Jagex Accidentally Gave Everyone RuneScape’s Best Item

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For one day in Old School RuneScape’s history, you could get the best weapon in the game for free. This weapon was worth nearly 1.2 billion gold, and you were able to pick one up every 60 seconds. How did this happen and who at Jagex was responsible? This is the story of The Twisted Bow Glitch.
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[@tomispandacuddle]

im never lucky

[@Hananniee]

I always loved that jagex’s response was fuck, how do we fix this, I don’t know add a tree, didn’t work, ah more trees

[@julianrogers8608]

Go away groomer

[@jakielou1884]

Also ban everyone who looks in its direction 😂

[@OhgeesyRuntz]

Im a developer And if i was to go off a limb here, the hotfix was simply to quickly stop more tbows from coming into the game until they figure out what was causing the bug. The Codebase for runescape is very very big and pinpointing the exact lines of code causing this bug takes time

[@larsthedude1984]

Debugging is legit hard, and harder when you’re shitting yourself in panic.

[@julianrogers8608]

@@Hananniee go away groomer

[@Godzeller3143]

Hahaha hearing that this is what broke Mod Ash and caused him to swear is oddly endearing.

[@NobleKorhedron]

Why's that; does Mod. Ash hardly ever swear...? 🤔

[@navnoot]

@@NobleKorhedron "Matt says that this was the first and only time he ever heard Mod Ash swear" 7:17

[@skaynne54]

It's really funny that, of all things who broke him, it was this, and not the Falador Massacre

[@skaynne54]

​@@navnootHe's probably a gentleman who doesn't swear at work and probably swear very little in his everyday life.

[@YoungLiam74]

Haha i love the ending with the JMods trolling the community. telling them not to go over there knowing full well those little fuckers wouldn't listen LOL

[@jason200912]

I'm surprised they didn't ban everyone a 2nd time

[@ExelArts]

banning players for a glitch caused by jagex is bs

[@TheBlaster069]

But those who exploited it should

[@cesarpompa1045]

Those players sold the TBow and then sold the Gps so NO NOT BULLSHIT hahaha

[@investmentmoneymaker5480]

Its in the rules they broke it

[@bjorns.9887]

Eh, no. They exploited it.

[@ExelArts]

@@bjorns.9887 they need to do better. It was jegaxs mistake screw jagex

[@AL-ri6bk]

wtfffffs

[@TundrousOfficial]

Actually you're wrong about one thing - there HAS been previous errors with the map editor, aka the tree behind the yanille smith that stopped the clue spot being diggable, resulting in the tree being changed to a dead tree as a lil reference.

[@ColonelloRS]

Very good point! I forgot about that one

[@TundrousOfficial]

@@ColonelloRS Maybe a lil easter egg/fun fact for a future vid

[@nerdicusdorkum2923]

'This is something you should never ever do.' Proceeds to do it. The reason of why you should never ever do it happens. I swear that that this could be the plot of a comedy skit. XD

[@mrvini1998]

Honestly this is a great way of teaching. When I was being trained at my job the instructors mostly told us and allowed us to do most things that are forbidden because it's a controlled environment and we have to know what can happen.

[@Shortdood]

i remember seeing that clip of West adding the tbow spawns posted on reddit, people in the comments were saying that ''this isnt proof this is how it happened'' hahahah the mental gymnastics of course it was him we have video evidence of him doing that exact thing

[@Plu7ology]

@@mrvini1998no wonder I woke up with half a working liver instead of a new one.

[@SidMajors]

I once said something similar when drunk on a bicycle.. whiich ended with my face on the ground ofcourse 😅😅

[@profwoland8942]

11:02 Excuse me? Edited by who now?

[@FartShartly]

[@YouFellForTheBait]

Just some Pet hunter who has a closet shrine of Jad 😎

[@kurtasee2314]

Wait till it fully gets put that j mods are running their own bots farming gp tonbuy bonds making the bond price go up to make the company more money and meet sales quotas for bonuses every month

[@sbrideau2000]

Watching this vid while at the farming guild, I never noticed that twisted bush but now I see it.

[@spiritofnex]

I remember hearing from Aaron that he went to pvp worlds in max gear and pked people who were grabbing them when they spawned there. He knew that Jagex was going to rollback the servers due to how bad this bug was, so he got to have some fun. Really takes me back.

[@AnonYmxx]

RIP golybuyers haha. Imagine someone buying gold and after the rollback all the gold is gone lol

[@BWoodRap]

Lmaoooo I never thought about this before that's fucking hilarious

[@nicholaslogan6840]

I would expect gold sites do a lot of repeat business (therefore some amount of customer service) and have way more gold than they can sell, I think they would probably be able to get it back in a lot of situations unfortunately

[@no_mnom]

But this was the opposite! People sold multiple bows obtained through this and got away. I remember the screenshots 😂

[@nicholaslogan6840]

@@no_mnom Damn I was too high to think about people buying the bows, that's some quintessential runescape shenanigans

[@jurgnobs1308]

then again, imagine someone selling gold and it getting rolled back (most gold sellers probably just guve the gold again after the roll back)

[@Soren_Pedersen]

I seem to remember that if you had a offer in for a T-Bow at like 50 mil before the update and it got completed without you login in between the update and the rollback, you would get to keep the T-Bow purchased for 50 mil.

[@TheeLyonsDen]

Wait... Are tree trunks secretly powerful Anti-Magic Wards, capable of stopping Tele-Grab? Whoever is in charge of security at the Varrock west bank, I'm about to save you aloooot of money.

[@AkaUforia]

Rest in peace to my poor baby mole pet. Got spooned for a 2kc drop on him, and then he got rewound out of existence from this rollback. Undone but not forgotten.

[@ElSuperNova23]

I remember this one vividly as I was already at the Farming guild when the update hit.

[@LaVieBAOIM]

Can they give me a hug next? I'm going pretty dry on this slayer grind..

[@TheAverageGamer1]

99 slayer still hunting the imbued heart

[@TheShaKuh]

3k gorillas no zenyte, at this point im expecting slayer 99 first lol

[@nofluffagain]

​@@TheAverageGamer1I'm at 35m exp with 500+ superiors

[@TheBourbonWrench]

Imagine being a random kid who just got off the bus, so excited to play RS again, walking by and finding a tbow, only to be banned because of someone else’s negligence.

[@lampisfun1139]

I mean that’s not really the whole story but ok. You weren’t banned for simply picking it up, you would have had to sell it AND use that gold to buy bonds and then redeem the bonds to get free membership. That’s what people were banned for. And they weren’t even perma banned. Just temp banned until their membership was adjusted back

[@darkfangulas]

​@lampisfun1139 you could easily do that harmlessly just thinking it's your lucky day if you aren't really into the rs economy or know what a T bow is

[@jason200912]

​@@lampisfun1139dude of course you'd sell it if you were just some casual kid playing. Why would you keep them

[@paulwilliams3278]

Funny of you to assume a kid would be playing this game, we are all late 20s to 30s with bald heads brother

[@remcosl4115]

i believe i saw someone getting a 3rd age pickaxe during this time, which, unfortunatly was also rolled back

[@kevinarzola4781]

Jagex is like a bank. If it’s your fault, too bad so sad. If they mess up, they ban you.

[@jakekubow4308]

Got like 69 bows from this back then

[@Mikemeds420]

Lol now ur at 0 😂 sit

[@Psychological95]

Maybe when the AI overlords take over they will finally be able to fix the spaghetti code that we call Runescape.

[@nebulouscat2210]

It'll never be truly fixed until jagex actually cares which will never happen.

[@EricN73158]

One Tick Rick may one day come back to us... We been waiting 9rain...

[@inoz115runescape]

The quality of your videos are unreal. Seriously sat and watched them for hours the other day. One after the other. Keep up the good work mate

[@ColonelloRS]

Thank you so much!!

[@crusixangel9513]

I remember this. Tbh Jager was wrong for this. They literally punished and banned players for something they did

[@ObliteAbyss]

Rules say you can be banned for exploiting a bug. A random respawning Tbow next to the farming guild is a pretty blatant bug.

[@safemoonzach6794]

Trash excuse, their fault. Who wouldn’t take advantage of that. Shut up

[@Barliors]

Colonello videos just put me into a flow state at this point, its so relaxing

[@viltautasYT]

I made the glitch, it was an honest mistake is what I would dsy if I decided to make someones account do 2hours of agility again for my fuck-up (yes I am still pissed)

[@smolrem]

Hell yeah i love going on my daily jog to your videos

[@huuREG]

Cx

[@itsAbys]

Wasnt there a guy that got a 3rd age piece got rolled back and then opened them again and got 2 3rd age pieces

[@kingjasko]

Haha, i was there, every world had tons of people in that spot, tbow was losing value quickly, i only got a 2 of them xdd

[@SharrenDabs]

RS private servers have a keychain attached to each location so when you drop an item or if an item is spawned/looted from an area it has let’s say #5 for varrock at the end of the items numerical value so they can see where people get loot or if glitches arise they can easily hotfix them. it’s really weird Jagex doesn’t implement this feature when i even use it on other games that i’ve made mods for to notice duplication glitches right away.

[@duckthuglife]

Dam billy really doesn't have the Fairtytfale II quest done.

[@Heffy424]

Love the history videos never played RS but seein your community chronicle all this is awesome wish someone would do it for the Tallon Zek server in EQ1.

[@scrizvevo7660]

Uhhhh dude, Jagex... I didn't get one free. Can you maybe do it again when I get my membership up?

[@FTWworlddomination]

I wish they would of put a twisted bow sticking out of the bush in the spot as a new statute

[@ByeBaybe]

jagex employee being malicious to help their friend money just don't make sense? just conveniently forgetting about mod jed and mod reach.

[@username65585]

Twisted Bush has a 1/1 million chance of giving a twisted bow. Keep trying bro.

[@ImJustAru]

This is the item that allowed me to leave Venezuela :,) but i didnt got it for free hahahaha 631 kills took me.

[@glorysaffar2283]

700 hours times 35-40 euro’s that will be 24.5k - 28k i can buy gp and buy that cheap a$$ bow

[@kylefresca9564]

Hey man, I love your vids. You have some super rad knowledge, have a good one homie!

[@ColonelloRS]

Thank you, hope you have a good one too!!

[@DylanWolfgang-bn4uq]

Like if U picked 10 up and dipped... Never to be seen again like 5main on a PvP world asking for a dharoks lend haha

[@crypticPk]

Idk anything about rune scape idk why im here tbh...... but yet i watched the whole vid 😂

[@verloser]

well it took me around 1400 kills grind on abomination to get abomination cape got around 4700 atm still no 2nd cape lol

[@philipw297]

lol i wish u woulda touched base on all the gold sellers that got fucked. There was a gold buyer/seller that got hit for $5k buying the twisted bow money before it was "known". like within the first 15 minutes of it happeneing.

[@raid_or_die8962]

Yeah I was there when this happened. And when they asked if they should just hunt then down and it'd be good enough the community didn't say, "are you sure that's a good idea?" The community said, "if you try that dumb shit there will be ANARCHY!!"

[@bladeintrin6]

I need a rat king pet stuffy lol it's my first and only pet right now in osrs hahah scurry best pet

[@lonerider5315]

You should cover runescapes longest standing glitch. The weird ahrims rob top glitch, and why it hasnt been fixed

[@MrHildebrand]

Training a new employee. Hey You should never ever never do this! Here let me show you.

[@lololol1435]

It was Defs Ice Posiedon

[@teeonezee]

700 hours... well, there's a game called Loomian Legacy and its like Pokemon so there's "Shinies" a gamma is 1/20k chance to find, the mon im lookin for is 1/50. The odds are 1/1.02 million which takes about 660+ days of straight encounters for its gamma chance, or 17k hours to find.

[@teeonezee]

... hm... a minute into the video you drop your sponsor, but you interrupt the flow of the video, i just wanna look at something else now. bye

[@SakamuG]

The moment you get the best weapon in a game must be awesome.

[@corocsat8469]

Ahhh its not a jagex story without a panic ban 😂

[@dallaswanta5456]

@colonello what the fuck was your name before this

[@gusholliday2664]

Why ban then players when Jagex was the ones that fucked up? Lol

[@Escoluis1]

How do you even mess up that bad

[@Do_We_Exist]

Little over 1300 kc and no tbow/ or mega rare in my name 😂😂

[@RupluttajaGames]

Calling it a glitch is a bit of a stretch

[@ant5963]

i wonder if anybody managed to sell for bitcoin before the reset lol

[@HughWanztino]

what ever happened to bankstandin'? they havent posted in months

[@logansmyth5765]

with the tree stump method couldnt players use the tele grab ?

[@UnleashedAnger]

West was distracted by the female mod obviously

[@GodBurstPk]

Any lip readers? probably know what she said then.

[@orion.6]

I dont even play runescape but these videos are interesting

[@Reaper_One]

I say give everyone a Twisted Bow. But make it BoP.

[@soundscaperelaxation2571]

Am sad you don’t post on your Nello channel anymore 😞

[@BasedAlarak]

That bow SMACKS. I gotta get me one one day!!

[@AEtherPi]

I played that day, I lost a few hours of progress lol

[@Kinj]

0:41 That's not how probabilities work...

[@joshplayzbig8299]

I had 8 of them that day sold 6 put two in bank lol

[@spikeyswords]

glitch was just a spawn location for an item lol

[@HunterVook]

I would have been alching so many t bows

[@Blitzcomin]

why is this getting reposted so many times lol.

[@KidzOnDidz]

8:52 nello spitting bars.

[@DakotaZ162]

Lmao maybe it someone else? *shows ice* wtf lol

[@arnaszuk6036]

First video i have ever seen with two creator ads

[@lovsaphirars7119]

It was a fun morning on the subreddit that day

[@raddog1478]

Rs3 this type of stuff doesnt happen :D

[@denen404]

as someone that is both a NOOOB and a primarly ranged main........the fact that the twisted bow could be gotten for basically free.....PISSES ME OFF...rofl I've spent ENTIRELY to much gold on gear that dropped in price astronomically not long after....

[@Thurkzs]

Ive got 3 tbows in 2 weeks not thst hard

[@SeishuuVT]

how could i have missed this day bro

[@GingerChips]

I was one of the first people to pick it up. I had actually just gotten my first tbow legitimately through staking if you want to call that legitimately, but I was so scared that jagex was going to fuck up my account so I dropped traded it to a different account, but they eventually took the, fake one away and then everyone kept coming up to me and saying FAKE TBOW

[@bobbyt405]

Im new to Rs but I Really appreciate your knowledge of the game and its players. Thanks for all the effort you put into each video

[@OrloxPhoenix]

Oh, i thought it was the bowfa 🤔

[@tifosistaymad583]

“But first”😐😐😐😐👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻

[@ProbWontMaxUFC]

i swtg youve already made a video on this before?

[@ColonelloRS]

Nope

[@bodhihood5962]

Why would a Jmod need to steal players items when they can spawn any item in the game...

[@tylergartner4069]

RWT, spawning in items and selling them would be noticed very quickly as they would immediately track it back, stealing items and selling them would take longer to track down as it would appear that accounts were being hacked which is a much more common practice then a surge of high value items comming into circulation in the in game economy....

[@bodhihood5962]

@@tylergartner4069 I don't believe a single word coming from Jagex, they are as corrupt as it gets, most probably own the RWT sites and make bank on the side...

[@Crabbattles]

The beginning intro of this video hit way too close to home for me. I ran CoX pretty much every night for almost exactly one year (normal mode). Solo runs because expecting trust in osrs is a fools' errand. Now I'm not some utlra sweaty who can run world record time but I was averaging between 22-25 minutes a run. I do work a regular job so I really would get about 4-6 runs in a night, and on days off, I might be able to bang out 10-20 runs depending on my motivation. In the end, I never did get a Tbow to drop, I just made enough money off of chambers to just buy one at about 900 KC. Sure, I own one now but it still feels hollow never having it actually drop and even sadder, 900 KC still isn't actually enough in terms of average for one to drop.

[@Mutsintakoja]

I remember seeing this, i gave away as much bonds as possible for everyone. I ended up getting a temp ban, but i ended up giving a hella lot free membership for the community 😎 worth

[@TheVideoViper]

Long live the twisted bush

[@DylanWolfgang-bn4uq]

I wouldn't have told a soullllll

[@mysticflow467]

bro we already knew this

[@Zeldakostv]

Random question but was Telekinetic Grab not a thing back then? U couldnt grab it past the stumps?

[@andriusdi]

I remember watching Mod West stream, when he spawned a T bow near farming guild, the clip you shown is not that I remember, I can't remember if he deleted or just picked it up and left the spawn there to exist :)

[@thegodwarsable]

I didn't get a bow free.

[@brandonlogan3089]

Can we just stop and appreciate what a legendary fucking J mod team this was that allowed thus to happen 😂 like even with such a eff up these mods are the goats

[@B-F3x]

do you want to collab with me

[@sadspud5499]

Thank you for getting me back in to osrs. Got too burnt out the past years and now I’m excited to play again.

[@jokujoe]

Jagex are such a joke.