Glitch/Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous glitches are faults in the game programming that causes the engine to work in a way other than intended.

Right click box glitch
After the RuneTek5 update, if a player right-clicked anywhere on the page, and kept walking until a new section of the map loaded, instead of the Right click box disappearing, all the options with the exception of "Cancel" were removed, but the right click box remained. This has now been fixed.

Empty box glitch
In October 2009, if a player accessed details on certain quests, such as Dragon Slayer, from the quest list, when they closed the quest details all of the quests would disappear. This glitch was fixed but seen again while Dungeoneering.

Player Moderator Forums Glitch
In 2009, a major glitch was found by a couple players that allowed them to bypass site security and gain unauthorised access to the player moderator forums on the main RuneScape site. The bug abusers, using these exploits, viewed and archived confidential moderator information discussed on the forums and used them to repeatedly harass various moderators. One of the abusers created a mirror of the information, but Jagex took down the mirror within a week.

The bug abusers who exploited this bug were already banned several times before its discovery for previous instances of bug abuse, including noclipping.

Connection Lost Error
If the player right clicks on anything and then immediately loses connection or logs out, they encounter an error in which the drop down right click box is open on the login screen and none of the other options on the login screen will be able to be used. There is no way to close the box. This can also be done by clicking logout, then very quickly right clicking anything with options. The only way to get rid of it and be able to log in again is to refresh the page or only use the keyboard to log in (press tab).

Display Name
Sometimes after losing one's connection but managing to stay logged in, the display name will temporarily change to random letters. The name is restored after typing something. This has yet to be fixed.

World 901


After the game update on 23 March 2010, a new world could be seen on the world list called 'World 901 - [RS] Demo World.' Whilst the world list claimed there were a tiny amount of players on this world, it was inaccessible by regular players. Attempting to login would prompt the message 'Malformed Login Packet. Please Try Again.' Mod Ac confirmed on the forums that it was a glitch. It was later revealed that this was the Instant Demo world, when the instant demo was released.

Barbarian Assault
A Glitch playing Barbarian Assault on wave 10, right before someone lights a fire in front of the trapdoor where the boss comes out. After the boss comes out the fires will freeze then burn out after they are done.

Log Out Glitch
After an update on 9 June 2010, the player couldn't log out of the game or to the lobby. When the player would choose the "Exit to lobby" or "Exit to Login" option, a message would appear in the right-hand corner saying "Connection lost. Attempting to Re-establish". After the message went away, it would appear as if the player had never pressed the logout button. On the same day, a few servers also went down, mainly world 70. Clicking to log out again would normally fix this problem, but not always. This glitch has since been fixed.

Amplified Head Glitch
This glitch basically amplifies any movement your head does, but your face disappears, with only your fighter hat remaining. From doing emotes to the idle animations, your head movements get amplified. To perform this glitch, you need a fighter hat, a skillcape, and you need to be a girl. This was discovered on 1 September 2010 along with the NPC and PC eye updates.

A similar glitch occurs if a male player wears a soul wars cape, a facemask, and has the long hair style. This has been fixed.

No items in bank glitch


This glitch occurs when a player right-clicks the banker and before the bank appears the player would right-click the banker again (keeping it open this time) and when the bank option appears the player selects bank banker again.

World 143 Members Glitch
Sometime around 9:00 EST on 9/7/10 at least 2 nonmembers were capable of logging into the Members world 143, and did it twice. All the benefits of being a member were capable to be exploited, as both the 2 confirmed nonmembers were able to kill unicorns and get horns. The glitch has since been fixed and the two abusers received permanent bans.

Prior to the public release of World 143 at least 6 players found their way on the server. Despite still being a private Jagex server these members were able to obtain experience. For about two weeks they were able to train in the wild, buy from shops and train wherever they wanted. The server was found when one player made a mistake in his script which was designed to automatically log him into his preferred world.

The Disappearing Text/ Map glitch
This glitch could happen randomly and makes everything text related disappear, the map disappears leaving only yellow, green, and white dots. The mini-map glitch part has definitely not yet been patched. To fix this if it should happen to you, open up the world map and close it.

Sawmill glitch
This seems to happen when you teleport out of the sawmill using a Magic tablet, this glitch has no purpose or use.

Note: If you wish to get rid of this, teleporting to your house or logging off will get rid of it.

Thessalia's Makeovers immobility glitch
On 25 August, 2010, a vast variety of clothing was introduced into the shop, which attracted a lot of players to change clothes. Most players trying to do so find them immobile and unable to teleport. Also, if an unstuck player were to follow one of the immobile players as he/she attempted to click on the map and run away, the unstuck player would run off right where the immobile player attempted to go, which doesn't seem to follow any people. The immobile players were able to escape from the bug by climbing the ladder, clicking randomly or logging out and back in. This was fixed later.

Tree 'Snow' Glitch
During November–December 2010 there was a glitch in Standard Detail where the leaves on the trees had a square that was white or another object colour other than green. This caused a number of players to think that the trees had become snowy due to the time of year and recent weather. It was however just a glitch, and only occurred on lower graphical settings.

Due to lag during teleportation, some trees may appear snow-covered briefly. This glitch is yet to be fixed.

Grand Exchange Glitch
In the Grand Exchange if you pressed buy then sell very quickly you would be able to keep the search bar up even when you close out and leave the Grand Exchange. To make it go away you would have to press enter or type and enter. You could not actually search the G.E. from any place you want because when you press enter it would go away. This Glitch has been fixed.

Talking to the dead Glitch
If a player has completed the quest While Guthix Sleeps, and wants to talk to Duradel again, although he got killed during the quest, the player can easily do so. The player, however, does require the level 50 slayer and level 100 combat. It is performed by getting a task from Mazchna (unknown if this glitch works with other masters, but they have to be a lower level master than Lapalok), and finishing it. Then, using the enchanted gem to ask Mazchna the question "How am I doing so far?". This makes Mazchna say: "Hold on while I transfer you to someone more suitable." After that, the player will talk to Duradel again, but only if that is the highest level slayer master the player can get.

Easter event 2009 Poison Glitch
During the 2009 Easter event, a glitch was discovered. It could occur if the player used a protection prayer, then changed into a rabbit and went into the hole and came back. The player would then become poisoned for some unknown reason. This also occurred on free worlds, where it's impossible to get cured from poison other than dying, waiting for the poison to wear off, or offsetting the damage with food. It is unknown how many people this happened to, but the glitch was fixed within hours of its discovery.

Easter event 2010 bonus item glitch
On the first day of the 2010 Easter event and once a player had completed the event a glitch occurred where you could find an Easter carrot in the holiday items box at Diango. This only happened on the first day of the event. Jagex resolved this glitch but players who received the carrot were able to keep it, even if they hadn't completed the 2009 Easter event.

Music Change Glitch
This glitch can be performed if you are not playing your playlist or did not manually play a song from the song list. If you teleport and lag, The name of the song previously playing changes to the new track, but the last song you were listening to still plays.

Multiple Level-up Glitch
Occasionally when you gain many levels at once, the game alerts you for having leveled up "zero levels".

Menu Logging Glitch
When a player opens a menu in the Artisans Workshop and then times out you can still access this menu whilst on the log in screen. It is unknown whether this is possible with all menus.

Double Level-Up Glitch
This commonly happens during dungeoneering when you level more than 1 level at a time. The chatbox would show the message that you level up twice. this has been fixed for the most part.

Log In Glitch
Sometimes, when a player logs in, a different area is shown on the screen rather than the place the player is actually standing. Normally occurs on server which your ping is high.

Bot-Nuke Day glitches
Another glitch includes the ground's shading to be off. This can be fixed by changing your graphical settings. Another glitch came with Bot-Nuke Day that made it impossible for players to finish the Temple of Ikov quest; it became impossible for players to insert the lever into the lever bracket. The doors at Ardougne Castle were unable to open or close, though players could go in and out. The gates to Taverley were unable to open or close, though players were able to go through them. Some players were also unable to exit Oo'glog pools. The only possible way to get out of the pools was to zoom by 207% or higher and then clicking on the edge. Another glitch was found in Falador.

Right before you enter the resource mine, the room (not the mining guild) door will be closed, players can right-click and "open" and find the door to still be closed. This usually only works on laggy servers. The player can also walk through the door and back through the door until the game has caught up with the lag. There is also a glitch where going through a door in a POH or in Dungeoneering where the camera is stilled at a different position, therefore making it impossible to move to the correct spot until the camera is changed back to the default look.

Dominion Tower music glitch
This glitch gives no advantage, currently some players (not all) cannot unlock any of the Dominion Tower musics including the lobby ones if their playlist is on.

Deathcon II Glitch
Soon after the Deathcon II quest was removed from the game, Jagex forgot to keep it in game so players could reclaim the music from the event and complete the holiday quest. Some players have claimed that this is stopping them from reclaiming their Completionist cape. However, there is a conflict with this because the Deathcon lanyard was not only an "entry ticket" to Deathcon II, but it was also a holiday event reward. Frank also cannot be found in game west of the clan citadel portal.

Right-click Menu Glitch
This glitch is preformed by clicking log-out then quickly right clicking a player or an item. The right-click menu would appear but clicking any options would not do anything. And clicking an option would not make the menu go away either.

Skill Pop-up Glitch
Sometimes (especially with Smithing) the skill pop-up circle will display half completed even if more than half remains this can be remedied by going past halfway to the next level.

Total tasks count Glitch
The Troll Warzone update introduced a new set of tasks related to Burthrope and Taverley area. Completing those tasks were counted towards the number of tasks completed by the player, but the total number of tasks remained unchanged (was 426 prior to the update). Thanks to this it was possible to complete 426 tasks and to receive a congratulations message about being a "taskmaster" without completing all the tasks. The Taskmaster emote could not be performed though. The task screen also showed more completed task than the total count (like 428 / 426). This was fixed on 2 February. Now the correct number of 482 total tasks is adjusted and also being displayed.

Chat Tricked Glitch
This glitch allowed players to bypass the chat filter. When Alt Codes were introduced to the RuneScape chat system, specific Alt Codes allowed players to bypass the chat filter. When a certain Alt Code was typed in, it would register as a space to the chat filter but would not actually put a space in between the word itself. An example would be typing "Myspace" which normally would be blocked by putting My(Alt code)Space. So the chat filter registered it as My Space but appeared as MySpace. Using this technique, a player who spaced the letters out correctly could type anything without the filters blocking it. This glitch was abused quite often during the Pay to Pk riot, mainly to insult Jagex.