Glitches

Glitches are unwanted effects from the programming of any video game. Glitches can range from being helpful to a player, meaningless, a nuisance or game-wrecking. Spore itself has a few glitches.

Call Glitch
Occasionally, if the music is off and a player tries adjusting the sound for their creatures, they would endless hear the call of the Primate mouths looping constantly, even if they turned off the sound option for their creatures.

Twitch Glitch
Not precisely a glitch, but a player would be able to rapidly push a command button in Test Drive mode, and their creature would twitch while trying to go through the entire command, but having to start over every time a player pushed the button.

Spit Glitch
When a player would put a spit weapon on their creature's mouth and pressed the spit button the spit weapon would go inside the creatures mouth and come out again at the bottom of the creature's mouth and slowly move up to its original place.

Twitch Glitch
The Twitch Glitch still exists in the final game.

Rotating Part Glitch
If a Creature standing with one foot on the slant part of the platform in any Clothing editor, preforming "Punch" will cause the animation to glitch and clothing parts (especially masks) will rotate or flip in a random direction.

Floating Landmarks
Similar to the Underwater Tribe Glitch (see below), but the game tries to spawn a Planetary Landmark above a body of water, thus it floats above water.

Rotating Camera Glitch
During Creature stage, the camera can sometimes get stuck in a constant rotating movement. The camera circles the Creature constantly and, although the creature can still mate, fight and socialize, it can be extremely confusing and irritating. (Note: no solution has yet to be discovered)

Before concluding that you are experiencing this glitch, make sure your mouse cursor is not all the way to the edge of the screen.

Infinite Music Glitch
If a tribe member tames a creature and a UFO Abducts the Creature before the music stops, the music will continually play from the tribe member until they die, it is not impedeing but is extremely irritating, the only solution is to kill the tribe member, interact with another tribe, or Progress to the Civilization stage. This may also happen in Space phase after destroying colonies, the war music still plays for the rest of the game.

Multiple Tools
Sometimes during the Tribe stage, when you tell a tribe member that already has a tool to pick up a different tool, they might not drop the first one and have both at once. Only the most recently acquired tool will affect the tribe member's abilities, but it can be annoying when you think a tribe member has one tool, but doesn't.

Planets with no Spice
Occasionally, a planet other than the one specified to not have Spice will not have any, the best way to find these are to look for T1 or higher Planets in Grox Systems.

Stuck Babies Glitch
Sometimes, in the Tribal stage, if there are many babies near a wild animal nest, they will become "stuck." They will usually not be doing anything but staring at an adult animal, not only can they not move around, their whole body in incapable of moving. If a tribal member walks through them, or if you wait, they will start moving again.

Quintet Glitch
It is possible to have more than three members in your posse while in the creature stage by going to the menu immediately as the creature is added to your posse, as a result it is possible to get an infinitely large pack, very useful for killing an "Epic Creature".

Underwater Tribe Glitch
By sheer luck, when visiting a tribal planet in Space, very rarely a tribe will be in a shallow lake. And if you terraform a tribal planet and rise the water level, you might sink a village or 2, although the tribe will swim over it, trying to go down to it.

Underwater Nest Glitch
Sometimes, after completing or skipping the Cell stage, your creature's nest will appear in the middle of an ocean, and if you try to swim ashore, the Sea Monster Will devour your creature. Since it would make it impossible to ally or extinct, you cannot advance, and your creature cannot eat food, so starvation also occurs.

Tribal Twitch Glitch
Sometimes when playing a tribe game your chieftain starts doing a twitching "dance" leaving him unable to attack and leaving you unable to play your instruments to impress other tribes.

Unresponsive Tribe Members
Rarely, in version 1.0 tribe members may go unresponsive, there is no fix except to patch, it becomes extremely difficult to play with this glitch.

Sole Tribe Glitch
If, when playing a tribe game, you save and exit before another tribe appears, whenever you load the game may glitch and not spawn any other tribes, making it impossible to continue.

No-spaceship Glitch
When you start the Space stage, you have to find a crashed spaceship in a planet of your star system. But sometimes, the spaceship simply isn't there, making it impossible to obtain the interstellar drive and progress. Te planet may even look exactly like the Earth.

Gas-giant Colony and White spice
Rarely, another empire's colony may be in a gas giant, and the spice color is white, because the spice is not actually there. Gas-giants can be bought, but not entered or captured.

T0 Planets with Spice being mined
If you purchase T0 planet from another cizilization that is T0 planet, spice will be mined on the planet even though there are no buildings and the city is a bubble city.

No Water
Certain T0 planets (usually of the low-atmosphere, low-temperature type) can be found that no water on them. Where water should be will be a hole into the middle of the planet. There are no known downsides or upsides to this glitch. This is a graphics bug, though not due to graphics lag, as pausing the game and waiting will have no effect. Terrasculpting tools such as Lower Terrain will cause the terrain to "sink" and disappear into the holes as if they were water. Terraforming the planet will almost instantly cause it to return to normal.

Mod Major Mess-Up
This is a game-wrecking glitch. The only way to fix it is to uninstall Spore, and re-install it. This glitch will happen rarely when you try to download a Mod or an expansion pack and insert and take it out of the contents folder because you couldn't get it to work or it was no longer desired (and another way to fix it would be to copy the file to where you downloaded). Here is a list of some things that will happen when this glitch occurs:
 * When you open up the Sporepedia, some of the cretures icons will be white and blank.If you click on the button that brings them up and shows their stats, a message reading, "Their has been a problem connecting to the Spore sever." will be displayed.


 * The game will crash unexpectedly.
 * When you mouse over a file, it will show you a "?" instead of the creature being used.The game  will spawn a random creature.Sometimes the creature will be a carnivore/Herbivore, even if your creature was something else!However, your creature will still have it's origional conciqiuence ability.

"Colorblind" Terrain
Sometimes a planet terrain is messed up, resulting in multicolored planets, strange tints of color, and reflective terrain. This is most likely a graphics glitch and disappears after an hour or so.

Planet trap
Sometimes the player gets stuck on the planet they are on. Non of the ship tools work other than the radar, or auto blaster. This is a nuisance because you cannot save your game, losing badges and other things you might have earned.

Note: This is most likely from using a tool (e.g uber turret, bio protector) and accidentaly clicking an allied ship, thus sending it behind you. Just wait a while and it should work.

Gigantism
Some landforms, trees, and even bushes may appear slightly larger than normal to possibly 300 times their normal size. In Tribal stage, wild creatures are very large compared to tribesmen; only domesticated creatures kept from Creature stage will be "normal-sized".

Hilly Tribe Terrain
Sometimes, when entering the Tribal stage, there will a lot of hills surrounding the player's Tribal hut. Nests and trees with be scattered in valleys or on top of the cliffs. It will sometimes trap your Tribal members and starve them. The only known way to fix this glitch is to save and exit, and reenter.

"Cookie Cutter" Planets
Very rarely, a planet (or planets) can have their elevation data corrupted, resulting in the planet looking like a cookie cutter was applied to it. This can even destroy cities. A workaround (that doesn't always work) is to exit the game without saving, then reload the game. Sometimes the corruption will occur to all planets.