Falador Massacre

The Falador Massacre was a historic bug that occurred in the online MMORPG Runescape on June 6th, 2006. Although the bug was considered quite negative at the time of occurrence, the company behind the game has since recognized it as a historic event in the franchise, and has created in-game reenactments in both Runescape and Old School RuneScape.

Cause

According to a statement made by a Jagex employee, the bug was caused by insufficient testing of an update that saw the release of a new game skill, Construction, wherein players could create their own houses in which PvP combat could take place. The bug occurred when several players retained the ability to attack other players after leaving a "player owned house" location.

Reenactments

On June 6th, 2016, Jagex created a unique and isolated game server (world 666, commemorating 6/6/06) wherein PvP was enabled and players could attack an NPC named after one of the more well known players to have been affected by the bug. The server also played an in-game cover of the song Planet Hell by Nightwish, which was the song used in the original video of the event. The track was removed from the game when the event was over.

See also

• Corrupted blood incident - A noteworthy glitch that occurred in World of Warcraft

External links

• Official RS3 wiki event entry
• Official OSRS wiki event entry