Eric Eisenstein
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Auldrick:
ok, here is new info. It wasn’t a chunk border issue, as numerous farms obviously did not span chunk borders. There is some decent chance that entities in other dimensions despawned, because my son reports that his endermite disappeared as well. While it is possible that was just killed by a random enderman, more likely despawned.
I don’t see how a request to understand how and whether there will be compensation, particularly for children who lost hundreds of hours of work due to what is, in fact, a game destroying bug, is not “new information”. Where else would such a request go? It is (a) germane to this bug topic, not to other more general topics because it is only relevant to people affected by it, (b) discusses solutions to the bug (albeit more generally than the technical fix to the bug, sure. Yes, I understand that this should not be a forum discussion, but it hasn’t been, and super-aggresssive moderation on this category is, I would suggest, unhelpful. Merely fixing the bug won’t get my son to play again. The world is dead. Nuked. And the kids deserve something back.
I really wish that I could upload something useful for this bug. Unfortunately, I am actually posting on behalf of my son, who is honestly almost suicidal over this.
Important: he absolutely used proper save and quit. So it surely is not “just” a bug relating to crashes, improper save routines, etc.
His world is pretty much useless at this point. He suffered a devastating loss due to a different glitch and lost maxed netherite armor and a lot of other stuff. He is too immature and inexperienced to have been backing up his world… silly. He always saves and closes properly on iOS, however. He took a 1 week break from the game, and upon first return in a week almost every living thing in his world was nuked (no others can access world while he is not online).
In his world, there are no more villagers anywhere even close to his base. He had them named, in boxes, a corralled horse, etc. Hundreds of hours of work. He loves Minecraft, but right now refuses to play even with his friends, because he pretty much says that “Mojang sucks”. I have coding experience, and I get it, but there should be some way to reverse this kind of thing at the Admin level, particularly for kid accounts. Auto backup needs to be implemented correctly, even if it would require a parent or someone else to activate, and even if kid achievements then weren’t exactly the same as adult.
I understand why he was so upset. What should I do as a parent with a young teen who is borderline suicidal over the fact that “mojang” destroyed 300+ hours of his work? Ban him from playing? If I spent 300 hours building something and someone came and burned it down, I would want to kill that person too, and if they were an all-powerful untouchable entity, I too would be despondent. Seems like the solution is to implement an auto backup function that stores versions of the world every few hours, etc. that can be unlocked by a support code, parent, or some other entity when that mode is turned on…
This at least has affected someone using 1.17.41 as well. Same problem. Named and unnamed Villagers, dog pet, corralled horse, cattle, sheep, cows. Bees did not despawn. Possible that endermite despawned, but may have been killed.
I realize that this might be late, but my son’s account had an endermite that also despawned. I apologize that I do not play myself, so I don’t know the workings of the game well enough to know whether the endermite could have been in the render distance given that he was on the surface or whether the end-chunk would only load when he went to the end. But in his case, the endermite was clearly gone when he went to check on it after finding that all his other friendly entities other than bees were gone. He plays on an iPad Air 3 with whatever the standard settings are. I apologize that I cannot provide more tests of some kind, he stopped playing Minecraft after this bug and the inability of anyone to figure out how to not only fix it, but to provide some kind of compensation for the losses.