single player, survival mode, difficulty normal, savanna plateau, living in structure under a waterfall which has been redirected using cobblestone, stone and stone slabs (these blocks create the ceiling of the structure)
1. Crafted new item frame
2. Crafted Diamond Helmet
3. Enchanted Helmet (unbreaking 1 and aqua affinity)
4. Placed item frame on vertical wall immediately below ceiling
5. Placed Helmet in item frame
6. Changed my mind (did not look good!)
7. Removed helmet from item frame with iron pick axe
8. Helmet leaped into ceiling and disappeared! Also not in hotbar or inventory (five diamonds and experience points gone!)
9. Removed ceiling slabs and blocks searching for the helmet
10. Flooded the place but could not locate the helmet
11. Going back now to fix the flood damage!
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I have had this happen to me in 14w30c. Very rarely in small rooms (low ceiling, narrow hall, etc) item will pop off frame and then just disappear never to be found again.
I just had this happen in 1.8-pre3. I had five item frames on the wall with maps, and wanted to move them elsewhere. When I hit them, I only obtained three frames and three maps; two had vanished. I searched all adjacent areas with no success.
Can anyone provide exact steps to reproduce? There seems to be something that rarely happens that causes this.
I have a crowded room 2 blocks high with three item frames. Since I updated (I don't think I had a choice) to 1.8 I am not able to retrieve items from these frames, or the frames themselves. They just fly away for three or four blocks when broken, then disappear. In 1.7.10 I could see them falling to the floor, then retrieve them. I regret the release of 1.8 .....
I believe StevenNL2000's last comment is correct about the cause of this problem.
In my base's storage area, I have two 3-high rooms separated by a floor/ceiling of 1 block of stone and item frames on the highest block in the lower room.
Removing the item from the frame shows the item ejecting from the frame and disappearing when it hits the ground. I went and checked the upper room, and yep, there the items were, scattered on the floor. I was able to pick them up normally.
While I don't think it matters which item is in the item frame, I was working with: redstone dust, slime blocks, and slimeballs (v1.8).
Given how many votes the other issue has – yet it isn't fixed, probably because it would break a bunch of popular game mechanics – I would tend to think that this might better be fixed by adjusting the direction and/or speed the item is ejected from the item frame so it doesn't collide with the block above.
This is caused by the item frames going through the ceiling, making this a duplicate of MC-3706, which describes that problem.
I emphasize that my items fly to the floor, not the ceiling, then disappear. The frame hangs high in a 2-high room.
I followed your steps, but the helmet did drop for me. Can you post what exactly is needed to reproduce this bug?