Game crashes or errors when using a large number of add-ons at the same time

I attempted reproducing this on Windows in 1.21.0.21 and was unsuccessful. Is it really necessary to activate 40+ add-ons to reproduce this? I ran my tests using all 8 free add-ons from the marketplace and encountered no issues.

Could you be a bit more specific on how many is "a large number" of add-ons? It'd be interesting to note if there's any threshold where things start to become corrupt.

@kr_ I can provide you with my world for you to test, this happens with several addons, to get an idea if you put all the current addons on the marketplace (currently around 30) the error occurs

@KR_ I believe the limit is in the 14-18 range as when you go over the amount with resource packs. You cannot copy/download a realm at that threshold. My personal realms limit was 14 packs but it may depend on other factors as well. It also may not just be addons that cause this.

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@ocelotonesie I paid for the addons and I can't use it or complain about it?

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My limit is 18 resource packs active at once. I believe it may have to do with bedrocks rendering software "renderdragon" not having enough space/memory available to meet with the usage of add-ons and texture packs. This limit is the same no matter what. The only fix is the not using the add-ons/texture packs. I'm not saying it only happens when you use both as it does happen when you only use add-ons but I'm combining them due to both being considered "resource packs". maybe if they were able to lift the cap depending on certain specs or a setting to give it more could be a solution.

I have a realms, this error occurs on my cell phone or computer or any other platform, a Minecraft error, I'm completely discouraged from playing this game, spending money on something I can't use, it's absurd

ps: even turning on the new option to remove texture limits that arrived in this update, the bug continues on consoles

Resolving temporarily as Awaiting Response. Please export an affected world and add it to this report. If it exceeds the file size limit, you can upload it elsewhere (e.g., OneDrive) and link it here. Alternatively, please add a list of all add-ons activated in the world.

Resolving temporarily as Awaiting Response. Please export an affected world and add it to this report. If it exceeds the file size limit, you can upload it elsewhere (e.g., OneDrive) and link it here. Alternatively, please add a list of all add-ons activated in the world.

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First on the issue to the world, as I said previously in my report the error occurs in any world you can create one and test that the error will occur, on the issue of add-ons any addon used no matter what they are, but many in the same world 15+- will already cause the error, I will leave a list of addons that I used that caused the error, but again ANY ADDON as I mentioned in my report, causes this error

ADD-ONS
Spark Portals Add-on
Another Furniture Add-on
Poisonus Potato Add-on
Magic Spells Add-on
MUTANTS! Add-on
Dragonfire
ALL THE WOOL Add-on
More TNT! Add-on
Hiker's Friend Add-on
Elemental Plantations Add-on
Decocraft Base Bp
Naturalist Add-on
Spark Pets Premium Add-on
Agricultural expansion

as there is not a very high amount of add-on when opening the world you will see everything ok, but when OPENING YOUR INVENTORY you will see your WHOLE inventory buggy and pink, and when you try to leave the world, your minecraft will close and will not save your progress in the created world

I paid for these addons, I think it's a shame that I can't use them in my realms, as they break Minecraft

ps: about the new option to remove texture limits, it FIXES the error BUT only ON COMPUTERS, on CONSOLES the error continues to occur even with the option ON

Currently the error occurs in any version of Minecraft that you play, including 1.21.2, this error occurs on any platform, but on some platforms there are - supported addons and others + for example, on the computer you can use more addons than on the cell phone, another thing about this error it has levels, at level 1 of the error, only some pink textures appear, at level 2 everything turns pink and the game closes when trying to leave the world, and at level 3 what is happening to your friend occurs, the game just closes and does not even open the world, an option was added to remove this error, the option to remove the texture limit in the video tab of your Minecraft, but unfortunately this option only works on the computer currently.

If you want to see the game buggier, add more addons to the world, no matter what they are, add them and see the magic happening

I believe this is linked to MCPE-175700 and https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCPE-152734

Maybe an issue linked to Minecraft not using enough memory or accessing it right?

I believe this is linked to MCPE-175700 and https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCPE-152734

Maybe an issue linked to Minecraft not using enough memory or accessing it right?

@sam

I believe it's related, the game crashes when loading too many things at the same time, they say Java is worse, well, Java doesn't have this error

I tried to reproduce this issue but the game just closes, basically what you said in the second paragraph.

One of my friends on IOS Minecraft said that it happened to them with only 6 add-ons, bugging a few blocks like mangrove propagules, leaves and fences.

They did this on a superflat world with these addons:

Another Furniture

More TNT!

ALL THE WOOL

Gravestones

(and the other 2 free Add-Ons excluding DRAGONFIRE Lite, 15 Year Party Supplies, Poisonous Potato, and LUSH Bath Bombs)

In the new images on these report, it also doesn't look as bad as it did before 1.21.

@greasybat7
Currently the error occurs in any version of Minecraft that you play, including 1.21.2, this error occurs on any platform, but on some platforms there are - supported addons and others + for example, on the computer you can use more addons than on the cell phone, another thing about this error it has levels, at level 1 of the error, only some pink textures appear, at level 2 everything turns pink and the game closes when trying to leave the world, and at level 3 what is happening to your friend occurs, the game just closes and does not even open the world, an option was added to remove this error, the option to remove the texture limit in the video tab of your Minecraft, but unfortunately this option only works on the computer currently.

@GreasyBat735419 The reason mobile/pocket edition cant have this bug is just due to it not being able to handle the addons in mass.

Tried reproducing issue on console (Nintendo Switch) with 15 add-ons with 'Remove Texture Limit' on and textures were fine.

When Realms Plus gets more add-ons I'll try reproducing it again.

30sec Video☝Plus one picture of world

@greasybat7

I'm glad this option helped you, this option works sometimes, and sometimes it doesn't, it depends on your platform, with my PS4 friends this option doesn't work unfortunately

I just added 2 Add-Ons to my Realm and Deactivated 2 Add-Ons as well (basically replacing them), I've tried to join my Realm twice now and the game just closes.

This happened on Nintendo Switch Realms with these add-ons:

ACTIVATED:

Furniture Add-on by xp games

MORPH Add-on (the one originally called Morph Gauntlet add-on)

DEACTIVATED:

Another Furniture by Starfish Studios

Mob Armor Add-on

I'll try removing Spark Portals and see what happens.

IT WORKED...   ...only for about 15 seconds...

Then the game just closes itself.

Since I do use a Nintendo Switch to play Minecraft, this may be an issue with it not being able to handle all the Add-Ons

I did fly over an area which previously had blocks from the Another Furniture add-on, maybe it just didn't remove the add-on properly.

Sadly I don't own an Xbox or a PC, so I can't just move to on of them to sort of fix the issue.

Realm is working again (or is it)

@greasybat7

This error is more detected on your Switch but that doesn't mean that your Switch is to blame, it's Mojang's fault for letting so many addons be released in their game without even testing what would happen if they added several addons (which are paid so it's even more absurd that you pay for addons and can't use them) but basically they are to blame for adding so many addons to their game through the marketplace and not even testing what happens if they are added in a single world... but even after players reported this error, it's been months... and no fix, for example, I bought several addons months ago and simply lost my money and threw it away, because I wanted to play with these addons and I simply can't because my game doesn't work with these addons, I got stressed and I don't even want to play this garbage anymore.

Does this effect the latest preview?

I know you say that it affects all versions of Minecraft, but I'm just checking

@greasybat7

All versions are currently affected, but to different degrees. In the preview version of the game, the option to remove texture limits is already turned on by default, at least it is turned on by default at the time I am sending this message to you. This makes the pink texture errors, closing the game, etc. happen much less in this version. It is worth testing to see if this version is not bugging you, because for me it works and only bugs sometimes.

Hey guys after reading all your comments, my problem with the pink/magenta textures started when i added deco mods as some of you have too.

Checking and removing some mods i found that the ANOTHER FURNITURE ADDON by Starfish Studios was the culprit, i did not activate the texture limit option.

It was a free addon anyways.

Hey guys after reading all your comments, my problem with the pink/magenta textures started when i added deco mods as some of you have too.

Checking and removing some mods i found that the ANOTHER FURNITURE ADDON by Starfish Studios was the culprit, i did not activate the texture limit option.

It was a free addon anyways.

@@unknown

The problem is that it's not the addons that are to blame, the culprit is Minecraft because even with other addons in place, at some point it will give pink textures anyway if you keep adding addons to your world.

@netguru2k

Did you do this on one world, or did you do test it on multiple worlds? After some of my testing, I found that this bug happens to different degrees across different worlds.

MY TESTING:

(Normal World - Some crashes. Realm - Quite a few crashes in certain places)

Is this still an issue in the latest version? If so, please add it to 'Affected Versions'.

It may be difficult to test this bug in the latest version due to MCPE-185254.

I have heard that it has to do with the texture atlas the game uses maybe some changes to this could fix the issue?

P.S Realms isnt fixed

I have found out that it could not be to do with the number of the addons, because recently I replaced one add-on with another addon, but this doesn't change the number of addon s on that world. As @Lucas225 said, it's not the addon s causing the problem, it's Minecraft. (mojang plz fix soon!!)

As i have reported many times before i believe this issue is with how Minecraft's rendering system/Renderdragon handles textures and texture memory/storage. As what this glitch essentially is blocks not having a texture rendered. The reason its a big issue is that its effecting vanilla blocks ,ui and the death screen. It happens when your system/Renderdragon has used the maximum memory it can and assigns any new loaded block/menu that is encountered after the limit is reached to the pink texture. Removing the memory limit makes it less common but it can still happen. But as add-ons add more things that use memory the issue can become common with them. The issue is entirely Minecraft's issue as it is a error with textures and how they are assigned. Another reason why our first guesses at it being add-ons were wrong were that Add-ons sizes vary. If you combine more large load add-ons you can expect to see it more. But its not the true cause.

@greasybat7

Yes, I've known about this error for some time now. It's more related to the amount and size of textures added to the game than to the addons themselves. And yes, the error isn't due to the addons or anything like that. The error is due to Mojang's Minecraft game, which has an active texture limiter that's being added as a useless option to the game that shouldn't even be an option, but rather an already active update that couldn't be turned off because it doesn't even make sense. However, an option is being added to turn off this texture limit, but unfortunately it doesn't work on consoles yet, only on computers and cell phones. I hope this nonsense is fixed soon, because paying for content and not being able to use it is in fact a joke to the community of this game. This basic error has been in the game for a long time and hasn't been fixed. It should be fixed once and for all with a simple update removing this useless texture limit placed on the game by Mojang.

Having the exact same issue, anytime I reach roughly 20 add-ons the game starts breaking, lag, everything pink. I had 50 at one time before but now it won't even make it past 20. Anyway, it'd be nice if they addressed this issue because I bought every add-on and can't even use them now. Thanks for such a thorough report by the way, hopefully they actually look into this sooner rather than later.

Having the exact same issue, anytime I reach roughly 20 add-ons the game starts breaking, lag, everything pink. I had 50 at one time before but now it won't even make it past 20. Anyway, it'd be nice if they addressed this issue because I bought every add-on and can't even use them now. Thanks for such a thorough report by the way, hopefully they actually look into this sooner rather than later.

My personal limit is 14-16. Mojang, fix this sooon plz

This problem also happens on PC even with the texture limit turned off, my limit was around 45-55 before stage 1 started happening. My limit isn't consistent though, sometimes I open my world and some textures are missing, and other times no textures are missing. I've only added resource packs and no addons.

This problem also happens on PC even with the texture limit turned off, my limit was around 45-55 before stage 1 started happening. My limit isn't consistent though, sometimes I open my world and some textures are missing, and other times no textures are missing. I've only added resource packs and no addons.

So I've gotten up to 66 Add-ons. I don't know if they fixed an issue or if I'm just lucky but here's what I did and maybe it'll work for you or maybe not. I completely uninstalled Minecraft and all the add-ons and that deleted all my worlds then I reinstalled Minecraft and downloaded all the Add-ons again and created a new world, added between 5-15 at a time mostly smaller file sizes and after each of those made a copy and tested adding more, made it to 66 now with the only issue being Spongebob Add-on not displaying messages and a little bit of lag but that may be a separate issue. Hopefully it works for you. I'm on Windows 11 and using Minecraft Bedrock from the Microsoft store.You may want to export your worlds to move over or do it completely fresh which I'd recommend as that's what I did. Hopefully it works for you as well and here's to hoping the issue doesn't reappear.

So I've gotten up to 66 Add-ons. I don't know if they fixed an issue or if I'm just lucky but here's what I did and maybe it'll work for you or maybe not. I completely uninstalled Minecraft and all the add-ons and that deleted all my worlds then I reinstalled Minecraft and downloaded all the Add-ons again and created a new world, added between 5-15 at a time mostly smaller file sizes and after each of those made a copy and tested adding more, made it to 66 now with the only issue being Spongebob Add-on not displaying messages and a little bit of lag but that may be a separate issue. Hopefully it works for you. I'm on Windows 11 and using Minecraft Bedrock from the Microsoft store.You may want to export your worlds to move over or do it completely fresh which I'd recommend as that's what I did. Hopefully it works for you as well and here's to hoping the issue doesn't reappear.

So, just a small update on the situation, I was up to 66 Add-Ons and it was working for a day or two but I was getting horrendous lag, such as eating, I would have to hold the button to eat at least 2-4 second longer than normal and the food bar would go up then down then up again. and everything running real slow. Also, after a day or two playing the game is stuck in a continuous cycle of crashing. So, as far as the pinkness, that's gone for me but with so many add-ons, I even removed about 12 of them I'm getting constant lag and crashing. So all in all I'm about fed up with it and am just going to use a few add-ons on each world and throw in the towel on using mass amounts of add-ons.

So, just a small update on the situation, I was up to 66 Add-Ons and it was working for a day or two but I was getting horrendous lag, such as eating, I would have to hold the button to eat at least 2-4 second longer than normal and the food bar would go up then down then up again. and everything running real slow. Also, after a day or two playing the game is stuck in a continuous cycle of crashing. So, as far as the pinkness, that's gone for me but with so many add-ons, I even removed about 12 of them I'm getting constant lag and crashing. So all in all I'm about fed up with it and am just going to use a few add-ons on each world and throw in the towel on using mass amounts of add-ons.

The easiest fix is increasing the texture limit, or making the textures be processed in a way that would make a texture limit obsolete.

One final update because I'm just done with this issue but for the record, I got one world to work without it turning pink but then there was horrible lag and crashes and the next world I made did in fact have the same Pink issue again. Sometimes you can remove the most recent add-on and it goes back to working but sometimes it doesn't. So.... I give up on this, need more people with this issue to come forward or they'll never look into it.

One final update because I'm just done with this issue but for the record, I got one world to work without it turning pink but then there was horrible lag and crashes and the next world I made did in fact have the same Pink issue again. Sometimes you can remove the most recent add-on and it goes back to working but sometimes it doesn't. So.... I give up on this, need more people with this issue to come forward or they'll never look into it.

Also, I have already fiddled with every possible video setting available both on my laptop and in-game on both PE and Bedrock to no avail.

Also, I have already fiddled with every possible video setting available both on my laptop and in-game on both PE and Bedrock to no avail.

Mojang please, I ask as a fan of this game, moderators do not delete my message please, I spent a lot of money on addons, and I was very discouraged that I could not use these addons that I bought, I spent more than a thousand reais on addons.. please be ashamed and fix this error, I will not play Minecraft anymore until this error is resolved, and I warned all my friends not to buy addons until this error is resolved, because I do not want anyone to waste money like me.

Platforms that this issue still affects:

• Amazon Fire

• Xbox.                      )

• PlayStation            ) - These because it says in the report it still affects consoles

• Switch.                   )

• IOS?

I may have missed some out, just tell me if I have.

This still seems to be an issue as of the latest stable version (1.21.51 Hotfix). A user on reddit was able to reproduce this on their realm with about 17 Add-Ons. They are playing on their Xbox Series S. According to their post, players are unable to join and are suffering from the "Pink Texture Glitch".

The limit is not far fetched as other games do have a similar limit.

Batman

Yes, it's absurd from the moment that the game has had an error for almost a year and from the moment that we spend our money to get addons and other things and we simply can't use them, and this limit is so common in other games that we see several pink errors all the time in several games, right? So far I've only had this problem with Minecraft, could you mention other games that have texture errors due to texture limits?

While it is not exactly a texture error games like fallout and skyrim that allow mods on console as similar as add-ons also have a download and usage limit. i wasn't saying the error is common practice but the limit itself is in the few allowances of mods/add-ons. Fallout as well has payed content similar to add-ons that costs their currency that is pooled into the 3rd party mods limit. While i do find it ridiculous a block game has the most issues with texture in the modern day. It is one of the few games that allow mods/3rd party additions. B4 this gets deleted cause its off topic. The only other games that does this is fallout and skyrim, and even then texture errors happen sometimes.

The same reddit user that I mentioned earlier was able to work around this issue. I'm not sure if their solution this will work for everyone, but this is what they said: 

So from what I figured it has to do with Minecraft and not being able to load so many textures at the same time. Apparently there's like a limit in space or sum. How I managed to fix it is by having the other players download the packs from my account first (if they already have the add on installed its fine) and only then could they join without any problems. The add on that seems to have the most problems on other on console seems to be the "Actions & Stuff Add-on".

So this seems to occur less on higher-end devices, like Xbox Series X, PC, etc.

After asking friends to test this error on consoles: xbox one, xbox series, ps4 and ps5, the result was crashes and closing of the game, and after opening the game again the game was as shown in the image below, and testing with mojang's stupid texture limit option, the game simply doesn't enter the world with several addons and textures