Glitch/Item



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.'''

Anger Weapons Glitch
This a glitch where players can take the Anger Weapons outside of the rift from A Soul's Bane quest. However, the weapons do not hold their special abilities to hit in the thousands.

Magic Carpet Stilts Glitch
If a player wore the Audience male shoes or jeans (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.

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.

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.

Guthix Rest Tea Glitch
The Guthix Rest Tea Glitch was discovered in the One Small Favour quest. This tea instantly restored 100% of your life points when a player drank it. It was only supposed to boost the maximum life points 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 had the following effects:
 * Cure from poison
 * Restore some run energy
 * Boost max life points by 50 if at full health.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Stretchy Cat Face
If you have a purple wily cat (unknown if it works with other colours) and ask it how old it is with an Amulet of Catspeak(e) (again, do not know if it works with regular catspeak amulet) the cat's face appears to stretch.

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.



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).

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 and became widespread known on 12 April, 2009. 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.

PvP Death Glitch
In some cases, when a player kills someone on PvP world in the bank, that player does not 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.

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 without it getting broken.

These glitches were both fixed with a live update a few hours after their discovery.

This glitch also led to players obtaining multiple pet cats and multiple god capes from the mage arena activity in the wilderness.

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 equipable

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.

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.

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.



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. This glitch was left unfixed to players who never removed the clothing, some players still have parts of it equipped.

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.

Sledding Glitch
This glitch has two different forms; the invisible sled and the visible sled. A player would be seen squatting as if riding the sled from Troll Romance. Depending on what method was used, the sled may be equipped, or only the stance would show.

Floating Cannon
If you set up a dwarven multicannon on one of the corners of the outermost ring of steps on the Grand Exchange, the cannon will appear to float in midair. If a player stands under the cannon, said players head would disappear into the base of the cannon, the lower part of the player would still be visible. If the player sat (rested) under the cannon, it looks like the player is balancing the cannon on his/her head.

Eek, the Spider glitches
When selecting the play option with Eek the spider, and then clicking the Zombie Hand emote, a glitch occurred which allowed the spider to make a web in thin air while the player stood doing nothing. Also, when clicking play with Eek, then clicking on the stomp emote, your character will still be appearing to hold the web, but the web and Eek will disappear.

Another graphical glitch has been discovered in which a player uses the `Home Teleport` spell and then immediately plays with Eek, the player will play with her, but the spell will still go on, with the book floating in mid-air and the white circle appearing from no where. The player will be teleported if the spell is allowed to go on for the required amount of time without being interrupted.

Also when holding Eek and she does the random cross-over of hands, your hand may stretch. It is not really known why though.



Juggling Glitch
This glitch allowed players to spin any weapon or item that can be wielded, apart from shields. To activate the glitch, the Candy Cane from the 2009 Christmas event had to be wielded. The player could then right click on it, press F1 to switch to the inventory, and if a weapon or item was beneath the "spin Candy cane" option, the player could double click on it, causing the weapon or item to spin instead of the Candy Cane.

Many weapons spun had graphical glitches when trying to spin them. For example the crystal bow would be held with the bowstring pointing down, but then the string would fly up to the head. its now patched though so you cannot do it anymore.

Mage Arena Cape Glitch
This glitch allowed players to obtain virtually unlimited numbers of all 3 mage arena god capes. Shortly after the release of an update that allowed players to drop items directly from their bank a player discovered that if the drop option was used on certain items such as god capes or achievement diary rewards they would not be destroyed as they normally would be when dropped. The player would then drop the god capes from their bank in the mage arena cave, run to the statues and obtain whichever cape they wanted to, run back and telegrab the capes that they dropped. This was also used excessively to obtain more than one of the achievement diary rewards.

The glitch spread when several players banking at the mage arena bank noticed a player telegrabing things that they could not see off of the ground and made the connection to the mage arena capes. The glitch was abused rampantly until Jagex removed the feature that allowed players to drop items directly from their bank or inventory completely rendering the glitch impossible a few days later. All duplicated achievement diary rewards were also removed from the game in the same update. The multiple god capes were not removed from the game until the next normal weekly update by making it so that if the player wielded any of the god capes all other god capes would vanish from the game. No players are known to have been banned for abuse of this glitch.

Invisible Item Glitch
This glitch made it so that an item in a player's inventory would become invisible, meaning that a certain item in your inventory couldn't be seen but you could use it normally in every way. This meant that the item would appear as an empty spot in your inventory and you can only notice it if you scroll your mouse over it. This would happen randomly when an item was supposed to appear in your inventory (e.g. when an item was unequipped) and it would seem like the item had suddenly disappeared. This would usually happen on slow servers or after certain updates. The item would regain visibility again after clicking on it or changing the inventory screen. This scared some people into thinking that they had lost one of their items until they realised that it was there all along, which annoyed people who were doing quests at the time.

Examine glitch
If you equip an item like a longsword (examine: A razor sharp long sword.) and them immediately click a another item such as a hatchet (examine: A woodcutters hatchet.) you would be holding the hatchet and if you click examine it would say for example what the other items examine was like A razor sharp long sword.

Null item glitch
In 2009 a rare glitch occurred in where if you select an item, 'Null' appears. This is resolved by simply clicking on the item again. This glitch has not been fixed and is still seen when right clicking things while running on occasions.

However, this glitch is still possible by equipping an item and, immediately afterwards, right-clicking on the item, before selecting "Use". You can also perform this glitch by dragging an item in between two item areas in the inventory and then quickly clicking use. You can also click drop item, and quickly before it disappear from your inventory right click on it. Simply click "use". Then right click on any item and you will see [Null ->Item]

This has also been seen when eating a banana and quickly right clicking and using it on another banana. Or when sacrificing bones at a gilded altar you can choose 'sacrifice-all' then right-click a pair of bones, after they are sacrificed try to use them at anything.

Fluffy the Squirrel glitch
On the first day of the Easter event, 29 March 2010, players exiting the Rabbit's hole would put on the squirrel ears and summon their squirrel. But on that day a glitch was discovered in which players could kill other fluffy the squirrels using magic and range. After the squirrel was killed if you tried to re-summon the squirrel a message would appear requiring you to wait 30 minutes before re-summoning the squirrel This glitch was discovered and abused by many players throughout RuneScape. The next day the bug was fixed.

Anonymous message glitch
This glitch consists in nothing sending a random word to a player and looks like this "From : Cabbage" players could not add it by right clicking the name. It is an extremely rare glitch and appears randomly. No one knows how to perform it.

Monkey Greegree Fairy ring glitch
This glitch streches the body. It is performed by using any type of monkey greegree after exiting the fairy ring in the Ardougne zoo's unicorn pen. The code is BIS, which brings you into the zoo's unicorn pen. It is a harmless glitch which doesn't effect anyone in any way, including yourself, except for the fact that it stretches your skin. The glitch is stopped by equipping anything in place of the greegree or unequipping the greegree. It is yet to be fixed by Jagex.

Poison Protection glitch
This glitch involved dying of poison on a bounty world when you were not automatically skulled, when you appeared at Edgeville you would have all of your items in your inventory. This glitch was fairly unknown and was patched shortly after its discovery.

Abyssal Whip with skirt glitch
This glitch involves having one of the skirt types as your basic leggings and weilding an abyssal whip. This causes your skirt to stretch with your whip. NOTE: This glitch only works if you are wearing nothing in your leg slot and have a skirt as your normal legs.