I just started this world today and messed around with it for a while with no problems, explored a cave, made a small shelter. I wandered off in a direction I hadn't explored and found this weird four-sided mountain thing with a hole in it.
Tried to light the inside of the cave, but the torches don't work.
As you can see the lighting is normal as long as it's just outside the 'square' that forms this structure. I saved and closed the game a few times, waited until daylight, nothing worked.
Test 1: I dug out a couple of random blocks in the side of the mountain and tried to light up the hole:
Test 2: walked a small distance and dug into the side of another mountain. The lighting behaved normally.
The seed is 'Maromi' (no quotes, capital M) in case anyone wants to verify it. Is this a normal glitch, or what's going on? I wanted to use this as a house but it will be pretty useless if I can't see anything inside it.
That sonny, is what we call a chunk error, but yeah it is a chunk error, it looks like it was actually "raised" a few blocks. World generation probably screwed up there.
I had this problem for ages too. It was definitely associated with chunk errors and was quite frustrating.
My world had a number of completely missing chinks. Big dark squares in the ground that went right through to the void. In some areas of the game torches and lava worked properly and in others they didn't cast any light. Sometimes the first few torches I placed would light up and then the rest would stay dark. It made cave exploring really hard. This was in 1.5 and I found that when I updated to 1.6 the missing chunks filled in with stone and whenever I placed a new torch near dark ones, any that were visible on screen would light up. I still find some patches of lava without light in that world until I put a torch near them.
This particular error isn't related to corrupted saves but more to corrupted world generation, as this occured on my first world and I saw it on the first instance of play. (Actually funny story - I was afraid of the water when I first started MC. I swam in the water near my spawn point and fell into the missing chunk (seen above) and thought that was just really deep water and what happened when you went out too far.)
Tried to light the inside of the cave, but the torches don't work.
As you can see the lighting is normal as long as it's just outside the 'square' that forms this structure. I saved and closed the game a few times, waited until daylight, nothing worked.
Test 1: I dug out a couple of random blocks in the side of the mountain and tried to light up the hole:
Test 2: walked a small distance and dug into the side of another mountain. The lighting behaved normally.
The seed is 'Maromi' (no quotes, capital M) in case anyone wants to verify it. Is this a normal glitch, or what's going on? I wanted to use this as a house but it will be pretty useless if I can't see anything inside it.
Haha thanks, I figured that out after a minute. I'm kind of slow.
Tried that, didn't change anything.
I guess the hunt for a home will continue, then...
My world had a number of completely missing chinks. Big dark squares in the ground that went right through to the void. In some areas of the game torches and lava worked properly and in others they didn't cast any light. Sometimes the first few torches I placed would light up and then the rest would stay dark. It made cave exploring really hard. This was in 1.5 and I found that when I updated to 1.6 the missing chunks filled in with stone and whenever I placed a new torch near dark ones, any that were visible on screen would light up. I still find some patches of lava without light in that world until I put a torch near them.
This particular error isn't related to corrupted saves but more to corrupted world generation, as this occured on my first world and I saw it on the first instance of play. (Actually funny story - I was afraid of the water when I first started MC. I swam in the water near my spawn point and fell into the missing chunk (seen above) and thought that was just really deep water and what happened when you went out too far.)