Is the falling dirt that disappears a known bug in 1.20.4?

[Yerik]

I always wiggles and disappears now

 

And sometimes it does this:

 

[Michael Gates]

Okay, I want to build a house out of those.

[Never Jhonsen]

I've been experiencing this issue as well, although my dirt'll only wiggle for about 3 seconds before vanishing.
It's been very annoying to me, as my main base is deep in the middle of a forest, and in trying to preserve (but lower) the forest floor, it keeps wiggling and vanishing instead of falling into the place I wanted it to go

[idiomcritter]

seems fixed in 1.20.4, least with sand that was prior doing the same thing idk

[Yerik]

13 hours ago, idiomcritter said:

seems fixed in 1.20.4, least with sand that was prior doing the same thing idk

I'm on 1.20.4 in this video, so it is still an issue with dirt.

[Thorfinn]

What settings are you using? Mine dances, too, but usually only for a handful of seconds before it just disappears.

[Yerik]

3 hours ago, Thorfinn said:

What settings are you using? Mine dances, too, but usually only for a handful of seconds before it just disappears.

To be clear, the video was a one time occurrence, which I'm not really concerned about.

My biggest question is when the blocks just disappear, most of the dirt instead of falling, wiggle then disappear. This didn't used to happen in the same world pre 1.20.4.
I started this world in 1.19 then upgraded to 1.20

It sounds like it happens to more people than me, so I guess it's a bug.
:)

[Thorfinn]

37 minutes ago, Yerik said:

I guess it's a bug.

Maybe. One of the big complaints before was when the cave mouths collapsed, you still had to dig out a crapton of dirt to get through, even though a lot of the blocks became just free dirt blocks free for the taking. I could see the possibility of having the blocks that would have been drops become instead nothing.

[theguyfromsaturn]

I have this issue also as of 1.20.4 this bug is still present.

[Tom Cantine]

I noticed this when digging out a charcoal pit once. The unsupported dirt collapsed and vanished in a cloud of dust, which I think actually felt kind of realistic. Soil gets depleted sometimes. 
 

[Thorfinn]

It's irritating when peat disappears, but full-on annoying when the charcoal does. 

[reisai]

I'm also having this issue on 1.20.4 and have observed it with gravel, sand, dirt, stone, and charcoal piles. This world was created in 1.20.3 and is running on a server.

[Dark Thoughts]

https://github.com/anegostudios/VintageStory-Issues/issues

Edit: Fixed in the next update.

https://github.com/anegostudios/VintageStory-Issues/issues/5308

Edited February 24, 2025 by Dark Thoughts