Minecraft Wiki:Issues/1.2.3

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Crashing/System
Bugs !! Pressing the Open texture pack folder button in 1.2.3 will crash the game
 * Not for me (1.2.3), tried renaming texturepacks folder while minecraft was running, retried, still no crash. 194.137.243.226
 * I cannot reproduce this in 1.2.3 vanilla on Windows Vista Home Premium: freshly downloaded and installed, I login and click texture packs and click button "Open texture packs folder" and the expected Windows explorer folder opens. Please give the detailed error message and check your antivirus software in case that is the cause. -Aurelius 15:28, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Can you please pastebin the error it gives you? Or does the game just close with no error? Dinnerbone 15:55, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I have this bug too. I used windows 7 with 64-bit Java. The game doesn't crash, it just freezes forever 217.120.203.3 18:49, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

! Game lags when in jungle biomes and/or around jungle trees.

undefined mp Setting server build limit to 64 will disallow creation of new blocks above 64, but does not prevent loading/generating blocks beyond 64. 194.137.243.226
 * But I think this is good, allows creating areas which are prohibited from modification. 194.137.243.226
 * This sounds like more of a feature than a bug to me. After all, it is called "build limit" and not "generation limit". I believe the intention of this limit is to inhibit player placed blocks only.CaMoreno3 18:21, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Annoyances a Neither 1.2.3 nor 1.2.2 accept command line arguments that previous versions accepted. I first determined this changed when the minecraft.jar launcher changed from 1.1 to 1.2.2, while the launcher for 1.2.3 is unchanged from 1.2.2. See Stand alone client (change). Please note this is not related to the environment variable JAVA_OPTIONS. -Aurelius 15:22, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Blocks
Bugs undefined you can't grow birch and pine trees over 128 block high. oak and jungle tree grow just fine with both versions available.
 * I was able to grow both at 140+ with bonemeal, may have been repaired in 1.2.3 --Kittani1977
 * Was able to let natuarally grow all trees at above 128. A 2x2 jungle tree grew up to within 2 of the top level with bonemeal and a single jungle grew short to the same point in 1.2.3 -- Kittani1977

!! Previous world converted, now when placing blocks Minecraft crashes. When re-opened the block is still in your inventory and in the world. Only some worlds.

!! (Unconfirmed/not thoroughly tested) Placing a torch (potentially other items?) on y=257 -- one block above the height limit -- is allowed, but in SMP causes an "Array out of bounds" exception and crashes all connected clients in addition to the server, requiring a server restart.
 * I actually created something similar in single player. Built tower to max height, placed water on top (technically above) and then replaced water with torch.  crashed immediately. (EDIT seems to have been fixed in 1.2.3)-- Kittani1977
 * Still reproducible on 1.2.3 SMP --Outi 09:51, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
 * (1.2.3 cmp,smp) I was able to place torch there, but no crash. 194.137.243.226
 * Please pastebin the full error you get so that I may investigate it. Dinnerbone 19:07, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

! Having a tower to the max height to 256 in the sky, and having a ladder on the side from 1-127 will show just fine, but 128-256 will be invisible. Breaking any one of the invisible ladders will cause all of the invisible ones to break and fall down as items. Visible ladders from 1-127 work just fine though.

Crafting/Enchanting/Brewing/Interface
Bugs undefined The first character of every enchantment label is missing. For example, "lame I" instead of "Flame I".
 * Grammar corrected for clarity. CaMoreno3 19:21, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Appears to have been fixed in 1.2.3, but now cannot seem to get any enchantment to show up over 39 (EDIT: Been messing with it for a while to confirm.. it seems ok... but different... somone else is going to have to do this too. -- Kittani1977
 * Could get roughly level 25 ench at max with 32 bookcases. Then added roof and floor bookcases, total 82 bookcases. After could get level 48 ench. Then removed back to 32 bookcases. Still could get level 48 ench. Rebuilt 32 bookcases + table, still could get level 48 ench. (did this in cmp) 194.137.243.226

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
 * important discussion do not comment at this page

Gameplay
Bugs

x mp Naturally generated leaves no longer decay in 1.2.3 tested in vanilla SMP
 * All naturally generated tree leave types decayed. (oak, large oak, birch, pine, jungle tree, 2x2 jungle tree, jungle undergrowth tree) (tested in cmp) Did this occur at 1.2.3 generated world or converted world? 194.137.243.226

!! Right-clicking with a water bucket will crash the game rarely. -FishSticks -Unable to reproduce
 * Could not reproduce with over 300 buckets placed in 1.2.3 -- Kittani1977

undefined While swimming through water surrounding blocks of water will turn to a darker shade of blue, these darker spots do no revert when you touch land and end up making the area look shoddy and generally ugly.
 * Does not appear to be happening in 1.2.3 -- Kittani1977

undefined Chests seem to get caught in an endless loop of opening and closing.
 * Could not reproduce in 1.2.3 -- Kittani1977

undefined If you log out while sitting in a boat, you fall out of the boat when you log back in. 82.69.54.207

a Doors will not open for non-ops in vanilla SMP
 * Could not reproduce with 10 different players ~Ramena

NPC/Animals
Bugs undefined In 1.2.2 Snow golems do not place snow on the ground when wandering around at all.
 * Clarification: They do not place snow in plains, swamps or mushroom biomes. It's still unintended, and should be fixed.
 * Still do not in swamps in 1.2.3, haven't checked others. -- Kittani1977

undefined Ocelots only spawn on easy or above difficulty only (Even though they are suppose to be peaceful mobs and don't harm you) Confirm?
 * I believe this due they spawned by mob generator. Read about that on weekly bug pages. (not tested) 194.137.243.226

undefined When standing you stand in a portal with a block behind you creepers sometimes won't attack you.
 * Isn't that a good thing? Yoshidude56 17:48, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

undefined Not sure if this a bug, or an implemented feature, but in SMP Hostile Mobs do not spawn above level 240.6. - Dirtyfargo

Annoyances a Iron Golems do not kill slimes. Slimes are annoying in superflat worlds and should be killed.


 * Slimes aren't just a nuisance, they're a blasted plague, but there are in-game workarounds to reduce the problem. I'll add a tip about it to the slime mob writeup 82.69.54.207

World generator
Bugs

undefined (1.2.3) Chunk generation error, chunk seems flipped. Seed "bug" (without ") location 41x,-381z. 194.137.243.226 http://apocalyptech.com/minecraft/
 * Added picture Zicxynum 15:57, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Unable to reproduce, running vanilla 1.2.3, using seed "bug" at exact location. Check for mods.
 * Really? If this md5 12f6c4b1bdcc63f029e3c088a364b8e4, size 3 988 921 bytes, is not vanilla, I really liked to know. 194.137.243.226 EDIT: just redownloaded minecraft, still version above, something suspicious is going on. EDIT2: used weekly to get version md5 3820d222b95d0b8c520d9596a756a6e6, somekind of minecraft virus seemed to be infecting my full releases. Still doesn't match apocalyptech site. EDIT3: redownloaded launcher, deleted .minecraft, first version appeared again.194.137.243.226

Graphical/Lightning
Bugs

undefined At times a texture will be stretched so that one of the corners is not on the actual block. Stretching may occur to a point far from the block. Observed on versions 1.1, 1.2.2 and 1.2.3

undefined Sometimes creating a closed in box when you place the final block light will still get through as if the block wasn't placed.

undefined If you surround an upside down slab with other blocks like this, it casts a shadow on the slab in the middle (makes sense for full blocks but not other upside down slabs)

Annoyances

a Torches spawned in Mines and Villages will show incorrect lighting until updated. May not happen 100% of the time. (1.2.3 actually still does it)

a Upside down stairs when positioned in a square amongst two normal stairs below to make a window frame does not allow light through. This making a normal sized square you can see out of but wont light up your room.

a There seems to be some lighting errors at chunk boundaries in SMP. Try fx the seed "21", and look at the sea bottom from above. Screenshot: http:// thuejk.dk/minecraft1_2_lighting.png