Gears, or gear items, are catalog items that usually appear as a tool. They can be worn on the profile of a player's avatar or be allowed in games that have allowed the gear's specific attributes and genre, for example a gravity coil in Speed Run 4. There are many types of gear items, a few examples being swords, lasers, and musical instruments. As of October 23, 2017, there are 1,246 gear items in total (excluding sponsored gear items).
Melee Weapon - A close quarter weapon, typically an edged weapon such as a sword, or a bludgeon, such as the hammer. Some weapons in this category are dual-wielded.
Ranged Weapons - Weapons that work effectively, if not better, on distant targets. Such weapons include guns and lasers. Note that some ranged weapons behave indirectly, such as via spawned minions that attack other players.
Explosive - Items that usually explode, as the names suggest, to clear enemies behind cover, in groups, or for general chaos. Such weapons include bombs and rocket launchers.
Power Up - Tools that usually enhance the player in some way, such as increasing max health or walking speed. Some flying gears fall into this category.
Navigation Enhancers - Tools that help users move around the game. This can be either allowing higher jumps, flying, or by increasing walking speed for as long as the gear is equipped.
Musical Instruments - Any gear that can potentially be used to play music. IE: Guitars, drums, and tubas.
Social Items - Gears that typically are used for social events. An example is one of the many dancing potions, or GUI-based mini-game gears.
Building Tools - Any gear that can potentially be used to build or modify in-game structures that are not Explosives. One example in this category is the paint bucket.
Personal Transport - Any gears that physically help the ROBLOXian move around the map. A prime example are skateboards. Some gears in this category spawn vehicle models.
Expiration
Certain gear items are set to expire after a certain amount of time from being purchased by a user. These gear items are typically much cheaper than similar gear items that do not expire.
While an expiring item is in a user's inventory, it will have how much time is remaining until the item expires displayed underneath the item's name and thumbnail. Once a gear item expires, it can no longer be brought into places or worn on the user's character. The items do however remain in his/her inventory, and can be renewed by repurchasing the item.
Special gear items sold around holidays and events, such as fireworks for the Fourth of July and Vuvuzelas for the 2010 World Cup, often expire in this way.
A gear item with three weeks left until it expires.
Expired gear items in a player's My Stuff menu.
Allowed Gear Types
Some users choose to disallow certain genre of gears from being taken into their places. This means that even though users own the gear and it's in their user's inventory, it will not show up in-game.
Other users however, choose to only allow a genre of gear that matches that of their game.
Some games don't allow gear.
Other games, however, only allow certain genre of gear, or allow all genres.
Other
Anything that has this tag on it is a limited item but is still in stock.
Limited - A gear that was once on sale (or distributed in some way) for a set price, put off sale, and reintroduced as a resell-able is a Limited item. Any type of the Limited gear will not have a serial number.
LimitedU - A gear that as soon as it is released, has a number in stock and is sold for a set price. Each time it is bought, the buyer will receive the item along with a serial number that corresponds to what number buyer he/she was. Once it is sold out, it is resell-ableis sold for a set price. File:LimitedUTag.jpg
Any gear item that has this tag is a limited item once sold by ROBLOX. Each copy is labeled with a serial number.
BC Only Items - These items can only be bought by users that have bought Builder's Club, Turbo Builders Club, or Outrageous Builders Club.
TBC Only Items - These items can only be bought by users that have bought Turbo or Outrageous Builder's Club.
OBC Only Items - These items can only be bought by users that have bought Outrageous Builder's Club.
Rental -These items expire after a certain period of time.
Timed - Items that have a limited amount of time to be bought
NOTE: If users have a Builder's Club membership higher than the Builder's Club tag required to buy it, then they are able to buy it. I.E: A player who is TBC is able to buy a BC only item, but the vice-versa cannot happen.
Glitches
Many gear items have been reported to have glitches (when a gear item doesn't function as usual), some weren't even fixed. Here are several known glitches of gear items:
Whenever a player enters a game with a gear item he/she is wearing, the gear item will be removed from his/her backpack. This is because the gear item sometimes doesn't weld properly and results in the gear falling to the void, which deletes the gear in the player's backpack.
In ROBLOX Studio, if a player drags a gear item to himself/herself while testing a place, he/she would turn sideways and float above the ground.
There is a bug when a player rides a skateboard, then uses a gear item which enlarges the player, such as the Nickelodeon Blimp or the Gigantoform, the user would permanently appear gigantic, and the skateboard would disappear, and any gear items the user holds would appear smaller than usual but still function properly. This can be fixed by either resetting or leaving and rejoining the game.
The Sapphire Blaster has a glitch where the radius glitches, resulting in nearby players to permanently fly backwards until they die or leave the game.
The Moonwalk Dance Potion has an occasional bug where it can increase the speed of the server, which was heavily criticized.
The Azurewrath's Return sword has a glitch where it does more damage than usual, which sometimes instakills (killing a player with one hit).
The Subspace Debonair Disguise gear has a glitch when the gear removes by itself and the user drops the gear after he/she transforms, he/she would permanently look like what he/she transformed into, which can be fixed by either resetting their character or leaving and reentering the game.
There is a bug when a player throws the hand of the Staff of Gloomy Grip, he/she can use it again without having to reload.
When a player continuously presses the Q key while holding the Shadow Dancer sword, a harmless shadow dancer would wield on the user's left arm.
If the user shoots with the Zombification Injection gear himself/herself, he/she would permanently be a zombie.
If a player uses the Grapple Hook on a vehicle, it would make the vehicle fly, which changes direction when the user shoots the hook at a different spot.
The Illumina sword has a glitch when a user double clicks then switches to the Ghostwalker sword while the user lunges the Illumina, the result causes the user to fly up in the air.
If a player reequips the Alien Parasite gear very quickly, the user's health would regen quickly, if the user's health is between 0 and 100.
If a player goes under the cloud of the April Showers gear while it is raining, flowers would grow on them instead of the ground.
By the time the Dual Plungers went on sale, there was a bug where a player would flip upside down when he/she equips the gear item. This was later patched three days after the gear item was released.
The Four-In-A-Row gear can sometimes break, making it unusable.
When a player uses the Ultraviolet Blaster's scope, then unequips it, his/her head would turn sideways.
The Atomizer gear has a glitch when the user first uses the Magic Ninja gear, then uses the Atomizer gear, he/she would float in mid-air until the user gets killed or leaves and rejoins the game.
When the Ghost Invisibility Elixir gear is dropped from a small height and disappears, the user would be permanently invisible.
The Golden Fleece had an error in its script, which caused the player to fly without using the gear item. Currently, the user would harmlessly flop around on the ground.
If a user swaps to another user with the Body Swap Potion if he/she is killed, he/she would be removed from the game.
The gear can also change another player's color into the user's body colors if the other player's color is different than the user's.
The A More Elegant Blade gear has a bug when a player rapidly presses the E key after pressing X, the gear item would stay on his/her left arm.
If a player rides a flying vehicle after spawning and then unequips it, the player would fall and not be able to get up. This can be fixed by either avoiding wearing the gear on the player's avatar or join a different game which doesn't allow this type of gear.
Occasionally, when a player attempts to get on a skateboard, it would tip over on its side, making it impossible to get on.
