[MC-3652] items break and come back!

Items with low durability will break and come back multiple times. Other times the item will remain invisible until you clock the spot it once was located. The item This bug has been around for as long as minecraft had enchanting. I once thought this bug harmless but now this bug may be able to trigger anti-cheat plugins used on servers and get players banned. These players are forced to repurchase the game to continue play in servers they like.

Linked issues

duplicates 2

MC-1040 Tools with unbreaking enchantment break, disappear from slot then reappear Resolved

MC-14051 JVM crashes in ig4dev32.dll / ig4dev64.dll (Broken Intel graphics driver for the "Mobile Intel 965 Express" graphics card) Resolved

Comments 5

FireHunterX 2012-11-21T23:00:12Z

Reproduced on Vanilla Minecraft.
Happens more often with enchanted items with the Unbreaking enchantment.

Tails 2012-11-21T23:08:40Z

Duplicate of MC-1040 , please use the search function to see if your bug has already been submitted. Currently over 30% of tickets are being closed as duplicate.

Josh Fongheiser 2012-12-19T16:03:18Z

I've been having this happen in the prerelease for 1.4.6 lately. I've noticed this has happened with pickaxes; not sure about other tools.

Russell Zahm 2013-02-02T02:36:53Z

@[Mod]Tails... I do a search every time I come here and did not find a match. If the search system would work properly it would reduce the number of duplicate posts.

Whilyam 2014-02-19T23:07:51Z

This is indeed because of Unbreaking. Tested multiple times. Only Unbreaking tools come back from the dead. It seems that tools that have one use left break before the game calculates if the use counts or is absorbed by the Unbreaking enchantment.