Request to remove the Cake Dup
18 days ago
United States

Currently in the ruleset under disallowed glitches:

Cake Bowl Glitch in 1.2.0, a glitch was added where adding cake batter mixed in a bowl to a tray/pan with at least 1 serving would consume the bowl and batter, while creating a single additional item.

The original rationale for ruling this a disallowed glitch was because the PlateUp! devs promised to quickly patch this bug. This patch has been out for over half a year, and this glitch still has not beeen patched - I just recreated it earlier today to check.

The cost of banning this glitch is not inconsequential. Unlike the other disallowed glitches, this gltich is highly reproducible, to the point runners have to actively play to avoid accidently triggering it, both in layout design and execution during the day. This compounds with how high variance many Cake categories are (Turbo, Lake, and Autumn all requiring significant RNG for a passable, not even competitive run), making these categories more painful to run than they already are.

I advocate that we should bring this back for a community vote to either maintain or remove this rule. I believe the original ruling was not up to a community vote - very reasonably to avoid a potential board split discussion, since a hotfix was promised and there are real time save implications that this glitch provides.

Edit: I intended to rename the title to Request to remove the Cake Bowl Glitch after finding the glitch name in the ruleset, got distracted halfway through, and... I didn't double check that. If anyone knows how to update that, please let me know :')

Edited by the author 18 days ago
Washington, USA

Nick, thank you for bringing this up. There is currently now a community vote on where to allow or disallow this glitch. The link for poll is here: https://www.speedrun.com/plateup/news/06vpwm6m and ends on May 8th, 2025 at 1PM (EST).

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Official Vote Results: Cake Bowl Glitch

On May 5th, we asked for the speedrun community to vote on whether the ‘Cake Bowl Glitch’ should be allowed or not. And the results are in: 

51.16% of people voted for Allow 

48.84% of people voted for Disallow 

As you can see this is a very close poll, near

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