Shulker Boxes should not despawn.
This has happened to me twice in the last two days. I was playing and had put down a shulker box to get items in and out. My internet got temporarily disconnected and both times not long after, but before I could reconnect the hosted world I connect to also goes offline. Saturday it was due to the Switch turning off after the host was afk for too long. Today I am not sure why his world turned off. But when I manage to get back in both times the shulker box is gone.
The only explanation I have is that once I disconnect the shulker box goes into that state where an item is temporarily in place and will despawn after a certain period of time. And since in my case the hosted world then restarts. the shulker box and all of it's contents are then despawned. Can this be fixed to where a shulker box does not despawn like other items? I realize my situation is rare, but since it's now happened twice in as little as two days I have to think it's not as rare as it would seem. And losing the entire contents of a shulker box can be devastating in survival mode, which is what I am in. It cost me over 40xp, and about 7 enchanted books for me to replace just the armor that I had temporarily placed in the box. This was hours and hours worth of gameplay and unbelievably frustrating. Then to happen again the next day. The code to handle shulker boxes really needs to be changed or at least reviewed, especially in the case of a disconnect.
I keep all my shulker boxes named and the name contains an individual number for each box. This is how I am aware of exactly which one goes missing.
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Blocks do not despawn when placed. I think this is because you placed the box and you got disconnected without a minute after you placed th shulker box and the game did not have enough time to save that action. I don't know if this is a bug since it was caused by a network disconnection.
I can possibly understand on the disconnection, but upon testing with the server owner as I mentioned above, we gave me a shulker box, I placed it on the ground, and then signed out. He then stopped the world normally, and started it back up. I signed back in almost immediately and the box was gone. I have a copy for my Switch and Win10, and will do some testing there, but it seems to me that whatever type of block the shulker box is classified as, it doesn't stay, like if you just dropped a regular chest and quit the game. I can go back and edit the title so that the focus isn't on the disconnection if that's the case.
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I just tested with the world owner. I put down a shulker box and quit the world using Save/Quit. Right after I left, he exited the world using Save/Quit. He then immediately restarted the world. And as soon as it was back up, I re-joined the world. The shulker box was nowhere to be found and in neither of our inventories. We were exactly where we were locationwise, but the box was gone. And there had not been even a minute of gametime passing.