#6341 wants to trade you

Sometimes when you get traded, the username tag of the person trading you is replaced with "#6351". Also, in the upper text, the username is replaced with "%s", and the value for the number of items is replaced with "<b>%s</b>". This glitch either happens briefly during a normal trade, or when your screen freezes from a crash trade due to many animated den items. I wonder what all the coding language means. 🤔

Animated Den Item Crashing

Some den items have complicated animations which can take up lots of memory while playing Animal Jam. Some notorious den items include the shoal of minnows and the smack of jellyfish.

If heavy-memory den items appear all at once in any inventory, they have the potential to crash your game. During a crash, your screen freezes, and to other players, you are not online.

Crash when viewing den items

Crash when viewing input inventory

Opening an input inventory includes putting den items for trade, gifting den items and putting den items for sale. Trying to recycle multiple of these animated items also results in a potential crash.

Recycling inventory

Luckily, input inventories and the recycling inventory sort by oldest den item first by default, so its possible to get rid of these laggy items by scrolling down so that only 3 appear at once at the bottom of the inventory. However, if you don't have many den items to begin with, you may struggle to get these animated den items off your account. 😧

If you somehow manage to place a lot of animated items in your den, anyone who enters your den, including yourself, will likely crash. If you are traded multiple animated items, you are also likely to crash. Interestingly, windows users are more succeptible to crashing via a trade than macOS users. Unfortunately, "minnowing" has become a new tactic for trolls, whereby the victim is traded multiple minnows so that they are crashed out of Animal Jam. As you can probably imagine, causing other jammers to crash is highly annoying! 😤

An example of a "crash trade"

If you recieve a crash trade, neither the animated den items nor the item being traded for will load, and only the tags will appear (e.g. member tags and rare tags). The buttons to accept and decline will also not load in. Since the game is frozen, you have to log off and log back into Animal Jam.

Intriguingly, looking at animated den items on a trade list doesn't seem to crash you, and neither does looking at animated den items which are for sale in a shop.

Shoal of minnows in shop

Shoal of minnows on trade list

#6228 Gem Count + Glitched Shops

If you log into animal jam with an invalid time stamp which is far from the correct date, certain shops that you open become glitched and "#6228" replaces your gem count. Glitched shops do not sell any items and they may have the incorrect display.

Glitched Summer Carnival Shop

Glitched Diamond Shop Display

Logging into animal jam with an invalid timestamp requires you to trick Animal Jam into thinking you logged in with a date which is far in the past or far in the future.