Not a bug, more the result of my own stupidity...

[Broccoli Clock]

In a move that ended up like a celebration of Houdini, I managed to get myself trapped inside a 1x1 block after a cave-in. Yes. Inside! I guess whatever code works out what caves in, and how that affects what is around it, couldn't find a "space" for my character to exist and defaulted to me sharing the location with a block. What's weird is that I took next to no damage.

 

What you are seeing is the texture from "within" the block. I was unable to mine the block I was in, the only solution was to mine in every direction (which broke the adjacent blocks) to give me enough space to the "step out of" the 1x1 block I was trapped inside.

I've had lots of cave-ins, I like them. I've always been annoyed that the "other block game" ignored physics, and I actually use cave-ins to shift large amounts of rock. This is vanilla, btw, so no mods.

This was the actual block I was stuck inside. Just a standard block, although it has a 50% instability so I don't know if that factored into this.

[Dilan Rona]

Glitching inside a block, after being attacked, with your back against a wall is a bug, and will happen a lot more to you.

Edited March 23, 2025 by Dilan Rona

[Broccoli Clock]

4 minutes ago, Dilan Rona said:

Glitching inside a block, after being attacked, aith your back against a wall is a bug, and will happen a lot more to you.

Good to know if you are fighting drifters inside caves.

I presume it's the "knockback animation" that is at fault.

[Dilan Rona]

dont know. but there are times, i got so disoriented with an attack, that sometimes in trying to get out i move in the wrong direction, resulting in me getting stuck in the centre of the blocks, unable to move any direction, and cannot jump. Made worse if I am stuck in something that is not dirt, and I dont have the appropriate tool on me to self rescue (ie axe for wood, or pickaxe for rocks).

[Broccoli Clock]

30 minutes ago, Dilan Rona said:

 Made worse if I am stuck in something that is not dirt, and I dont have the appropriate tool on me to self rescue (ie axe for wood, or pickaxe for rocks).

You can see from both the vid and the image that my pickaxe is nearly at the end of its life. I was sure I was going to end up encased within this block as at the start I was hitting something but not escaping. Experience is what helped here, I sort of figured from other games that if I broke enough space around me then I'd "pop out".

I'll not lie, while it was my own fault, if I genuinely got caught in that position and the only option was to starve to death, I'd just drop to creative and move a block to the side, then return to survival. I don't like doing that, but sometimes I feel there is justification.

[LadyWYT]

9 hours ago, Broccoli Clock said:

I'd just drop to creative and move a block to the side, then return to survival.

You don't even have to do that--use spectator mode inside. It'll let you fly right through the blocks, so there's no need to move anything.

[Broccoli Clock]

1 hour ago, LadyWYT said:

You don't even have to do that--use spectator mode inside. It'll let you fly right through the blocks, so there's no need to move anything.

Sorry I meant that as in I would move myself a block across from where I was, not that I'd move the physical block I was in.

[Maelstrom]

19 hours ago, Broccoli Clock said:

I was unable to mine the block I was in, the only solution was to mine in every direction (which broke the adjacent blocks) to give me enough space to the "step out of" the 1x1 block I was trapped inside.

The block you are trapped in is the block your feet occupy, not your eyes.  Look down and mine that block, then begin mining above you to escape those enclosures.  I've found that jumping during a cave-in greatly increases the likelihood of escaping such entrapments.

[Broccoli Clock]

3 hours ago, Maelstrom said:

The block you are trapped in is the block your feet occupy, not your eyes.  Look down and mine that block, then begin mining above you to escape those enclosures.  I've found that jumping during a cave-in greatly increases the likelihood of escaping such entrapments.

I did try mining all directions, and was only hitting the adjacent blocks, not the block I was in. That said, perhaps there is a trick to is, and I wasn't quite in the right place/angle. The "after image" doesn't show it well, but I believe both above and below blocks were mined. I could be wrong though, it was tough to tell without being in creative.

 

Edited March 24, 2025 by Broccoli Clock