Glitch

A Glitch (also known as a bug) is a fault in a runtime (program) that causes the game to function improperly. The severity of glitches can vary. One glitch caused a player's name to appear as "null" immediately after login; another hard-to-find, yet serious bug allowed players to PK outside the wilderness. Abuse of such glitches, such as during the World 111 glitch (PK outside wilderness), is a severe offence which is bannable under Rule 4 of the Code of Conduct.

Jagex recommends that if a player, or some else, finds a bug or glitch in RuneScape that they should report it to Jagex immediately, via the Report a Bug screen on the Main Page of RuneScape.

World 111 Glitch
One infamous example of bug abuse was the World 111 Glitch - also called the World 111 Massacre or the Falador Massacre (after where the glitch occured). On the day of 06/06/06, oddly enough, a player named "Cursed You" held a party at his house celebrating level 99 Construction, and eventually expelled all the guests. Those in the dungeon and fight arena were able to kill anyone, anywhere. The resulting PK rampage caused many deaths and the permanent banning of most participants.

This bug remained on runescape for about an hour and was fixed immediately after it became known to Jagex. The repurcussions of this glitch are still being felt today, as some of those banned owned rare items such as party hats. The removal of the players meant the rare items were deleted also. This has affected the street price of said items, causing their value to skyrocket.

Monster Death Glitch
This glitch often involves the deaths of monsters, killed while fighting the player, but can also happen in areas with high mortality rates such as Castle Wars. The glitch makes the monster, or player, appear in the 'prone' dead position (after death for monsters, randomly for ordinary players). The 'dead' monster can still move, attack etc from the prone position while players can use skills etc. As the bug is a client-side problem, it cannot be fixed by Jagex.

Granite Maul Special Attack Glitch
All members players wielding a Granite Maul gained the ability to use an infinite number of special attacks for that weapon. A video of a player using this glitch can be seen here: The bug has since been fixed by Jagex.

Party hat duplication glitch
The glitch was not an attempt to duplicate items. A player named SixFeetUnder had been experimenting with RuneScape by using a third-party program called Auto-rune in an attempt to simply trade the scythe. Although the player never managed to trade the scythe, he did discover how to create any non-stackable item. Therefore, the glitch did not duplicate existing items but instead created new ones.

The glitch was performed by trading with a player, and then using AutoRune to enter the numerical value that corresponded with a certain non-stackable item to have an item pop up and be traded to the other person. For example, the number for the Rune 2-handed sword was 81, so that value would be entered into AutoRune and the player who was trading with the one using AutoRune would be able to receive that item.

In his excitement, the experimenter revealed to very few people how to execute the glitch. These players then duplicated several items, the most expensive at the time: specifically party hats, rune two-handed swords, and dragon square shields. The most expensive item, the pink party hat, was created most amongst them. That day, though, one of these people revealed that the glitch existed.

Lean Bug
The Lean bug caused players to lean in an unusual way. Players could move around without any walking/running animations as if they were hovering over the ground. This was caused first by leaning on the wall in the Duel Arena to spectate. Players then challenged other players in the Duel Arena while still leaning on the wall, the player leaning would get stuck in the leaning position. After the Duel, the player would continue to be leaning outside the Arena. Although this graphic glitch did not hinder the gameplay, it was found to be a humourous and harmless glitch. But still a glitch nonetheless, so it has been fixed by Jagex and will no longer work.

Ali Morrisans flying carpet
A glitch from after the server went down a player had a magic carpet stuck around her waist. This was caused by the rollback which happens after servers go down and the player is sent back 15 minutes into the past. Just before the rollback she happened to be flying on Ali Morrisans flying carpet.

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Boxes
Some people in World 2 glitched a quest and got boxes out of the game. Some names were Ye Its A Box, E L M Os Box, The Box Noob, and many more. The boxes looked like this http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s131/Blahftw0o/ELMOsBox-1.jpg

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