There does seem to be an issue with chunks loading. There also seems to be a memory leak when this bug happens. In-game Minecraft says it's using 1022mb of memory, but Task Manager says it's using 7.2gb and growing. So there seems to be a discrepancy there. Also, CPU usage keeps spiking to 100% and freezing the game every few seconds.
Still happening in Minecraft 14w20b.
Same here.
[media]Like Ryan said, this is a new issue. This isn't happening in 1.7.x. Only in the snapshots.
Confirmed. Same issue here. Stair textures are all messed up.