Minecraft Wiki:Issues/Weekly 12w17a

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Crashing/System
Bugs !! mp After updating from 12w15a to both 12w16a and 12w17a (Java 1.5, PowerMac G5 Quad) the following errors are displayed in the console when players try to log in (client also updated to dev builds):

!! sp  cr When you place and delete a block in rapid use (1/10 second or less) the game goes to Saving Chunk screen, then crashes. Colin21698 03:29, 27 April 2012 (UTC)Colin21698
 * Cannot reproduce. Although, I do get lag for a few seconds. ISQ Talk 22:43, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

!! sp When trying to sometimes destroy a ender crystal with a bow and arrow it will display Saving Chunks screen and then turn to black screen without any error logs. -UnknowGuy200

Annoyances

Fixed/Skipped

Gameplay
Bugs

undefined After breaking a bed whilst lying in it you will clip though walls just enough to get damaged and "suffocate" in the wall - not tested on MP. I can't figure out all of this embed stuff so email me for the link to a video of the glitch and a world save of the glitch.
 * There is a long standing issue where if you break a bed whilst you're lying in it the player's position is offset and you will clip through all walls and suffocate. Can you create a new world, break a bed whilst lying in it, and tell me if this is the same issue that you are getting here? --Mattrition 18:37, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Just tried what you said and that was the problem, sorry about that. Edit - When entering the map again after closing minecraft, this does not happen. The video will show what I meant though.
 * I'll clarify the cause of this issue and downgrade it to a minor issue. --Mattrition 19:24, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
 * This is been reproduced in 1.1, and it is a bug! 93.86.185.132 19:27, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

undefined mp Knockback and damage screen calculation is often wrong in multiplayer, actually dealing knockback when it shouldn't (like drowning or being on fire).

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 cr In creative mode item selection screen, some blocks that can be useful are missing: Snow (the thin block of taiga and tundra biomes), the 3 Silverfish blocks (ID 97), End Portal Frame (ID 120) and the Dragon Egg (can be used as decoration without need to kill the Enderdragon. --89.21.192.211 19:15, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
 * This is supposed to happen. Md678685 16:22, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

a When a LARGE amount of minecarts are moving on a 2x2 circular rail, they seem to repel the player. Dsteinkoenig
 * I have only been able to test this in Creative Single Player, because I can't run client & server at the same time. I also don't have enough iron in SSP. Further testing would be helpful. Dsteinkoenig
 * That is a consequence of how Minecraft's physics system works. You can see the same effect with a large amount of mobs, such as from an XP grinder's collection point. It's unlikely that there's anything to be done about this unless Mojang replaces it entirely with something fancier, which is unlikely. —kpreid 11:39, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Fixed/Skipped

Blocks
Bugs undefined Silk Touch behaves incorrectly with double slabs. Only one slab will drop, instead of two.
 * Given the nature of Silk Touch, shouldn't it drop a double-slab block (ID:43) rather than one or two single-slabs? --OSX2000 22:13, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
 * That's not what I meant. It drops a SINGLE slab. Not a single double-slab.

Annoyances a su When huge mushroom blocks are mined with Silk Touch, the damage value is always zero. TorchicBlaziken 20:19, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

a Water will create a new source block between two source blocks when it is on a solid block, but not on top of another water source block. This is obviously an oversight and results in whirlpools whenever you try to take water from the ocean, which is really annoying. TorchicBlaziken 22:23, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Obviously an oversight? --Moxxy 20:08, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

a Pressure plates still work when they are placed on top of fences. This is incredibly annoying. Their behavior on top of fences should be reverted to how it was back in 1.8 when they didn't work. Instead, we should be allowed to place pressure plates on top of Nether Brick Fences, and they should work there. Then at least we would be able to make cool redstone stuff with that AND have a non-clicking table. TorchicBlaziken 23:50, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Only working on nether fences is an extremely obscure and non-nonsensical solution. Your suggestions would break tons of redstone machines and cause tons more annoyance than a sound. Also how the heck is a ticking noise for an extremely specific situation major?! --Moxxy 20:08, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

a! After the code where an End Portal is created in the End after the Dragon dies, BlockEndPortal.bossDefeated is set to false again. This is in the code but it is pointless. All it does is make it so that if someone in Creative Mode destroys the only End Portals in the End, they are impossible to replace, even with the new cheats. This line of code in EntityDragon.createEnderPortal (BlockEndPortal.bossDefeated = false;) should be deleted, because there is no way for players to make End Portals in Survival without cheats, anyway. TorchicBlaziken 18:29, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

aspcrwhen destroying a piston(sticky/normal)head while it's powered(facing any direction)the piston item still drops. --Techz59

a When stepping on a pressure plate placed on glowstone the pressure plate will be dropped as a resource.

Fixed/Skipped f undefinedUpside-down slabs show as oak, no matter what type they are. Mustek 15:57, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Items
Bugs undefined Boats emit the blue spray water particles when moving on land. --Mattrition 17:09, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Boats have always been placeable on land. This is intended. --Swampert rox 18:56, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I stand corrected! And thinking about it, it makes sense to be able to place a boat on land and if you did, of course it would move slowly. The only thing that doesn't make sense is the water particles. --Mattrition 19:10, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Updated your report --Moxxy 20:51, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

undefined When lines of fence posts intersect, the corner post's hitbox takes up the entire block it is on, and will obstruct the player.

undefined Mushrooms cannot be placed and huge mushrooms cannot be grown, even at night, because the light level is technically the same as during the day. Currently, the only way to grow them is with shade. Seems unintentional: If the issue was that mushrooms can't grow in sunlight, they should have no problem growing in the dark of night.

undefined Maps are shown incorrectly,can be bad for custom maps or exploring to find out where your house is. Maps are shown blank.
 * Could you clarify what you mean by "shown incorrectly" and "blank"? Does this mean that maps are not drawn at all? --Mattrition 18:38, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Annoyances

Fixed/Skipped

Redstone/Pistons
Bugs undefined Redstone torch data-value/TileEntity (haven't decompiled to check what it uses, I think data-value) is not reset if the torch is destroyed and then replaced. This results in torhces burning out immediately if placed in a spot where it has previously burned out. Marked as major, as if this is related to TEs it may allow dupe bugs, although it probably isn't.--109.154.215.231 18:36, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Corrected tag to mark as bug instead of annoyance. --Swampert rox 18:56, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Not a major issue. Torches burning out is a minor bug and duplication bugs are minor too. --Mattrition 18:42, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

undefined Redstone torches burn out on clock circuits with over 100 tick delays. Also burning out on pressure plate, switch and button circuits even with single or delayed double use of the circuit.

Annoyance

Fixed/Skipped

World Generator
Bugs

Annoyances

Fixed/Skipped

Mobs/NPCs/Animals
Bugs undefined Snow golems do not produce snow in swamps or plains.
 * This isnt a bug, snow golems arent supposed to leave trails in hot biomes> KingFlameTail 20:20, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

undefined If you log in during night time, large numbers of zombies may spawn around you, even in well-lit areas.

undefined In a newly generated world untamed wolves will teleport to you. I was in a NPC village when this happened. There were 12 wolves teleporting to me non-stop and they would not go away. Even if I killed them. They would just pop out of the ground and follow me again. Can you test this Jeb or others and see if this happens to you? This same thing happened with ocelots a couple patches ago, Please fix.
 * This is happening to a few people and we need to be able to reproduce it. Can you tell me exactly what you did, from updating minecraft to this snapshot up to the teleporting animals, that led to this situation? Can you replicate it on your computer? What are your system specs? What java version are you using? --Mattrition 10:39, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Annoyances a When Mobs and players swim in water, their body will be shadowed when more than half of their body "dips" below the water line, possibly because they inherit the light level that the water block uses. This makes the body alternate between light and dark.--Mattrition 17:29, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

a Snow golems and iron golems won't be created if the head is not not placed last or if created by pistons.
 * Yeah... so? --Moxxy 21:51, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I am pretty sure that this is intended behavior, makes creating golems a more direct process, rather than making machines do it for you.

Fixed/Skipped

Graphical/Lighting
Bugs undefined This has been really annoying since the Dimming feature has been first added in Beta 1.8. I am marking this as bug because it's clearly unintended behaviour. It only happens under y=63. --<MCKMan>

undefined mp A few graphical elements are missing:
 * Fishing rod "line".
 * Fishing rod "line" in held item. It shouldn't appear when the line is casted.
 * Other Player breaking animations.
 * Magma Cube animations.
 * some Enderman animations (like the nice mouth, the smoke and the tremble animation).

undefined mp When there is a thunderstorm in multiplayer the sky does not darken like in singleplayer.
 * Why is this flagged as "The community cannot reproduce"? Simply go on a server, wait for it to start thundering and you will see the sky will NOT turn darker, compared to single player. <font style="color:teal;text-decoration:underline;">heldplayer 15:57, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
 * That flag was there from the previous discussion, where clarification was needed on which visual effect is missing. I've cleared it up. --Mattrition 16:01, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

undefined mp When rain/snow starts on a server, then no starting animation is done. For reference, in single player downfall starts by slowly fading in. The same applies when weather stops.

undefinedwhen using a dual monitor setup on windows xp, if minecraft is being played on the secondary monitor, then fullscreened using F11, minecraft will go to the primary monitor and mess up the resolution for the secondary. Annoyances a When eating mushroom stew, because the eating animation is played, the player is shown eating the bowl. If it used the drinking animation instead, it would not do this.
 * Downgraded to annoyance, because the issue is purely aesthetic.

a When making a house or room, and using half slabs for the roof, light shows through, even if the entire room is enclosed. This was tested in single player creative and survival.
 * Are you using upside-down half slabs? --Mattrition 19:46, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
 * No, I'm using lower half slabs to create a roof on a house. The adjacent block would be birch planks (for the walls). The roof slabs only cover the inside area of those walls, making a step-up effect for the roof... If that makes any sense.

Fixed/Skipped

Chat/Commands
Bugs undefined mp The anti-spam does not really prevent spam.
 * I can type 4-5 messages a second as non-op and I do not get kicked. <font color="Blue">C <font color="Orange">ali <font color="Purple">nou - talk × contribs » 23:43, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Annoyances Fixed/Skipped

Menus
Bugs

undefined Long filenames (I use the splash text as the savegame name and seeds) needlessly overlap the saved-game selection box. That selection box is about 50% of the display width of the Minecraft window, and there's lots of unused blank space on both sides, so on my system it wouldn't 'need' to overlap the filename plus datestamp text until they passed 60 characters or so.Simons Mith 18:26, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Annoyances a Inserting a color code into a server's MOTD causes the MOTD to appear as a "?" and the user count as "???" http://i.imgur.com/YIpIS.png Nosrepa 16:17, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

a When connecting to an outdated server/client, protocol version/game version should be shown.

Fixed/Skipped F undefined The volume sliders show no percentages. Mustek 15:50, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

In-Game Interfaces/HUD
Bugs

! mp Cannot craft Book and Quill in SMP. Works fine in SSP. Clients and server both updated to 12w17a.

x You cannot copy/paste text into a book if the text takes up more than 1 page. ~DaleK 18:14, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Was notified by another player that copy/paste works. I tested and sure enough. copy/pasting the § section sign even works to make color/format codes. This did not work this morning. I guarantee it. Mojang must have fixed it. Which confuses me..~DaleK 00:56, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
 * They can't have fixed it, it would have required you to at least consciously download another jar file even if they had silently changed the weekly release, and they don't do that. I think you may have found a bug in the copying mechanic that you can't reproduce yet, so I'll pop a [?] over this until someone can give instructions on how to make copying not work. --Mattrition 11:37, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
 * The formatting confuses the hell out of me so sorry in advance for the stupid post but the copy paste does NOT work if you are pasting something longer then 1 page tried many time and it only works if it will fit on the page you are pasting to
 * Yep, that seems to be the issue! --Mattrition 23:10, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

x The GUI is missing (it's a white square box reading "missing") rendering it fairly hard to read, especially at the top. It also is missing the buttons for changing pages, making it hard to change pages, but not impossible. The "Sign" and "Done" buttons are present. The blinking cursor is just fine. All text seems to be present, the pages numbers are present and work fine. This continues after signing. Running Java 5 on a Mac. --Wormy14 11:35, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

x The total page numbers don't go down if you flip a page back, even without any written text. It does not save like that, only to the last written page. You can also sign a blank book. --Wormy14 11:35, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Annoyances

a When editing a book, adding text until the caret wraps on to the next line will cause the colour codes for the caret to become visible. -IPeer 17:51, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

a You can't change the cursor position while editing a book. <font style="color:teal;text-decoration:underline;">heldplayer 18:54, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
 * This is an omitted feature. And just FYI: you're not using the [?] label correctly. Have a read of the Issue Labels section at the top of the page. --Mattrition 21:14, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
 * "... ? can be added to tag an issue that you are unsure of or ..." I believe this is a correct usage as defined by the page, if not, please change the description of it to clarify the use. <font style="color:teal;text-decoration:underline;">heldplayer 21:26, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I interpreted that as "use this tag on a bug that you could not reproduce properly and requires further vetting by others". Of course, your issue is easily reproducible and you were just unsure on whether the issue was an accidental bug or an omitted feature (discrepancy between [a] and [x]). But thinking about it maybe you can use the tag like that. In any case I agree that it is an omitted feature rather than a bug so it is removed now. --Mattrition 11:12, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Fixed/Skipped

Sounds
Bugs undefined mp Several sound instances do not play in multiplayer:
 * Chicken egg laying sounds.
 * Skeleton/Other Player bow, snowball, egg, ender pearl and eye of ender shooting sounds.
 * Pressure plate, lever, button sounds.
 * Mob/Other Player stepping sounds.
 * Other Player mining sounds (the sounds playing before the mining is finished - see Obsidian or Bedrock for examples).
 * Fishing rod sounds (reeling should not make a sound).
 * Slime and Magma Cube sounds.
 * Hoe breaking sounds.
 * Armor breaking sounds.

Annoyances

Fixed/Skipped

Language/Text Files
Bugs undefined The End Poem obviously does not have multilingual support. This is something that needs to be fixed. Minecraft needs to have multilingual support from more than the .lang files if everything is going to be translated. TorchicBlaziken 00:04, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Removed feature request portion of bug report. --Moxxy 20:11, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

undefined Foreign characters cannot be typed into GUIs and must be copied and pasted. This does not make Minecraft very foreign-language-friendly. TorchicBlaziken 00:04, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Annoyances

a When you switch to Canadian, the "Translations may not be 100% accurate" is "The dark secret about the creation of Minecraft will be revealed.". Bug? alexkill51 - 27 April 2012
 * I actually lol'd at this.--MCKMan
 * I think this is a joke... not a bug. --Moxxy 21:51, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes. It is a joke. Just like in 1.2 preview with the lever in quenya or the diamond boots, eh? in canadian in 12w06a i think. Downgrading to annoyance since this is just a joke. (am i allowed to?) <MCKMan>
 * Has anyone noticed how most of the language oddities are in Canadian English? NetherrackCreeper (talk) 16:54, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I plan on adding a language file in my texture pack and this is one of the texts i will use because it's just too funny. <MCKMan>

a This is very minor, but when you open the Options menu, the three buttons ("Video Settings...", "Controls...", and "Language...") all have ellipses (...) at the end, while the new "Chat Settings" does not. This may have been intentional, yet the other three have ellipses and are directly next to this one. ISQ Talk 22:50, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

? Oakwood, pinewood, and sprucewood are single words. Spelling them with a hyphen like they are in the names for the oak, pine, and spruce wooden slabs is improper for this reason. "Jungle-Wood" is fine because "junglewood" is not even a proper word. TorchicBlaziken 20:18, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Checked in dictionary, didn't find oakwood or sprucewood. Rest of discussion moved.82.69.54.207 21:58, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Fixed/Skipped