Systems Guy

@Erik Widell

Your workaround worked for me.  Thanks!

My son and I followed this: https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCPE-100532?focusedCommentId=808989&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-808989

And it worked for us.  It's worth a try.

I went about 3x farther than necessary as we have a huge mining system.  I was a good 1000+ away from him when I did the exit and save.  Re-entered, so did he and all was good.  We think it happened to us as the previous time we played, we both exited at the exact same time.  We had been working on this world for over two years!  Didn't want to lose achievements by turning on cheats and killing or teleporting him.

My son and I followed the steps listed in the workaround above and it worked for us.  It's worth a try.

I went about 3x farther than necessary as we have a huge mining system.  I was a good 1000+ away from him when I did the exit and save.  Re-entered, so did he and all was good.  We think it happened to us as the previous time we played, we both exited at the exact same time.  We had been working on this world for over two years!  Didn't want to lose achievements by turning on cheats and killing or teleporting him.

@Skaijie This worked for us!!!

It's definitely still a bug on v1.16.220 with 157MB world.  My son and I have been playing in one of our worlds for over two years now.  We believe the issue happened as we both exited the game at the same time.  I eventually found his avatar in the game stuck in a minecart.  Couldn't do anything to him.  Tried removing mine cart, replacing track and stone with dirt.  Nothing.  We didn't want to lose our ability to gain achievements either.  So I took a nice long ride away on a minecart.  Exited and saved.  Went back in, so did he and all was good!