Now that's a nasty MMO bug: Old School RuneScape players watched in confusion as thousands of bolts and arrows vanished in a black hole strapped to their shoulder
Nov. 7, 2024Dizana’s Quiver in OSRS was bugged and eating ranged ammo
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Old School RuneScape players woke up to a nasty surprise on the heels of an otherwise well-received update for the MMO. A new bug with a rare piece of untradeable gear, Dizana’s Quiver, caused it to permanently delete countless arrows and bolts, with many players reportedly losing thousands of shots and millions of gold to the bug before it was resolved.
“The ammo-deletion issue with Dizana’s Quiver has now been hotfixed,” developer Jagex confirms in a recenttweet. “We’re working on returning lost items to players. Don’t worry, our system identifies this, so there’s no need to contact us. Sorry for the inconvenience.”
Several players reported the ammo bugon Reddit, with some claiming to have lost, or to have watched friends lose, stacks of tens or even hundreds of thousands of ammo. A Twitch clip of streamermolgoatkirbyshows it in action, and the bug seems perilously easy to pull off. If you had one ammo type equipped in your secondary ammo slot and then picked up a round of that same ammo type off the ground, that pickup would delete and replace whatever you had in your primary ammo slot – even if that was 7,174 dragon arrows worth over 12 million gold, as molgoatkirby showed.
This is one of those uniquely terrifying bugs with theoretically limitless reach. If you, for some reason, had a massive arrow or bolt stack worth billions of gold, it could disappear as easily as three bronze arrows. Thankfully the bug was fixed relatively quickly. Here’s hoping all affected players have their ammo returned to them soon.
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