[MCPE-194375] Game crashes when loading world with add-ons

Prior to the Spring Update, I had a realm world that had a LOT of add-ons and it worked fine and was playable. It crashed so much on the realm, I couldn’t play it and didn’t have a back-up and am trying to remake it. Now when I use more than roughly 9 add-on’s the game crashes on Windows. I was able to get it to work once on my phone (Samsung Galaxy S24) and upload it to a realm and can join it fine. Try to join it on my PC and it is a hard crash each time. Tried to remake the world locally on my PC version with various add-ons and above about 9 add-on’s the game hard crashes on the PC. The combination of add-ons do not seem to matter. Went through one by one trying to find out if one was causing the issue and didn’t find one that did it.

Again, this worked prior to this update. Here’s a list of example an add-on’s load out I’ve used before:

Magic Spells by Cyclone
FantasyCraft by CompyCraft
All the wool by Jigarbov
Essentials by someone
Realism Effects by someone
Furniture Life by Pixelheads
Animations+ by someone
Scary Furniture by Honeyfrost
Pro Builder
Basic Machinery
Naturalist 2.1
Soundscapes+
Realistic Biomes
City Pack
Towers and Dungeons
Mob Heads
Plenty of Blocks 1.2
Gravestones Resources
(Texture Update Pack)
Vehicles Add-on by DalibuStudios
Colorful Concrete
World Builder
1,000,000 Horses
Storage Drawers
Harvestcraft
Tinkers' Construct
Villagers++
Roads +
Spark Portals
Redstone Add-on
Dogs Add-on *
More Custom Blocks
Trains Add-on
Info Items
Security Add-on
Phantom Frames
More Blocks by Rareloot
RPG Skills
NOMADIC v1.0.5

It’s a LOT, but it worked fine prior to this update on the PC. Other than Actions & Stuff crashing the XBOX on load (I guess that’s some bug with add-on upload sizes that Microsoft has to patch?), it worked without Actions & Stuff on the XBOX Series X, my PC, a friend’s Windows 10 PC, and my phone. Now trying to re-make the same world just crashes each time on the PC. Or making it on my phone (which does work) and putting it on the realm, the PC version crashes when trying to join that realm.

Please see the attached video of me trying to make worlds in various ways and all the crashes. This is after uninstalling the game and deleting the entire Minecraft folder from %appdata% and reinstalling it and updating it.

My PC Specs:

Windows 11 Professional OS Build: 26100.3476 / Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.54.0

CPU:
3.20 gigahertz AMD Ryzen 7 5800H with Radeon Graphics

RAM:
32 Gigabytes Usable Installed Memory (16x2)

GPU:
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU

Video link in case it’s too big to upload to this:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aAdMpGuOl5yzE97b5dgfZWWo_IfRfQDO/view?usp=sharing

Happy to provide any other data, or do any other tests, etc. Just let me know.

Linked issues

is duplicated by 14

REALMS-12513 Crash when join realm with add-ons Resolved

MCPE-194350 Addon bug? Resolved

MCPE-194890 Crash when connecting to player-hosted or realm world with many add-ons. Resolved

MCPE-194914 Can't get into any world with add-ons. Kicks me out with "error has occurred" Resolved

MCPE-195005 Minecraft keeps closing when using addons on worlds Resolved

9 more links

relates to 2

MCPE-188710 Cannot join worlds that have add-ons applied to them Reopened

MCPE-180342 Game crashes or errors when using a large number of add-ons at the same time Resolved

Attachments

ContentLog2025-03-27_08-37-49_1.txt

crash after uninstall and full delete.mp4

Minecraft Update Crashing.mp4

works on phone crashes on pc.mp4

Comments 20

Bob Malugalugaluga 2025-03-27T00:29:31Z

Here’s a video of me building the world with all the add-on’s (huge list) on my Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra and putting it on the Realm. Then loading and it is working fine.

The video then switches to my PC moments later where I try to join the same world, and it crashes the PC version of the game.

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Here’s a link if the attached video doesn’t work:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u_OihlxpqtujBqeV2vxBHJO3dWecCsSg/view?usp=sharing

Bob Malugalugaluga 2025-03-27T12:42:47Z

Here is a clean copy of the content log file from trying today … note at 08:39:01 is where it crashed halfway through that recipes warning.

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Bob Malugalugaluga 2025-03-27T12:51:20Z

Confirmed that I can join the realm with all those add-ons on my XBOX Series X.

✅ - Android on Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

✅ - Xbox Series X

❌ - any PC tried crashes

Not using Actions & Stuff though. I would love to, but that crashes any realm world with it loaded on it when joining on the XBOX, but I think that’s a known bug already.

Bob Malugalugaluga 2025-03-27T14:44:58Z

Used the Windows Settings app control to “reset” the app.
Then uninstalled it.
Then searched for
```
*minecraft*
```
in %AppData% and deleted every file and folder it would allow.
Reinstalled Minecraft via the Windows Store and signed back in.
Tried to join my realm and got two options to download add-ons of different file sizes. I’ve never see two like this before.
Picked the biggest one of the two to launch it.
Waited and it crashed.

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Bob Malugalugaluga 2025-03-27T17:51:04Z

Just tried to build the same world locally on my XBOX Series X and it crashed the game back out to the dashboard.

Upon joining, it asks me to “Download Everything & Join” but gives two options of different sizes:

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Tried to join the Realm Server that I made fine on my phone and can play on my phone and …

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Hit “OK” and it drops back out to:

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This is EXACTLY what happens if any realm server with Actions & Stuff on it with the Xbox. However, Actions & Stuff is NOT on that server.

So, now I am left with it only working on my phone. Sheesh.

✅ - Android on Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

❌ - Xbox Series X

❌ - any PC tried crashes

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JangoBritt 2025-03-28T14:17:39Z

Same experience here too. Nothing to do with A&S though, as I have it disabled currently.

Getting a hard crash on Windows PC, with a bunch of addons, previously working fine on our BDS world.

JangoBritt 2025-03-28T14:21:01Z

This world crashes both locally, and hosted with BDS. If I log on to the BDS world from my iPad, it connects successfully

Lunet Gypsophila 2025-03-28T15:09:52Z

We've found that it was mostly Furniture mods, but there are some other mods that have this issue too. PC has been crashing but Console and Mobile can join just fine.

Bob Malugalugaluga 2025-03-28T16:44:52Z

I’m working on rebuilding a map add-on by add-on of the ones we use to see when it dies. I’ll post my results later. Maybe if we can all figure out the same add-ons triggering the crash the add-on(s) can be updated or the game can be fixed.

Bob Malugalugaluga 2025-03-29T21:17:50Z

It took me hours, but I’ve tried adding every add-on one by one. The only thing I can think of is the ones that fail often have a LOT of blocks in them.

The issue is either:

The add-on contains some code not compliant with the new update.
The update has some issue with dealing with a lot of extra blocks from an update.
Something about the spring update has caused an issue with how add-ons work together or how they load together. For example, I can make a world on my PC, my Xbox, or my phone with only Tinkers' Construct and it works fine on all three platforms. IF I make them with my full add-on load out (that worked before the Spring Update), Tinkers' Construct will hard crash the PC and XBOX app but run fine on the phone.

Here are the list of add-on’s that I added one at a time and noted if they worked or crashed the world on the PC and/or the Xbox. They all worked fine prior to the update and they all work fine on the phone version. If it says “works” that means on both the PC and Xbox apps.

Realistic Biomes Add-On ... works
Realism Effects Add-On ... works
Soundscapes+ Add-On ... works
Texture Update Pack (Mojang) ... works
Animations+ Add-On ... works
Crops & Farms Add-On ... works
Essentials ... works
Hiker's Friend Add-On ... works
Poisonous Potato Add-On ... works
Magic Spells Add-On ... works
Naturalist 3.0 Resources ... works
RPB Skills Add-On ... works
Gravestones Resources ... works
Waypoints RP ... works
World Builder Add-On ... works <--- bug, always spawns with the book
Spark Portals Add-On ... works
Mob Heads ... works
All the Wool ... works
1,000,000 Horses! Resource Pack ... works
Redstone Add-On ... works <--- bug, sometimes spawns with the book again
Villagers++ ... works
Security Add-On ... works
Just Letters Add-On ... works
Storage Drawers 2.0 ... works
Roads + Add-On ... works
PRO Builder Add-On ... works
TRAINS ... works
FantasyCraft 1.4 ... works
More Blocks ... HARD CRASH on local world (removed and the game loads again)
Plenty of Blocks 1.3 Add-on ... HARD CRASH on local world (removed and the game loads again)
Towers & Dungeons ... works
Nomadic ... HARD CRASH on local world (removed and the game loads again)
More Custom Blocks Add-On (1.2) ... HARD CRASH on local world (removed and the game loads again)
Furniture Life - Resources ... HARD CRASH on local world (removed and the game loads again)
Doors Add-On ... HARD CRASH on local world (removed and the game loads again)
Dogs Add-On ... works
Colorful Concrete ... HARD CRASH on local world (removed and the game loads again)
CARS+ Add-On ... works
Info Items Add-On ... works
Tinkers' Construct 2.0 ... HARD CRASH on local world (removed and the game loads again)
City Pack ... HARD CRASH on local world (removed and the game loads again)

I then made brand new worlds to add only the add-on’s from above to test them one world with one add-on at a time. If it says “works” it means on the PC and Xbox app:

Tinkers' Construct 2.0 ... works
Colorful Concrete ... works
Doors Add-On ... works
City Pack ... works
Furniture Life - Resources ... works
More Custom Blocks Add-On (1.2) ... works
Plenty of Blocks 1.3 Add-on ... works
More Blocks ... works

I then made a single world and loaded all of the 8 add-on’s listed above together in one single world and that worked fine on PC and XBOX. So, if it’s an issue with how add-on’s are interacting with each other any one of those 8’s do not trigger the issue with each other. There are just far to many on my list to test them all 1 to 1.

That was all done Friday night. Today (Saturday afternoon), I tried adding some more of the broken add-on’s back to my main working list of the 32 add-ons that work together in my stack:

Tinkers' Construct 2.0 ... works on PC, crashes on XBOX
Colorful Concrete ... works on PC, crashes on XBOX
Doors Add-On ... works on PC, works on XBOX
Furniture Life - Resources ... works on PC, loads on XBOX but items don't show up when placed and UI highlight is pink/black square.
More Custom Blocks Add-On (1.2) ... works on PC, works on XBOX
Plenty of Blocks 1.3 Add-on ... works on PC, crashes on XBOX
More Blocks ... works on PC, crashes on XBOX
City Pack ... works on PC, works on XBOX

So between Friday testing and Saturday, or the order they were added or something the “City Pack” is now working with my full stack of add-on’s.

Again, it’s important to remember:

All of the add-on’s individually on this list worked fine all together BEFORE the Spring Update.
Players on my Realm play on both the computer and/or the XBOX. So, working on one and not the other is of no use to me.
With the spring update, I can add every individual add-on on this entire list and run it 100% fine with zero crashes on my cell phone (Samsung Galaxy S24).

I hope that helps narrow some things down or leads someone else to some further thoughts or testing. If this was the Java version or I was running a non-Realm server, I would be running free add-ons and just find other options or whatever. But between the game, the fees for the Realm and all the money spent on these add-on’s it’s kind of a big deal that functionality is somehow restored.

The add-on’s I can’t use are around like $50 alone and that’s not even all the ones that I’ve bought. I really can’t trust the Marketplace anymore either. I can see if they just don’t work with the new Update but now it’s an indistinguishable issue if they work with other ones at all (pre-update they were fine). And I’m not just talking about getting “funky” results. We lost our whole initial realm world and now trying to rebuild are running into all these issues.

Bob Malugalugaluga 2025-03-29T22:08:53Z

Well that was short lived. Now the load out that was working is crashing on two separate XBOX Series X consoles. Even after deleting all the storage for the game and uninstalling and reinstalling. ~(>_<。)＼

Bob Malugalugaluga 2025-03-30T18:34:24Z

Also, since this bug may very well be due to issues with add-on’s simply not having the right min_version in their manifest, it would be super helpful to see just the date the last time the add-on was updated in the Marketplace. Otherwise, it’s just a guessing game if they made the update or not. I know a lot of the time’s my add-ons have all updated from the realm and I didn’t need to do a manual download from the Marketplace.

Nreed002 2025-04-01T17:03:11Z

My game crashes and closes itself with the dragon fire lite add-on, and it might happen with others too. When using it, my game crashes after around 20-40 minutes of being in the world.

Bob Malugalugaluga 2025-04-01T18:41:56Z

Uhhhh. Ok. I don’t know what has changed, but now ALL my add-on’s work both locally, and on the realm and on PC and XBOX.

Also, Actions & Stuff on a different map now loads correctly on a realm on the XBOX without crashing the game too. Although the texture selection thing is still bugged and when exiting it’s hard locked the game, but that’s a huge improvement.

Umm. I feel like sitting very still and not making any sudden movements that might break all this again. lol.

I will do some more testing later on different machines and connections to be sure.

Bob Malugalugaluga 2025-04-01T23:43:40Z

Friend’s XBOX is 100% hard pink/black checkered crash still. Yikes. Again, that’s just with my full list of add-on’s not with Actions and Stuff as that’s a whole other couple of bugs/issues.

Bob Malugalugaluga 2025-04-02T00:01:13Z

Ok. It still works on my Xbox and PC. My friend’s XBOX it crashes.

I think I know what’s up. I think it’s the overall download size being too much. I am going to test this by creating a world in Realm Slot 1 that has 10 add-on’s from my list on it. Then duplicate it to Slot 2 and put 10-15 more on it, then the third slot will be a duplicate of the second but with all of the add-on’s on my list.

Join the first slot and let it download them. Then quit out. Enable the second slot and join that and if that works quit out. Then enable the third slot and join it and see if it finally gets the FULL list of add-ons and then just play on that third slot.

Off to test out this theory…

Bob Malugalugaluga 2025-04-02T01:19:31Z

My XBOX on the working realm world with ALL the add-on's on my list.
My XBOX version is 1.21.71, my friend's is also 1.21.71.
Reserved space is 469.5 MB. Profile space is 457.3 MB.

Deleted My Profile storage first and opened the game up new.
Started the game up and it auto-loaded my profile.
Attempted to join the realm (this one is the one without all the add-ons at 371.7MB download).
It worked and loaded fine without asking me to download anything, this means 100% of all the add-on data it checks for realms lives in that "Reserved Space" portion. The local add-on content must live in that profile memory space.
Went to the Home screen and menu/quit Minecraft.
Went to manage the game and deleted the "Reserved Space" (still at 469.5 MB
Launched the game. This was first run setup (narrator and safe screen area setup).
Joined the realm (this slot is the one with most, not all of my add-on's with a download size of 371.5 MB)
Got the prompt this time to download the add-on's and selected to do that.
Hard Crash pink/black checks and dumped back to Home screen.

Cleared the Reserved and Profile Space both. Reserved space was 469.5 MB. Profile space was 457.3 MB.
Launched Minecraft.
Went through the first run stuff.
Created a new world.
Set coordinates and cheats on.
Set global add-ons option on.
Downloaded and added:
Tinker's Construct
Waypoints
Villagers++
World Builder 1.5
Towers & Dungeons
Pro Builder
Plenty of Blocks 1.3
TRAINS
Naturalist Add-on 3.0
More Blocks <-- noticing definite interface lag at this point
Mob Heads
Furniture Life Add-on
Crops & Farms 1.2
Stopped adding add-ons here and hit Create to make it locally on the Xbox.
Game loaded fine.
Saved and quit.
Backed out to the Home Screen.
Menu/Quit the game.
Checked saved data space: Profile is 459.5 MB, Reserved space is 342.0 MB (installed on storage expansion card)
Started the game again.
Selected to join the first realm slot that does not have the full load-out of my add-ons (was a 371.5 MB download).
Got the message about seeing content that might not be family friendly, etc. Accepted that.
Download prompt came up at 256.2MB (so it referenced some of the ones previously downloaded for the local world).
Realm world loaded fine (previously crashed).

If I deleted all the profile and reserved space and try to join the realm only download size is 371.5 MB and gives a hard pink/black crash.

Quit the XBOX game.
Deleted both profile and reserved space.
Switched over to the PC.
Created the Realm slot one map.
Added the following add-ons on it:
Tinker's Construct
Waypoints
Villagers++
World Builder 1.5
Towers & Dungeons
Pro Builder
Plenty of Blocks 1.3
TRAINS
Naturalist Add-on 3.0
More Blocks <-- noticing definite interface lag at this point
Mob Heads
Furniture Life Add-on
Crops & Farms 1.2
Loaded the realm on the PC: GAME WORKS.
Quit and closed app on PC.
Loaded the realm on my XBOX (after going through initial new start options): Download size: 172.6MB. GAME WORKS.
Quit the game on the XBOX (no storage deletion).
Back to my PC, duplicated the map in Realm Slot 1 from above (locally).
Added the following additional add-ons:
Realistic Biomes Add-on
Magic Spells Add-on
Sparks Portal Add-on
Security Add-on
Realism Effects Add-on
Storage Drawers Add-on
FantasyCraft 1.4 Add-on
Dogs Add-on
Essentials
Gravetones Resources
More Custom Blocks Add-on
Loaded the game to Slot 2 on the Realm and activated Slot 2.
Joined the Realm on the PC: GAME WORKS.
Quit Minecraft on the PC.
Loaded the realm on my XBOX): Download size: 316.9MB (144.3 MB larger than Slot 1 load). HARD pink/black crash back to the Home screen. "Error while downloading packs from server. Please try again.
Tried to load again on XBOX. Download size: 316.9MB still. Dirt screen with "Disconnected from Server". OK and then pink/black ui bug and hard crash.
Tried one last time... The UI loaded with the XBOX's mouse icon showing up now, it doesn't work. Menu/Quit the game. Started the game again. Joining the realm (Slot 2 active). Download size: 316.9MB still. HARD CRASH pink/black and back to Home screen.

Ugh. The theory of duplicating the map in each of the realm slots adding more and more add-on's each time failed.

This might not be so bad if all the people that play on my realm were only on the PC. This seems like it’s an add-on/download size issue thing. I first heard about this when someone mentioned that they thought it was the same thing that was bugging another add-on and was a Microsoft Xbox fix and not a Mojang one. But I don’t know.

Anyone have any other ideas?

Bob Malugalugaluga 2025-04-03T11:57:22Z

I’ve loaded my entire list 40+ add-ons and they work now on two very different PC Bedrock versions locally and on the Realm. Xbox is just crashing on even some of them still. Just finally told the people on our realm that play Xbox only that they will have to wait for a fix or get a PC. It’s a crazy shame that the whole ecosystem is Microsoft and it’s like this but what can you do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Jehan Mody 2025-04-09T09:20:30Z

This issue is present in the current beta version of 1.21.82

[MCQA] v-jakublu 2025-04-14T12:03:57Z

Hello and thank you for your report!

However there is a lot of mixed information that prevents us from easily investigate the bug.

Please update the issue description with information about specifically Windows platform, as other platforms has been mentioned in other issues down below.

There is already a report about world crashing/unable to join due to complexity of add-ons and their amount:
MCPE-180342 and MCPE-188710

Please provide information's about encountered connection issues (e.g. unable to connect or other warnings).

If this started to happen on latest spring update on Windows we will need more specific info about:

Add-ons that cause the crash - specific list if this is related to specific add-ons, if not, total memory these add-ons occupy on the world
Instances (realms, LAN, single-player worlds, joining friends worlds)
Worlds host devices
End connection devices (presumably Windows?)

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