I recently bought this game for my phone to play with my two year old kid before bed. It's pretty neat. Had a major spawn issue yesterday which I finally worked around with some third party software, and figured I'd share it, because the symptoms of it were pretty interesting and show some insight into how the game may be coded.
Quick story - I have a base that's a few hundred meters due west from the intiial spawn point in a infinite survival world with my son's name as the random number seed. I've slept in a bed numerous times, and presumed my spawn location would be set to the bed location. I'm riding a rail down into my mine, there's a creeper parked on the rail, boom, "You've Died!" When I respawn I apparently respawn within solid rock, because I immediately die again. I respawn again and I'm no where near anything I've ever seen before. Spent a couple days walking around and see nothing familiar. Kill myself and respawn in the new location again. Can't get back home.
So I make a new world in Creative mode with the same seed, and I spawn near the spot where I built my base in survival. I fly around and can't find any of the terrain that my survival guy is near. I come here and I hit these forums (today is my first post) and discover the BlockLauncher app, which has an installable script to activate command line commands on PE. I also read that the standard spawn point for Minecraft is supposedly X:75 Z:75. I load both games in Blocklauncher and take note of the coordinates.
Turns out that the funny place my creative world spawned me, well away from any of my constructions, was indeed X:75 Z:75, but the default spawn location for the world seed when you first generate it is about a kilometer away from that, and therefore so is my base. I took note of my base location in creative, loaded survival in Blocklauncher, and teleported to the base to get home.
So three takeaways from this adventure:
1) Apparently randomly seeded infinite worlds of both creative and survival in Minecraft PE 0.9.5 DO NOT spawn you at X:75 Z:75 by default,
2) PE 0.9.5 has a spawn point glitch where it (sometimes?) forgets where your bed is,
3) Minecraft has (may have?) an emergency spawn default mode that appears to kick in during instant-death spawn bugs, that is intended to warp you back to the original spawn point, but that code has not been adjusted to reflect the (new?) code within PE 0.9.5 that varies your initial location away from X:75 Z:75.
Hope this helps someone who runs into the same problem.
Funny, I had the same problem. So I started my world and did pretty good with it! I made a house and 4 nice gardens with sugar cane, wheat, carrots, and potatoes. So my sister joins. There were some minor spawning glitches, here and there, but then she was low on health. I was trying to play legit ament, for the fact I always play with duplication glitches. I didn't want to make bread, so she put her belongings in her chest, and boom! I kill here. She slept in a bed before, but instead of spawning in that area, she spawns in the middle of the ocean! I tried a million times trying to get her back to spawn, but no matter what, whenever she died, she'd spawn in the ocean. This was very unfortunate. Unlike android users, you can download blocklauncher, and download mods, and all sorts of stuff, meanwhile, I have the ios, which does not have an application for downloading things without my device being jailbroken. I have no idea how I could fix this, but if your reading this and have this problem, and know the solution, please, please, PLEASE, respond. If you know, I definitely owe you one.
I had something similar to this too. (Well, my brother actually). On his nice survival world, he died in a mining expedition, and boom, respawns in a lava lake deep in a cave. He managed to get out and into a pool of water, but he was trapped in a never-before-explored cave underground, no idea where he was, with monsters. He ended up deleting the world, since he couldn't get out.
Also, when he was playing with me on my infinite survival world, he died, and respawned at the spawn point…hundreds of blocks in the air. After respawning and dying of falling multiple times (lands on the spawn point every time!), he finally spawned successfully, and luckily, we were able to continue playing without further incident. A very strange bug though...
I never heard of the glitch. and I use 0.9.5. For playing Infinite worlds, i would prefer a tablet. Anyway, once you bought it you will be able to download it again for free on another device. I also recommend to use PC version since it just released 1.8 update!
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Oh my gosh thankyou so much for this! I was just randomly removed from my cave system because i was mining and i couldnt find where i was because i have never seen the area before but your advice helped me find my base so thankyou
Quick story - I have a base that's a few hundred meters due west from the intiial spawn point in a infinite survival world with my son's name as the random number seed. I've slept in a bed numerous times, and presumed my spawn location would be set to the bed location. I'm riding a rail down into my mine, there's a creeper parked on the rail, boom, "You've Died!" When I respawn I apparently respawn within solid rock, because I immediately die again. I respawn again and I'm no where near anything I've ever seen before. Spent a couple days walking around and see nothing familiar. Kill myself and respawn in the new location again. Can't get back home.
So I make a new world in Creative mode with the same seed, and I spawn near the spot where I built my base in survival. I fly around and can't find any of the terrain that my survival guy is near. I come here and I hit these forums (today is my first post) and discover the BlockLauncher app, which has an installable script to activate command line commands on PE. I also read that the standard spawn point for Minecraft is supposedly X:75 Z:75. I load both games in Blocklauncher and take note of the coordinates.
Turns out that the funny place my creative world spawned me, well away from any of my constructions, was indeed X:75 Z:75, but the default spawn location for the world seed when you first generate it is about a kilometer away from that, and therefore so is my base. I took note of my base location in creative, loaded survival in Blocklauncher, and teleported to the base to get home.
So three takeaways from this adventure:
1) Apparently randomly seeded infinite worlds of both creative and survival in Minecraft PE 0.9.5 DO NOT spawn you at X:75 Z:75 by default,
2) PE 0.9.5 has a spawn point glitch where it (sometimes?) forgets where your bed is,
3) Minecraft has (may have?) an emergency spawn default mode that appears to kick in during instant-death spawn bugs, that is intended to warp you back to the original spawn point, but that code has not been adjusted to reflect the (new?) code within PE 0.9.5 that varies your initial location away from X:75 Z:75.
Hope this helps someone who runs into the same problem.
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Also, when he was playing with me on my infinite survival world, he died, and respawned at the spawn point…hundreds of blocks in the air. After respawning and dying of falling multiple times (lands on the spawn point every time!), he finally spawned successfully, and luckily, we were able to continue playing without further incident. A very strange bug though...
grr
Spawn in the middle of rock.
Spawn at 75:75 even though that's not the original spawn point.
Spawn at the place you died.
Spawn a few blocks away from the place you died.
Spawn at the surface above the cave in which you died.
Log off and when you log on, you're at the surface above the place where you logged off.
In fact, it was only very recently that I actually spawned in my bed. This week was the first time since the update I spawned where I was supposed to.
/shrug.
Something majorly wrong with the spawn code.
I realized that the problem is the bed
if you surround any different block it will spawn you to random Location, but before that you will hit a bedrock
the only way i can do is using pocketInvetor to move you back.
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Oh my gosh thankyou so much for this! I was just randomly removed from my cave system because i was mining and i couldnt find where i was because i have never seen the area before but your advice helped me find my base so thankyou
I spent a week making a really good adventure map then I forgot to sleep so when I died I spawned in the middle of nowhere and I can't find my map D: