Playing in Realms, I was in creative mode with a full inventory and armor. I grabbed something new from creative inventory, but couldn't put it in my inventory because it was full, so I put it on the X to destroy it. Instantly, my inventory and armor were blank! Permanently.
We hypothesize that this issue may be related to a long term issue of sticking shift keys, but it is unclear what would lead to the sticking shift key issue in this case, especially as I was in full screen mode.
I lost things I could not reproduce, even in creative mode, so I don't want this to happen to anyone else. This was worse than almost any death.
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OK, in this case, I confirmed the SHIFT key was stuck, because when I tried to use the command line, hitting "V" did a paste.
I cannot imagine what would lead to the SHIFT being down in this case, because in the context, I had not pressed shift at all. I was just moving around and looking at my inventory.
So the bug at the root cause seems to be that clicking on the inventory X seem to trigger SHIFT always on mode.
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Seems like other modifier keys may be stuck in an odd state, as when I try to type in line commands, weird things happen and I cannot complete them. But hitting my own modifier keys to try to reset the state doesn't work. I have to quit Minecraft and launch it again.
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Your shift key is stuck, so this is a hardware issue, not a bug in game.
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Not completely reproducible. I can sometimes safely drop something on the X, sometimes not.
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While I agree with the superficial assessment (the mechanism), you are ignoring the details:
-> I never pressed the shift key in these circumstances
-> Effects of a shift key being pressed didn't persist outside of the inventory...
So perhaps we should rephrase this bug as "shift key / modifier keys get into inappropriate states while in inventory and create dangerous situations."
And is it not a bug that you can't even log out but have to quit and relaunch minecraft just to fix the issue?
Finally, this is NEW behavior - I've been an intensive user of minecraft since 1.7 and have never experienced this before.
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And, since it ONLY occurs in the inventory window, it doesn't sound like a hardware problem - else I'd be having shift key issues all over the place.
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Confirmed that shift key is not stuck anywhere else in the system during this scenario. The issue seems limited to the inventory window. Will try to reproduce on different computers to prove it is not a hardware problem.
BTW, I wouldn't bring this up if it weren't such a serious issue - I now will not risk using the inventory X at all in minecraft until it is fixed.
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My bad, actually a duplicate of MC-886.
See @unknown's comment
@unknown added a comment - 26/Dec/12 5:32 PM
LWJGL issue, we can't help it as we cannot update right now.
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Thanks, FVbico. 🙂
Given that it seems that LWJGL has had this bug for almost the entire history of Minecraft, it seems there's little hope for a fix, eh?
Jeff
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On a related note, ignoring the shift stick issue, is this an intended feature that if you hit SHIFT + X everything in your inventory and armor disappears? Seems an extremely dangerous feature. If you could option this off, then the stuck shift key wouldn't be so dangerous.
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Yes, that's intended.
It just happened again! On Realms. Seems very reproducable. In creative mode, get something new, then click on the X, and you lose EVERYTHING!