The game crashes right when it loads a world, one time it loaded but the game crashed about 10 seconds after, this is an issue in Minecraft for Android, the problems started since the Minecraft vote but updating from Android 13 to Android 14 might be the issue, I'm not sure. I can still play the game but I have to reopen the game many times, the game also crashes when someone tries to join.
This happens with all existing worlds and when creating a new one.
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This sounds like the same problem my son is having. He is also using a Google Pixel 6a, which upgraded itself to Android 14 sometime in the last week or two. His Android Minecraft version is 1.20.32.03.
When he starts a local world on his phone, he usually can successfully load into the world, but it OFTEN crashes within the first 10 seconds of game play.
When he successfully starts his world, and then invites friends to connect, as soon as they try to connect, his world crashes! As far as we can tell, EVERY time a friend tries to connect to one of his worlds, his world immediately crashes. This happens both with the friend on the wifi LAN, and remote over the Internet.
When he tries to connect remotely to a friend's world, HIS local Minecraft client fails to connect every time. The friend's remote world does NOT crash, and is seemingly fine.
Strangely, he seemingly CAN connect to and play normally on a Minecraft server version 1.20.32.03 running on Linux, on our LAN.
When his Minecraft world crashes, Minecraft exits the world WITHOUT saving, MOSTLY. However, he sometimes sees weird glitches like this one: At least once, he started a local world, spawned inside his house, took a shovel out of a chest, walked a short distance away, and then the world crashed. When he re-started the world, he again spawned in the same location in his house as before - suggesting that no progress had been saved. However, the shovel was MISSING from the chest, and completely missing from the world! The shovel was NOT in his inventory, nor dropped anywhere else where his character had walked before the world crashed. A strange bug, as if the crashed world did a PARTIAL save!
This buggy behavior started affecting him last night, Saturday 2023-10-22, and continues today. Interestingly, it was NOT affecting him yesterday MORNING, but at that time, he was playing with NO network access at all (no wifi, no Internet). Previous to that he had not played for a week or so. Network access of friends trying to connect always triggers the world crash, so perhaps network access is implicated in general in some way.
Also, he often starts a Facebook Messenger Kids (similar to Skype) call on his phone and then leaves it running, in order to talk with his friends while playing Minecraft. He has done that for years with no problem. Today however, having the Messenger Kids call running in the background seemed to INCREASE the chance of his Minecraft world crashing.
It seems that atp and I have the same problem, I managed to replicate the bug of the world data saving but not the player, I managed to duplicate some blocks by accident, I was building a library and put all the blocks for the roof, finishing it, but instead of the game crashing I tabed out to choose a new video to listen, I like to listen to videos while I play, mostly the narrative kind, but doing this is not related to the problem here I'm sure of it, I been doing it way before the problem began, and before, getting out of the Minecraft application never was a problem, but this time it crashed, it was the first time I did this with this glitch going on, so I got back to my world, the roof of the library I built was done just as I did before, but the items I used to build were back in my inventory, they duplicated, so I realized this could be dangerous if I found diamonds or an enchanted book that I wanted and the game crashed when I got out of the game, and indeed some times the game crashed when doing that, then i would lose that item and go back to an older player data were I don't have those items, so i stopped tabing out of the game so that doest happen.
But something I have noticed is that when I'm offline (with no Internet) the game didn't crashed at all, so maybe the problem is related to a network thing.
Thanks for sharing your experience atp.
Now the problem got worse, when I updated to the version 1.20.40.01 (according to the playstore) I can't even open the game now, the Mojang intro screen loads, the screen goes black and then it crashes in both online and offline, I do not know the cause.
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I concur with Iclarus, Minecraft 1.20.32.03 was very bad, but now with 1.20.40.01 it got WORSE. When my son starts the Minecraft app on his Pixel 6a, the app IMMEDIATELY crashed, every single time!
First I uninstalled the app, while telling it to keep the data, and re-installed. No change, the Minecraft app still crashed immediately every time we started it
Next I uninstalled Minecraft again. This time it did not ask me whether I wanted to keep data; I think it deleted it. I re-installed, and this time the app started without crashing. His worlds were gone, but I manually installed them from a backup. It SEEMS to be working correctly again now! He hasn't actually used it much yet, so I don't know if they nasty crash bug will come back, but the re-install definitely seemed to help.
On my son's Pixel 6a, re-installing Minecraft 1.20.40.01 (as I reported earlier) fixed local game play, but remote play with others is still completely broken. Every time he tries to connect to a friend's device, his Minecraft app crashes.
Here's the crazy bit: The bug appears to only affect HIS Pixel 6a. I also have a Pixel 6a, and although I never play Minecraft, I do have it installed. Minecraft on MY Pixel 6a appears to work fine, I can connect to/from friends' worlds just fine. But on my son's Pixel 6a, it crashes every time.
We also recently installed the new Chromebook version of Minecraft, 1.20.40.01 running on ChromeOS 118.0.5993.86. As far as we can tell it is fine, this bug does not appear there.
I am having the same problem. On November 24, my Samsung Tab Galaxy S6 Lite (model SM-P615) installed an Android software update. After installing this update, my Minecraft app suddenly stopped working. It starts and then suddenly crashes.
Back in late October and early November, all Minecraft network play was still completely broken on my son's Google Pixel 6a, running Android 14. I switched him to a DIFFERENT Google Pixel 6a that was still running Android 13 instead of 14, and he has stayed on 13 ever since. That fixed everything, since then his Minecraft has been working normally. It seems unlikely that the physically different phone mattered. So probably Android 14 is necessary (although not sufficient) to trigger the problem.
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