Switching inventory items causes one of the items to drop – can be reproduced but only happens about 1 in 10 times. Lost a good pickaxe this way today. Seems to have started since the switch to 1.7.2.

Digging blocks under or stacking up from beneath can cause you to suddenly be thrown right off the tower/wall/whatever you’re building or demolishing. Seems to be related to that rubber-banding effect because it seems similar. Got killed by this a few days ago. Has been around since 1.6.4.

Zombie Pigmen attack out of the blue without provocation. This doesn’t seem to be a permanent thing, you can be happily going about your business with them around you and they’re passive, then they’ll just suddenly swarm and strike you. Don’t know how to reproduce this one. Just lost my last remaining set of tools and armour this way. This did happen when I first joined but I assumed back then someone else had aggravated them because they were hostile from the beginning and it was near the nether hub. This case however was in a very isolated area and as I say the pigmen had been passive until their sudden unexplained turning on me.

I’m not asking for my stuff back as frustrating as it is to keep losing gear to buggy circumstances beyond my control, all I ask is for these to please be looked at as they’re pretty serious game-breaking bugs. Quite frankly I’m reluctant to do any more on the server because I don’t know what I’m going to lose next, I never seem to have any of these problems on single player.

I realise that they may be out of staff control but could any of the server plugins/settings or whatnot be causing any of these to occur?

That’s understandable. As I say having not encountered these problems in single player I didn’t know if it was down to one of the settings or plugins, but I know it could also be because of a Minecraft multiplayer bug.

I didn’t mean any hurry you though, I understand you have other priorities IRL. I just felt it was important to post these bugs so they’re known about because they’re pretty severe. Additionally if other members are aware of them hopefully they can prevent it from happening to themselves.

Fired arrows apparently do not despawn in 1.7.2. Without going into specifics, because iMael came up with a very compact alternative to the design, the 1-minute timer that Spork made utilizing arrows fired onto a pressure plate no longer works because the arrow stays until the block under the pressure plate is updated. I’ve read in forums that this can be a potential lag issue if you’ve got a skeleton farm with lots of arrows being fired. I don’t have experience with that, but it may be something to look out for.

Beechlgz

Do these bugs look like what you’ve seen?

https://mojang.atlassian.net/browse/MC-40619
https://mojang.atlassian.net/browse/MC-234

I couldn’t find anything related to zombie pigmen being agro for no reason.

Beech, Spork and I have experienced the same pillaring-down-and-getting-thrown issue you’re describing, and it was happening before we switched to 1.7.2, if that’s useful information at all. Our solution has been to dig down slower. Since most of our shovels are diamond with Eff IV or V, that’s *hard*, but we manage it by just tapping the button as briefly as we can so we only go one block at a time. We also hold down shift while digging down. Not the greatest solution, but when we’re working at y-220 type of heights, it’s a necessary work-around.