It's been a few months that since I played Minecraft, and since coming back my old world became buggy with the nether portals and I decided to just start a new world. But it's been running pretty poor, mostly just blocks not updating. As in, I open a door and can walk through, but the door still looks closed. Or I break a block yet it won't show up as broken until I 'update' the block.
SO I decided to delete my .minecraft folder and re-install it. I copied over my saves and resource packs, but when I loaded up my most recent world, I spawned with my inventory completely empty and every single chest empty. Everything else seems intact, just all the items are gone.
If it can't be fixed, it's not a HUGE loss as I'm still fairly early into the game. I'm just worried about ALL chests being wiped, as in dungeon chests.
It cant' be fixed and comes of using a world in a 1.8 snapshot (causing it to update to the 1.8 item identification scheme) and then opening it in 1.7 or earlier where the 1.8 item ids are all invalid.
It's quite possible you were using a snapshot version, maybe unintentionally, by what you describe.
The way items are stored in your inventory and in chests has changed in the recent snapshots, and is not backwards compatible. When you reinstalled Minecraft, you were switching from snapshot to older release, which can't recognise the new format.
The bug you describe about blocks not disappearing immediately is also a bug reported in the new snapshots, https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-62166
SO I decided to delete my .minecraft folder and re-install it. I copied over my saves and resource packs, but when I loaded up my most recent world, I spawned with my inventory completely empty and every single chest empty. Everything else seems intact, just all the items are gone.
If it can't be fixed, it's not a HUGE loss as I'm still fairly early into the game. I'm just worried about ALL chests being wiped, as in dungeon chests.
The way items are stored in your inventory and in chests has changed in the recent snapshots, and is not backwards compatible. When you reinstalled Minecraft, you were switching from snapshot to older release, which can't recognise the new format.
The bug you describe about blocks not disappearing immediately is also a bug reported in the new snapshots, https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-62166
Stu