This has been documented and has appeared to have been fixed in versions as far back as 1.14 according to this website, but this issue still appears in modern version 1.20.4.
When using the /locate command within a world that has the "Generate Structures" tab turned off when creating the world, the game will freeze for a couple of minutes. The player is able to break and place blocks. However, the player cannot interact with entities, drop items, interact with blocks (i.e. chests, crafting tables, etc.), cannot light portals, cannot use items (ender pearls, bow and arrows, etc.), blocks will not interact with each other (water and lava will not mix to create stone, cobblestone, or obsidian), mobs will not be affected by blocks (lava and fire will not damage them), commands will not work, and finally the world will jump forward to anything you have done (hop into minecart as shown, open furnaces, drop items, etc.) but will not affect mobs or other entities, and then freeze and slow down until eventually crashing.
Here's the error code I got the first time I let the game crash, without stopping it through other means: -1073740940.
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Can reproduce the freeze in 1.21-pre 4 with the following command:
/locate structure #minecraft:on_woodland_explorer_mapsThe internal server freezes for a solid 15 minutes, but the game does not crash for me.
An easy fix would be to check if structures are enabled in the world before executing the actual command.
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Console log attached.
Can confirm. This is a lag issue - chunks don't load, entities freeze, and other things that are affected by TPS do not respond at all.
Saving and quitting the world while in this state makes the game stay on the 'Saving world' screen for much longer than expected. In fact, I had to close (crash) the game using Task Manager because it wasn't responding (Alt+F4 didn't work).
Additionally, MSPT lag messages were spammed to the log:
[Server thread/WARN]: Can't keep up! Is the server overloaded? Running 2527ms or 50 ticks behind
Interestingly, running the command @unknown provided in a Superflat world with no structures does not cause this issue - it instantly gives back an error message, which is what should happen in a normal world:
Could not find a structure of type "#minecraft:on_woodland_explorer_maps" nearby
As of 1.21 this sometimes fixes itself after a world reload.
Is this a commands issue or a /locate issue?
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