This is currently happening to me. I accidentally left MC open while at work, then after playing for about 5 minutes, I started harvesting some wheat and none of the entities were appearing even though the blocks were breaking. I decided to quit to title, and the game has been on "Saving world" for about 10 minutes.
I just force closed MC with task manager, and logged back into the world. The game seems to have rolled back the ~30 seconds of gameplay before I saved and quit to title, perhaps even before the entities stopped appearing. No harm no foul, thanks for reading!
Edit: Would like to mention this is a world from around a year ago, I haven't played for more than 30 minutes every few months in about 5 years, but was interested in checking out the new updates, and simply stuck with a world I'd been messing around in a while back. So my world was initially created in another version I believe.
This is currently happening to me. I accidentally left MC open while at work, then after playing for about 5 minutes, I started harvesting some wheat and none of the entities were appearing even though the blocks were breaking. I decided to quit to title, and the game has been on "Saving world" for about 10 minutes.
I just force closed MC with task manager, and logged back into the world. The game seems to have rolled back the ~30 seconds of gameplay before I saved and quit to title, perhaps even before the entities stopped appearing. No harm no foul, thanks for reading!
Edit: Would like to mention this is a world from around a year ago, I haven't played for more than 30 minutes every few months in about 5 years, but was interested in checking out the new updates, and simply stuck with a world I'd been messing around in a while back. So my world was initially created in another version I believe.