It has been zero days since an Old School RuneScape update gave players a heart attack. Following the rollout of a new training arena led by the NPC Pete Kayer, ironically meant to help players practice their PvP skills and survive, OSRS fans quickly noticed a bug that was interfering with the MMO's death mechanics and causing incredibly valuable gear to vanish.

"DIED WITHOUT DYING AND THEN DOUBLE DEATH," exclaimed understandably panicked Reddit user Rsnks earlier today. As they hastily explained, and as other players and Jagex developers corroborated, the problem was that the game would skip steps in the normal post-death item retrieval process and immediately delete those items instead.

Per the OSRS wiki, when you die outside of limited safe zones, your valuable items are stored in a grave marker for 15 minutes. If you don't reclaim those items within that time (for a fee), they're sent to Death's Office, where they can be collected for a larger fee at any time.

However, some boss fights have their own death storage called item retrieval, which is typically accessed through NPCs or chests near the entrance to those fights. When you die to a boss that has this unique death storage, your valuables are placed there instead, and if you die an unsafe death before collecting those items, they're gone for good, which is an extraordinarily rare and punishing system for an MMO.

Somehow, wires got crossed today and players were being punished with two unsafe deaths after mistakenly respawning inside of some boss arenas and rapidly being killed twice.

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