Minimap glitches

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A glitch where the minimap's background has turned black.

A glitch where part of the minimap failed to load.

RuneScape's minimap is often the victim of persistent glitches, which generally take these forms:

• The background turning black (with the dots marking players and icons for special events, locations and quests still visible).
• Sections of the minimap being blacked out.
• Landscape being misplaced while on the RuneScape surface.
• Landscape being misplaced and shrunk in areas other than the RuneScape surface.
• The minimap not appearing at all.
• The icons having a black rectangular backaround

Sometimes this is caused by an error on Jagex's side, such as a missing part of a map, but commonly this is caused by a loading error, where the map will not be fully loaded, causing it to display as black. The glitch has no effect on the actual location, and does not pose any harm to players.

Sometimes this glitch can be fixed by 'reloading' part of the mini-map, i.e: Traveling to Varrock via the Varrock Lodestone and then entering Varrock Palace. This may cause some areas that glitched (i.e, Varrock Market) to display correctly. Please note this is a only a temporary fix for the location you are in, and may or may not always work.

It is impossible to get the glitch to happen on purpose and to predict when it will happen.

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