Broken plate

Broken plate

Release date	4 April 2005 (Update)
Members?	No
Quest item?	No
Tradeable?	No
Equipable?	No
Stacks?	No
High Alch	0 coins
Low Alch	0 coins
Value	0 coins
Destroy	Drop
Store price	Not sold
Examine	Alas...
Weight	0 kg

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A few days after the 2005 April Fools event, if you spun a spinning plate, there was a chance you might drop it, and it would break into this. Due to player complaints, Jagex removed the broken plate, and plates now cannot be broken.

However, Jagex never removed the already broken plates from the game, though they are untradeable, they are discontinued. It is unknown how many of these plates are left in RuneScape. Since they cannot be traded, a price cannot be put on them, thus leaving their rarity in question. Some speculate they are rarer than a party hat, being as they cannot be traded, and therefore were dropped by many.

Trivia

• The plate is broken into three pieces as the Dragon Platebody is. This is likely to be purely coincidental.
• After it is broken, the picture on the plate seems to be similar to a cat.
• This item is completely worthless, no matter what the rarity is. Jagex has stated they will no longer make discontinued items tradeable because of their impact on the economy many times.
• When the plate was dropped on the ground, there was no shattering noise.
• At the time, since there was no Dragon Platebody in the game, many players on the forums supported the idea of a "Dragon Plate", and was therefore put in the game, and before the plate was re-named "spinning plate" it was called a Dragon Plate.
• The examine info: "Alas" is from Old English, meaning "Hail!"