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Update: Now affects signed books aswell as of the 26.10 Tiny Takeover update because this awful dev team refuses to fix this bug
Repro Steps:
Get a signed book (doesnt matter if its an old or new book) and type some text in this format
. Example Text
. Example Text
. Example Text
Sign and close the book and reopen it a few times
Watch the text become jumbled and ruined
I would advise people reading this to just not open old books or write new books at all right now since they’re at high risk of being ruined by this bug, books on my server that people have spent a long time on are being ruined because of this bug that the bedrock dev team refuses to fix for whatever strange reason, wether it be incompetence or ignorance im not sure but as stated before do not write new books (or open old books now as of 26.10) in a world you care about since its likely to get ruined by this glitch
Please raise this if you’re having the same issue, this has been happening for almost half a year now and i would really like to see it fixed.
Update: Now Affects NEW Books Too (Vanilla 26.0-26.3 Realms) not just ones written before the GDK migration
Repro Steps
Get a book and quill
2. Type:
. Example Text
. Example Text
. Example Text
. Example Text
2. Close without signing & reopen → Line breaks vanish, bullets/alignment jumble into garbage
Affected: Latest Bedrock 26.3, completely vanilla Realms, no addons. Old worlds books were bad, but now fresh books break too – kills all book usage.
Quite frankly, I find it completely absurd that this issue was raised almost half a year ago (Oct 30, 2025) with full repro steps, yet the staff refuse to do anything about it despite 9+ votes and multiple confirms.
Vote up if broken for you aswell!
I forgot to add in the previous message, this only appears to occur on books that are not signed, when you sign a book it saves the formatting, however as stated above when you edit, close, and reopen an unsigned book the formatting glitch occurs
The world was originally created on 1.19.60 i believe
I am unable to share the full world file as it contains private information like peoples real world names written on signs and in books. Since this is a public tracker where anyone can view and download said file, im not willing to upload it
There are no addons active, i am running the vanilla game
Yes
It seems to mostly occur with text formatted with bullet points like:
. Example text
. Example text
. Example text
. Example text
. Example text
After editing, closing, and reopening the book the text will all be jumbled and unformatted like this:
. Example text. Example text. Example text
. Example text. Example text
performance is still horrible as of the latest update, constant stuttering and frame drops
No, this is not resolved.
The bug is still happening in the latest release of the game, here is a clip of the formatting glitch happening to me today on a completely vanilla realm
This has been going on since October 2025 and got even worse after 26.10, stop marking it resolved when its clearly not fixed, mark it confirmed and escalate it.