Very interesting "Bug" in DotA

I found out about this a few weeks ago, and after seeing somone basically screw the game up with this bug, i figured i'd tell everyone, just to ruin that bastards fun.

Now, i know this works in deathmatch, i dont know if it works in normal mode as i need a friend to test that with and i havnt tried yet.

Instructions:
Choose sentinel side.
Set game type to Deathmatch.
Get Furion as your first hero.
Learn his skill - Force of Nature.
Now, look behind the sentinels fountain of health. See those barrens trees looking out of place? Zap them (make sure to get all 3) with Force of Nature.
Now go and get Furion killed, when he dies, get Zeus as your hero.
Walk Zeus through the gap in the trees, theres a little path that leads up to the black barrier of the hero selection area for the Sentinel, walk up to the barrier.
Zeus will be teleported back to the Fountain area, but in his inventory will now be a level 1 Dagon and a Boots of Speed. This can be repeated as often as you wish for unlimited items until the trees regrow. You can either sell the items or keep them.

Now how can this sort of thing be an accident? Anyone know more about this 'Bug'?

I think that in DOTA, your revival is detected by when you "enter" that area with the circle of power and the taverns where you buy your hero. When that happens you're immediately transported back to the spawn point.

In deathmatch this is used to give you back your items. So, everytime you enter that area, you get the items you were carrying when you died. Blink in, teleport in, however you do it, as long as they detect that you entered that region, you're teleported back and you have additional items. Hooray for testers of DOTA.

No, it ONLY works for zeus, and he GAINS items, not duplicates them. Everyone else who attempts this bug simply gets reduced to level 1.

Also if you revive your hero from the tavern, he isnt not reduced to level one. There has to be a seperate region at teh end of that path that does this.

Well, try this.

1) Get a hero.
2) Buy an item.
3) Die.
4) Get a blinking hero, morphling or any other, or you could get a Boots of travel but that'll take longer.
5) Now teleport into the tavern or blink into the tavern region.

You'll get the items you got when you died. Blink another time, you get the items again. I think your furion died with a dagon and boots of speed. It doesn't duplicate items, it just gives the items that you had when you died.

You aren't reduced to level 1, you just drop a level.

No, i've tested the bug over and over, Zeus GAINS a dagon + boots of speed. He always gets a dagon + boots of speed, no matter what your items are. When i attempted the bug with a different hero that had items, (Bradwarden at level 12) he simply reverted to level 1.

I've played 12 DM games by myself to test out this bug, i know exactly what it does and what its parameters are. I dunno about the blinking into the spawn area thing cause i havnt tryed that, but the bug i'm talking about is highly specific and does exactly what i said. Dont try to tell me otherwise as if i'm some kind of little baby, i'm probably better or equal with your skill in triggers. Thats why i think this must be purposeful.

can u put the map up for download so i can try the bug out

Errr no. I dun think it would be wise to post DOTA here when it's widely available everywhere you go.

Attached is a replay of the bug being duplicated your way and the blinking way.

Anyway I tested the bug here and showed you how to duplicate it. I'm sorry if I sounded condecending or anything but I answer like that to everything. Eeeek.

It IS a very interesting bug if it's only for a specific hero. Maybe you got a rigged version of DOTA. Post a replay in a zip file here like I did and lemme take a look at it.

Now thats really wierd, i just did some more testing and the bug stopped working for zeus. I got confused so i tryed morph and it worked, this time it gave him 2 ultimate orbs and a gloves of haste... Perculiar.

It seems there definitely is a major bug with the spawn areas thats easily exploitable, its a pity the game makers havnt fixed it.


On the note of the bug, i just tested again, it REMEMBERS what items you had when you entered the area. When i first entered i had a dagon + boots of speed, when i sold all the items and did it again it rememered what items zeus had, and "duplicated" them. This explains alot.

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Oh and would the person who gave me negative rep for my above post with the line "Joo baby" stop acting like an infant? Its actually quite sad to know that there are kindergarteners who visit this site.

Yah that's why I did state that "I think your furion died with a dagon and boots of speed. It only gives you what you had when you died since that's all it remembers. It doesn't remember what you have when you entered the area I think, it just remembers what you had when you died. Not much of a difference there but I don't think you can activate the bug without dying.

Which is why I never ever play dm. Hahaha.

On a side note I didn't ever give you a negative rep. But it's like a drop of oil in the sea isn't it? One bad point among the big 4 flashing squares you have. Don't really bother about these people. (And how do you tell from negative and positive reps? The comments I get seem to be in conflict with the colour of the square).

On another side note, shouldn't this have gone to the DOTA forums instead of here?

So how about that Atma weapon?


/killed by being buried under rotten tomatoes

Nah, its possible to activate it without dying. This really is quite interesting, it seems DM has a major flaw.

And i wasnt aware there were DotA forums, can somone move this there? Maybe they can fix it.

i think pheonix has too much time on his hands

Well, it's all the way at mmoauctions.com so nah it's not to be moved.

Anyway it's already a discovered DM bug so no point.