[1.14] Both Creative and Survival Glitch.

[Former user]

If you are building a wall in 1.14 and accidentally look too high up in the air, the game will just freeze forever until you close Minecraft. I have lost one too many builds because of this. I think this is because the direction I am facing is over the build limit. One possible solution is to cap it out at 255.

[Brian Nguyen]

I can confirm this bug is real. When you are building a wall, the height can go to 50 some blocks and if you look any higher than that, your game instantly freezes for a long time, possibly forever. In my experience, the only solution is to close Minecraft and restart.

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Edit # 1: After testing the glitch some more, I realized that this glitch occurs with almost every single build mode. After you build the base of your building and look upwards to build it vertically, the game will freeze no matter what. Rectangles, walls, cylinders, spheres, diagonal walls, anything that is not a flat surface is subject to this glitch.

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Edit # 2: The glitch also occurs in the opposite axis, too. If you are making a shape, be it flat or three dimensional, and you look too far off into unloaded chunks, your game freezes as well.

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Edit # 3: I have found a solution to the freezing. If you wait about 2 minutes, your game will go back to the pause menu and you get to play it as normal. But the glitch still must be fixed because chunk errors start happening left and right and that can corrupt your builds.

[Requios]

Fixed in version 2.19 coming out later today. When looking up/down or perfectly sideways it would try to raycast (look for block collisions) with infinite length, which takes quite a while to calculate. I fixed it by modifying the lookVec that I use to never be perfect (at most 0.9999 instead of 1 for example).

Anyway, you don't have to understand the technical mumbo jumbo. It's fixed.