Board Thread:Animal Jam Talk/@comment-32197189-20181218120409

I just copied and pasted this from a reply I left on an old thread, but I thought it might be interested to read for someone who'd like to get their facts right.

The coding in the Jamaaliday Calendar does not allow for one variant of some of the items to be released. These can be found on the Unreleased Jamaaliday Items page.

There was an old thread on the AJW explaining this a bit better. Someone examined the coding within the Jamaaliday Calendar, and posted a screenshot of the code. Mooziq had a look at the code and explained what was going on. I hope my explanation does it justice.

AJ used a "floating point value" to determine which value [colour] of socks you'd receive, but a rounding error prevented one of them from being released. This means that most likely, it was just a coding error within Animal Jam, and not a deliberate act.

Unfortunately, Animal Jam got wind of this thread, and DMCA-copyright-struck the thread (meaning they took legal action and got it closed). They still advertised all of the colour variants as obtainable, but there is one type that isn't. A similar bug is what causes the Holly Leaf Planters and Poofy Rugs etc. to come up differently on the item preview when you receive them from the calendar, as what you receive.

Black socks and some of the other items existed because hackers were able to get in and manipulate the values of the items, so they could force the game to spawn a pair of Black Socks, as oppose to pink or something.

Tan Jamaaliday Scarves are also unobtainable through the Jamaaliday Calendar, but they can be won through The Forgotten Desert. This is why you see so many of them around the game.

The method used to spawn the hacked variants of the other items was comparitively easy, so quite a few people used it last year. This year the most common method was patched, and most hackers have either quit, and the best one has promised not to go hack the game again for personal gain.

On another interesting note, Animal Jam still claimed that Black Socks and Raspberry Top Hats were obtainable in the calendar "if you were lucky enough! Keep refreshing!". Some kids did spend a lot of time, only to be met with much frustration. What made it worse was when some people would claim they actually did win some legitimately - but this was not the case at all.

I hope this explains it :) 