Bugs

In Bad Piggies, there are some glitches and bugs.

Key

(1): Bug can be directly reproduced

(2): Bug can only be indirectly reproduced

(3): Bug cannot be reproduced.

Confirmed Bugs

• Popping balloon and exploding TNT particles remain until you enter the area again, either when starting a new ride or zoom out. This is best seen by detonating TNT then restarting the level right after. (1)

• Balloons clip through vehicle parts when squished by frames. (1)
• When Building a contraption with a Grappling hook facing three clear metal blocks in a corner activating the contraption makes the contraption disappear, explode, or get slight anti gravity. The disappearing deactivates camera movement and only zooming is possible. The camera movement sometimes doesn’t get disabled when this is the case Ross is still in the map otherwise it’s gone. When the creation disappears the graphics gets weird, with layers being incorrectly placed and causing some layers to disappear altogether (1)

• Under certain circumstances, Grappling Hooks can rip apart large contraptions. Grabbing a vehicle at high speeds relative to the vehicle and flying upwards while the hook is flying towards its target seems to be the method of reproduction. Or in some rare cases, it causes the game’s textures to glitch out or vanish all together. It can also make Ross stop completely. (2)
• From version 1.5.0 onwards, making a five-part vehicle using springs, Metal Frames, V8 engines, and Suction-Cup Wheels, with using Super Glue, Turbo Charge, and Super Magnet, if you go to the end of Field of Dreams, after a few seconds, Ross will be shaken in a very fast distance, the lightning Springs will teleport him, and the Suction-Cup Wheels are displaced. This only happens in Field of Dreams. (1)
• When waiting for Cake Race Loot Crates, it can go up to a whopping 1,000,000 hours. Opening the Loot Crates costs 9999 Snout Coins, due to a glitch. This glitch is either caused by a disconnection of Wi-Fi, or bad/slow Wi-Fi. (3)

• When trying to record a video in-game via the record function, the game exits automatically. This only happens in recent versions. (?)

• Just tapping on a cake instead of dragging it in the Feed The King Pig minigame will make King Pig stay there with his mouth open in a similar fashion. (1)

• Alien TNT isn't infinite like it should be in dark levels. You can only explode it once before the TNT will disappear, but the button will remain afterwards, though. (1)
• Exploding TNT at a certain proximity to springs will cause them to stretch impossibly long and sometimes across the whole map. They can strike down contraptions, just like lightning which can strike other vehicles on the road. Part of it is now patched, but it can still be performed by putting the TNTs on wooden boxes/frames and using the Super Glue powerup. (2)

• Some vehicle parts, if rammed into a wall or floor at a certain proximity or at extremely high speeds, can glitch through them, sometimes flying outside of the map. With the glue powerup, this will glitch out and teleport all over the map, often flinging the pig around. This is particularly common for Sandbags. This can be easy to achieve by using a bunch of TNT next to a wall or floor, and an object against the wall or floor. Then explode the TNT. (2)
• This glitch only happens in Bad Piggies Leading Edge Mode B, where if a vehicle full of powered/plunger wheels, 3 Alien Engines and a facing down lamp being activated will cause the vehicle to spin, and rarely start to fly while spinning. (?)
• When placing five metal wings facing left on the top of five joined Metal frames, and five more on the bottom facing right, the frames will start spinning clockwise. (1)

  

  The propeller getting stuck in the walls.

• The alien gun's button on the control panel will sometimes disappear when any part of the vehicle breaks, even one the gun isn't even close to.  The gun itself can still be tapped on to activate it, and the vehicle breaking again can make the button reappear. (2)

  

  Terrain getting glitched out in Field of Dreams

• With certain constructions crashing at certain angles, the game can completely glitch out.  It can flip its visual layers around and put the pig behind the background, or the background in front of the terrain.  This results in the pig looking like a floating hat, invisible walls, and the terrain flashing in and out of visibility.  This glitch can also make the time freeze, make the pig fly out of the world and even make the screen unmovable, so you can only zoom in and out or restart. (2)

• If a grappling hook is attached to a door in The Road to El Porkado, the hook part of it can sometimes remain attached to that point in the air. (2)

A sample contraption with the alien gun, possibly used to glitch the gates.

An image of the Grappling Hook getting stuck.

• A similar effect can be achieved on the levels menu.

Main article: TESLA

• If an object between two springs, connected to the bottoms of them disappears, then the parts connected to the other sides of the springs will disconnect, but the game will consider those two builds connected until something else breaks. This bug is called TESLA. (1)

• If something is moving extremely quickly, and passes through the range of sound you can hear from the camera view, the sound will become distorted. This is because the object is moving too fast for the sound to register as being closer or farther away. (1)

• Grappling Hooks can sometimes cause a contraption to blink out of existence. (1)

• A pig attached to a single balloon will vibrate when touching something, but if the pig is in a box, the box will vibrate instead. (1)

• If a Grappling Hook is to cause a vehicle to blink out of existence, it may entirely break the game, causing layering issues, or entire world elements. This includes TNT and Bridges in Little Pig Adventure, and the darkness to vanish in Find the Statues. (2)

• cont Darkness can also vanish if there is poor device connection, but this is harder to achieve. (3)
• Playing Find The Statues with no Wi-Fi connection will cause the darkness to disappear from every dark level you play after that for the rest of the game session. (3)

• If a Detacher is not moving at all when it is activated, it (and the parts released by it) will stop responding to physics. As a result, these parts will remain floating in the air until they are updated, such as by colliding with another object or being thrown by an explosion, at which point they will resume their normal behavior. (1)

• If a Grappling Hook flies at high speed and slams into another contraption, it will fly through some or all of the contraption and stick to another area of the contraption. It can then rip apart the contraption and send parts flying at speeds fast enough to cause them to phase through terrain (another bug) If the hook flies into the contraption at extremely high speed, it can cause the contraption to blink out of existence and glitch the entire map, causing the game to change its visual layers and parts of the terrain to flicker and disappear at certain zooms. The resulting visual layer change and glitched terrain will last until the app is restarted. All Starboxes and Cakes will be collected and if in a level, the level will finish. (2)

• Occasionally, there is negative currency you can press which often glitched to sandboxes, providing you with 1 Snout Coins each and the free sandbox. (3) This also happens sometimes when purchasing Road Hogs levels, for -1 coin. This bug normally happens when your device is offline.

• If you close the open crate menu before receiving Scrap from duplicate parts, the Scrap will not be collected until you receive more scrap. (1)

• In some menus, the pig's eyes flicker and sometimes even disappear. (2)
• When the last normal part is obtained, the sound effect for obtaining an Alien part plays instead. [This might be a hint to the Alien parts being collected later.] (1)
• If you place a single balloon under a pig, the balloon will hit the pig, vibrate, then phase through the pig. (1)
• If the grappling hook hits a TNT crate that was part of the landscape, the TNT will explode, but the grappling hook will remain attached to the spot where it hit the TNT. (?)
• Sometimes, when you go back into build mode, some parts can glitch behind the grid. This can happen after doing the grapple hook or cloning glitch. (3)
• Sometimes after starting a level, parts spontaneously break off despite little force being applied. This most commonly happens with small wheels, umbrellas, and springs. (?)

  

  The grid glitch, as shown in Little Pig Adventure.

Clone glitch:

1. On any of the sandboxes use a rope, then place some items.
2. Go to any slot. The items starts to fall.
3. Remove all the ropes where you placed them or place Ross.
4. Go to the selected slot. The items are cloned.

Different functions:

Spring: If you do this glitch with springs, they will stretch out, fly, and move fast! It also moves Ross around, too.

Boxing Glove: If you do the glitch on boxing gloves, they will fly like springs, but there will also be gloves attached to the top and bottom of the item.

Boxes: If you place Ross inside a box whist doing this glitch, he will either be rotated inside the box, or the box will move and it will kick him out. The box would also rotate very fast. There is also a rare occurrence in which Ross would spin very fast.

Grappling Hooks: If you do the glitch to grappling hooks, the plungers will be removed off of them. Also, the music will stop if you use them too many at the same time.

Sandbags: If you cycle through the numbers while sandbags are placed, they will start to clone themselves.

Soda Bottles, Rockets and small items: If you do the glitch, some parts are duplicated in random places.

• • Duplication: If the device has a corrupted memory, pressing the tick will launch the vehicle (applying all gravity physics to it), but still staying in build mode. Stopping the gameplay intermediately (by pressing pause, replay or three-star search buttons), creates a duplicate of the previously launched vehicle, but does not delete the previous copy as usual. If replayed again with the first vehicle in the same spot, the two dimensional geometry of the landscape forces it to displace any parts that cannot squash, such as sandbags or balloons. For rigid carts and planes with propellers embedded in the ground, they will likely fall apart with a /. Parts available cannot be used until the game is in build mode again (i.e. the grid is visible), but any other pieces will not be affected until the tick is pressed. This strategy can fill entire levels with pigs (if that is the only part used), or stacked vehicle (or usually, its debris.). Pigs such as Ross and King Pig still experience effects such as hits and smiles when they are hit or collect a Star Box respectively, and when the goal is reached, the map will not scroll to the destination (it must be Ross that touches it, not an empty vehicle or King Pig.) The level can be replayed indefinitely if the pause or search button is pressed in time, filling the level with another copy of the vehicle, until the level either bursts (sending pieces flying inside the rocks, or flying/falling out of bounds.) [1, but corrupt the device memory first. Tested on Android POCO M3, not sure if it works elsewhere.] If there are too many duplicated items, the game will crash and unexpectedly quit.

• When you trying to take a photo by pressing the blue camera icon (using the game's screenshot function), the image result is black screen with nothing. (?)

• Sometimes, when the game is launched, the loading screen gets stuck. If the loading screen is still stuck after few moments, the best to do in this case, is to force quitting the entire game then relaunch it.(?)

• Turn off the internet, then launch the game. Once you’ve launched the game, turn the internet back on. You will see no internet connection/no Wi-Fi connection problems in the game. The best to do in this case, is to force quitting the entire game then make sure the internet is on before relaunching it.(?)

Patched Bugs

• In Little Pig Adventure, propellers, rockets, springs and wheels can go straight through the rock ground and boundaries. This also happens on layers of ice. Occasionally, when travelling fast enough, Ross can get stuck in the ramp where the arrow points. This can also lead to fixed facial expressions while he's stuck.

• A powered wheel that is riding on a wing, will move the vehicle forward.

• A rotor attached to springs and a very powerful engine, will when activated restart the game.

• Snapped parts, even when off, remain active in the control panel at the bottom of the screen.

• Triple balloons are weaker than a double balloon and a single balloon, and these are weaker than 3 singular balloons.

• When King Pig is placed on a suction cup Wheel , it flies upwards, and everything attached too.

• A similar bug as above is achieved when a black umbrella directly adjacent to a powered Wheel is placed.

• Grappling Hooks can sometimes cause a contraption to blink out of existence. (This is still possible.)

  

  example of the -1 snout coins bug

• Attempting to use the game's screenshot function will cause the game to quit.

• In all versions of the game except v1.9, if you stack two wooden boxes, place the pig in the top box, and then place 3 TNTs in this format: two spaces above, one space above and one to the left, and one space above and one to the right, when they drop and explode, the pig's pupils will be missing. Check out the YouTuber Smankusors for more information.

• The Facebook cloud error is an error in Bad Piggies that stops the user from entering their saved progress via Facebook, when asked to “connect to Facebook” then clicking the button, it will take you to a small pop up, when entered to credentials, this message will show, this error has unknown origins.

  

Reported Bugs

• Hidden Loot Crates can sometimes appear black.
• Going to Flight in the Night 4-17, trying to delete your vehicle does nothing. Pressing the Check mark will make buttons appear all over the screen, and then disappear. Restarting the game will be efficient.
• When parts get damaged, the sound effect sometimes doesn't play.

See also

An example of the glitch.