[MCPE-1211] Falling sand/gravel will disappears and floats above snow Created: 30/Jan/13  Updated: 03/May/17  Resolved: 31/Jan/13

Status: Resolved
Project: Minecraft (Bedrock codebase)
Component/s: None
Affects Version/s: 0.6.0
Fix Version/s: 0.6.1

Type: Bug
Reporter: Tim Dunne
Resolution: Fixed Votes: 3
Labels: falling_block

Attachments: JPEG File image.jpg    
Issue Links:
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Game Mode: Survival
Confirmation Status: Unconfirmed
Platform: Tablet - iOS - iPad 3

 Description   

Sometimes when you try to place sand/gravel in place that will cause it to fall with the new gravity mechanics it will disappear and not be placed or fall. The sand/gravel will also be used out of your inventory.

Also if you remove a block of sand/gravel at the bottom of a column of sand/gravel the whole column of sand/gravel above it disappears as well.

Update:

If sand/gravel falls on sand/gravel it will disappear, if it falls on other blocks like dirt it won't disappear.

Also if it falls on snow it will float there. Attached picture of this.

Update 2:

Ignore comments about only disappear on sand/gravel tried this again and its disappearing on most blocks now.



 Comments   
Comment by Patrick Andersen [ 31/Jan/13 ]

I noticed that too. It only floats if you place it directly above the snow block.

Comment by Tim Dunne [ 31/Jan/13 ]

One thing I noticed about the falling snow is that it would replace the snow block if it fell more than 2 blocks

Comment by Tim Dunne [ 31/Jan/13 ]

Thanks Aron

Comment by [Mojang] Aron Nieminen [ 31/Jan/13 ]

This should be split into two bugs. The first one (sand/gravel disappears) was something that was noticed before the relase, but unfortunately not in time so it was only fixed for the different Android versions.

You won't find a pattern, because it was actually pseudo-random. . It never showed up during development though, only in the release .

The floats-above-snow part is the same behaviour as in PC Minecraft, so I will mark this as resolved.

Comment by Tim Dunne [ 30/Jan/13 ]

You are right I've tried it again and it does seem a bit random when it decides with destroy the block. When I updated my report it was reliably only destroying blocks on sand/gravel but now its not.. hmm

Comment by Patrick Andersen [ 30/Jan/13 ]

I have had the same problem with disappearing sand and gravel. I have been able to reproduce it reliably, although I have not seen any pattern in when it occurs. Sometimes, things fall, other times they don't. The snow bug always occurs, though.

Comment by vggg [ 30/Jan/13 ]

Correcto! I lost a whole stack of my sand

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