When attempting to change my render distance in the Nether, the world stops being updated. Mobs freeze, blocks break but items don't drop, can't interact with tile entities like chests, etc.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new world (I was using Custom World Type)
2. Go to the Nether
3. Try to change the render distance (higher or lower).
4. World will now freeze.
Notes:
Simply reloading the world does not fix the issue, as the world will freeze on Downloading Terrain, and will eventually crash due to not having enough memory. Restarting the game and the launcher also does not fix the issue.
To fix the issue, you must join a server and change your render distance. This resolves the issue.
This issue does not occur on servers, only on local singleplayer.
I was only able to reproduce the issue in the Nether, does not occur in the Overworld and did not test The End.
Comments 3
Is this still an issue in the current Minecraft Snapshot 15w44b or later? 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 so, please attach the complete contents of the Game Output console of the Launcher after changing render distance.
For me it did not freeze completely
However changing the render distance from 12 to 16 caused it to stop responding for maybe 5 seconds