Updated description by @unknown
Expected Results:
When a player dies, its items drop at the place of death and can be found by returning to that position (before the 5-minute timer runs out).
Observed Results:
When a player dies in certain circumstances, some of its items seem to disappear.
Steps to reproduce:
Following are 3 parallel sets of reproduction steps for 3 circumstances that lead to the removal of some of a player's items from the place of death.
Case A: death while suffocating inside solid blocks
Construct a 1 x 2 x 1 roofed chamber out of solid blocks. Set up a piston on one side that can push the wall in at head level. Connect the piston to a button that is accessible within the chamber.
Equip armor and an offhand item, and put some items in your inventory.
Enter the chamber.
Push the button and wait to suffocate.
Respawn and inspect the place of death. The inventory items will be in the air block where your feet were. The equipped items will be on top of the roof of the chamber.
Demostration of Case A:
[media]Case B: death while swimming
Construct a water-filled room with a solid block roof of any thickness.
Equip armor and an offhand item, and put some items in your inventory.
Swim in the block just below the ceiling, and note whether you are facing upward into the ceiling or not.
Die in whatever way you wish.
Respawn and inspect the place of death. If you were facing upward into the ceiling in steps (3)-(4), all of your items will be on the roof. If you were not facing upward, the equipped items will be on top of the roof, and the inventory items will be in the water-filled room.
Demonstration of Case B, facing upward:
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Demostration of Case B, not facing upward:
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Case C: death from falling
Construct a platform 1 or 2 blocks thick, several blocks above the ground.
Equip armor and an offhand item, and put some items in your inventory.
Fly or teleport up very high above the platform.
Fall to your death on the platform.
Respawn and inspect the place of death. The equipped items will be on the platform you landed on. The inventory items may be on ground below the platform.
If all items are on the platform, repeat these steps. Inventory items are more likely to fall below the platform when client-server latency is higher (such as when falling from greater elevation and therefore faster, or in a multiplayer game).
Demonstration of Case C:
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Explanation:
All 3 cases depend on equipped items and inventory items dropping in different places when a player dies. Inventory items drop at the player’s position, in the same block as its feet (or head when swimming). Equipped items drop at +2Y (the block above the player’s head when standing). I’ll call this “split drops.”
Case A is a consequence of split drops, and the normal behavior of items in solid blocks.
Case B is a consequence of split drops, the normal behavior of items in solid blocks, and MCPE-31896.
Case C is a consequence of split drops and the way the player death algorithm handles client-server latency. It appears that the server determines player death, but the client determines player position for item drops. Upon death from falling, items drop as if the player was positioned anywhere from 3 blocks below to 5 or more blocks above the place of impact. (May relate to MCPE-65094)
Original Description:
So I died by drowning. I respawned at the world spawn, and returned to my base in a short amount of time (less than 2 minutes). I then slept to pass the night, and within another minute I was back at the location where I died, however the only item floating on the surface was an iron pickaxe. All of my other items seemed to disappear. I certainly made it back to my items within 5 minutes, and there was still an item left. What happened here? Seed is -1403231618 and the coordinates where this happened are 404, 73, 852.
Edit 3/7/2020: Unfortunately I don't remember much else from what happened during this incident. I hadn't been playing for more than 40 minutes. I also likely was pushing up against a sand block when I died, as I was trying to get to the surface along the edge of the shore but died pretty far under the water. I don't think I had armor yet, just basic items you can collect quickly in the beginning of the game. I'm thinking shovel, sword, maybe some food, wood, a map, etc. Listed cause of death was drowning.
Call for more information
If you have had this problem, we'd be grateful for your details. Tell us what kind of damage caused your death, whether and what kind of items (armor, tools, weapons, other) were dropped and lost, and what the chat listed as your cause of death. Also, if you can remember, how recently were the disappearing items crafted?
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When i died and whent back to the place i died all my things where gone there was no lava near it lost 4 + sjoelkers filled
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BDS-8070
All items but armor despawning on death
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relates to 3
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Since the fall to death happens in a corner and the items that remain are up to 2 blocks away by taxicab distance, could some have spawned in the walls to the south and east? If those walls are 1-thick they could have glitched to the other side; if they are >1 thick I think they would be deleted. The items shouln't spawn in solid blocks, but maybe they did.
I don't think "spawning" is an accurate term for what you're describing, but even if we think of it that way, the items don't spawn away from the player. They spawn at the player's head with momentum in a random direction, or at least the animation makes it look that way. So it would be exactly like the player dropping the items (with Q) while facing in random directions. Item entities like those are excluded from solid blocks using the same behavior that an item in a hole uses when you fill the hole with a solid block. There are times when I think I've seen such an item disappear, but tbh I don't dig around looking for them, so they might have gone into a block below.
I guess it might be slightly possible that they could glitch through a corner if there's air on the opposite corner, if the direction of momentum was just right, but it's not believable that every one of 4 pieces of armor went into the room while every one of 7 other items went precisely into a corner.
I also had this problem recently, inventory was completely deleted (including the armour) twice in the latest release
still waiting for a fix
If the original poster is still watching this report, I wonder if you could confirm whether your feet were stuck in sand when you died? I loaded your seed and went to the position you reported, and noticed that just next to it is some sand that could have fallen on you. It made me wonder if the reason you drowned was that you got stuck in blocks. If your feet were in a block when you died, then possibly your items could have "spawned" inside solid blocks and been unable to glitch out. Do you think it's possible that the pickaxe floated up because it spawned above you like armor because you were using it at the time you died?
Update: I tested my the feet-in-block theory and this happened:
[media]Since you found a pickaxe, not armor or offhand items, my next guess (based on testing at that spot) is that your other items spread far into the cave and were hiding up against the ceiling behind a corner. Death in water can spread items farther than death on land because of how they slowly float.
It may be worth adding here that if you die while swimming up against a ceiling, your armor and offhand item will spawn 2 blocks above your head like this:
[media](due to MCPE-31896) and glitch upward through any number of solid blocks (as described in this comment ).
If your bow had curse of vanishing, that is intended. Curse of vanishing means it disappears upon death.
@Kae Raine Elnliwilts
I believe your issue with the bow is a separate bug where bows act up in the Nether.
I feel silly.
Thank you for clearing that up 🙂
(Still dunno why I lost my Potion of Fire Resistance though)
This issue is still relevant.
Just died while flying with elytra, got all my items back, except for an equipped elytra. Happened at the overworld and elytra was not enchanted with curse of binding, and was at almost full durability. Checked all caves underneath hoping that it would have somehow glitched through the ground but still nothing. All this within 5 minute despawn time.
Could you please investigate this more? Can't really provide reproducable world save.
EDIT: Version: 1.17.1
EDIT v2: Cause of death was hitting head too hard in the ground
FryNights: this report will not be reopened. For the current version we are tracking disappearing items at MCPE-121025.
In this video (link copied from MCPE-58548) you can see this bug in operation. I have attached a series of single frames that illustrate how it happens and raise questions about the sequence of events.
#1
[media]Just before the fatal impact, the player has full health, 11 levels, and all their hotbar items. There are two oddities I'm not sure I have an explanation for. First, the paper doll is not visible, although it is turned on throughout the video. Possibly, I caught it between renders with and without the red overlay that shows damage being absorbed. Second, the Y coordinate reads 62, which is where the water block is, rather than 63 where the floor is. The crosshairs are on the water, though off-center, so perhaps the player's collision box has not yet intersected a solid block. (Note that the coordinate display is always rounded down to the nearest integer, so the player's actual Y coordinate could potentially be just barely below 63.)
#2
[media]Upon impact, the player has lost all their health (but not their XP yet). All the items in their hotbar have been removed, apparently including their armor if the paper doll is accurate. No impact particles have been generated yet. The player's Y coordinate is now 63, the floor level.
#3
[media]Start of death sequence. The iron leggings have been dropped. No other items are in frame, but as we'll see in a moment the other 3 armor pieces will or have dropped, but none of the other items. The HUD has been removed. The first impact particles are being generated, but surprisingly they seem to be coming out of the water.
#4
[media]Just before return to the death site, 12 seconds after death. Armor pieces are on the floor, other items are nowhere to be found.
#5
[media]After landing in water, armor pieces are being sucked into inventory. The duplication of armor items in hotbar and in the water is probably normal, because the sucking animation runs over time while the hotbar update is instantaneous. Most people probably never notice it.