Players go to incredible lengths in an MMORPG just to smack protected noobs really hard

In the German MMORPG Tibia (PC), some users found a bug that allowed them to go back to the starting area with their equipment and do all sorts of mischief there. We at MeinMMO summarize.

What is this bug? A bug in Tibia allowed users to return to the Dawnport starting area with their gear. This error has already been fixed by the developers in a hotfix, as it could have had a massive impact on the new fans of the MMORPG.

Because you actually start the game in the city of Dawnport and the subsequent island of Rookgaard. There you stay until level 8, talk to an NPC to choose your class and then drive to the main continent of the MMORPG. You never go back to Dawnport. In theory at least.

Because if you die in Tibia, you lose experience points and can even “down-level”, i.e. actually decrease your level again. If you’ve died enough times to be between levels 5 and 6, you’ll actually reappear in Dawnport after your death, completely naked and without your gear.

Especially the latter is important, because otherwise you would disturb the entire dynamic of the beginning island. You could practically kill all enemies, monsters and NPCs with one hit and even attack and kill players who have already reached level 8 but are still in Dawnport.

But the curious bug made exactly that possible. You could return to Dawnport with all of your gear and bang it up there.

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Huge hassle just to bring items back

Who found the bug? The user DarkGladir has the bug on Shared on reddit August 10th, to get the developers’ attention. The post was deleted very quickly to prevent further exploitation of the bug.

The bug has now been fixed and the instructions can be found again on reddit. And it couldn’t be more complicated. Because although the island of Dawnport has been in the game for several years, the error has only just been noticed.

How did the bug work? Although the bug no longer works, we would like to share with you how curious the effort was to exploit it. The following steps would need to be taken in this order:

• Attack any other player to get rid of the blessing buff
• Keep dying until you reach level 6, strictly speaking you had to have between 1500 and 1518 experience points
• Buy the blessings Phoenix Charm, Solitude Charm, Spiritural Charm, Twin Sun Charm, Unity Charm and Twist of Fate
• Lower your character to a single life point and log out in a corner with no more than one square meter of space
• Another player then had to activate PvP and throw two fire fields at the square where you logged out. In addition, another fire field on an adjacent square meter
• After that, the level 6 player had to log in again with an HP, after which he died immediately from the fire. Your character then respawned in Dawnport with all his belongings and could even get to the further beginner’s area, Rookgaard, through an NPC

“That’s insane, how do you find that out?”

How is the community reacting? She is thrilled that such a mistake can be found at all. Above all, there is a lot of credit for the players who discovered the bug and reported it to the developers. Others complain that after such a long time it was still possible to cheat items to Dawnport (via reddit).

However, some fans are also worried about how many items have already been illegally smuggled onto the beginners’ islands due to this bug, and whether they could be taken out of circulation again. A few people even attack the bug finder, Gladir himself, claiming he exploited the bug before reporting it.

He only writes that he reported the bug on the 1st day when he found it. However, he continued to experiment to find out exactly how the error could be caused. As soon as he knew that, he also reported it to the developers. But we cannot say who is right in the end.

What do you think of the whole situation? Are you also puzzled about how to even find such a bug? Or rather angry that the bug is still in the game? Write it to us in the comments here on MeinMMO.

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