I recently downloaded the new Minecraft Preview via the Xbox preview program. Everything started up fine and I was able to import my beta world. The preview did tell me it was unable to load the character I had selected and was showing the “Alex” skin instead. My character in Bedrock was loaded with several items from the marketplace I had unlocked. I remember reading that preview would be unable to access the marketplace at first so I wasn’t too worried. I opened up the character editor and confirmed some things were locked though curiously I could see marketplace content my Xbox just wasn’t downloading it. Anyways I left Preview and decided to head back to Beta and check out some things. When it opened up I immediately noticed my character skin was the Alex skin, who I don’t normally play as, and went to the dressing room intending to change my character. Only none of my characters were there! Or rather they were there but they had all reverted to th default Alex or Steve looks with all the customizations gone! The only thing I can attribute this to is Preview overwriting my old character profiles.
I went into one and didn’t change anything but it still twirled as if I had when I exited the character editor. I didn’t touch any of the others but none of them had everything my main profile did. Unfortunately I didn’t see any way to get it back.
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Can confirm this issue is present in preview. I use a marketplace skin for my main skin in main release. When opening in preview it says it fails to load and defaults to either Alex or Steve at Random. If I go into the marketplace on Preview I can find my marketplace skin and reload it, but only for that session the game is open. Once I close the session the same behavior repeats itself.
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I have not tried to recreate it in the latest preview version but last time I looked all the characters had reverted to their default skins. None of the changes I did in beta were showing up in preview last i checked but if i selected one what I had or changed ended up in beta. Saw last weeks beta downloaded new character items but i did not try to apply and they certainly did not load my previous. had not yet received the 1.19 beta last time I logged in.
note: it also happens with iOS preview. iOS Preview cannot connect to marketplace to download any new character items.
Okay I loaded the latest version of beta and preview for both iOS and Xbox (for some reason the Xbox one would not update to 1.19) and this time the preview versions did not obviously overwrote my character profiles from the beta Xbox version. The iOS version still does not load marketplace so it has the most potential to overwrite my profiles. It did not apparently do so but I did not exhaustively test this.
I'm having the similar issue currently in preview 1.18.20.24 (windows10)
When loading the game I see "Failed to load character 4"
Reloading any of my characters in the dressing room also fails.
Thankfully however, no characters had been overwritten when I returned the main release 1.18.10