The bug
I was playing with my brother and he'd die, and then he couldn't see me anymore as I played. This happened many times. I experienced it in 18w45a again after I died and tp'd to my brother. I was invisible to him. I died again, tp'd again during a pillager raid. This time, Though I was visible to him, Both the Villagers and Illagers nearby were invisible to me.
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Confirmed for 18w45a happens in both singleplayer and multiplayer servers. Almost every time entities near where you died will be invisible after respawn. Relogging very rarely fixes it.
I'm also having trouble with my items becoming invisible after dying sometimes, but not always. 18w46a
The hitboxes also do not show up when F3 + B is active, I was just able to confirm
I just experienced this in 18w46a; I die and when I try to collect my gear I'm killed by an invisible vindicator. Neither is the gear that was dropped on death visible until I exit, launch and reload the savegame.
for me it also affects villagers, but it seems kind of random.. in my case only one ennemy and all villagers diappeared as well as some of my items
I just found out that when exitting game horses ( i didnt see that with other mobs) disappeared
even if mounted. if mounted the game would show my character not mounting a horse but as i was experimenting with that bug i found they would re appear sometimes if i took distance by flying away.. i then came back to the world where my horse disappeared and switched to creative mode to fly away but Simply changing the gamemode made the horse reappear and make me mount it again as if nothing happened.
I've had it happen, so far, with villagers, iron golems, tame cats, illagers, llamas, horses, pigs and sheep. It results in the game being unplayable for a while until (if) they reappear. Just don't go killing them when they pop back up if they're villagers, not unless you want crap reputation.
Gave this a thorough test in a new world.
Spawned in a spruce forest with sheep, a bonus chest, and a lava pit nearby.
Jumped in the pit, the sheep and items inside the chest remained after respawning.
Flipped to Creative real quick [oddly, the music changed to a new track as I did so] and grabbed zombie villager eggs and spawned half a dozen before flipping back to Survival.
Death by zombie villager; all mobs and items in the chest remained.
Death by jumping into the pit after being chased by zombie villagers; same result.
Unintentional death by being knocked into the pit by zombie villagers; entities still remain.
Death by zombie villager for good measure; entities still remain.
I think it's safe to say this has finally been fixed!
Fry
I also noticed that entities and mobs are invisible for a little while when I teleport to different areas in the world. For example, I used a boat to explore and then found a jungle and bamboo biome, so I sailed to shore, got off my boat, and did a F3+C to copy my jungle coordinates. I looked around until I found a panda, about 20 blocks away from my boat. Then I teleported back to my home (around 1500 blocks away, close to spawn) and threw some bamboo into a chest. Then, I teleported back to the jungle and noticed that my boat was missing! I walked to where I had it on shore, and I was able to collide with it as if it was visible. I also walked to where the panda was and it was missing too. So I walked back to my boat location and pushed it around while it was invisible, then it suddenly popped into view while I was pushing it. I looked over where the panda was, and I saw it where it was originally located.
So to reproduce the 'vanishing entities', go somewhere away from spawn, about 1000 blocks or so. Then, spawn a boat and some passive mobs, and press F3+C to copy your teleport coordinates. Teleport back to spawn and look around for a little while. Finally, teleport back to where you used F3+C, and the things you spawned in may be invisible.
EDIT - I tried the 'teleport to different areas' idea to test for invisible entities, and I had to teleport to the test areas several times before entities would start to go invisible. Also, when the boat is invisible, I can't climb into it, I can only collide with it. It's as if the server knows it's there but the client doesn't (I was playing a singleplayer game).