PK bots of the wilderness

Even at low population you'll always find a fight. PK bots are fake players - real gear, real stats, real combat brains (they eat, pot, switch and spec) - that roam the wilderness. They live only in PvP zones: step across the wilderness line and you're hunted; stay in a safe town and they can't touch you. The exception: the safe Bandit Hideout camp below, where a warband deliberately fights on reclaim-safe ground so new players can learn PvP cheaply.

Deeper is deadlier

A bot's gear and level are decided by the wilderness level where it spawned - the same number you see on your screen. The edge is a training ground; the deep wild is the real thing:

Past level 10 the styles are mixed and random: you might meet a pure, a zerker, a maxed main or a full NH bridder. They run real archetypes - AGS→gmaul spec rotations, Ice Barrage freezes, Blood Barrage heals, Dharok's low-HP gambles, claw-spec KOs, Statius warhammer crushes. (No bot carries a Voidwaker.) The shallow wilderness, by contrast, is safe to cut your teeth on.

The organized camps

On top of the roamers, the Rogue Knights hold five organized camps by level band, with the named Rogue Knight bosses stationed at each: the Bandit Hideout west of Lumbridge (safe - a bronze/iron/steel warband), the Siege of Port Sarim (safe - the rogues raid the dock garrison in waves; help the Knights of Lumbridge turn the tide), Fallen Varrock, the deep-wild Wild Bandit Camp (maxers + Ancient Warrior builds) and the Rogue Commander's Redoubt (the elite guard). The two low camps are where you learn: die there and your gear waits in a reclaim pile instead of feeding a PKer.

Fallen Varrock - the rogues' den

Fallen Varrock is the loot hub of the realm, and the PKers know it. On top of the usual wilderness wanderers, a dedicated pack of bots prowls the city streets (budget-to-mid PK sets at Varrock's depth). Between them, the street monsters and other players, banking your loot there is never a formality.

The Lumbridge goblin camp

There's one bot that breaks the wilderness-only rule. A lone, genuinely weak Bandit in full bronze (around combat 6) prowls the goblin camp east of Lumbridge, where a handful of Knights of Lumbridge are locked in an endless brawl with the camp goblins. Unlike the wilderness bots, this one will ambush you on safe ground - a first taste of PvP for new players who've never crossed the line. It's a single, weak bot: kill it for its (bronze) kit, or leave it to the knights. The whole scene only appears while a player is nearby.

What they're worth

• Kill a bot and it drops its entire equipped kit. In the wilderness that seals into a loot key for you, same as a player kill.
• PK-set loot pools: every kill also rolls that band's rare table, built around real PK builds so farming a band assembles a recognisable set - starter metal upgrades → pure/zerker kits (fighter torso, berserker helm, rune defender) → the hybrid kit (abyssal whip, helm of neitiznot, barrows pieces, staff of the dead) → the maxer kit (Bandos, dragon claws, DWH, elder maul) → the elite NH kit (ancestral, Masori, Kodai, avernic, Armadyl godsword, even a Voidwaker at long odds) - plus a revenant-weapon trickle from the deep wild. Rolled loot joins the kit in your loot key.
• The named Rogue Knights drop their own signature tables at far better rates - they're the efficient chase; the roamers are the ambient one.
• Bots don't pay Blood Money and don't count toward your PK stats or Elo - they're loot and practice, not ladder points.
• They fight back properly, chase hard, and killing you destroys your loot keys like any other death.

Safe zones are absolute for the wilderness bots: they never muster, roam or chase onto a safe tile - banks inside the wilderness (including the Varrock bank pockets and the raid-city banks) are protected ground. The deliberate exceptions are the lone Lumbridge goblin-camp ambusher above and the safe Bandit Hideout camp, where the warband fights on reclaim-safe ground by design.