This has been happening for many months, so it's not limited to 1.18.
Keystrokes will suddenly start becoming random. The keystroke changes each time I press a key. Even the same key will cause different things to happen.
Closing the game AND launcher solves the problem (every time but once, but that was probably just two back-to-back occurrences).
Today I noticed it while outside the game, typing in Word (with the game running in the background). But, closing the game and launcher corrected the problem in Word as well.
So, this problem has just become quite a bit more severe.
Many people have reported this happening to them, so it's not very likely it's a keyboard or computer issue. It seems more likely that the game is overwriting Windows' keyboard interface or something like that.
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Do you have multiple keyboard layouts? If so, on Windows I believe by default pressing Ctrl and Shift at the same time will change your keyboard layout.
No, I do not. But, I'll try that.
And DO NOT RESOLVE TICKETS unless you (Mojang) RESOLVE THEM! I am sick and tired of you collectively AND you personally closing tickets because you think you might have hit on a possible solution. THAT'S NOT TECH SUPPORT! It's sheer laziness.
Ctrl and Shift got me back to functional again. This is a good workaround until the bug is actually fixed.
This leaves two major issues and one unconfirmed but potentially worse issue:
First, the bug isn't fixed. So reopen this until Mojang prevents the launcher from causing keyboard swaps randomly like this.
Second, I don't have any alternate keyboard layouts. Microsoft Windows might, but if they do, I don't know about them. So this is a bug purely in the launcher for Minecraft. Note that I didn't even bring up the game this time. Just the launcher, and the problem occurred (I couldn't type properly in Chrome).
This brings me to the third issue, which I haven't seen, but is potentially devastating: if the fake keyboards Mojang is invoking end up randomizing either the Ctrl and/or the Shift keys, then there's no way to recover with that workaround.
I just thought of a major clue: the keystrokes are NOT part of other keyboard layouts. They can't be, because if you hit the same key twice in a row, you get different results.
We are not mojang, and this is not tech support. So if you are looking for help fixing this on your computer, you won't get much progress here
As I said, this is NOT a problem with my computer. Do a simple Internet search about it and you'll find lots of people have this issue.
I'm merely giving technical details so someone can fix it.
And, yes, this IS Mojang. Look at the URL: bugs.MOJANG.com.
This just happened to me again. But I forgot to check applications outside of the game. Sorry.