Ryan Welter

Alright this glitch happened for me on Nintendo switch for the second time, and this time in the middle of me playing. There was no force closing of the app, and I believe it happened while I was playing as I have only been saving and quitting in my nether base, and this bug only affects your active chunks. I did notice an extreme lag spike when playing when I opened one of my chests (with it taking like 2 minutes just to open a double chest that wasn’t completely full), and maybe that contributed to the glitch, but there was no way this was caused by saving and quitting or force closing the app as it definitely occurred while I was playing yesterday, the radius of the glitch was roughly the chunks loaded in where I was afk by my bee farm. I only noticed this upon loading into my world today, when I logged in to my nether base (when I was done afking I went there to log out) as this glitch only affects your active chunks I believe based off my previous experience with the glitch, which was unaffected, but my overworld was affected even though I wasn’t there. (I also remember yesterday checking one of my farms and wondering why it wasn’t producing anything, and today learned that’s because the minecart hopper disappeared while I was playing) I also checked my farms that were 100 or so blocks away and the entities there were unaffected, as they were previously when the glitch happened to me. This is really frustrating, I think I’m going to make more backups (I hadn’t made backups previously, just been using the ones off Nintendo switch online, but they only have one back up per game and both backups made also had all mobs missing) and keep playing but I keep losing hours upon hours of progress each time this happens. The fact that this occurred to me mid game is concerning as well, and makes it seem like the game is saving things wrong. Hopefully this knowledge helps, make copies of your world in order to be extra safe. 

What I’ve been doing is logging out in chunks that don’t contain any mobs or entities, as at least from my experience it only affects the chunks that are loaded in around you when you log out. If your nether base is like mine and has no mobs or entities that you care about, I would highly recommend logging out there.

I have tried to recreate the glitch on Nintendo switch, using what I thought caused the glitch when it happened to me, and using the steps that Brian Kastel mentioned earlier in this thread. What I thought caused the glitch was the fact that I saved and quit the game, and then turned my switch off immediately after I got to the main menu. I tried this numerous times but couldn’t get the glitch to occur again. I then tried the steps Brian Kastel mentioned, with creating a new world, placing down armor stands, and then saving and quitting and then rejoining the world and force closing the app. That also didn’t cause the glitch for me, though it might be because I tested these on Nintendo Switch. I will keep trying to experiment, but I don’t know if I will be able to replicate it, it seems almost like a freak accident. I will recommend that anyone playing 1.17.34 leaves chunks that contain entities and mobs that you need before you save and quit, as it only affects chunks within your render distance.

I had a similar issue, where I saved and quit the game the night before and opened it opened it up the day later and then this happened to me. I see you mentioned force closing the app, I never force closed it, yet it still happened to me. I had a backup of my world and reloaded it, the menu image of my world showed paintings and armor stands, but when I loaded into the game they weren’t there. I posted the issue and they marked it as a duplicate of this, hopefully they fix it. I’m just annoyed that I lost my prized villagers, skeleton horses, and pets, I should be able to replace the rest.