During play, a player will become unable to remove an item held in their hands. This occurs without warning and is generally only noticed when the player attempts to perform an action which requires the hands, such as eating, drinking or filling a canteen, or the player attempts to take another item into the hands (e.g. changing weapons). Additionally when the glitch occurs the player is unable to add items to or remove items from the inventory. When the player logs out and reconnects the item that was held in the hands will have disappeared entirely (cannot be found in the vicinity of the log out).

When attempting to perform actions when this glitch has occured the player will sometimes receive the "Error putting item in your hands" message.