[MC-409] Worlds not saving upon exit (single player) Created: 25/Oct/12  Updated: 22/Mar/21  Resolved: 19/Sep/20

Status: Resolved
Project: Minecraft: Java Edition
Component/s: None
Affects Version/s: Minecraft 1.4.1, Minecraft 1.4.2, Minecraft 1.4.5, Minecraft 1.4.7, Minecraft 1.5, Minecraft 1.5.1, Minecraft 1.5.2, Minecraft 1.6.1, Minecraft 1.6.2, Minecraft 1.6.4, Minecraft 1.7.1, Minecraft 1.7.4, Minecraft 14w05b, Minecraft 14w06b, Minecraft 14w07a, Minecraft 1.7.5, Minecraft 1.7.9, Minecraft 1.8.1, Minecraft 1.8.3
Fix Version/s: None

Type: Bug
Reporter: Seth Johnson Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Cannot Reproduce Votes: 30
Labels: world
Environment:

Windows XP, Java 6


Attachments: Text File crash-2015-02-26_09.04.51-client.txt     Text File crash-2015-02-26_09.06.31-client.txt     Text File gameoutput-2015-02-26_09.06.txt    
Issue Links:
Duplicate
is duplicated by MC-5516 Game not saving items. Resolved
is duplicated by MC-10165 Missing Items Resolved
is duplicated by MC-12021 Lost my stuff :( Resolved
is duplicated by MC-12819 Minecraft chunks don't save Resolved
is duplicated by MC-12887 Items disappear from Chests and Inven... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-12990 Duplication glitch Resolved
is duplicated by MC-14056 Not saving correctly after logging out Resolved
is duplicated by MC-14714 world not saving/loading properly Resolved
is duplicated by MC-19350 Can't successfully save the game in s... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-19420 Not Saving Resolved
is duplicated by MC-22381 World not saving Resolved
is duplicated by MC-22498 Save Failure Resolved
is duplicated by MC-24967 Saving worlds Resolved
is duplicated by MC-25490 Latest action(s) not being saved upon... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-25576 i destroy a block in a chunk then log... Resolved
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is duplicated by MC-25816 Losing Stuff/ Animals and Items when ... Resolved
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is duplicated by MC-26348 New launcher releases do not save pro... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-26843 Worlds are not saving Resolved
is duplicated by MC-27090 Save bug Resolved
is duplicated by MC-28053 Enchanted diamond armor disappearing ... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-28084 Diamonds Have Disapered!!! Resolved
is duplicated by MC-28143 worlds not saving Resolved
is duplicated by MC-28351 Single Player game not saving properly Resolved
is duplicated by MC-31757 well i was play mc survival and i had... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-35038 Houdini Chest Resolved
is duplicated by MC-35357 Creation Deletion Resolved
is duplicated by MC-36107 diamond pickaxes disappear Resolved
is duplicated by MC-38381 Memory Leak Bug In Chests Resolved
is duplicated by MC-39612 I've had items just disappear out of ... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-41076 Blocks placed in my world disappear i... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-41784 World Save Glitch? Resolved
is duplicated by MC-42038 No bed on login Resolved
is duplicated by MC-44237 minecraft not saving all progress mad... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-46151 Saving bug Resolved
is duplicated by MC-46186 Chunk saving problem Resolved
is duplicated by MC-46391 Taking something out of a chest, relo... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-53062 Creations disappear Resolved
is duplicated by MC-273 Game world stops responding, world ro... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-593 disappearing items from chests Resolved
is duplicated by MC-636 Placed and broken blocks are not alwa... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-815 Basically my items are disappearing f... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-904 Home Gone Missing? Resolved
is duplicated by MC-989 Minecraft will not save! Resolved
is duplicated by MC-1076 Sometimes the world doesn't save Resolved
is duplicated by MC-1556 Houses disappearing after re-logging Resolved
is duplicated by MC-1917 Trees don't dissapear on flatlands Resolved
is duplicated by MC-2281 Déjà vu Resolved
is duplicated by MC-2361 stuff i build in my world is sometime... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-2425 When i save dosent fully save my data Resolved
is duplicated by MC-2684 different changes of the world disapp... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-2804 Not saving Resolved
is duplicated by MC-2895 Minecraft does not save right Resolved
is duplicated by MC-3131 Most of the time when i reload a worl... Resolved
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is duplicated by MC-3869 loading minecraft back up when you cl... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-4575 Chop down tree. Leave game. Come back... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-4639 Suffocated after save, went back to p... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-5250 error with world saves Resolved
Relates
relates to MC-63 Player data and region files not writ... Reopened
relates to MC-32067 Some blocks after you break them and ... Resolved
relates to MC-73450 When quiting a world, you leave befor... Resolved
CHK:
Confirmation Status: Community Consensus

 Description   

After editing terrain in any world, upon saving and quitting the game doesn't show the 'saving level' screen and instantly goes to the main screen. When I reload the world none of the terrain is saved, only my player's coordinates and inventory is saved.



 Comments   
Comment by Ryan Leahy [ 22/Mar/21 ]

I am now having a very very similar issue right now in 1.16.5

Comment by Fabian Röling [ 19/Sep/20 ]

Do you have reproduction steps for this? What's your specs, launcher settings, etc. Do you have free disk space and is the folder writeable? And hard disk faults, problems in other programs, etc.?

Comment by Baloney Pony [ 18/Sep/20 ]

Encountering the same issue on versions past snapshot 20w22a for my single player world. None of the versions after that snapshot seem to allow me world to save chunks.

Comment by Galaxy_2Alex [ 26/Sep/16 ]

Is this still a concern in the current Minecraft version? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases. If this has been done, we can reopen the issue.

Keep in mind that the "Resolved"-Status on this ticket just means "Answered", and that we are waiting for further information on whether this issue still exists or not. It will be reopened as soon as the requested information has been delivered.

Comment by Fabian Röling [ 09/Jun/16 ]

I can't reproduce this in 1.10 and never even heard about this. I'm on Windows 7, also played on Ubuntu and even Boardwalk on Android (port of PC minecraft to mobile), but it never happened, even with lag, freezes, crashes, etc. Also when I set the autosave time in Optifine to 30 minutes and the game crashed, it didn't happen (but I know that that doesn't count here). Does anyone have tips on how to reproduce this?
I have 7 of my 8GB RAM allocated to MC, but it also worked before and even on a sh*tty school computer (worse than phone) while hosting a server.

Comment by Sam Bone [ 06/Jun/15 ]

Hmm, let me get this straight:
A: does your inventory save but not the world? My answer: Yes
B: does this occur on Windows 8? (Yes)
C: does this always occur or just sometimes (Sometimes)
D: does it occur in just one world or more than one (at least 2)
E: do all the block you placed since you logged in disappear or just the last 5-minutes or so? (only the last ones)
F: how do you fix the problem? (idk)
G: what 1.8.5-compatible versions of Minecraft fix this issue? (idk)

For these conditions: confirmed.

Comment by Kumasasa [ 26/Feb/15 ]

@someone3x7: Nothing to see in the reports except that your graphics card drivers are one version behind. Current one: http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/81877

Comment by Someone 3x7 [ 26/Feb/15 ]

Sorry was about to delete the email when noticed you wanted the game output.

Comment by Someone 3x7 [ 26/Feb/15 ]

Them two roughly approximate the conditions under which I've noticed this issue.

Comment by Kumasasa [ 26/Feb/15 ]

@someone3x7: You're right. Please force the crash at any time.

Comment by Someone 3x7 [ 26/Feb/15 ]

While this is for the multiplayer server I think it might be related. When shutting down a server I've noticed an error a couple of times with no corresponding crash-report generated. Once in the middle of saving the players, and once in the middle of saving chunks.

2015-02-25 17:32:41,040 ERROR Attempted to append to non-started appender ServerGuiConsole
Exception in thread "Server Shutdown Thread" org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.AppenderLoggingException: Attempted to append to
non-started appender ServerGuiConsole
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppenderControl.callAppender(AppenderControl.java:89)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig.callAppenders(LoggerConfig.java:425)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig.log(LoggerConfig.java:406)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig.log(LoggerConfig.java:367)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.Logger.log(Logger.java:110)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.spi.AbstractLogger.info(AbstractLogger.java:1011)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.s(SourceFile:379)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer$2.run(SourceFile:713)

Comment by Someone 3x7 [ 25/Feb/15 ]

It would be rather difficult to force a crash on a world I've already closed. The problem being that changes from the last time I played were not saved even though it appeared to exit normally. As for memory settings, I have been tinkering with those recently, yet, it occurred when using the default settings as well. At this point I've already deleted everything except my saves and launcher profiles and am keeping an eye on things to see if it occurs again.

Comment by Kumasasa [ 24/Feb/15 ]

@someone3x7: Before After having this issue: Please force a crash by pressing F3 + C for 10 seconds while in-game and attach the crash report (minecraft/crash-reports/crash-<DATE>-client.txt) here.

Please attach the complete output of the "Game Output (Your Minecraft name) " which can be found on the fourth tab of the launcher.

If the launcher closes after game start, please edit your profile and select "Launcher visibility" then, "Keep the launcher open".

That can be a memory issue, see e.g. MC-78028

Comment by Someone 3x7 [ 24/Feb/15 ]

I first started experiencing this in 1.8.3. Thought I was loosing whats left of my mind as was usually minor tasks lost that I thought I did but couldn't be sure. Then some changes I made to a redstone contraption including changing item counts in some hopper and droppers didn't save. I clearly remember doing the math on them item counts thrice. This world has not been touched with an external editor and was never downgraded.

Comment by Galaxy_2Alex [ 25/Oct/14 ]

That is MC-45009. Downgrading is not, was never and will never be officially supported.

Comment by MysticMight [ 25/Oct/14 ]

I haven't run minecraft recently much, so I feel I can't effectively answer the above. However what I have noticed is items disappear when you login a 1.8 world with a 1.7 profile loaded. This is probably because the new formats which may not be compatible.

From searches I have found that the items are unreplacable. So for other users; take this as a warning.

Comment by Galaxy_2Alex [ 23/Oct/14 ]

Is this still a concern in the current Minecraft version 1.8.1 Prerelease 3 / Launcher version 1.5.3 or later? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases.

Comment by Lyra Heartstrings [ 25/May/14 ]

I was getting this in the current snapshot- 14w21b. At first I thought it was an entity problem- I was just dropping things and reclogging, wanting to use MCEDIT. (maybe my old version of MCEDIT triggered it?) Then my blocks wouldn't save progress either, but my inventory would.

After finding people with similar issues on a forum, I deleted everything from ".minecraft" except my saves, stopped using MCEDIT, and I enter & exit the nether right before saving and quitting now. It saves my progress again, but I don't know which, if any, of my actions resolved it. I hope this helps you guys isolate the issue, but I realize I'm being rather vague.

Comment by Kirsty Golding [ 17/Apr/14 ]

I am getting this in version 1.7.5

Comment by Logan Williams [ 16/Feb/14 ]

confirmed in 1.7.4 and all later snapshots, extremely annoying and needs to be fixed.

Comment by James Bauer [ 27/Jan/14 ]

I think the reason for this is the local server hasn't finished shutting down when you get to the title screen. since about 1.3, when quitting a world, i'll run task manager and wait till the cpu usage goes down before doing anything on the title screen.

Comment by MysticMight [ 07/Jan/14 ]

I thought it was fixed for me atleast in 1.7.2 and 1.7.1, but then yesterday I logged on singleplayer and a sign was missing. It was the last thing I had placed in a previous session. This happened in 1.7.4, so I don't know whether 1.7.2 was fixed or not.

Comment by philippe touchette [ 24/Oct/13 ]

It doesn't save the last couple seconds. If you place 3-4 blocks and leave the game and then come back they wont be there.

Confirmed in 1.7.1

Comment by MysticMight [ 01/Oct/13 ]

I have evidence of this bug in snapshots. If I can attach these, just ask. (i.e. version 1.6.4)

Edit:
Upon reviewing the snapshots, they do not display much detail of the bug (however a video would). So these snapshots would be of little use.

Comment by Jose Delgado [ 17/Jul/13 ]

THis happens to me on Windows XP as well

Comment by benjamin griggs [ 17/Jul/13 ]

this happens to me on windows vista as well

Comment by Baasim Rehan [ 13/Jul/13 ]

Mine doesn't save it however.

Comment by [Mod] Ezekiel (ezfe) [ 12/Jul/13 ]

My computer doesn't show a saving level screen, however saves it. I will reopen to 1.6.2.

Comment by Baasim Rehan [ 12/Jul/13 ]

Did you use XP? I can still reproduce this The "saving level" screen never shows up.

Comment by [Mod] Ezekiel (ezfe) [ 12/Jul/13 ]

Cannot reproduce in the latest version of minecraft

Comment by Yoann Petremann [ 10/Jul/13 ]

Confirmed in 1.6.2 !

Comment by Baasim Rehan [ 09/Jul/13 ]

Having this issue in 1.6.2. Also, it won't save if I close minecraft by clicking the "x" in the top-right corner.

Comment by MysticMight [ 03/Jul/13 ]

I've received this issue in the 1.6.1 release, although it may be by another cause. I use Windows Vista.

Comment by Yoann Petremann [ 27/Jun/13 ]

Also in 1.6 !!!

Comment by Toni Perry [ 13/Jun/13 ]

Once again me. Starting the proposed batch file, minecraft does not start. error.txt then contains the message (in german): "could'nt find or load main class net.minecraft.LauncherFrame". log.txt is empty.
Starting normal works fine. Suggestions?

Comment by Toni Perry [ 13/Jun/13 ]

I have the latest full version of Minecraft installed (1.5.2), without snapshots or mods (single player mode). The descripted error already appears. The world status, including the recently added items in a chest inventory, is saved incomplete. Waiting a few minutes before leaving the game to the main menu seems to increase the chance of correct saving. But it is not reliable. Please, create a boringly normal, but working save button, even though the game is somewhat less novel.

Comment by user-e7d75 (Inactive) [ 06/Jun/13 ]

It does not work

Comment by Tails [ 23/May/13 ]

Anyone who's experiencing this, please start Minecraft by

minecraft.bat
java -Xmx1g -Xms512M -cp minecraft.exe net.minecraft.LauncherFrame 1> log.txt 2> error.txt

and attach log.txt and error.txt after the error occured.

Comment by Tails [ 23/May/13 ]

Why cloning when this is still open?

Comment by Enrique Atapulco [ 23/May/13 ]

HEY! I'm playing on 1.5.2 and I've got this problem.

Comment by Jonathan Niven [ 27/Mar/13 ]

The bug seems to fix itself when playing minecraft in Win95 compatability mode

Comment by Vanhart [ 27/Mar/13 ]

Hey tails. Sorry for the lack of updates.

The current release version of Minecraft, 1.4.7, no longer has this issue. I think it was actually resolved by a prior version, possibly 1.4.5.

I can confirm that it is definitely resolved under 1.4.7, however, and my world saves appear to persist almost immediately

Just try not to loose the fix in a stray code branch

Comment by Tails [ 14/Mar/13 ]

Is this still a concern in the current Minecraft version? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases.

Comment by Vanhart [ 14/Nov/12 ]

Update :

Note : it was possible to get reasonably reliable persistence behaviour under 1.4.2 hitting ESC, waiting 30 sec, clicking save, waiting 30 sec and going back into the game. However the reliability of this was only about 75%.

Under the just-released version 1.4.4 the behaviour is still occasionally reproducible, especially when saving the diggings of just a few blocks. The game save behaviour is now about 90% reliable without waiting for the "silent save" to complete.

Clearly whatever it was, it got improved by the 1.4.4 release, but the underlying cause is still lurking about.

The "Saving game..." message is still conspicuously absent.

Fixed? No.

More reliable? Yes.

Please keep this issue on the front burner

Comment by Paulquappe [ 12/Nov/12 ]

the issue with the chest i did hade once while using 1.4.2. now, with 1.4.4, it didn't came up since (win 7 32 bit). i'll test it and report here/edit this coment, if necessary.

Comment by Vanhart [ 12/Nov/12 ]

I am also experiencing this issue since the 1.4.2 live release on previously generated and newly generated worlds.

The behaviour is duplicated under both java 6.0 and the most recent Java 7 update 9 release. (tried updating, made no difference).

The behaviour is duplicated wether minecraft is running in the standalone launcher or the applet on minecraft.net/play.

OS : WinXP
CPU: Singlecore Athlon FX64
JRE: V7 Update 9 (build 1.7.0_09-b05)
Browser : Firefox 16.0.2

Notable behaviour:

The saved game appears to act as if there are two conflicting versions of the saved block state, which are persisted or loaded at random, depending on some unknown factor.

Nothing I've tried so far appears to give stable saved results, however once a set of blocks changes in "both" versions, the loaded results are consistent.

The versions don't appear to "toggle" between consecutive loads, but seem to depend on some random factor.

More info to follow as I go...

Comment by Jesi [ 10/Nov/12 ]

I have this same problem. I have tried to re-install multiple times and even tried creating new worlds but it never works. It is making it impossible to play Minecraft since I never know what will save and what will not.

Comment by Jacob [ 08/Nov/12 ]

I am not entirely sure it is an install problem, I have reinstalled many times and that bug continues to happen. I believe, as I stated in MC-593, that this is a problem with the fact that the world no longer saves as often.

Comment by eleazzaar [ 04/Nov/12 ]

It has happened to me in 1.4.2. I don't remember if the "saving" dialog was shown, but when i reloaded the world, about 30min of building was gone. I have no mods.

Comment by Do [ 29/Oct/12 ]

This video was linked in a duplicate ticket: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPJCLgadl8o

Comment by Chalmes (Jon) [ 28/Oct/12 ]

I'm pointing a few bugs back here as duplicates including ones where items are being lost on logging out as there seems to be a global issue of worlds not saving correctly in singleplayer for some people.

Comment by Seth Johnson [ 25/Oct/12 ]

Thank you sterling My Minecraft does seem to be working fine on previous versions. Apparently using compatibility mode fixes it.

Comment by sterlingred [ 25/Oct/12 ]

This looks like a problem with your install and isn't really a bug. Try looking here for help. http://www.minecraftforum.net/forum/151-unmodified-minecraft-client-support/

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