I have this issue in my world on windows 10. Reducing the render distance does help.
I noticed the game appears to be running at least somewhat while stuck with brown loading screen, based on hearing portal noises and gast noises on that screen and the fact that If I close the game as soon as I see the brown screen I'll be in the overworld upon re-opening it, but If i linger on the brown screen before closing the window the game loads me in to the nether when I open it, so auto save might be working too.
I'll also add that I first encountered this bug with my render distance manually set to 50 chunks and the portal on the nether end was extra wide; reducing to 44 and building the portal to be standard size after rebooting didnt fix anything at first, but setting render to 8 chunks did.
Also before Even finishing this message I loaded in to the nether just fine with render back up to 44, but tried it again and got the glitch... but this time I left it on the screen as I was typing (btw I'm on a different pc to type this, game is not minimized fyi) and after about 45 seconds the game actually loaded! So TL;DR Another workaround Might just be to wait patiently on the brown screen lol
Edit: pushing a pigman in the portal before going to the nether seems to prevent the bug for me too, but just for 1 trip
Andrew Yarbour
I have this issue in my world on windows 10. Reducing the render distance does help.
I noticed the game appears to be running at least somewhat while stuck with brown loading screen, based on hearing portal noises and gast noises on that screen and the fact that If I close the game as soon as I see the brown screen I'll be in the overworld upon re-opening it, but If i linger on the brown screen before closing the window the game loads me in to the nether when I open it, so auto save might be working too.
I'll also add that I first encountered this bug with my render distance manually set to 50 chunks and the portal on the nether end was extra wide; reducing to 44 and building the portal to be standard size after rebooting didnt fix anything at first, but setting render to 8 chunks did.
Also before Even finishing this message I loaded in to the nether just fine with render back up to 44, but tried it again and got the glitch... but this time I left it on the screen as I was typing (btw I'm on a different pc to type this, game is not minimized fyi) and after about 45 seconds the game actually loaded! So TL;DR Another workaround Might just be to wait patiently on the brown screen lol
Edit: pushing a pigman in the portal before going to the nether seems to prevent the bug for me too, but just for 1 trip