[MC-228056] Entities turn invisible upon death on the death screen

Entities turn invisible upon the player's death when on the death screen.

Steps to reproduce

Die when you have items in your inventory
See your items explode everywhere
See your items disappear

Linked issues

is duplicated by 2

MC-278735 Entities stop rendering on the death screen Resolved

MC-239839 Entity Clearing on Death Resolved

relates to 2

MC-265295 Dead players relogging back onto the death screen cannot see any blocks Open

MC-228740 Entities disappearing after death Resolved

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Jess Edward 2021-06-09T06:26:12Z

Similar post but modded. MC-228047

Brevort 2021-06-09T07:02:47Z

It is similar but this is just on the "You Died!" screen 🙂

Iosiv Visokogorskiy 2021-06-14T17:42:06Z

Related to MC-29375

ampolive 2021-07-18T22:34:04Z

Can confirm in 1.17.1.

Looki2000 2021-08-04T09:39:47Z

Can confirm in 1.17.1 as well.

8 more comments

ampolive 2021-10-06T15:32:54Z

Can confirm in 21w39a.

ampolive 2021-10-17T19:58:38Z

Can confirm in 21w41a.

Sharkie 2021-10-27T18:37:56Z

This also happens to entities like mobs, minecarts etc. they just completely vanish

Shuddery 2022-07-28T10:24:49Z

Affects 1.19.1

Tyler Auble 2023-02-04T14:43:34Z

If it's any help, I noticed in the entities disappear at the same time as the player's body in 3rd person (at least in 23w05a, where I have confirmed the bug) so that's probably related to the cause.

Brevort 2023-05-05T19:51:17Z

This could also be because the player is also rendered as an entity, so if all entities are invisible the player would also be.

clamlol 2024-02-29T03:50:34Z

Affects 24w09a, MC-169113 may be the root cause

tryashtar 2024-12-07T00:06:45Z

This last worked correctly in 21w16a. Over the next few snapshots, entities would briefly flicker after death but ultimately kept rendering. Finally, in version 1.17-pre1, entities would disappear and not return. This issue has persisted since then.

Duffy Springpat 2025-05-17T00:08:56Z

Does the chunk unload and stop ticking on death? I wonder if that’s why this happens. Still a problem on 1.21.5 and 1.21.6 snapshots.

fixmc-228056pls 2025-08-12T16:28:30Z

Still in 1.21.8 and 25w33a.

Duffy Springpat 2025-09-29T15:39:26Z

This is caused because of how LivingEntity handles death events. When an entity is killed and finishes their death animation, RemovalReason “KILLED” is called which removes said entity from chunk tracking. While this works for regular entities, players can still see the world on the death screen, and being “removed” as a player causes a ghost world state where all ticks are frozen, entities stop updating, and block updates are ignored.

Duffy Springpat 2025-10-04T05:43:53Z

Discovered a fix:
In ChunkMap, removeEntity calls broadcastRemoved. Simply remove the call to broadcastRemoved for ServerPlayer in the isDeadOrDying state. This fixes the issue without causing respawn issues.

emdashlol 2025-10-18T23:31:22Z

One of the most annoying bugs in my opinion