[MC-12017] Can get permanently stuck in a minecart in a nether portal Created: 16/Mar/13  Updated: 11/May/17  Resolved: 25/Apr/13

Status: Resolved
Project: Minecraft: Java Edition
Component/s: None
Affects Version/s: Minecraft 1.5, Snapshot 13w11a, Minecraft 1.5.1
Fix Version/s: Snapshot 13w16a

Type: Bug
Reporter: Kevin Reid Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Fixed Votes: 6
Labels: minecart, nether_portal

Issue Links:
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is duplicated by MC-12555 Players get completely stuck when rid... Resolved
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Confirmation Status: Confirmed
Game Mode: Survival

 Description   

This is not a program bug so much as a game-mechanics bug. Steps to reproduce:

  1. Build a minecart track up to an active portal.
  2. Be in survival mode, with an empty inventory, with cheats off.
  3. Ride the minecart into the portal. (You will not be teleported, and this is not a bug, per MC-67.)

It is now impossible to do anything to leave this situation on your own.

  • You cannot move, since you are in a minecart and the minecart is not on rails.
  • Your cursor cannot target anything but the unbreakable portal blocks, so you cannot exit or break the cart.
  • Since you do not happen to have a water bucket, you cannot disable the portal with water.
  • Since you do not happen to have a bow, you cannot break the cart with an arrow.

Previously, you could exit the game and return, and find yourself no longer in the cart, but since 1.5 that no longer works.

(The fix I would propose is to make portal blocks be like water/lava, where aiming at them just targets the block/entity behind them, not the fluid block itself; I think this would also be an improvement for combat in the vicinity of a portal. But that's up to Mojang to decide.)



 Comments   
Comment by Tails [ 25/Apr/13 ]

Now you dismount the minecart with the sneak key.

Comment by C.J. Wijtmans [ 16/Mar/13 ]

this could be easily fixed by making a portal block like an air block, unselectable.

Comment by Kevin Reid [ 16/Mar/13 ]

So, I just installed 13w11a and reopened my test build and I was able to look down and hit the cart. I tried exiting and reopening the world, and I could still hit the cart. Then there was spontaneously some kind of wobble of my viewpoint and I couldn't. Strange.

Comment by Tails [ 16/Mar/13 ]

Ok relogging was a bad idea as I was no longer able to hit the Minecart, so confirmed

Comment by Tails [ 16/Mar/13 ]

I saw that situation multiple times, but after testing it in 13w11a I am in fact able to hit the Minecart while in the portal.

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