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A glitch is a fault in software that produces an unexpected result, usually from errors in programming/scripting. Like any video game, Roblox has a handful of glitches. While some glitches are harmless, short-lived, and sometimes even entertaining, some can occur for a long time, break functionality, and even harm the software (usually known as bugs).

This article lists only glitches that occur within the Roblox website and software, not within individual Roblox games. This article only lists the fixed glitches. To see the unfixed glitches see "Remaining glitches".

Glitches

Fixed

Floating torso

A player with the floating torso glitch.

In the Roblox's earliest phases, specifically 2006, players were able to make their torso float to other players perspectives depending on how you lost your body parts. This has been patched since 2007, and is one of Roblox's first glitches.

Avatar animation/Twitch error glitch

Around the time animations were added to avatars, when immense lag occurred, your avatar would clip through the ground, this was patched later in 2007. An early Roblox video made by MrDoomBringer showcases this glitch.

No delete button

In June 2010, the delete button was removed. If anyone took something from an item, the player could not delete it. They could get as many items as they wanted but still won't show up the button to delete them. Players who have an item before this will show up the delete button. This has been fixed now and players who bought a hat during this issue will now show its delete button.

A screenshot of the Turbo Builders Club visual glitch.

Friends glitch or friend request glitch

On December 31, 2013, there was a rare glitch on Roblox where users noticed that their friend requests got accepted 3 or 4 times. When they checked their friends list, they noticed that their friend had the same avatar and username. This was then fixed quickly.

Sky death glitch

Around 2015 and 2017, there was a glitch where if one were still on ForceField and fell to the bottom of the sky where around the point the player die, they could somehow walk on the bottom, however, when the ForceField dissapears, then they die. This was fixed on late 2017.

No torso glitch

This happened on December 15, 2010. This glitch allowed the player's avatar to appear without a torso. It didn't cause any problems with Roblox. Their torso would be there if they joined a game. This was fixed and all players were updated back to normal on the 16th. However, there are many "Invisible Torso" scams which reference this glitch.

Gear down glitch

This glitch was only up for a few hours before it got patched. This glitch prevented the player's avatar to move its arm in the proper location while holding a gear, and the avatar thumbnail would appear with the player's hand down. However, if an experience's avatar animations are broken or the experience hasn't loaded completely, this glitch can still occur in game today.

An avatar thumbnail with the "Gear down" glitch .

Infinite daily Robux glitch

The infinite daily Robux glitch was only for Builders Club members. Around 2011, users would change their time on IOS, Android, or PC, the time would be set to a time like 2021 or 2020, then if the user was lucky enough, they were able to get thousands of Robux without waiting all year, players who did the trick were terminated. This glitch can no longer be done as Builders Club has been replaced by Premium.

December 2014 model glitch

On December 9, 2014, at 7:15:29 PM, a glitch occurred that automatically updated all Roblox models made between 2006 - 2012 that had more than 10,000 sales to be randomly updated. Such examples of models having this glitch is a DIY tool giver.

Double gear

The double gear glitch allowed users hold two gears. There were multiple ways to do this, but the most well-known one is for when you select another gear while walking over a dropped gear, the player could hold two gears at once. This was once possible on the main Roblox site as well, it occurred if one did the multiple hat glitch but with gears instead. It occurred with the Trophy of Participation 2016 where if someone was wearing it before it was switched from being a hat accessory to gear while wearing another gear it would appear as if they were wearing two gears on their profile, this is not possible to repeat and once they updated their character after this occurred, it would take off one of the gears.

In-gear glitch

In 2015, a gear glitch occurred in the now-closed experience Welcome to Roblox Building, where if the player used the "Add Object" tool and used Cheat Engine and copied the ID in if they reset or dropped the tool they were holding, the gear would appear in the "Add Object" tool. Later, Roblox closed down the game due to this glitch and it was later fixed.

Egg-jump

This glitch got patched when removing hats got removed. A player wearing an egg hat could press "=" on their keyboard to remove the hat. Once the egg landed the user was able to jump on the egg and do a "high jump".

Camera error

In 2017, some users got an error with the camera not following the character in Roblox Studio. It would get stuck in one place and you wouldn't be even able to move your character. This glitch is now fixed, however in some old abandoned games, this glitch is still common, except people can move their character.

Zoomed-out profile camera glitch

If one wore some items on the Avatar page, their thumbnail camera could have been ultimately zoomed out, making the character less noticeable.

Wearing unavailable body colors

Back before the character/avatar page was updated, there used to be a method with inspect element of changing the avatar's body colors to ones that did not show up on the body color list such as the color Crimson. It would require filling in the ID and name of the brick color from the official Roblox Wiki/Developer Hub platform. Unfortunately once the character page update was set in this became impossible to do anymore, there are still many users wearing these unavailable body colors on their characters. Avatars with these colors could also not be saved as outfits.

Outfit copycat glitch

Between 2016 and 2018, there was a glitch where if you loaded in-game next to a player, there will be a chance you would be wearing the same outfit as the other player. Sometimes the player may wear your outfit. The glitch was common in MeepCity, Get Eaten, lesser-known RPG games, and games with discontinued scripting. This Glitch still happens sometimes, only that it happens to other players when your game hasn't loaded player textures for others yet.

Edge-jumping

If a user stands near an edge and then jumps, the player would go flying away from the edge and possibly result in falling into the void and dying. This is due to the in-game physics. It also occurs when you walk into a corner at the right angle. This glitch has been fixed.

February 17, 2016 glitches

On February 17, 2016, an unknown bug in the Roblox system made tons of users spawn with no packages, no hats, and no animations, and some had also reported spawning as a noob. This glitch was patched hours later. However, in February 2022, the year in which Roblox had a lot of maintenance, this glitch started occurring for a short time again. It has then once again, been patched since then.

Username glitch

On December 6, 2016, a glitch occurred allowing players to use the sign-up page to make an account with the same name as an existing feature, which is not intended to be possible on Roblox. This caused new players with names such as 1dev2, PlatinumFalls, and Roblox to be made. This was shortly fixed, and all accounts with usernames used by earlier accounts were terminated and had their names reset.

Player list glitch

In some servers of an experience, the player list list could have either been stretched out on one player's name or not just shown to the players. Because of this, you could not exit the game. A solution to this was that you could've exited out of the game usually pressing ⎇ Alt + ↹ Tab if your keyboard supported it. This bug was only server-side, not client-side. It was patched sometime in 2020.

Lag Clipping/Corner Clipping

Lag Clipping: When you have a little space between you and the wall and you walk forward and freeze your screen by pressing right-click on the white bar (Only works on Windows OS) and it can let you go through a wall. This glitch works easier on thinner walls.

Corner Clipping: When putting your avatar against a corner and facing the corner, turning your camera 180 degrees, and then using shiftlock or first person, you would clip to the other side of the block that you clipped.

This glitch being fixed led to some backlash in the obby community, as some obby games had obstacles that required players to execute this glitch.

This had resulted in some obby games being unbeatable, however developers of some obby games (ex: Juke's Towers of Hell) had implemented their own version of the "glitch" to make the obstacles beatable.

TBC visual glitch

On January 21, 2019, every player with any level of Builders Club had a Turbo Builders Club icon on their profile and in-game. Many users resorted to the unofficial Roblox Discord server and questioned this. An administrator announced that it was just a visual glitch and everyone kept their real membership. The glitch was completely fixed the next day.

Captain Rampage: Gold R15 glitch

The Captain Rampage: Gold bundle used to not work with R15, it only showed if you're with a R6 character. This was then fixed after a long period.

Un-scrollable Home Screen glitch

Note: This glitch only happened on the Windows "Roblox Player" app while in the "Home" section. This didn't happen in the "Charts" section.

At around April 2023, a bug with the scrolling system caused to the user be unable to scroll down while in the home screen. When the player reloads the page, the bar used to determine the position the user is viewing the page is absurdly extended to the bottom. After a few days, this glitch was fixed.

Icon Replacement Glitch

This glitch can only occur on mobile devices, and is very uncommon.

Some icons (promintently the Robux icon, in-game menu icon, in-game chat icon, and other smaller but important icons) can become glitched on the homepage, Marketplace and in any experience, though this bug only makes their appearance change, as it takes the icon from a different file and accidentally loads it as the icon for a different asset it isn't meant to be used on. (I.e the in-game chat icon being replaced with the Robux icon)

Homepage

Marketplace

In experience

Unpatchable

An example of the chat filter glitch. Profanity is censored for safety reasons.

Character Bouncing

Bouncing is a glitch that makes the player bounce off a platform upon landing. This glitch is most common in games with detailed animations and/or is often laggy. Due to this, the bug may never be patched.

Slow walk speed on slow devices

When a player moves while their device is lagging, their character moves slower. This is because of Roblox's client-side framerate being under 30 FPS, and the fact that Roblox doesn't use delta-time for client-side character movement. This is likely to happen on mobile devices.

Server player limit glitch

This glitch is very old, and usually happens when many players join a game at the same time and Roblox tries to distribute the players to the same server. During this glitch, one server will hold more players than its limit, with the extra player being immediately redirected to a new server.

Zoomed in.

Zoomed out.

Flying glitches

Variations of this glitch have evolved in multiple different ways. One of the more infamous methods is attaching a cylinder to your body, which caused a collision/physics glitch. After arms and legs had their collision removed in 2007, many other people have found other methods to fly.

Unpatched

Leaderboard function delay

After the new leaderboard update, trying to block, friend, or follow users is very delayed compared to the older leaderboard. This glitch may not be fully patched as this has been a problem for years and now it became worse.

Half Error Message

Note: This glitch is extremely rare.

If you get kicked from a game due to an error, a bug can occur where you are unable to see a part of the error message, and the skybox isn't blurred. It is unknown whether this glitch has been patched. This can be fixed by entering and exiting full-screen.

See this thread for more information.

Lost connection error

Sometimes when you play, you will see everyone around walking or jumping in place, and the screen will show that you're lagging even if your connection is normal. After, you'll get disconnected from the game. The error code that displays when you get disconnected because of this is 277. See Errors for more info. Note that this can also occur if the server crashes. This can sometimes be fixed by using an Ethernet cable instead of WiFi.

Chat bubble

When a player chats most of the time, their screen would be white on and off for a couple of seconds due to the chat bubble filling the screen and flashing on and off for a couple of seconds, this happened across most experiences, being very annoying for players that roleplay or chat very often due to this constantly happening.

Passes & Gear Error

Sometimes when you try to view the passes when viewing the game, the screen will start to infinitely load, this also is the same for Badges.

Infinite Death

When this glitch occurs, you can't respawn after death. You stay dead, resetting your avatar doesn't work either. Rejoining should fix it. Also you remain as a forcefield.

"Label" player list bug

During late September–October 2023, multiple players reported that when they tried to view the player list in the menu while their experience were loading, display names showed as "Label" for a few seconds before showing the regular display names as the experience fully loaded. It's unknown whether this has been patched yet.

Alt Gr glitch

Note: This only happens in the Windows' Microsoft Store app.

If the player presses Alt Gr on their keyboard, the Backspace key would glitch to erase every word that the player wrote, instead of erasing single character. The "A" key also glitches, and also erases every word when pressed similar to Backspace, and replace all of them with a single "a". It's unknown if this glitch is fixed.

Report screen glitch

If users type quickly on the Roblox Player Windows app, there is a chance that the text cursor will randomly change place, causing letters to be placed in random spots.