After updating to 1.21.120 (GDK update) any books written before the update now have broken formatting. Line breaks will randomly shift down or dissapear, some pages have centered or aligned entries ruined by premature wrapping, fixing the issue on one page will almost always cause another page to break, whenever you close the book after seemingly fixing all errors and open it again said glitch will occur again and formatting will be ruined, newly written books (after 1.21.120) seem to be unnafected suggesting only legacy book NBT data is broken by the update.
This is especially frustrating for players in survival/realm worlds who use books for coordinate logs, manuals, farm logs etc, as this corrupts existing documentation and makes critical pages completely unreadable and or sloppy looking.
Steps to reproduce:
Open a book written before updating to 1.21.120.
Flip through the pages, some will have shifted line breaks, cut off lines, or mangled formatting.
Try fixing one page (by retyping or shifting text)
Notice that another previously unbroken page now becomes glitched
Create a brand new book and write the exact same content, the formatting behaves normally.
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I'm having the same issue on the latest version of Minecraft bedrock it occurs some of the time I'm not sure what causes it
The world was originally created on 1.19.60 i believe
I am unable to share the full world file as it contains private information like peoples real world names written on signs and in books. Since this is a public tracker where anyone can view and download said file, im not willing to upload it
There are no addons active, i am running the vanilla game
Yes
It seems to mostly occur with text formatted with bullet points like:
. Example text
. Example text
. Example text
. Example text
. Example text
After editing, closing, and reopening the book the text will all be jumbled and unformatted like this:
. Example text. Example text. Example text
. Example text. Example text
I forgot to add in the previous message, this only appears to occur on books that are not signed, when you sign a book it saves the formatting, however as stated above when you edit, close, and reopen an unsigned book the formatting glitch occurs
Formatting issues appear to still be present in version 1.21.132; the world was created in version 1.21.132, and the book was newly crafted. This issue is also affecting signs.
I’m having the same issue (Win 11, Minecraft Bedrock, Realms). Whenever I type standard text to a Book and Quill, such as:
“Here’s a sample text. Line break here
and now a new line, and now
an empty line in between.
The text is as it should appear.”
After I close the book and quill, and reopen the book, the text will look like:
”Here’s a sample text.Line break here and
now a new line, and now an empty line in
between. The text is as it should appear.”
The issue seems to affect the pages at random, but it will affect any pages on the book. The issue is especially aggravating as there’s no way to tell what pages get affected, so most of the time you’ll only see the results when you’ll finally sign the book, and consequently can’t edit it afterwards.
Seems I can’t edit comments here either, so as it happens I forgot to add, that it doesn’t seem to matter that there are no special symbols within the book (such as “§” which can be input into the game using Nordic keyboards; or standard hyphens “-”, or even dots “.”). The issue seems to stand with or without special characters
Update: Now Affects NEW Books Too (Vanilla 26.0-26.3 Realms) not just ones written before the GDK migration
Repro Steps
Get a book and quill
2. Type:
. Example Text
. Example Text
. Example Text
. Example Text
2. Close without signing & reopen → Line breaks vanish, bullets/alignment jumble into garbage
Affected: Latest Bedrock 26.3, completely vanilla Realms, no addons. Old worlds books were bad, but now fresh books break too – kills all book usage.
Quite frankly, I find it completely absurd that this issue was raised almost half a year ago (Oct 30, 2025) with full repro steps, yet the staff refuse to do anything about it despite 9+ votes and multiple confirms.
Vote up if broken for you aswell!
Hi!
Could you please write on which version your previous worlds with books were created?
Can you please share this world?
Do you use specific addons?
Does this occur every time?
Does it occur on specific text formatting?
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