Chests create ghosts as soon as the player is far enough (out of render distance of the blocks). This "ghost" is only visually there; you can pass through it, it can exist through other block and entities. Once the "ghost" exist, you can do anything to the chest and the ghost will still exist. Ghost chest don't disappear with time, but they do disappear if you "save and quit to title".
Place where you can see them:
Inside a chest that you open. (Looks like the chest has two lid.)
Where a chest was after destroying a chest.
Where a small chest was before it was transformed into a large chest.
– In multiplayer, ghost chests may exist only in the world of a single player. Only the players who leaved the area after seeing the chest will have a ghost chest.
Steps to reproduce:
1- Place two chests then go away, far enough for the place where the chests are to disappear (out of render distance)
2- Then come back and breaks one chest and makes a double chest with the other one
3- You now have a ghost small chest and the ghost of a small chest inside a chest
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The player who breaks the chest don't see the ghost. But every player who saw the chest before it was destroyed and was far from it when it was destroyed can see the ghost.
I'm going to say that you might be experiencing MC-62166, which has been fixed for a future version.
MC-62166 is an old bug of an older snapshot. I saw that bug and this one isn't the same. The snapshot I'm using is 14w30c, the newest one. This bug affects only chests as far as I know. The ghost chests don't disappear after a time. Only closing and reopening the world makes them disappear.
Is this still a concern in the current Minecraft version? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases. If this has been done, we can reopen the issue.
Keep in mind that the "Resolved"-Status on this ticket just means "Answered", and that we are waiting for further information on whether this issue still exists or not. We will reopen it as soon as the requested information has been delivered.
The bug is really resolved. This is not a concern anymore. I just don't know how we are supposed to let the mods know the bug is resolved? Should I just leave a comment? Or should I put something in the description?
Is the other player seeing the "ghost chest" as well?