Minecraft Wiki:Issues/Weekly 12w19a

Bug Reporting
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Crashing/System
Bugs

!!For the last four dev builds (ever since 12w16a) after about 5 minutes of being connected, the server disconnects the client and creates a crash report. After this, the server becomes unresponsive over the network, but still responds to console commands.

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 * I also consistently get a disconnection after about five minutes, but on my iMac (2.5GB 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo running OS 10.5.8) it's harmless. I can just reconnect and continue. My "Relevant Details" (cut and pasted from a different crash) are:

undefined 82.69.54.207 18:35, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Annoyances

Fixed/Skipped

Gameplay
Bugs

undefined Time does not pause in Single Player when using the console or main menu. --Techokami
 * Not a bug, SP is server-like
 * It is a bug. --- User42 (talk)

! When playing Minecraft on a Mac, using Tab for commands doesn't work, and pasting with CMD-V doesn't work, either. (Although CTRL-V does.) Dinnerbone already knows about this but he can't test it because he doesn't have a Mac. TorchicBlaziken 20:47, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

undefined Apparently Notch forgot to add code in the basic living entity class that makes the air meter take effect when submerged in lava, and they never noticed this oversight. This can be noticed when under the effects of a Potion of Fire Resistance, or on Nether mobs. TorchicBlaziken 20:47, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Annoyances a! The enchanting system has always, and continues to be frustratingly unfair. sometimes producing Efficiency III when a level 50 enchant is used. Considering you need to kill NINE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE zombies/creepers etc, to get to Level 50, users are naturally in consensus that, to quote Yahtzee Croshaw, the ratio of difficulty to find versus actual usefulness is completely arbitrary. While we respect the mystique Mojang have tried to create about enchanting, the numbers need serious review. Kizzycocoa

a! The missing collision between players is rendering my one-person-at-a-time entrances to stadiums and some other stuff completely useless. - Floedekage

a When you have an item in your hotbar selected (other than the item in slot 1) and you enter the Nether, that item is no longer selected. It always defaults back to the item in slot 1. DetachableMonkey
 * Yeah... So? It may come in handy for some people.<MCKMan> 19:03, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

a When spawned on ocean biome you spawn in the bottom of the sea --Jimakis98

a! When destroying a block with 0.0F of hardness, it still deducts durability from your sword or tool. These are blocks such as torches, tall grass, flowers, saplings, mushrooms, and crops. This makes it so that you always have to switch to something else before breaking these blocks or else your tool or sword will suffer needless damage. Usually, this is just a minor nuisance, but it gets extremely annoying when there is a chicken in tall grass and you want to kill it. You can't just use your bare hands because then you wouldn't kill it in one hit, and the chicken would run away. Also, the chicken is one block tall so you often accidentally use it on tall grass, wasting your sword. It doesn't cost durability to put out a fire, so why should it cost durability to break something that you could destroy instantly with your bare hands?TorchicBlaziken 20:47, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

a When playing Minecraft on a Mac, the Minecraft server shows up on the dock as a generic Java program named "net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer". TorchicBlaziken 20:47, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Fixed/Skipped

Blocks
Bugs

Annoyances

Fixed/Skipped

Items
Bugs

undefined Crafting a map results in a map_0 <font style="color:teal;text-decoration:underline;">heldplayer 18:07, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Most definitely not a major bug. Please brush up on your bug classifying skills. --Mattrition 20:08, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

undefined The directional arrow on maps is misaligned. For example, when facing north, the arrow will point north-northeast. TorchicBlaziken 21:04, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

undefined If one drops a block/item then builds with a transparent block (glass, leaves, farmland...) on the dropped block/item, the drop will be pushed upwards, but cannot be collected. --Calinou

undefined Sometimes, dropped items/blocks turn invisible. --Techokami
 * Upgraded to minor bug. E-102 Gamma 21:35, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

undefined Arrows jump to the top of a block on impact, sometimes making it impossible to collect the arrow. - Mustek 14:22, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Upgraded to minor bug. E-102 Gamma 21:36, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Annoyances

a Iron Hoes, Golden Hoes, and Diamond Hoes are pointless because other than durability, they have no benefit over a Wooden or Stone Hoe. In the case of the Golden Hoe, it is even worse than all the other hoes in every way you could think of. Besides, you could just craft another Stone Hoe every time your old one breaks instead of wasting Iron or Diamonds on a Hoe.

a Cookies are pointless because they only stack to 8 unlike other foods which stack to 64 now, and they aren't even as good as other foods like meat. This makes cocoa beans themselves rather pointless because you don't need them to have brown sheep, either. TorchicBlaziken 20:53, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Fixed/Skipped

World Generator
Bugs undefined Occasionally desert biomes are generated unpopulated (Example: World Type: Large Biomes, Seed: 'jungle', this desert has a few reeds in one place but otherwise is completely empty). 72.201.95.130 19:21, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Are you sure that your "desert" isn't just a big beach? 142.167.205.77 22:27, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

undefined Extending Abandoned Mineshafts generates new support structures & cobwebs, many of which often are destroyed w/out interference soon after generation. screenshots

undefined Just like abandoned mineshafts were before the floors were implemented, strongholds generate weirdly when they cross a ravine. The seed -623160645725253637 is a good example of this with a stronghold in a hole close to spawn which crosses an underground ravine. TorchicBlaziken 22:00, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

undefined Weird snow-less lines in taiga biome (Big biomes). Mustek 14:15, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Maybe a monster went through the Taiga biome? Lol, probably a bug in the coding of world generation. --Firefox4 18:54, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Looks like a bug to me. Upgraded. E-102 Gamma 21:39, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Annoyances

Fixed/Skipped

Mobs/NPCs/Animals
Bugs

undefined Passive mobs are ridiculously aquatic. I bred a moderate number of cows, sheep, pigs and chickens (30-40 or so) and left them to their own devices on a smallish island. (About 50x40 blocks in size, just inside an ocean biome). After a time I found that at any time around 90% of the mobs would be swimming about in the sea and only 10% of them would be wandering on land. The other way around would be fine... 82.69.54.207 22:42, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Annoyances

Fixed/Skipped

Graphical/Lighting
Bugs undefined Special monster animations are missing. (Magma cube's springy jumping, endermen's mouth and shaking) - Mustek 14:20, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

undefined Some item textures are offset, such as steak, raw beef, cactus green dye... --Calinou

undefined Many items textures is 1-3 blocks up like it is in older versions --Jimakis98

undefined Connected ice texture problem (has some very very light blue strips) --Jimakis98

undefined Player's custom skin reverts to default "Steve" skin after dying --asmcsl

Annoyances a The glistering melon texture is horizontally flipped. --Calinou
 * This is intended. Donwngrading to Annoyance. <MCKMan> 19:06, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

a The fishing rod is flipped by the coding when held. It should be rotated in the items.png as it looks weird that way. <MCKMan> 19:25, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

a Shears should probably be horizontally flipped in hand (so you're not cutting/shearing things with the blunt edge). --Calinou

a Squid have odd animation and movement; they twitch and change direction wildly, sometimes going in the wrong direction from where they are facing. --Techokami Fixed/Skipped

Menus
Bugs

Annoyances

Fixed/Skipped

In-Game Interfaces/HUD
Bugs

Annoyances a The seed is no longer shown in singleplayer. - Mustek 14:16, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Fixed/Skipped

Language/Text Files
Bugs

Annoyances

Fixed/Skipped