Minecraft Wiki:Issues/Beta 1.8

This page's purpose is to list all the bugs players have come across in version 1.8. They pertain to the unmodified, unhacked game. Most of the single-player bugs also apply to multi-player.

Version history also contains newer bugs that may not be listed on this page at the moment.

Bugs and feature requests can now be logged at Get Satisfaction: Mojang.

Combat and Mobs

 * Upon shooting an arrow using a bow when in creative mode, you loose the arrrow.

Graphics

 * Trying to change visual settings at the main menu will provide an error message and a black screen.
 * All mobs can have lighting issues.
 * All light emitting blocks can cause odd lighting flicker on surrounding blocks.
 * Steps placed perpendicular to blocks create an odd shadow on the block
 * If you walk into or near to a wall that is next to iron bars or glass panes your view slips into the wall and goes black
 * Paintings are not properly lit
 * If you mine, the blocks get a brownish tint, and when you place a torch in the brownish tint, the sides mess up
 * Placing a torch underwater will cause a warm light to be left behind, even after the water breaks the torch.

Smelting

 * When a furnace starts or stops smelting, the game saves the world and crashes.
 * When a player places a torch underwater, the torch gets destroyed, but the light emitted from it stays.
 * When using on the furnace one "stick" for smelting it never to be end

Minecart

 * There are some instances of floating minecart tracks in strongholds.
 * Storage Cart model has the chest in the wrong place

Terrain Generation

 * Chunks of grass in the sky.
 * Reed grows on sand
 * Pockets of air generate in oceans.
 * Mobs can spawn in a way that they become trapped in a tree's leaves.
 * Tundra biomes appear to no longer generate
 * In NPC Villages, houses' door's can be generated buried by other blocks, even the gravel roads.
 * In NPC Villages, torches don't emit any light unless taken down and replaced

Crafting

 * Putting items in a crafting table and hitting Esc will make the items double, you can only pick up the amount you put in but the stack is now infinite.

Building

 * Holding the right mouse button will not continue to place blocks
 * When in classic if you break a block with redstone on it the redstone will drop and mess up you inventory if picked up.
 * You cannot open doors in creative mode as they get destroyed upon your click.(fix: right click)
 * Iron Bars, Fences, and some other items can now be placed on top of tall grass.

Experience

 * A server can experience server lag if a person with many experience orbs dies and drops them

Flying

 * If a player is flying and then is moved from Creative to Survival he/she will not be able to stop flying until moved back to Creative.
 * While swimming water may act weirdly

Smelting

 * Upon smelting anything the server crashes.

Teleporting

 * Upon teleporting, a player will get stuck in the target's character until disconnecting and reconnecting.