This issue definitely hasn't been resolved. This just happened to me twice within 5 minutes.
I'm in the Nether, building a ladder down from my portal/base to find Ancient Debris. I was starting to build a cage around the ladder for an open section it goes through and I "fell from a high place." Since it's a straight shot down, it only took about 30 seconds to get back to my gear. Everything was there except for my bow.Â
A fully enchanted bow with Infinity, Unbreaking III, Power IV, Punch II, Curse of Vanishing and Flame I, I might add.
My inventory wasn't full, but even still, I re-equipped my armor and shield on the spot and then started to re-organize my inventory. Noticing that my bow was gone, I looked everywhere around where I died and even went back up to where I fell from and looked all around there. The bow was just gone.Â
Then I looked up this bug on here and decided to climb up a ways to a little nook by my ladder to see if it was hiding in there. That's when I fell again, and same problem. Only this time I had everything but my Potion of Fire Resistance.
It seems like the game is just targeting my most valuable items. I don't have any blaze rods yet so I can't brew, so those potions are extremely hard to come by.
And that was such an awesome bow T.T
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EDIT: I died in a tiny little cave with no entrances except my ladder and no mobs. There weren't any mobs around when I went back for my stuff, either. And no blast or lava damage from any source.
I feel silly.
Thank you for clearing that up 🙂
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(Still dunno why I lost my Potion of Fire Resistance though)