Between July 1 and July 4, 2026, four of the best-known Old School RuneScape bot clients — PowBot, TRiBot, Storm Client and Inubot — paused sales or shut down, and a fifth, OSMB, is reported affected without an official statement. Storm Client announced it was closing permanently and its website and client went offline; the others stopped selling new subscriptions while existing users keep access for now. DreamBot, another major client, is still running, and no developer has publicly explained why any of this happened.
The changes landed inside a single week, which is what makes them stand out. Rival bot projects don’t usually stop taking money at the same time. Below is a plain timeline of what each project announced, the current status of every client, and the theory the community keeps returning to. The wording quoted below comes from community reporting — a widely-shared r/osrsAHK thread and an accompanying Medium writeup — rather than statements we obtained directly, since several of the clients’ own sites are now offline.
Timeline: July 1–4, 2026
July 1 — PowBot disables new subscriptions. PowBot was among the first to move. In a short notice, the team wrote:
As of today it is no longer possible to purchase or renew PowBot subscriptions through the website. We have taken this decision as we work through some issues. Active subscriptions will remain active until their renewal date.
The post did not say what those “issues” were.
July 1 — TRiBot pauses sales. Not long after, TRiBot posted an equally brief message:
Hey everyone, sales are unavailable right now. I’ll let you know when I have more information.
No reason was given.
July 4 — Storm Client shuts down for good. Storm made the sharpest statement of the group:
Storm is closing, effective immediately. Website and client are no longer usable.
The developer also said recent Stripe purchases would be refunded automatically. Unlike the others, Storm announced a full shutdown rather than a pause.
July 4 — Inubot pauses token sales. On the same day, Inubot told users:
Token sales have been temporarily paused due to circumstances outside our control.
Existing subscriptions stay valid until August 3 while the team decides on next steps.
That is the whole public record so far — thin, and fast-moving.
Is Storm Client down? Yes — the developer announced a permanent shutdown
Storm Client is the clearest case. As of July 4 it is closed, the website and client are offline, and the developer described the closure as immediate and permanent. Storm is also the only project to confirm refunds outright, saying recent purchases made through Stripe would be returned automatically. If you had an active Storm subscription, the software no longer runs; if you paid recently, watch the card you used for a refund rather than opening a dispute straight away.
Is PowBot down? New subscriptions are disabled
PowBot has not shut down, but you can no longer buy or renew a subscription through its site. Anyone with an active plan can keep using it until that plan reaches its renewal date, at which point it will not renew. PowBot framed the move as temporary, repeating only that it was working “through some issues,” without saying what they are or when, or whether, sales return.
Since that announcement the situation has hardened: as of July 5, powbot.org no longer resolves at all. The domain is dead, so for now there is no PowBot website to buy from, log into, or read updates on.
Is TRiBot down? Sales are paused
TRiBot, one of the oldest and most recognised names in OSRS botting, has paused sales indefinitely. The client itself was not declared dead, but no new purchases are going through and the developer has only promised an update “when I have more information.” Treat it as offline for buying purposes until TRiBot says otherwise.
As of July 5, the pause has gone further than the announcement suggested: tribot.org no longer serves its normal site at all. Visitors see a single holding page reading “Currently Unavailable — Tribot is currently unavailable. The store, downloads, and services are offline. Thank you for your support.”
Is Inubot down? Token sales are paused until further notice
Inubot has stopped selling new tokens but has not closed. Its distinguishing detail is a date: existing subscriptions remain valid until August 3, 2026. That gives current Inubot users the longest runway of any affected client, so the real test for Inubot comes in early August, when those subscriptions lapse and the project either resumes sales or does not.
As of July 5, inubot.com also shows only a holding page: “Currently Unavailable — Inubot is currently unavailable. The store, downloads, and services are offline. Thank you for your support.” Note the wording — it is almost word-for-word the same as TRiBot’s notice, a detail we come back to below.
Is OSMB down? Reported affected, no official statement
OSMB is the murkiest of the group. It has not published any announcement. Users have reported that the project appears to have been hit in the same window as the others, but there is no official confirmation of a pause, a shutdown, or a reason. What can be verified is the domain: as of July 5, osmb.co no longer resolves, so whatever happened, the website is gone. Until OSMB posts something, treat its status as unclear rather than closed.
Is DreamBot down? Is DreamBot next?
DreamBot is still online as of publication. As of July 5, dreambot.org is fully live with no shutdown notice of any kind — the site loads normally while powbot.org and osmb.co no longer resolve and tribot.org and inubot.com show holding pages. It has made no shutdown or sales-pause announcement, and its client continues to run. Naturally, the survivor question, “is DreamBot next?”, is the one the botting community keeps asking. There is no public evidence that DreamBot faces the same pressure, and no announcement from its team. For now it is the last one still standing, with no guarantee that lasts.
Why are OSRS bot clients shutting down?
Nobody outside the projects knows for certain, and it is worth saying plainly: none of the developers have publicly confirmed a reason, and Jagex has made no public statement about any new enforcement campaign. What follows is the community’s leading read of the situation, not established fact.
The strongest clue is what the announcements talk about. Almost every notice is about the business — sales disabled, subscriptions ending, token purchases stopped, refunds issued. Very few mention the things you would expect from a technical crackdown: broken scripts, failed client updates, a wave of bans, or a game update that tripped detection. When Jagex tightens bot detection, the usual pattern runs the other way: developers scramble to patch their clients while users report a wave of bans. Here, that technical scramble is mostly missing.
There is also one detail visible to anyone with a browser: the holding pages now shown on tribot.org and inubot.com use near-identical wording. Both read “The store, downloads, and services are offline. Thank you for your support.” Two competing, supposedly unrelated projects replacing their websites with the same template in the same week reads like a coordinated response — or at least a shared source for the shutdown language — though what coordinated it, and who supplied the wording, is unconfirmed.
Because the disruption is commercial rather than technical, the popular hypothesis is external pressure on the businesses themselves — legal correspondence, cease-and-desist letters, copyright or trademark complaints, or payment processors suspending merchant accounts. The heavy emphasis on payments across the announcements is part of why the payment-processor angle keeps coming up. It is a reasonable reading, but it is only a reading. The most detailed public account so far — a widely shared Medium write-up by a poster using the name NullPointer, alongside the r/osrsAHK thread tracking the same events — is careful on exactly this point: no affected developer has publicly confirmed receiving a legal notice.
There is precedent for the legal theory, on two separate occasions. In 2012, Jagex won a landmark court case against Impulse Software, the developer behind the iBot client, which was ordered to stop and to hand over its code. Then, in October 2020, the long-running RSBot and Powerbot sites shut down following legal proceedings, with the powerbot.org domain signed over to Jagex. That track record is why “Jagex applied legal pressure” is the first place the community’s mind goes. It is still a pattern-match for the July 2026 wave, not a proven cause.
FAQ
Will PowBot, TRiBot, Inubot and OSMB come back?
Unknown. PowBot, TRiBot and Inubot described their changes as pauses or temporary, and none has given a return date. Storm is the exception: it announced a permanent closure. Until each project posts an update, assume sales stay off.
Can I get a refund?
Storm Client said recent Stripe purchases would be refunded automatically. The other projects have not published detailed refund terms. If you are owed money, check the payment method you used and follow the specific client’s own announcement or support channel before filing a chargeback.
Are my existing subscriptions still working?
It depends on the client. PowBot and Inubot said active subscriptions keep running to their renewal date, with Inubot’s valid until August 3, 2026. Storm’s client is offline, so existing Storm subscriptions no longer function.
Is DreamBot shutting down too?
Not as of publication. DreamBot is still online and has made no announcement. There is no public evidence it faces the same situation, but that could change and it has not been ruled out.
Did Jagex shut these clients down?
There is no confirmation. Jagex has not announced any enforcement action, and no developer has publicly said they received a legal notice. Legal or payment pressure is the community’s leading hypothesis based on the timing and wording, not a proven fact.
This article covers Old School RuneScape and the named third-party bot clients descriptively, for news reporting. It is based on public announcements and community reporting available as of July 5, 2026, and will read as a snapshot of a fast-moving situation.
