Item glitches
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- This page pertains to Item glitches, a specific type of glitch. For glitches in general, see Glitch.
An Item Glitch is a fault in the game programming that affects an item or items in an unexpected way. Many item glitches are listed below.
NOTE: All glitches listed on this page have been fixed by Jagex. Please do not list any glitches that haven't been fixed yet.
[edit] Magic Carpet Stilts Glitch
If a player wore the Audience male shoes or the Trousers (a reward from Balthazar Beauregard's Big Top Bonanza) while riding a magic carpet, it looked like the shoes/trousers were getting pulled to the ground through the carpet. This glitch was discovered on 18 October 2008. This also happened with various other items.
[edit] Crazy Head and Crazy Hand Glitch
The Crazy head glitch was a glitch that was released with the quest Smoking Kills. If a player's character was female, had the "long" hair style, and was wearing the masked earmuffs headgear, their head would stretch all over the place when performing emotes or holding objects such as the pet rock. Some players discovered it just after the quest arrived when they performed random emotes with that combination. This glitch had been known to happen with several hair styles and head-gear combinations. This also happened if a player's character was female and was wearing Snakeskin v'braces, and did the "clap" emote. Their hands would be waving back and forth.
[edit] The Arm Glitch
This glitch would happen whenever a female were to wear snakeskin vambraces and anything with long sleeves would make this glitch more effective. Once the player would do the glitch the player's arms would stretch a little bit too far.
[edit] Guthix Rest Tea Glitch
The Guthix Rest Tea Glitch was discovered in the One Small Favour quest. This tea instantly restored 100% of your hitpoints when a player drank it. It was only supposed to boost the maximum hitpoints if a player was at full health. This glitch was abused to win duels at the Duel Arena and to PK without dying.
The glitched tea has the following effects:
[edit] Saradomin Sword Glitch
This glitch happened when a player wielded a Saradomin sword and wore a Team 23 Cape. It made the bottom of the sword connect to the cape.
[edit] Prince Outfit Glitch
This glitch was first discovered on 15 November 2008. The glitch was triggered by wearing a Prince outfit in a Player-owned house along with Boxing gloves. It seemed as though if the player dragged his or her outfit up with their boxing gloves. It was basically the same appearance as the Dorgeshuun crossbow special attack glitch, except that the prince outfit was pulled up, not the skin, and it happened on both sides.
[edit] Satchel and H.A.M. Cloak Glitch
When wearing at least a Red satchel with a H.A.M Cloak, they stretched and connected to each other.
[edit] Face Disappearance Glitch
Whilst wearing the Lederhosen Hat and talking to an NPC, the top part of the player's head would vanish. When talking with the Tyras Helm, the player would appear as if they are missing their mouth.
[edit] Stretchy Cat Face
If you have a purple wily cat (unknown if it works with other colours) and talk to it with an Amulet of Catspeak(e) (again, don't know if it works with regular catspeak amulet) the cats face appears to stretch.
[edit] Dropping A Members Object
On 16 January 2009 there was a glitch where you couldn't drop a Members Object. There were only two options to choose, use and examine. The only way to lose a Members Object that day was to get skulled and die or have an item of greater value. This glitch was fixed the next day.
[edit] Wearing Cabbage Glitch
During the 2009 April fools event, players wielding a cabbage in a crowded place (for instance the Grand Exchange or the Party Room) would appear to be wearing the cabbage instead, as the normal wield stances are changed. This occurs with all weapons when the screen changes to "low detail" when more than 50/200 people are in the game screen (depending on your display settings). This glitch is known to occur with other weapons such as kites (which appear to be strung in mid-air).
[edit] PvP Drop Potential Glitch
This Glitch happened when players summoned a Beast of Burden Summoning Familiar and stored high value items in it, after this they would log out and then log into a F2p PvP world, die 15-20 times fooling the system into thinking they died that amount of times with the value of the stored Summoning familiar's items. Players would then log into a Members PvP world and kill players, resulting in high value drops caused by the drop potential system. A player reported to have received 2 dragon full helmets, 2 fury amulets and a dragonfire shield in 15 minutes using this method. This Glitch was discovered by a player on 11 April, 2009 (Easter Saturday) and became widespread known on 12 April, 2009 (Easter Sunday). It was fixed as of 13 April. It is not yet known when it became possible to abuse this bug, though Andrew has stated that "this bug was in the game for a while before it was discovered". It is believed that 1000s of high level main accounts will be banned for bug abuse as a result, with many large player killing clans encouraging their members to abuse the glitch.
Any player attempting the glitch now can still be banned for bug abuse since they attempted to abuse a bug.
[edit] PvP Death Glitch
In some cases, when a player kills someone on PvP world in the bank, that player doesn't drop any items and is able to retrieve his items back from the floor if he gets back in time, although no gravestone appears. The cause of this glitch is unknown and thus impossible to reproduce on purpose.
[edit] Dropping 'Destroy Only' and Pets Glitch
With the update on 2 September 2009 that allowed players to drop items with their bank open, came a glitch that allowed you to drop 'Destroy only' items on the floor (such as holiday items or achievement diary rewards). This could also be done with pets, but the pet would be in item form, not an actual pet. This could also be done with barrows armour, allowing it to be dropped with out it getting broken.
These glitches were both fixed with a live update a few hours after their discovery.
[edit] Knife Bug
The Knife bug was a bug that appeared in RuneScape Classic in 2002 that allowed players to equip multiple knives (not intended to be wieldable) and have a high attack and strength bonus. The player would run, and drop a steel scimitar with a full inventory of knives. Then repeatedly click on any knife in the inventory and all but 1 of the knives would fall to the ground and one would be equipped.
To punish players, Jagex set up a script that did the following:
- Players with knives equipped while in the Wilderness died instantly upon logging on
- Players with knives equipped while outside the Wilderness simply had them disappear
- Players with knives merely in their inventory were not affected at all
When Jagex took manual action, players who PKed with the knives were permanently banned for bug abuse, while players who trained with them were temporarily banned.
[edit] Halo walk
The Easter ring glitch is a glitch consisting of walking with the Lumbridge Teleport circle, performed using an Easter ring. This may have been partially fixed by Jagex.
The way to replicate this glitch is by using the home teleport spell then as you finish drawing the circle click on the Easter ring and quickly unmorph back into a human (or click somewhere as if you were going to walk there) then walk around. This bug was partially fixed later on after the Easter event so now you only walk around temporarily with the ring around your feet (lasts for around 2.4 seconds) whereas before it was "fixed" it lasted for a good whole minute or two.
[edit] Egg emotes
Another glitch appeared after the 2008 easter event. When having the Air guitar emote, the Explore emote, the Safety first emote and a Skillcape emote you can do the emotes while in egg form. You have to click very fast to do this. The glitch has since been fixed.
How to do this:
- Put the Easter ring on the bottom of your inventory.
- Go to your emotes screen and scroll down to your skillcape emote.
- Go back to your inventory and click on the Easter ring.
- Press very fast on F11 (Emotes screen).
- Quickly click on the skillcape emote.
- See what happens!
When performing the Air Guitar emote while in egg form, you will see music notes coming out of your egg!
Using the Marionette can be done the same way as the other tricks click the Easter ring then immediately right click the puppet, as an egg you will be able to choose which way you wish to play with the puppet. When the puppet is done you will go back to normal. This has been fixed.
[edit] Invisibility Glitch
This glitch was performed while wearing clothing rewarded from Balthazar Beauregard's Big Top Bonanza. Players using this glitch could cause certain parts of their character to become invisible. To do this, players must have worn any piece of the Audience costume, then changed their gender at the Make-over mage. This glitch was fixed on 29 September 2008. If the player attempt to change his gender with the Circus clothes, the makeover mage will ask the player to remove the clothing first since it will "interfere with his/her magic". If a player were wearing the invisible clothing overnight when the glitch was fixed, the player would remain invisible. However, the top was fixed, but the legs and boots weren't. The last known pair of invisible legs was taken off 28 April, 2009.
[edit] The "Cat" Glitch
During the RuneScape 2 beta, it was possible for a player to drop items directly from the bank. This new option did not work, instead it would just stay in the bank. There were a few items affected by this however, most notably the Cat and Kitten. A player tried dropping his cat several times through the bank and had no success but, when he left the bank, he had several cats following him. Few players knew how to perform this glitch but, there were armies of kittens and cats walking all over cities for quite some time until Jagex fixed it.
| Glitches
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| General pages |
Player and NPC related • Item related • Environment related • Gallery of Glitch Images |
| Mini-game glitches | |
| Major/Famous glitches |
World 111 Glitch • Noclip Glitch • Invisible player • Party hat duplication glitch • February 2009 Crash • 9 June 2009 game engine update glitch • Penguin Hide and Seek Glitch |
