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 recommended that if a player finds a bug or glitch in RuneScape, the player should report it to Jagex immediately via the "Submit a Bug Report" interface on the RuneScape main page.

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. Since Cursed You had not turned off PvP (player vs player) mode, those in the dungeon and fight arena were able to kill anyone, anywhere. The resulting PKing rampage caused many deaths, the loss of items that Jagex could not replace, 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.

Player 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 partyhats. The removal of the players meant the rare items were deleted also.

Tiny Player Glitch
In the Cold War quest if a player went up to Larry at the Ardougne Zoo and said, "It's tuxedo time," right after Larry shrank the player, they could Teleport before they put on the costume and the character would be smaller. Any armour or clothes put on the character would appear smaller on as well. The only way to change back was to have another player teleother the glitched player.

Null Familiar Glitch
One rare glitch was discovered on September 29th, 2008. If a player had a spirit spider pouch and an egg spawn scroll, they could perform this glitch. Whilst in the middle of the spirit spider's special move, if the player cut their internet and then quickly fixed it, they would receive some lag and their 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.

Partyhat 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 use of any such third party software to gain any advantage was of course against the rules of 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 partyhat, rune two-handed swords, and dragon square shields. The most expensive item, the purple partyhat, 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 partyhat. With the advent of Runescape 2, the name was changed from the generic "partyhat" that all of them carried to "purple partyhat."

Godsword Duping Glitch
Right after 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 players to lose their valuable items. Jagex moderators arrived almost immediately and banned anyone who abused the glitch.

Monster Death Glitch
This glitch often involved the deaths of monsters that were killed while fighting players, but could also happen in areas with high mortality rates, such as Castle Wars. The glitch made the monster, or player, appear in the 'prone' (dead) position (after death for monsters, randomly for ordinary players). The 'dead' monster could still move, attack, etc. from the prone position while players could train skills, etc. It had also happened a few times at Bounty Hunter. This glitch was not sighted very often though. As the bug was a client-side problem, it could not be fixed by Jagex. This Glitch also happened 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, and 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 happened after the server went down) and the game was set to 15 minutes before the server went down. This also happened if a player cut their internet, then fixed it, and logged back in.

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 18th October 2008.

Second Floor Walk on Air Glitch
In mid-2004 a glitch developed on RuneScape Classic. Players could ascend to the second floor outside of Falador castle by standing in certain spots outside the castle and clicking on 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 moving their character to the "second floor" without knowledge of how to get down.

The glitch to access 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 was playing Clan Wars, went to the north-western part of the arena, and stood on a certain spot, the player will go appear invisible. While standing in this spot players would not be able to see the player, but the "invisible" player would still appear as 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 from approximately 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. 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.

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 had the following effects:


 * Cure from poison
 * Restore some run energy
 * Boost max hitpoints by 5 if at full health.

Full Screen Glitch
On occasion when a player entered full screen in RuneScape High Detail, RuneScape would distort colors and shapes. This glitch could happen anywhere, and could also include models being spread everywhere in the gameplay window. The glitch could usually be resolved simply by clearing the cookies, temporary internet files, and browsing history, then re-opening the internet browser and going back to RuneScape.



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 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.

Ninja Glitch


The ninja glitch occurred when a player died when sneaking past the guards in Kennith's Concerns. Normally players could not 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 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 September 29, 2008.

Spellbook Gap Glitch


This glitch appeared to be a graphical glitch in all graphic types. The glitch could not be triggered; it was 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 was an unintended side effect of the October 15th updates or if this may have been a hint of a future add-on to the modern spellbook. This glitch was fixed on 16 October 2008.

Home Teleport Circle Glitch
This allowed a player to stand up and walk around with the home teleport 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.

Big Turkey Glitch


On the day the Thanksgiving event was released, when a player attempted to light a fire and clicked the Thanksgiving emote repeatedly, the turkey emote would disfunction, the graphics stretched, and then the player turn into a large turkey.

Another way of performing this glitch was to attack a monster and quickly click on the Thanksgiving emote.

Stealing Creation Glitch


If a player happened to be climbing over the stile into the waiting pen just as a game began, the player would appear in the game floating off the map to the side of the base. Players could not move if they were glitched off the map, and had to log out, or if there was another player, they could click to follow them. They would be teleported back to the arena.

Prince Outfit Glitch


This glitch was first discovered on November 15, 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 (see top of page), 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.

Weapon Change Glitch
There was a way to change other weapons' damage/style into another weapon by right clicking attack style(f1) pressing f4, and clicking the style text and weapon twice in the inventory. This was further tested with void Ranged gear, which boosted Ranged damage. When changed from Rune Crossbow with the best bolt equipped (enchanted onyx bolt) and void Ranged on player, and then doing the weapon change (for example, to Dragon Dagger(p++) the Ranged damage boost added to the weapon. The maximum hit for the Dragon Dagger(p++) was 43-43 in the Duel Arena, but 53-53 was hit with this glitch. The difference between both hits is 10 damage, which is what full range void added to the enchanted onyx bolt hit with 99 Ranged, ranging potion and the Eagle Eye prayer. Several players used this for a few hours in Bounty Hunter on the fourth day of its discovery.

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.

The Box Glitch
This glitch became possible on the release of Death to the Dorgeshuun quest on 21 June 2006. The box glitch allowed players to take the Crate with Zanik away from the farm and walk around carrying the crate. This was accomplished in a number of ways, including dropping nitroglycerin, using Lumbridge Home Teleport (or any other teleport), clicking on a skill or quest interface while walking, or by following another players with house options turned on.



Grand Exchange Friends List Bug

 * This adds random people that are in the Grand Exchange to your Friends List. If another player is talking and you click on their name it randomly adds the player to your friends list.

Flying Glitch
This glitch was done by: This glitch was fixed by Jagex on 8 Dec 2008.
 * 1) Using the Gnomecopters to go to Castle Wars.
 * 2) Turning autopilot off and HD on.
 * 3) Going to the two signs near Zamorak Castle Door.
 * 4) Clicking the one on the right.
 * 5) Clicking Next Floor.
 * 6) Clicking on the ground and quickly after that Report Abuse.
 * 7) Clicking the portal.
 * 8) Returning to Lumbridge.



Hairstyle glitch
This glitch occured when a female character would get the regular pigtails hairstyle, after the new hairstyles had been released on 9 December 2008. The player's head would then start moving back and forth when she was wearing a skillcape (if the player was NOT wearing an item in the helmet slot, otherwise the glitch would pause until that item was unequipped).

This also happens with male characters with the side-part spike hairstyle and the tattered waistcoat torso while wearing skillcapes, but any body armor, or helmets/hats, cannot be worn. This glitch was fixed on December 10, 2008.

P.O.H. bench glitch
The POH bench Glitch was a very popular glitch among many concerning Construction. In this bug, the player was able to move while standing in a bench that is "cloned" by a player. However, walking, going down dungeons and trapdoors and the like of actions happens very slowly, and it would seem as though the player teleported to said area, or otherwise "slide" quickly to it.

Doing this glitch required the player to have food in their inventory, and sit on a Dining Room bench, then right-clicking the bench and select "remove", and immediately clicking the food several times to assure that the player has eaten it. The bench turns sideways, and having a servant and Bell-pull will be convenient if the player is not the house owner and the owner is in the house in a different room. The player rings the bell, summoning the servant and bringing the player to the room that the house owner is in. The player would then move in the bench.

Lenderhosen Hat Glitch
Whilst wearing the Lenderhosen Hat and talking to an NPC, the top part of the player's head would vanish.



Open and Closed Door Glitch
Sometimes when the player opens or closes a door both will appear at the same time. The player will have both options and both doors there. Sometimes opening the door fixed it and on other times closing it would.

Walking on Ice
When walking on ice, if a player uses the Thanksgiving emote, you will be able to walk on ice. This glitch was discovered shortly after Runescape was updated. Patched as of December 16, 2008, although after this update a player could still reproduce the bug by attempting to walk on the ice, then opening an interface, such as reading a book, clicking on a skill or using his/her snowglobe from the xmas 2007 event.

Whilst walking on the ice you are unable to perform emotes, this is because of Jagex's earlier patch to prevent people using the Give Thanks emote to activate the bug.