[cuppajava]

Preamble:
A number of people have asked me for tips when running Cuppa GuardiansOfTheRift, which is understandable as the minigame has a number of different playstyles, and the features/options of the bot have become a bit bloated. I'll try to keep this concise.


Settings Screenshot: (currently, this might be outdated in the future if I forget to update it)

General Tips & Notes:

• use essence pouches if you have them, and select repairing them with lunars if available or pearls otherwise
• the more quest altars you have unlocked, the more experience & GP you get. Blood, Death, Law & Cosmic altars all help
• combination runes also help with both xp and GP
• 56 agility helps a lot, for the increased mining speed of the eastern mine
• for spells like NPC Contact, Magic Imbue, the bot can use all staves (including combination staves), Tome of Fire/Water, runes in a Rune pouch, all combo runes, etc
  • note: when crafting combination runes, you need the actual secondary rune in your inventory. Eg for Mist runes at the Air Altar, you need water runes in your inventory

Recommended Settings/Info on Settings:
In short, the default settings are fine if you're on a newer account without lunars or pouches, and you just want some runecrafting levels over the long term.

But to break down the settings more, in order of appearance.

• Break handler/Random AFK handler: standard "humanization" logic, to break up constant playing. Recommended to have this enabled, and a rule of thumb for values is to emulate how you think a real player might act.
• Stop bot timer: useful to stop the bot after some time if you want to walk away from your PC
• Priority presets/autobalance: I pretty much always use autobalance. You can set a custom preference if you want a lot more of some runes.
  • The way autobalance works is, if you have a lot more catalytic or elemental runes, it'll (progressively) favor the other, while still keeping logical preferences (eg. won't ever prioritize Air runes over Blood runes, obviously).
  • A spread of 0-20 point difference between Catalytic/Elemental is fine and normal, and shouldn't get larger than 20 over time.
  • The bot autobalances better over longer runtimes.
• Repair ess pouches using NPC contact: recommended over using pearls if you have lunars unlocked & 67 magic. Bot will use NPC contact runes if in pouch, or will bank to get them.
• Repair ess pouches using abyssal pearls with Cordelia: a good option to repair pouches on accounts without lunars.
• Never use cells at all: recommended to keep unchecked meaning it will use cells. Using cells seems to provide more points and xp, slightly.
• Never assemble guardians: recommended to keep unchecked meaning it will assemble guardians. Assembling seems to provide more points and xp, slightly, unless your team is constantly at full guardians.
• Drop runes: a comma separated list of runes to drop (mostly useful on UIM)
• Craft combination runes: requires lunars, 82 magic, a lot of binding necklaces in the bank, and lots of runes to combine with
  • to balance profit and xp, I set this to (Mist, Steam, Mud, Steam) for (Air, Water, Earth, Fire altars). That way you only need to keep Water & Fire runes in your inventory, and cosmics (in your Rune pouch or inventory), all of which are used for imbues.
  • if you run out of secondary runes to combine with, the bot will continue without making those combo runes
  • if you run out of magic imbue runes, the bot will continue without making any combo runes
  • if you run out of binding necklaces, the bot will stop
• World hopping: recommended to keep enabled.
  • The worlds in the list by default often have players during peak times, but might not off-peak (but that's fine as the bot will just hop again)
  • Bot will automatically check a few worlds and remember which was best/closest to outlined numbers

Example Inventory Setups:
Note, it's recommended to wear (if unlocked):

• Raiments of the Eye (for more runes)
• Varrock Armor 3 or 4 (for quicker mining)

Baseline setup required for GotR:

• Best pickaxe available (in inventory or equipment)
• Chisel (if assembling guardians)

Using pouches, without lunars/NPC contact:

• Best pickaxe
• Chisel (if assembling guardians)
  
• All pouches you can use
• (in inventory) Abyssal pearls (and "Repair ess pouches using abyssal pearls with Cordelia" selected)

Using pouches, WITH lunars & NPC contact:

• Best pickaxe
• Chisel (if assembling guardians)
  
• All pouches you can use
• (in bank) NPC contact runes OR (in Rune pouch) NPC contact runes

Using pouches, NPC contact & Magic Imbue/Combo Runes:
What I do here is set the bot to create Mist, Steam, Mud, Steam runes at the Air, Water, Earth, Fire altars. Then I keep Astrals/Cosmics/Air runes in a rune pouch (for NPC contact and the cosmic for imbue), and Water & Fire runes in the inventory (for secondary to combo runes & imbue).

• Best pickaxe
• Chisel (if assembling guardians)
  
• All pouches you can use
• Runes for Magic Imbue in inv or Rune pouch (staves/tomes also work)
• Secondary Runes for whichever runes you want to create (eg if making Steam Runes at Air altar, you need Fire runes in your inventory)
• (in bank) NPC contact runes OR (in Rune pouch) NPC contact runes
• (in bank) lots of Binding necklaces

Post-amble:
Hopefully this helped at all. If you're still confused you can still come ask questions on the Cuppa Bots discord (link in my forum signature).