Golden cracker

Golden cracker
Detailed
Release	20 December 2010 (Update)
Members	No
Members	No
Quest item	No
Quest item	No
Tradeable	No
Tradeable	No
Equipable	No
Equipable	No
Stackable	No
Stackable	No
Disassembly	Unknown
Disassembly	Unknown
Value	1 coin
Value	1 coin
Alchemy	Not alchemisable
Alchemy	Not alchemisable
Destroy	You can get another one by speaking to Diango in Draynor
On death	Unknown
On death	Unknown
On death	Unknown
Exchange	Not sold
Weight	0.2 kg
Examine	A cracker to commemorate the winning of the Golden Joystick.

The Golden cracker is an Item which celebrates Jagex's win in the Golden Joystick Awards. On login, players received a message in their chatbox: 'We have given you a golden cracker in your bank to celebrate our Golden Joystick win! Use it on another player to open it.' If one's bank is full, the item can be given to him by Diango upon talking to him. If a player loses the cracker via dying, Alchemy, or by simply destroying it, it can be reobtained by speaking with Diango.

Once a player uses it on another player, they receive a Golden hammer. This is a "fun" item, which appears as a Golden hammer wielded in both hands, like a small Granite Maul. If the hammer is misplaced somehow, one can obtain a replacement cracker (not the hammer itself) from Diango once again in order to obtain a new hammer.

When someone pulls a cracker on another player, the second will receive a message saying "You pull a golden cracker, and (name of first player) receives the prize!"

The Golden Hammer, however, has no positive Attack, Strength, or Defence stats. Two options are available once equipped, each one for a different year that Jagex won the award: Brandish (2009)-Your character flips the hammer and catches it- and Spin(2010)-Your character starts to spin the hammer around for a short time.

The Hammer can be retrieved (from the cracker) an unlimited number of times by any user. Even new accounts have access to the hammer. It is unknown whether the event will be removed until next year, or if it will remain as a permanent reward for all RuneScape players to enjoy.

Golden hammer

Main article: Golden hammer

Although the golden hammer was intended as a fun item, it serves as a multi-purpose item by having many of the same functions as a normal hammer. The golden hammer can be used for skills, such as smithing or construction, which would ordinarily use a hammer, but since it can be wielded, it was popular to use when training these skills to save an inventory space. Since the release of the toolbelt its use has diminished, as a normal hammer can be stored in the toolbelt.

Two players using a Golden cracker.

Trivia

• It is sometimes used for a prank for rich players by showing a player a christmas cracker first in a trade and then use the golden cracker on the player, making them believe that the rich player pulled the christmas cracker.  

         There is a glitch, player wo didn't logged in at December 2010 still receive the cracker from Django.