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 username to appear as "null" immediately after login; another hard-to-find, yet serious bug allowed players to kill other players outside of the Wilderness.

Abuse of such glitches, such as during the World 111 Glitch (which allowed players to attack other players outside of the Wilderness), is a severe offence which is punishable by a permanent ban under Rule 4 of the Code of Conduct.

Jagex recommends that if a player finds a bug or glitch in RuneScape that they should report it to Jagex immediately, by the "Submit a Bug Report" screen on the RuneScape main site.

Famous Bugs/Glitches
'''Note: All glitches listed on this page have been fixed by Jagex. Please do not list any glitches that haven't been fixed yet.'''

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 occurred). On the day of 6 June 2006 (or 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. Although the owner of the house was not banned for the massacre, he was banned for real-world trading later on.

Moderators tried to tell people to bank their items and 'glory' teleport but they were barely seen amongst the mass amount of followers.

This bug remained on RuneScape for about an hour and was fixed immediately after it became known to Jagex. The repercussions of this glitch are still being felt today, as some of those banned and/or killed owned rare items such as party hats. The removal of the players meant the rare items were deleted also.

Tiny Player Glitch
In the Cold War quest if you go up to Larry at the Ardougne Zoo and say its tuxedo time, right after Larry shrinks you Teleport before you're put in the costume and your charecter will be smaller. Any armor or cloths put on you will apear smaller on you. The only way to change back is to have anouther player teleother you.

Null familiar glitch
One rare glitch was discovered on September 29th, 2008. If you had a spirit spider pouch, and an egg spawn scroll, you could perform this glitch. While in the middle of the spirit spider's special move, if you cut your internet, then quickly fixed it, you would get some lag, and your summoning interface would say "Null". The picture of the familiar would be a woman with long brown hair. This would disappear after a second. This glitch was fixed on October 2nd, 2008.

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. Please note that the use of any such third party software to gain any advantage is against the rules in Runescape.

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 a cracker with a preset 'toy' of a purple party hat, rune two-handed swords, and dragon square shields. The most expensive item, the purple party hat, was created most amongst them. That day, though, one of these people revealed that the glitch existed.

Because of all of the purple party hats created, Jagex was not able to find all of the offenders, thus it became the least expensive party hat. With the advent of Runescape 2, the name was changed from the generic "party hat" that all of them carried to "purple party hat."

Godsword Duping Glitch
On the release of Item Lending, a player was able to lend a Godsword to another player and have that player dismantle it and log out. The lender would then have the Godsword returned to he or she and the player who dismantled the Godsword would still have the dismantled parts. This was fixed approximately an hour after it was discovered.

Fight Pits Player Killing Glitch
During the first few hours after the new TzHaar look was released, while playing the TzHaar Fight Pit mini-game, players were able to attack other players who were waiting in the waiting room with magic or ranged attacks over the red barrier. This caused several people to lose their valuable items. Jagex moderators arrived almost immediately and banned anyone who abused the glitch.

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. It has also happened a few times at bounty hunter. Not very often you will see it there though. As the bug is a client-side problem, it cannot be fixed by Jagex.

This Glitch also sometimes happens in the Fist of Guthix minigame.

Lean Glitch
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.

Magic Carpet Glitch
A glitch appeared after the server went down. Because the player happened to be flying on Ali Morrisane's flying carpet as the server went down, the magic carpet ended up stuck around the player's waist. This was caused by the server rollback (which happens after servers go down) and the game is set to 15 minutes before the server went down. This also happened if you cut your internet, then fixed it, and logged back in.

Second floor walk on air glitch
In mid-2004 a glitch developed on RuneScape Classic where players could ascend to the second floor outside of Falador castle by standing in certain spots outside the castle and clicking a ladder inside the castle. The player would then be standing on the empty blackness outside the walls of the second floor of the castle, and could not come down. Players could walk to outside most of the areas of the free world from this point, although there were all kinds of invisible obstructions to movement in the empty space. Eventually a ladder was placed in the empty space above Varrock which allowed a player to choose to climb down to the normal play area. It is unknown if there were other areas to affect the glitch allowing to go to the "second floor" in the member's area. Many players lost accounts by getting their character to the "second floor" without knowledge of how to get down.

The glitch to get to the "upper area" was fixed after about a week, and all characters were teleported to Lumbridge on the release of RuneScape 2.

Varrock Bank Glitch
The evening before the Grand Exchange was installed, a player was casting alchemy on items in Varrock's West Bank when he received the mime random event. Rather than complete it, he logged out. Between the time he logged out and the time he next logged in, the Grand Exchange was added. Along with this change, Varrock's western bank underwent a major upgrade, where it was expanded, given bank booths on both sides and having its parameters shifted considerably. When the player next logged in he finished his random event and was returned to the exact same spot he was before - which now happened to be a spot behind the bank counter.

Rabbit Hole Glitch
When a player is playing Clan Wars, and goes to the North-Western part of the arena, and stands on a certain spot, the player will go under the ground. While doing this, players can't see you on the ground, but they could see a white dot on the mini map.

Fist of Guthix minigame Glitch
This glitch occurred on the day of release for the Fist of Guthix minigame. There were many people in the same location which caused the engine to lag and players to appear outside the entry hall's walls. Another glitch, recently fixed, instantly logged players out when they walked into a house.

Falador West Bank glitch
This glitch occurred sometime from 10 April to 15 April 2008. Players could see three gaps in the roof line and the floor inside the bank was significantly lowered. 

Crazy head and crazy hand glitch
The Crazy head glitch was a glitch that was released with the quest Smoking Kills, where if you were a female player, had the "long" hair style, and were wearing the masked earmuffs headgear, your head would stretch all over the place when performing emotes or holding objects such as the pet rock. Some players found it just after the quest arrived when they did random emotes with that combination. This glitch has been known to happen with several hair styles and head-gear combinations. This also happened if you were a female player with a Snakeskin v'braces, and did the "clap" emote. Your hands would be waving back and forth. This glitch has been fixed.

Guthix Rest tea glitch
The Guthix Rest Tea Glitch was found in the One Small Favour quest. It was unintended that this tea instantly restored 100% of your hitpoints when you drink it. It was only supposed to boost the maximum hitpoints if you are at full health. This glitch was abused to win duels at the duel arena and to PK without dying. It was later fixed and the effects were changed to
 * Cure from poison
 * Restore some run energy
 * Boost max hitpoints by 5 if at full health.

Full screen glitch
On occasion, when a player enters full screen in RuneScape high detail, RuneScape will glitch out, distorting colors and shapes. This glitch can happen anywhere, and can also include of models being spread everywhere in the game-play window. It glitch can usually be resolved simply by clearing your cookies, temporary internet files, and browsing history, then re-opening your browser and going to RuneScape again.

Tower of Life Glitch
Upon the release of Tower of Life it was possible to attack other players with spells in the basement of the Tower of Life. Few people died, and the glitch was promptly fixed. Jagex commented, saying that it was caused due to the Tower of Life's basement being located directly below the Wilderness.

Saradomin sword glitch
This glitch happens when a player wields a Saradomin sword and wears team cape 23. It makes the bottom of the sword connect to the cape.

Ninja glitch
The Ninja glitch occured when a player died when sneaking past the guards in Kennith's Concerns. Normally players cannot die during this part of Kennith's Concerns, but some players were able to kill themselves using Nitroglycerin, which allowed them to go anywhere in RuneScape in this position. Though it was originally thought of as harmless to the gameplay of other players, it was quickly discovered that it could be used to safe-guard items that would normally be dropped upon death since dying after using this glitch would return you to the entrance of the Rubinium mines with all of your items still intact instead of the normal death sequence. Some dishonest players took advantage of this by using the glitch to safe-guard their items in the Bounty Hunter minigame, thereby removing the risk of losing one's items to another player killer. This glitch was fixed shortly after the release of the RuneScape HD graphics.

Invisibility glitch
This glitch is performed when wearing clothing rewarded from Balthazar Beauregard's Big Top Bonanza. Players using this glitch can make certain parts of their character invisible. To do this, players must wear any piece of the Audience costume, then change their gender at the Make-over mage. This glitch was fixed on September 29, 2008.

Spellbook gap glitch


This glitch appears to be a graphical glitch in all graphic types. The glitch cannot be triggered; it is a graphical glitch in the normal spellbook that causes it to appear to have an empty spell slot in between the spells Earth strike and Weaken. It is unknown as to if this is an unintended side effect of the October 15th updates or if this may be a hint at a future add-on to the modern spellbook. This glitch was fixed on 16 October 2008.

Home teleport circle glitch
This glitch made it so that when a player used home teleport and had finished drawing the chalk circle around themselves, they were able to get up and start walking around with the chalk circle around them for about 5 seconds after performing the spell. This was done by using the Easter ring to transform into the egg right after the circle was drawn, then walking around. It was fixed after RuneScape's new graphics were installed.

Stealing Creation Glitch
If a player happens to be climbing over the stile into the waiting pen just as a game begins, the player will appear in the game floating off the map to the side of the base. Players cannot move if they are glitched off the map, and must log out.

Prince outfit glitch
This glitch was first found on November 15, 2008. The glitch is created by wearing a Prince outfit in a Player-owned house at the same time with Boxing gloves. It seems as if the player drags his outfit up with his boxing gloves. It basically the same thing as the Dorgeshuun crossbow special move glitch (see top of page) just that the prince outfit is pulled up, not the skin, and it happens on both sides.