and the ability to attack other players is no longer there. It was released on 10 December 2007.



From 27 February to May 5, players were unable to play Bounty Hunter. Jagex staff were fixing some bugs among other things, as stated on the forums and in the front news post.

On 25 March, Mod Mark posted a thread on the future updates forum stating that when bounty hunter returns, will take place across the entire wilderness and Edgeville, using the current wilderness levels to restrict what players you can attack, 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.'''

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 to enter.



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.

It is common to get a drop worth 30k+ from someone risking nothing so long as you are risking the required amount.

If another player attacks your target, and removes more than half of there health, and then the target dies, they will still remain your target, until they die after you inflicting the most hits.



Leaving
You can leave Bounty Hunter by jumping over the Wilderness ditch. If you do, you will have to wait 10 seconds until you

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.

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