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It is possible for two players to cooperate and budget glitch a map without placing one of every item on the map—in other words, it is possible to have a budget-glitched canvas map. The method was discovered before August 27, 2008, by players with the gamertags "BuddhaCrane" and "TheCartographer".<ref>[http://halo.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3fileid=51163190 '''Bungie.net: Halo 3 Files:''' Foundry Clean]<div style="margin-left:2em">This file, created by BuddhaCrane, has [http://halo.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?h3fileid=51163190#25460156 a comment] in which he claims to have discovered the method. As for the date: the file in question -- a budget-glitched [[Foundry (level)|Foundry]] canvas -- was uploaded on August 26, 2008; ergo, the method must have been discovered on or before that date.</div></ref> The players shall be called ''Person A'' and ''Person B''; a Grav Lift shall be used as an example of the item to be glitched. The glitch may be conducted over Live or on Local. A [[Temporary Profile|guest profile]] may be used.

On many maps, you can place [[Teleporter]]s outside of the level's boundaries without them being deleted. This allows an instant death, or one caused by the [[Guardians]] on [[Snowbound]], [[Sandtrap]] or [[Sandbox]]. On most maps, however, players entering such teleports will receive the rather inaccurate message that they "fell to [their] death". A [[#Method C|specific method of placing floating items]] makes it extremely easy to place such Teleporters.

To set an object to instantly respawn without any wait time, set the object's '''Run-Time Minimum''' and '''Run-Time Maximum''' counts (under the object's summary page, accessed with two presses of the '''X''' button) to the same number. The minimum count must be as high as it can go for this to work. The object will now instantly respawn when disturbed. ([[Weapons]] are an exception, because when you pick them up, they still exist on the map.) You can make an infinite [[Fusion core|Fusion Coil]] shower using this technique; it is also useful when attempting to use [[TR/9 Antipersonnel Mine|Trip Mines]] to [[Overload Glitch (Halo 3)|overload]] maps.

On Sandtrap, spawn a Crate and place a Turret Case on it. Then, spawn a Receiver Node on top of the stack and delete the objects beneath it. Next, place another crate with two turret cases on top of it and place a sender node on the pile and set it to a different channel than the Receiver Node. Place a Grav Lift on the Receiver Node and test to see if you can reach the Sender Node, and be certain that if you accidentally enter the gravity lift,  you can get away before you get teleported off (in Player Mode, with normal speed and gravity) to the left of [[M312 Heavy Recovery Vehicle|Elephant]] where the team without a [[Type-25 Rapid Assault Vehicle|Chopper]] spawns in.

The '''Floating Forge Items''' glitch allows players to force [[Forge Objects]] to hover in midair. In some cases, items must have an (also-floating) inactive Teleporter placed beneath them to ''stay'' in midair - sometimes, this flaw even affects immovable items like Double Boxes, though not on [[Heroic Map Pack]] maps.

In [[Halo: Reach]], spawn a weapon and set it as Fixed or Phased. When a player holding it is kiled, it will float where it left there hand (not necessarily like it was being used as they don't drop it immiediately after dying).

As such, the only objects that can be ''permanently'' floated in earlier maps are stationary [[support weapon]]s and [[Teleporter]]s. Later maps, such as [[Standoff]] and [[Sandbox]], would include immovable scenery.

*'''Improvised [[Deployable lookout tower|Deployable Lookout Towers]].''' Spawn two crates stacked on top of each other and then put an inactive receiver node in each corner. Add covenant weapon dispensers on top of the receiver nodes in a square or ring shape to form the base. Then add more receiver nodes to lock the weapon dispensers in place. You can then use more weapon dispensers to create protective pillars. Finally, you can add plasma turrets between the gaps. When you're done, add a gravity lift (non-equipment) underneath. Set the run time minimum equal to the run time maximum so it will respawn infinitely.

*Being on fire (if you were hit with a [[M7057/Defoliant Projector|Flamethrower]] or [[Type-3 Antipersonnel/Antimatériel Incendiary Grenade|Firebomb Grenade]])

:[[Overload Glitch (Halo 3)|Overload]] [[Construct]] with [[TR/9 Antipersonnel Mine|Trip Mines]]. Then, go to where the purple lifts should be. Stand over the hole where the purple laser comes out. Crouch to get through.

:Set the level up so that a domino-like path of [[Fusion core|Fusion Coils]] wraps around every spawn point on the map. When playing the map, simply find a safe spot, destroy the Fusion Coils, and watch your score rise.:*With proper timing, one can set the Fusion Coils up so that by the time the path ends, the first Coils will have already respawned -- so that one shot creates an infinite stream of explosions.

:Move an Elephant to an open area on [[Sandtrap]], preferably near the crashed [[Type-52 Troop Carrier|Phantom]]. Then, use either a [[M808B Main Battle Tank|Scorpion]] or a [[Drop pod|Drop Pod]] to flip it. (The cockpit of the flipped Elephant should point in the direction that players should be launched.) Now, place every Teleporter on top of the flipped Elephant, to hold it in place.

;[[Elephant Flipping]]

:Secret rooms are common in some maps. They are generally used as weapons caches with difficult-to-locate entrances. In some cases, secret rooms may be constructed manually; in other cases, glitches may be used to turn a normally-unreachable area into a secret room. (For example, the [[Forge Turret Glitch]] may be used to enter the small areas beneath [[The Pit]]'s stairways, or Longshore's power room right after the overshield spawn, or the two rooms that are right below the two bases on Foundry.)

*'''Flying Vehicles''' - Normally if a player is driving a vehicle and a Monitor picks it up, the player is removed, but if the player is in the side/passenger/gunner seat of the vehicle they will stay in it, able to shoot as usual as the vehicle is moved around the map. This can also be done with machine gun [[turret]]s and [[Type-52 Directed Energy Support Weapon|Plasma Cannons]].

*'''Baseball''' - Have a player make as many Rockets as possible and a [[Type-2 Energy Weapon/Hammer|Gravity Hammer]] not too far away (This works best on [[Valhalla]]), then have one player to get a Rocket Launcher and the other get the Gravity Hammer. Now fire a rocket at the player with the Gravity Hammer and at the last second get the player with the hammer to hit the rocket and after a few attempts you should get it out of the map. If the player with the Hammer misses, then the Rocket ends his/hers life.

*'''Rocket Redirection with grenades''' - For this trick you need a [[Rocket Launcher]] with max ammo and, preferably, every type of grenade except incendiary. Throw a [[m9 High-Explosive Dual-Purpose Grenade|Frag]] or [[Type-2 Antipersonnel Fragmentation Grenade|Spike Grenade]] at the ground and quickly shoot a rocket. The rocket should be misdirected and will corkscrew out of control. You have to time it right, or the rocket's flight path will be unaffected or the grenade will blow up before you can launch the rocket. A [[Type-1 Antipersonnel Grenade|Plasma Grenade]] will redirect the rocket, but then it will explode right after it passes through the explosion. Also, it is possible to shoot the rocket with a [[Sniper rifle|Sniper Rifle]], but it requires above-average sniping skills. Once it has been hit, the rocket will spiral out of control, either striking the ground near the area where it was hit or it will spin upwards into the sky.

*'''Tank Dropping''' - Go to a map that supports [[M808B Main Battle Tank|Scorpions]] or [[Type-26 Wraith|Wraiths]] (preferably [[Sandtrap]]), find a relatively flat area, go into monitor mode an spawn a tank (preferably a [[M808B Main Battle Tank|Scorpion]]. Then look directly upwards, while still holding the tank, and go up nearly as far as you can, push the tank away from yourself and switch to player mode. The results can be hilarious. The tank can literally send you flying out of the map at hundreds of miles per-hour. Occasionally if done on [[Sandtrap]], the player's body will actually hit Aegis Fate. This can give hours of amusement. Another fun thing to try is dropping the tank on fusion coils, plasma batteries, etc.

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