Darren Struthers

To say that one only needs to jump and pop out of the ground is definitely an inaccurate description of this. While Bob Dobbs may have been fortunate enough to be in that situation, on the server I administer, where we have a network of tunnels near the roof of the Nether for transportation, this bug has resulted in player deaths due to falling damage (due to players being spawned in air blocks beneath the tunnel floor) and suffocation (due to players being spawned into solid blocks, in some cases the obsidian blocks of the portal frame itself).

I have tested the effects of this bug thoroughly, and it is not completely consistent, but in the majority of cases, I found myself getting spawned in to solid blocks and taking suffocation damage where the only way to free myself was to attempt to Ender pearl myself out of the wall or dig myself out – jumping out rarely works. The temporary fix so far has been to dig out extra room around portals where players typically would spawn due to this bug. In my testing, the bug applies to portals constructed before and after the 1.8.1 pre-releases.

Thanks for reopening. I understand that the change could be intended, but I figure this is the kind of thing Mojang wants reported, given how much of the code base was apparently refactored for these snapshots. I've updated to the latest Java that Mac OS ships via software updates and repeated the test using the latest snapshot, and I get the same result. I've updated the description fields above accordingly.

Can this issue be re-opened? The screenshots I added probably show more clearly the point I was trying to articulate.

I'm attaching two screenshots showing the results of a test I conducted by growing 640 oak trees under the conditions I described in this report, first in 1.6.2, and then in 13w36b.

I would say it's clear that the behavior has changed in this snapshot, and I strongly suspect that is an unintentional change, as the behavior in the snapshot seems more unintuitive and odd to me.