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fix(antiban): let action cooldown end when no activity is set - #2172

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Problem

In-client bug report MB-459XEK: a player running Microbot-Hub AIOCamdozPlugin 1.0.1 on client 2.6.46 reported that in Camdozaal golem mode the character wakes a golem, fights it until it dies, and then just stands there doing nothing — the script loop is alive but never starts the next fight.

Root cause

Rs2Antiban.actionCooldown() only requires usePlayStyle to be enabled — it does not require an activity to be set. The category is only assigned by setActivity(...) and is nulled again by resetAntibanSettings(), so a script can hold an active action cooldown with a null category.

While actionCooldownActive was set, AntibanPlugin.performActionBreak() called Rs2Antiban.getCategory().isBusy() unguarded on every game tick. With no category the call threw a NullPointerException before TIMEOUT-- and before actionCooldownActive = false could run, so the cooldown never ended. Scripts that early-return while actionCooldownActive is true (like the AIO Camdoz golem loop) then stopped doing anything permanently after the first cooldown triggered. The antiban overlay had the same unguarded getCategory().isBusy() call.

Change

  • Added Rs2Antiban.isCategoryBusy(): snapshots the category field and returns current != null && current.isBusy(), treating a missing category as not busy.
  • AntibanPlugin.performActionBreak() (line 153) now uses the null-safe check, so the cooldown counts down and ends even when no activity is set.
  • The antiban overlay busy check uses the null-safe helper, and the overlay's Activity/Category labels render a fallback instead of throwing when activity or category is missing.
  • Regression tests: actionCooldownWithoutActivityCountsDownAndEnds starts a cooldown with no activity (category null) and drives performActionBreak until TIMEOUT reaches 0 and actionCooldownActive flips false — the exact path that NPE-looped before the fix — and overlayRendersWithoutActivity renders the overlay with no activity set.

The client fix alone unblocks the golem loop: once the cooldown ends, the script stops early-returning.

Validation

./gradlew :client:runUnitTests --tests "net.runelite.client.plugins.microbot.util.antiban.Rs2AntibanActionCooldownTest" — BUILD SUCCESSFUL, all 5 tests passed (including the two new ones), 0 failures.

Known gaps

  • The overlay fallback for a missing activity or category renders the literal string "null", which matches the pre-existing wording in MasterPanel's sidebar but reads like developer jargon; a follow-up should render "Not set" in both places.
  • The Hub AIOCamdozScript still never calls setActivity in its antiban setup — that is an optional hardening follow-up in the Hub repo; this client fix removes the crash and the stall either way.

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performActionBreak and the antiban overlay called getCategory().isBusy()
without a null check. A script that enables play style without setting an
activity can still start an action cooldown, so the category is null and
the game tick handler threw before decrementing TIMEOUT. The cooldown never
ended and scripts that wait on actionCooldownActive stopped doing anything.

Add Rs2Antiban.isCategoryBusy() that treats a null category as not busy and
use it in both places; the overlay also shows "null" for a missing activity
or category instead of throwing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Minor Show a break only while the cooldown is active.

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- Line 519: Update the break-status display in the overlay so “Not busy anymore,
breaking” appears only when actionCooldownActive is true; do not use playStyle
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The cooldown check now uses Rs2Antiban.isCategoryBusy(), which returns false when no category is set. The overlay displays "null" when activity or category values are unset. Tests cover cooldown countdown without an activity and overlay rendering without an activity.

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The overlay may show an inaccurate antiban status after cooldown completion; this is a localized UI issue.

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if (isCategoryBusy()) {
panelComponent.getChildren().add(LineComponent.builder().left("We are busy").build());
} else {
panelComponent.getChildren().add(LineComponent.builder().left("Not busy anymore, breaking").build());

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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Show a break only while the cooldown is active.

After an activity-free cooldown ends, the overlay still displays “Not busy anymore, breaking” because playStyle remains set. Check actionCooldownActive before displaying the break status.

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Review comment at
@runelite-client/src/main/java/net/runelite/client/plugins/microbot/util/antiban/Rs2Antiban.java
at line 519:
Update the break-status display in the overlay so “Not busy anymore, breaking”
appears only when actionCooldownActive is true; do not use playStyle alone to
show the status.

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