[MCPE-65522] Ghost blocks are created by certain new blocks

Still present in beta 1.16.0.60.

UPDATED DESCRIPTION: Placing several of the new blocks, including basalt, polished basalt, stems, hyphae, and the twisting and weeping vines and mining them with the silk touch enchantment "corrupts" the placed block. Placing these "corrupted" blocks will make it appear as though the item was placed, but it will not be removed from your inventory. It also cannot be removed from your inventory using the Q hotkey and cannot be used to press buttons, pull levers, open inventorys (chests, crafting tables, furnaces, etc.), and so on if it is currently the item in your hand.

There is one type of block that is seemingly random as to how it happens, and isn't based on silk touch. Both warped and crimson fence gates are very broken where sometimes they can be replaced fine, but other times they become corrupted blocks when broken. I cannot find a reproducible pattern with these.

Steps to reproduce:

Get only five blocks of basalt and place them down.
Mine them with a silk touch pickaxe and pick them back up.
Try to place them again. You will find they have become "corrupted".

There are plenty of instances of this occurring in the attachments, as well as a way to reverse the block "corruption".

EDIT #2: It appears that the Silk Touch enchantment is behind the cause of items such as basalt and stems. It "corrupts" the blocks in a way and they cannot be picked back up. However, if you use an unenchanted tool or one with any other enchantment other than Silk Touch and break an "uncorrupted" block, drop one of the corrupted blocks out of your inventory through the inventory screen, and collect the corrupted block first then the uncorrupted one, it fixes the whole stack of blocks. User Noopaloide kindly provided video evidence of this occuring, and I will do the same for proof of consistency. However, the warped and crimson fence gates are still corrupted whether or not the tool is enchanted, regardless of enchantment.

Linked issues

is duplicated by 42

MCPE-65848 Blocks placed don't appear on other player's screens Resolved

MCPE-66112 Polished Basalt doesn't leave inventory when placed and doesn't have a normal breaking animation Resolved

MCPE-66148 Bedrock Beta bug with the new purple wood fences Resolved

MCPE-67118 Unable to open chests or crafting table while holding Weeping VInes Resolved

MCPE-67121 Polished obsisian Resolved

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relates to 1

MCPE-89637 Cannot place or drop crimson hyphae after mining it with a Silk Touch tool Resolved

Attachments

fixed basalt_.mp4

Minecraft_2020-06-24-12-14-25_001.mp4

Minecraft_2020-06-24-12-14-25_001-1.mp4

Minecraft 2020-03-27 11-01-59.mp4

Minecraft 2020-05-03 23-09-49.mp4

polished_basalt.mp4

Screen_Recording_20200319-150921_1.mp4

Comments 18

chickensoup 2020-03-17T19:33:20Z

As i noticed this happening, i also noticed that while holding basalt (i dont know about other blocks) if i punched out a grass block or similar, no block is dropped. Also, you cant sleep while holding basalt

[Mojang] Mega_Spud (Jay) 2020-03-27T11:01:08Z

Does this happen when you're using a Silk Touch tool, for example?

Francisco Rincón Cortés 2020-03-27T11:22:50Z

This bug is still at the new beta. What I've experienced (just with crymson log) is that when you put the blocks in a chest, close the game and enter again, there's where the bug happens. You can place these blocks but the number in the inventory will keep the same, you can break them but nothing will drop. Also you can't open chests with them and when you place these ghost blocks, close the app and log in again they'll disappear.

Hopefully I was as specific as possible. (Sorry for bad English btw)

[Mod] OcelotOnesie 2020-03-27T15:06:59Z

This can be consistently reproduced with crimson and warped fence gates.

Steps to Reproduce:

Give yourself a crimson or warped fence gate from the Creative inventory or /give command.
In Survival mode, place the fence gate and break it.
Place the fence gate again.

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MythicBurritoz 2020-03-27T15:28:47Z

Mega_Spud, I tested with differently enchanted tools and it doesn't appear that it matters what enchantment is present. Francisco has actually discovered part of what causes the bug as I was able to reproduce his steps. However it doesn't appear to be consistent, as sometimes I will log in and the blocks will place like normal, and other times ghost blocks are created.

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MythicBurritoz 2020-03-27T15:32:17Z

I have also tested OcelotOnesie's steps and I can confirm those are consistently reproduced.

chickensoup 2020-03-27T17:58:41Z

i've found that with basalt if i've mined it from the nether, its a ghost block, whereas if i get some from creative it works as normal.

WingDing 2020-03-27T19:57:28Z

I can confirm this. Currently I've noticed that it's been affecting basalt and polished basalt.

BetaBedrock 2020-03-29T06:03:02Z

I found the same bug for Windows 10 that when I placed the blocks.

Pig2Creeper 2020-04-09T17:10:26Z

this happened to me on 14.30 on a realm. The blocks did not render being placed or broken until a block placed or breaked next to them. mobs where not frozen. I could go through the blocks that were not there but rendered, and i could stand on the blocks that where there but not rendered, and those blocks had a visible hitbox. i could break blocks through the rendered blocks that were not there. i was using Vanilla BdCraft 64x or 128x. when i decided to relog, the pause screen did not load. i turned wifi off and it disconnected, did not show minecraft world, just a blank screen. no disconnected text. i X'd out. i restarted, and it said global resources reset.

Genome Editor 2020-04-14T04:50:09Z

I’m able to reproducibly get ghost weeping vines simply by using silk touch to break them. Is it a silk touch issue maybe?

sydney russel 2020-04-21T07:48:08Z

i had the problem with basalt as well, and with the warped vines, it shows that ive place it but doesnt produce a sound nor take it out of my inventory, also when i try to throw them out of the inventory with the down button on the dpad (xbox one) it wont leave my inventory. but i can pick them up and throw them out or put them in chests. also if i am holding one i cant open chests until i switch what i am holding, and i am having a bug where things placed into to second hand slot couldnt be removed and was behaving similarly to when i tried to through the ghost blocks out of my inventory. the the second hand slot bug can be temporarily fixed by re-logging, the ghost block seemed to not beable to be fixed by re-logging. also throwing them on the ground doesnt help. adding more to the stack doesnt help and putting them in a chest and taking them back out doesnt help either.

itszelace 2020-04-26T16:31:52Z

(y)I had this same issue happen with shulker box. I can keep placing the box infinitely on different ground blocks. Does not leave my hotbar, and once I try to mine the shulker box (to pick it up) it disappears.

noopaloide 2020-05-04T01:46:03Z

tested basalt in windows 10. it seems that silk touch corrupts the block, releasing a single one and picking it up with normal basalt blocks manages to fix it. only the player seems to interact with it as a solid block. I will upload clips to show more detail and sorry for my bad english

MythicBurritoz 2020-05-04T02:50:02Z

@noopaloide, that is a huge find! I was able to reproduce this consistently with the basalt, and it makes sense why it always happens to me as I use silk touch on all of my tools.

However, there is still one thing that isn't affected by silk touch exclusively, and that is the two new fence gates. It happens immediately with any type of tool, enchanted or not.

[Mod] LateLag 2020-06-19T11:47:23Z

Is anyone still experiencing this issue in the latest beta?

CreepahJacket 2020-06-24T05:18:38Z

seems to be fine for me..

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MythicBurritoz 2020-06-26T18:53:12Z

It does appear to have been fixed between the last beta I was consistently playing and now the full release. I cannot seem to reproduce anymore.