This year the summer was extremely hot in the northern hemisphere. So much so, that it actually became the hottest summer to date OSRS Gold For Old School RuneScape players, the summer in 2018 was hot on both worlds: Earth and Gielinor.

July 12th, 2018 is immortalized in the dusty archives of OSRS history. A day that began like every other suddenly became one filled with shock, astonishment, and bans. That day a new update for the thieving skill went live. Everything was proceeding as usual, Jagex released an update log, players were getting on with their activities, whether it was skilling, PvMing or PvPing. Now, the latter here played the most important role.

After the update went live, nobody noticed anything different for some time, some people didn’t notice anything at all and only read about it on OSRS page or heard from friends later. Everything happened so suddenly many players were left wondering why they can’t log into the game. PvPers were the first ones to catch on. A popular streamer Purpp was streaming his PKing adventures live when suddenly he looted his victim’s corpse to find a whopping 2147M gold on it!

Players quickly caught on and realized this was a bug. Everyone acted according to their conscience: some players went straight to Jagex to report the issue, some went on a hunt for more gold and others used this opportunity to get themselves virtually free bonds. Of course, all who abuse a bug eventually get banned and this case was no exception. A better way to become an OSRS billionaire is to simply buy OSRS gold, rather than abuse a bug.

As we’ve mentioned earlier cheap RuneScape gold the bug was introduced with an update that included changes to thieving. It was supposed to be that when robbing NPCs, players get coin pouches instead of actual coins and they had to open them to get the coins. It worked perfectly during testing, hence the reason the bug was missed. Only these pouches were tested, but because of a mistake in the code, this new mechanic was triggered by other items. Although, Jagex themselves avoided to state what it was exactly, from all the information there is on the topic it can be assumed that it affected stackable items, such as runes and arrows. This particular update was targeting bots and gold farmers, however, by accident it became a test both for players and Jagex themselves.