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MCPE-173452

Changing long world name causes game crash on Nintendo Switch

I play a single player world on a Nintendo Switch. When my game was heavily affected by MCPE-164765, I created a safety copy each time I launched the game and continued playing on the copy. This (as intended) added a prefix "Copy of " to the worldname.

 

After a while I wanted to clean up my world name. Now, however, each time I want to edit the world name the game crashes immediately.

 

 

It would appear that:

  • You cannot manually enter a world name that is too long, this works correctly as intended

  • Creating a copy of a world, does not take this character limit into account and keeps adding the prefix characters waaaaay past the manual limit.

  • The world name edit field can not hold enough characters to contain a worldname which has become too long which causes a game crash when too much data is loaded into the field (buffer overflow?)

 

 

Personal:

To save space on my switch, I deleted older safety copies ... but now I have no copies left with a name which is short enough to edit.

This is the only world I've been playing for a few years, please add an automatic trim on the world name length (perhaps during a copy?).

I'm currently afraid to continue to play on this world as I might or might not hit some other limit which could permanently corrupt my world.

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Reopened to investigate separately to MCPE-152092.

similar to MCPE-164293
both are the same in that they crash with too many texts

Is this still an issue for you?

Hi,

(I had to create a new account because Jira didn’t even recognise e-mail address anymore … but I created the original ticket)

I just tested this and yes, the problem persists.

See first attached image showing my world,

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second attached image showing the error message (in Dutch) after which the Switch returns me to the game selection menu with Minecraft no longer running

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and third image showing the Minecraft version in the corner.

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Wim G.

(Unassigned)

1085770, 1440989

Confirmed

Nintendo Switch

1.20.12 Hotfix

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