Broken plate

Broken plate can no longer be obtained in RuneScape after an update but still exists in-game for those who had done so. Currently available for .

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Broken plate
Release																				4 April 2005 (Update)
Removal																				4 April 2005 (Update)
Members																				No
Quest item																				No
Properties
Tradeable																				No
Equipable																				No
Stackable																				No
Disassembly																				Yes
Destroy																				Drop
Examine																				Alas...
Values
Value																				0 coins
High alch																				1 coin
Low alch																				1 coin
On death																				Always kept outside dangerous area
Weight																				0.05 kg
Advanced data
Item ID																				4614
Links																				MRID • recipe

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The broken plate was the item one could receive by spinning a spinning plate shortly after the 2005 April Fools event. A spinning plate used to have a chance of being dropped when the player spun it, turning into a broken plate. The plate would break the majority of the time, and was impossible to repair. This feature was heavily criticised, as players had no option except to discard the now-useless item and buy a new plate. As a result, the plates were hotfixed on the same day to no longer break.

However, Jagex never removed the already broken plates from the game — though they are untradeable, they are discontinued. Jagex released the number of active players with the item still in their banks as of May 2017, revealing 19 active players still owned at least one at the time, with no more than 184 broken plates shared between those players.

Disassembly

Broken plate
Disassembly category	Default
Disassembly XP	0.1
Item quantity required	1
Material count	1
Base junk chance	?  98.9% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 98.9% 1 34 98.0 2 49 96.0 3 64 94.0 4 69 92.0 5 78 90.0 6 83 87.1 7 91 85.1 8 95 82.1 9 105 79.2
Common materials
Simple parts	99/100
Rare materials
Variable components	1/100

Update history

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• hotfix 4 April 2005:
  • The item was discontinued.
• update 4 April 2005 (Update):
  • Added to game.