[REALMS-9223] Edited text in a book disappears

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Whenever I log on to my Realms world, I'm able to edit a Book and Quill book, even if I've already written in it, and it will save the text the 1st time. However, if I try editing afterwards, closing the book and reopening shows all the new text is now gone.

Oddly enough, this seems to reset if I log out and back in to Realms. First edit works, all subsequent edits get erased after the book is closed. It's rendered the books useless to me.

I didn't test this in a non-realms world but frankly, I think this is code based since I have no mods installed or purchased from the store in that world. It's vanilla.

Linked issues

is duplicated by 111

BDS-15506 Writable books do not save content Resolved

BDS-15613 After book is signed and closed it reverts to an empty book and quill Resolved

BDS-15654 Books and signs Resolved

BDS-16016 Cant type in book. no words show up Resolved

BDS-16073 Book and quills won't let you add words. Resolved

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relates to 3

REALMS-5898 Text on signs may ignore space/newline formatting Resolved

MCPE-163267 Closing or signing Book&Quill deletes the text Resolved

REALMS-9231 Text on sign disappears when using Glow Ink Sac or Dye Resolved

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Comments 19

migrated 2021-09-28T15:05:31Z

This bug is somewhat related to:

MCPE-141420

Line breaks do not work properly on Signs

Where just the line break characters are being lost.

migrated 2021-09-28T15:26:45Z

It's not the same issue as MCPE-141420 at all as this is happening only after I close the book and regardless of the length of the string text or whether it contains line breaks or not. It could be a single character and it will still disappear.

[Mod] Umija5895M 2021-10-02T19:55:56Z

Does this only happen on a realm, or does the issue also occur in a local world?
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migrated 2021-10-03T12:29:17Z

Hi, i also have this issue. It only works on realms.

Steps to reproduce:

Open a realm.
Open an already written in book. Make a copy of it.
Type some gibberish or something in it.
Close the book.
Reopen the book. The text should be either nothing in it if the book was blank before, or the previous version before you edited it.

Observed results:

The book reverts to the version of the book before you edited it.

Expected results:

The book should save the edits.

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dangerzachattac 2021-10-14T22:21:42Z

i was trying to use the book to list names, but i cant until this is fixed. oh well, its not like i can use renammed paper (Cough Cough, REALMS-9223, cough cough)

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migrated 2021-10-27T13:54:41Z

Relates to MCPE-146229, REALMS-9191 and REALMS-9231.

dangerzachattac 2021-10-27T23:08:57Z

I've done some testing and I think I have an hypothesis. When ever I am on the realm by myself, I find that I can edit books mostly fine. However, it appears random that it seams to work or not... until I looked at my hotbar ever time I hit ESC. That's when I noticed that the book flashes twice as if you re-equiped the book. When ever that happens, the text saves just fine. However, I type a large amount of text or if the censor cannot determine if that word is censorable, the book only does the re-equip once and exiting the book will erase all edits made to the book. My last observation is that the books only re-equip once, regardless of what is typed.
With that in mind, I think the reams servers break down in one of three spots.
1: the censor could be malfunction causing a bunch of text related problems
2: something on the server side doesn't like with all text causing text to act wonky.
3: both systems are causing the problems and theirs some coding spaghetti to sort.

Possible future testing methods:
1: allow users to enable the censorship client side to test if the issue occures on single player worlds. If it does, then the censorship system is the problem and needs patching.
2: allow realms to temporarily disable the censorship to see if the problem is server side. If the problem continues on non censored servers, then we know the problem is server side and the realms servers need either software/hardware update.
3: if either don't have the problem manifest with these suggested changes, then it's highly possible that something else can be in play.
These experiments would need to be done as an update to the game. I would also use the sugest putting the censorship system client side and advertise it as a way to paarents to control content even on single player worlds or non official servers.

migrated 2021-11-08T02:15:15Z

I play in a realms server with a small amount of lag. I am also experiencing this book issue and the anvil issue the user Ben mentioned. Would really like for this to get fixed soon as it is a big inconvenience. UPDATE: I attempted to sign a book and it un-signs itself by equipping twice. It look like the first equip is the updated version (signing it or editing text) and the second equip is the book reverting back to its previous state.

migrated 2022-02-16T14:00:07Z

As requested,

For a long time now I have noticed that when I use my apostrophe on my IPhone keyboard (also happened with other iphones and ipod touch), the font of a sign or book and quill changes (becomes a smaller font). I’m not certain if this relates to the keyboard’s language but the way around this for me has been to hold down on the apostrophe to gain access to another apostrophe which does not change the font of the writing. I am assuming that the font change is not intentional and may cause problems with the saving of books but this would have to be further tested. I have attached two images of the two different fonts, the normal and the smaller one using the different apostrophes.

BeeTeeKay 2022-07-22T23:47:31Z

Just stumbled upon this bug today. I edited the text of a book and quill, then closed it, went to edit it again, closed it again and edited it again, but then it started to do this bug, so the bug only started happening to me after closing and reopening the book about 3 times, hopefully that provides some new info.

migrated 2022-12-29T12:56:36Z

Also happening in Java, text on book and quill will randomly dissappear after you close the book.

BeeTeeKay 2023-07-02T21:24:01Z

Affects 1.20.1

migrated 2023-10-10T20:35:45Z

I logged into my Realm this morning to update the journal that I've keeping in game that logs my family's time on the server and the lore I'm creating for my Realm. The last entry I made was on October 2, 2023. When I opened the book & quill this morning, everything that had been written in it going back to July 27, 2023 had been deleted. Thinking that the game must have glitched since the last login or update, I went into the cloud and downloaded the backup save from October 2 to check it. Again - everything was missing going back to the end of July. Same for the previous backup saves that I checked from September.

Everything was fine a few days ago and now months worth of family activities and lore and have been deleted. The pages are still in the book but everything is blank. And no - no one accidentally deleted the entries while looking through the book. I'm the only one who opens it and someone else messing with it would not affect the cloud saves.

I don't know if this has something to do with the update to v.1.20.32 since October 2 (which was still on v.1.20.31 at that point) but i don't see how it could affect the cloud saves going back several months to an even older version of the game. No other copies of these entries exist and I'd like to get them back if at all possible.

migrated 2024-01-29T07:39:00Z

Still not fixed.

RemRam 2024-04-27T14:31:29Z

This issue still persists as of 1.20.80. but I did find a way to reproduce a similiar effect. Spamming as many letters as you can within 2 seconds to fill the page then instantly closing the book erases the first page entirely. So I am guessing that issue probably the stems from a problem with a server side fail safe. It is also possible that the auto censoring feature might have unfinished code left in it from a previous iteration.

migrated 2024-06-29T02:51:09Z

Affects 1.21.1

CornerHard 2024-07-24T21:32:02Z

Thanks for the reports. We are taking a look.

Laranjadao 2024-07-31T21:38:07Z

Additionally occurs in Minecraft Java when updating a old world already on the Realm. [[REALMS-11773] Upgrading a world on realms clears all text in books - Jira (mojang.com)|https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/REALMS-11773?filter=-2]

[MOD] Greymagic27 2024-08-12T17:50:38Z

Please see if this is still an issue in the latest release/preview