When my inventory is full and there are item drops laying around it acts like everything is being picked up but items don't show up in inventory since it is full. Not sure if this was the way it was intended to work or not.
Before the Survival Inventory was accessible in creative items would lye on the floor if the inventory was full. That was changed in Beta 1.9pre5, so that the player would pick up items no matter how full the inventory is. Now that the inventory is accessible this behaviour should be reconsidered, since the inventory can be easily cleared.
Link to the change in Beta 1.9pre5: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Issues/Beta_1.9pre5#Fixed.2FSkipped_5
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MC-274652
Chest bug (Creative mode)
Resolved
MC-9597
you can pick up items when your inventory is full
Resolved
MC-15736
Picking items up with full inventory
Resolved
MC-30585
Inventory picks up items even if there is no where for them to go, thus deleting them.
Resolved
MC-64064
Picking up drops while inventory is full destroys the dropped item
Resolved
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There was a time where it was impossible to pick items up with full inventory, but that was changed, so intended.
I really think this behavior needs to be changed, intended or not.
A player just lost two chests of items after they broke one open while I was stood next to them with creative mode creative mode active.
While I can see that it is convenient for cleaning up, it's a 'feature' that would work just as well implemented as a console command that clears the inventory.
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Would it not be more appropriate to re-open the ticket, and let one of the developers confirm if it's intended or not?
Black holing items without confirmation seems like it has a significant chance of being a regression, especially as:
it wasn't documented in any of the changelogs
/clear exists
Its unfortunate that it removes the items, but can't you just clear up inventory space? I do not want to see this change as it makes it easy to clear up a large amount of item drops without having to clear your inventory. I support kbk's suggestion for an option to turn that on/off. Currently, I would not like to have to store all of my custom command blocks in a chest so I can insta clear the inventory just to pick up item drops that I don't need.
This is convenient for cleaning things up. I don't know if it's intended.