Username Swap Glitch

A very rare glitch - I've only ever encountered this once, when trying to buddy multiple people at once. in the wolves only party.

Here, my username shows as "srupsboi", with the adventure level remaining the color of my old username tag, and the label the default gold color. My animal has the same colors as Srupboi's wolf.

Sometimes, after moving around, the adventure level part also switches to the default color. Here, you can see my actual username, "Epicfeatheredarmor", in the bottom left corner.

In the inventory menu, it even displays "srupsboi" at the top, but with my original username color and badge.

"Srupsboi" was also in the wolve's only party, as a nonmember.

If you have updated your animal through the inventory and reload, you will have the other jammer's colors, which means this is some kind of cross-account color transfer glitch.

No Adventures!

No more adventuring for you...

Missing Settings

Sometimes the settings can just... vanish...

#6341 wants to be your buddy!

Sometimes the username shows as "#6341" when you recieve a buddy request from another jammer, for a brief moment, before showing their true username.

Underwater Animal on Land + Land Animal Underwater

If you've ever wondered how to be an ocean animal on land, here's how.🐬

Step 1: Desync

Step 2: Go to the room where you want to appear. You may also bring an alt account here as this makes navigation easier.

Step 3: Go to an underwater room. Move around until you appear on the screen of your alternate account.

Important - If you spawn in somewhere that isn't on the screen of your alternate account (or any other account previously in the room), you will appear as an invisible nametag. One way to combat this is to choose an ocean room with a spawn location within close vicinity to where players are in the land room. EXAMPLE:

Vicinity box

If your ocean animal spawns outside the vicinity box, players who are already in the centre of Jamaa will not see your ocean animal once you move into the vicinity box.

However, if you are desynced and go to bahari bay, the spawn box is within the vicinity box when overlapped with Jamaa township (since desyncing causes your location data to overlap between rooms).

Spawn Box

This makes Bahari Bay the ideal ocean room to become an ocean animal in jamaa, as people who are already in Jamaa will see your ocean animal too.

Any accounts that come into the room afterwards will see the ocean animal, regardless of your location. 

Navigating your ocean animal.

Using the previous example of Jamaa township and Bahari Bay, when you become an ocean animal on land, your location data is merged with both rooms. Wherever you move in bahari bay is mapped to the corresponding location in jamaa township. You can also use an alternate account to work out where your ocean animal is moving too.

Rooms are always mapped with respect to the top left corner of each room. 

#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