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.

Survival Single Player 1.8 (SSP)
Unconfirmed / unproven bugs have a (?) next to them.

General

 * (?) Hitting a dirt block with a sword in Survival causes a "Saving Chunks" crash.

Boat

 * Occasionally, boats are unresponsive and do not move when the player turns.

Lighting

 * Placing a torch in water will remove the torch but the light will remain.
 * Chests placed in a world created before 1.8 may appear to be a black box.  Workaround: place a torch close to the chest, the lighting glitch will correct itself, then you may remove the torch.

Beds

 * Using a bed in survival will occasionally cause it to skip to sunset instead of sunrise.

Crafting Table

 * Item Duplication Bug: put an item into the crafting table's interface -> double tap E -> when the item that gets ejected from the table and you pick it up in your inventory, move the item/stack in your inventory, another of that item appears singularly in your inventory. The singular item is infinite, the initial stack is not.

Doors

 * (?) For some players, doors do make a sound when left clicked

Fruit

 * Pumpkins and Melons take too long to grow.

Lava

 * (?) Swimming in lava causes the screen to become black.

Mobs

 * Endermen make sounds identical to those of a Zombie. It is unknown if this is an intentional placeholder or not.
 * Enderman and Squid to not drop experience points upon death.

Combat and Mobs

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

Graphics

 * Trying to change visual settings in 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 flickers 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.
 * Sticks act as infinite fuel (?)

Minecart

 * There are some instances of floating minecart tracks in strongholds.

Terrain Generation

 * Grass blocks appear in the sky
 * Floating pumpkins may spawn
 * Pockets of air generate in oceans
 * Mobs may become trapped in a tree's leaves when they spawn
 * Tundra biomes appear to no longer generate
 * In NPC Villages, houses' doors 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
 * When generated in/near ravines or caves, abandoned mineshafts are generated in awkward ways (i.e. floating support beams, floating tracks, etc.)

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 your 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.

General

 * Servers may experience lag upon the death of a player who is carrying many experience orbs.
 * Servers still running pre-1.8 maps may experience major lag
 * (?) Some people are unable to eat food.
 * (?) Some people's Hunger Bar never diminishes.

Mobs

 * (?) Endermen are unresponsive and do not interact with the player.

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

Server Crash Report

 * I've had this happen after a player teleported to me. Note I was getting "not enough RAM" warnings on startup of the software although I have 6GB. No mods, fresh download. Hosting with Hamachi.


 * [SEVERE] Unexpected exception
 * java.lang.NullPointerException
 * at oj.h_(SourceFile:111)
 * at eh.e(SourceFile:1193)
 * at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.h(SourceFile:370)
 * at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(SourceFile:303)
 * at ce.run(SourceFile:418)