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.

#8719 Button

Upon adding a new item to your journeybook, the "add to" button displays "#8719" for a brief moment.

#9242 in Mira Says

Upon finishing the 32-color long sequence in Mira Says, "#9242" appears from the final trophy slot. Who knows what it's supposed to say? 🤔

Tiki Trouble Collectables Duplication

This glitch happens when you are already holding one of the three collectables (the jewel, the coin and the fish) and try to get more. The collectable you are holding is the only type of collectable you can duplicate however, so you can't get guaranteed jewels while holding a coin

 

1. Jewel

Once you are holding the jewel, every rock that you smash is guarunteed to have a jewel, allowing you to get lots of them.

If you leave a jewel not picked up anywhere in the map, it will cause the same effect allowing you to get more jewels.

2. Coin

Similar to the jewel, when you are holding a coin, every object that appears while you are wading is guarunteed to be a coin.

3. Fish

Unlike the collectables prior to this, you can only catch 3 guaranteed fish if you are holding one. Once you are holding a fish, the first net you click on at each of the fishing spots will catch fish. If you click on more than one net at the same port however, the other nets will have normal odds.

If you bring a fish you've caught from a different port to a port with 1 fish already in a net, casting an empty net doesn't guarantee another fish catch. This prooves that you can only catch a guaranteed fish if there aren't any fish (randomly caught OR guaranteed) already on the same port.

FOV Glitch

In most adventures* which normally have a large field of view (FOV), the FOV is smaller than usual when you first play those adventures immediately after logging on. If you have played any adventure prior to this however (not including the training grounds), the FOV will not be smaller.

*Exceptions Include

The Forgotten Desert

If you go into an adventure afterwards however, you can do a glitch to make your FOV smaller, without having to reload.

This glitch doesn't work with: 

The Training Grounds

Return of The Phantoms

The Phantom Portal

Meet Cosmo

The Hive

The Great Escape

Bubble Trouble

In Too Deep

Turning The Tide.

This glitch works with:

Tiki Trouble

The Forgotten Desert

Greely's Inferno

The Search for Greely

The Hidden Falls

The Front Lines (Both opening & main quest)

The Phantom Badlands

The Phantom Fortress

Storming the Fortress

The Trials of Zios

The Mystery Below

The River's Heart.

Example in Tiki Trouble:

    Small FOV                                                                       Large FOV

Step 1: Minimise the Animal Jam window once you are inside an adventure OR start the adventure with a minimised window.

Step 2: Click and drag the edges of the window to shrink its size.
Step 3: Maximise the window.

Your FOV should now be smaller than it was before.

If you repeat the steps, your FOV will stay the same size instead of getting smaller again.

Tavie the Stubborn Dolphin

When you enter the Tiki Trouble adventure, sometimes it is impossible to talk with Tavie as she does not have a speech button if you walk close to her. The icons for the tiki statues, wading spots, fishing spots and mining spots will not be on your screen, and there is no timer.

This makes it impossible to complete the adventure because you cannot give the pearls to Tavie. This is an irritating glitch if you haven't noticed it when you start the adventure.