Board Thread:Administrator's Noticeboard/@comment-4661596-20171212015813/@comment-26440657-20171212191527

To make this issue worse, a lot of people don't even know what a "bug" / "glitch" / "exploit" / "developer oversight" is...

If an item you think should float but isn't floating in water, it is NOT a bug, that's an example of an oversight, the same as other illogical situations. Developers just didn't bother to make it realistic or it's just not necessary to make items function as people expect it to.

Exploits are usually things people do on purpose that take advantage of a developer oversight to benefit their gameplay. They are not bugs. Invincibility contraptions count as exploits, you allow a weak slime to constantly damage you so the damage you get from stronger enemies will not count due to the immunity given to you by the weaker attack. Bypassing walls using the Hoik method etc also count as exploits.

A bug is when an item is supposed to do a very specific thing but it isn't functioning properly in given situations and possibly even does something totally unexpected, then that is a bug. Bugs are usually replicable in most cases because they are specific errors in coding.

Glitches are the rarest cases and are different from bugs, they are often associated with literally game-breaking issues. Glitches are usually something that exploits or bugs can cause when they are abused which makes glitches the most severe issue. Like if trying to spawn several different bosses at the same time causes the game to crash or corrupts your save file then it's easy to say it's a glitch. Glitches usually happen when someone does something they are not supposed to do (exploits and oversights) or several bugs happen at the same time which causes too much stress to the game until it breaks.

BTW, I feel the same for trivia speculation. A lot of people add unconfirmed "trivia", like Slimes and Creepers referencing Minecraft, they don't. There have been lots of creatures in games and books etc for decades that are Slimes and Creepers. Another note is that if you see a skeleton character, it does NOT reference Undertale! Seriously, skeletons have been in games/films etc for ages. Common sense is a thing.