Hardcore hearts change to normal hearts when closing hardcore world while in Nether or End
The bug
In a Hardcore world, if the player closes the world while being in the Nether or End, upon reopening the world normal hearts instead of Hardcore hearts are shown in the hotbar.
Reproduction steps
- Create a Hardcore world with the Superflat preset
minecraft:stone,minecraft:nether_portal;minecraft:plains;
- Wait until you have been teleported to the Nether
- Close the world
- Reopen it
Normal hearts are shown in the hotbar
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Minecraft hardcore heart icon
I was playing minecraft hardcore, and I was throwing some stuff away. When I was throwing a stack of netherack away I opened my inventory and dragged the netherack outside of my inventory, but I let go when it was over the x. I re logged and my hearts, looked like normal minecraft hearts, and aren't the hardcore ones. Is there any way I could fix this?
Environment
Java version 20w17a
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was playing minecraft hardcore, and I was throwing some stuff away. When I was throwing a stack of netherack away I opened my inventory and draggedthenetherack outside of my inventory, but I let go when it was over the x. I re logged and my hearts, looked like normal minecraft hearts, and aren't the hardcore ones. Is there any way I could fix this?The bug
In a Hardcore world, if the player closes the world while being in the Nether or End, upon reopening the world normal hearts instead of Hardcore hearts are shown in the hotbar.
Reproduction steps
- Create a Hardcore world with the Superflat preset
minecraft:stone,minecraft:nether_portal;minecraft:plains;- Wait until you have been teleported to the Nether
- Close the world
- Reopen it
Normal hearts are shown in the hotbar
Minecraft hardcore heart iconHardcore hearts change to normal hearts when closing hardcore world while in Nether or End
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Duplicate of MC-180042.
Does MC-180042 describe your issue?


I've noticed that if you use commands at any point by opening to LAN and enabling cheats the hearts will turn to normal survival hearts upon re-logging. I'm not sure if this is intentional but I don't like it. For example hardcore players using cheats to place themselves in the nether for a nether only run will lose their hardcore hearts.
The only thing that should cause a hardcore player to lose their hardcore hearts is a death.
According to
MC-134it's supposed to be possible to enable cheats by opening the world to LAN. Don't be surprised if the game gets rid of your hardcore hearts if you use cheats. It's technically not a hardcore run anymore.Upon further testing, I've discovered that if you load a hardcore world that was last saved in the nether, regardless of whether cheats were used, your hardcore hearts will be removed. Interestingly if you re-load the game after saving in the overworld, your hardcore hearts will re-appear.
I've recreated this both on my computer, a Twitch Streamer's computer, and all of the current bug reports with screenshots regarding this bug happened when the user was in the Nether.
The reason I initially suspected some combination of "cheaty" commands is because I was attempting to do a Nether-start.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt3VFd9XBPc happened to DanTDM too!
I can no longer reproduce this bug in snapshot 20w18a.
Can reproduce in 20w18a
Can't reproduce - can you upload your world save file?