Rotten potato

Rotten potato
Released							11 July 2005 (Update)
Members							No
Quest item							No
Properties
Tradeable							No
Equipable							No
Stackable							No
Noteable							No
Options							Eat, Slice, Peel, Mash, Drop
Examine							Yuk!
Values
Value							1 coin
Alchemy							Not alchemisable
Weight							1.814 kg
Advanced data
Item ID							5733
Link							MOID

The rotten potato is an item available only to Jagex Moderators, similar to the rotten egg, cabbage and carrot. It is primarily used to test features on the Old School RuneScape servers.

Its features, as demonstrated by Mod Mat K in a livestream, are accessible via its right-click menu:^[1]

• Eat
  • Set all stats - sets all stats to a desired level, for example 99
  • Wipe inventory - deletes all items in the player's inventory except for the rotten potato
  • Setup POH - will create a player-owned house with a random layout
  • Teleport to player - teleport to a player on the same world
  • Spawn aggressive NPC
• Slice
  • Anti-macro events (AMEs) - produces a quest-like interface with a list of random events to activate on oneself
• Peel
  • Bank menu
  • AMEs for all! - subjects all nearby players to the specified anti-macro event
  • Teleport to RARE! - teleports the user to a dropped rare item on the server
  • Spawn RARE! - manually spawn a rare item near the user; used if it is "not dropping quick enough"
• Use
  • Using an item on the potato will delete the item
  • Using the potato on party room chest will fill the chest with one of each colour hat.^[2]
  • Using the potato on a player will show the contents of their inventory
• Mash
  • Keep me logged in. - disables the inactivity timer
  • Kick me out. - used to logout after activating the above option as the log out button would no longer work
  • Kill me.
  • Transmogrify me... - allows the user to transform into an NPC/object/item from a pre-defined list

Using an item on the rotten potato will cause the item to be deleted, prompting a message that says "Whee... [Item] All gone!"

"Eating" the potato and using the "set all stats" option will open a text dialogue to specify what level you would like your stats set to. If you enter 99, all the players stats will be set to 99, one skill per tick, in the following order: Attack, Strength, Ranged, Magic, Defence, Prayer, Agility, Herblore, Thieving, Crafting, Runecraft, Mining, Smithing, Fishing, Cooking, Firemaking, Woodcutting, Fletching, Slayer, Farming, Construction, Hunter, Hitpoints. As each stat is being set to 99, a message appears in the chatbox, "setstat skill name 99". After all the stats are set to 99, a final message appears, "... finished cheating."^[3]

11 July 2005 ⁠– 24 October 2005	24 October 2005 ⁠– present

• Some time in 2011 in RuneScape 3, the player group known as HaxUnit managed to obtain this item by luring a Jagex Moderator into a game of Stealing Creation and pickpocketing it off of the JMod.^[4] Despite claims from another JMod stating that the item was unusable in a player's possession^[5], the player was still able to spawn in items such as the Quest cape and equip it while not having the requirements to do so. In an attempt to drop-trade the item to another account, the item was instead removed and the player was met with a Too late! It's already gone. chat message. Since the incident, Jagex has added safeguards to ensure no ordinary player can use the potato should they ever get one.
• The rotten potato was originally chosen to be a developer item as Jagex staff were aware that players would be able to see the name of any item added to the game for development or testing purposes, and a rotten potato would look innocuous when released at the same time as the Farming skill. Other possible alternatives were the rotten egg, dev spoon, dragon toothpick, and dragon sponge.^[6]
  • The rotten egg was eventually added as a developer tool in 2015.