I have a world that is almost a year and a half old (created in 1.17.34, I believe), and today I joined a friend’s realm, which had me download some resource packs (not sure if this has anything to do with the glitch, but I’m including it in case it does). I played in the realm for a few minutes, then left and joined my world.

Upon loading in, I appeared at spawn (several hundred blocks from where I logged off) with nothing in my inventory, no armor, shield, or levels. My entire player save data had been deleted. This sort of thing had happened to me before, on a friend’s world in the first 1.19 update. I had an older phone then, and after a huge lag spike, I was booted from the world, and my Player save data vanished.

However, that situation differs from this one in the facts that 1) It is my own personal world, hosted locally on my device. 2) I am on a newer phone, and 1.19 has become much more stable since the initial, extremely buggy iOS release. 3) The data was not deleted permanently this time.

I left the world and loaded up a backup from yesterday and played for a bit. Then, to screenshot what had happened, to show to my friends, I reentered the original world file, and to my surprise, everything was normal again. I loaded in at the right spot in the world, with all my levels and inventory.

I’m not sure how serious of a bug this is. Is this a form of world corruption? Or is it just a bug in Minecraft? I got my stuff back but I’m not entirely sure I want to keep using the original file of the world if there’s a chance it’s corrupted.

I also forgot to mention earlier, but I changed a setting in my Microsoft account (the one that allows you to create or join parties or clubs) and that may have something to do with it. I’m not an expert on this.

This is both a bug report, and a quest for answers.