

Minecraft occasionally does this on startup, except it stays there, not allowing the player to play the game.Ī tutorial exists for obtaining the report file generated by the game when it crashes so that the player can share it for diagnosis.Ĭrashes can easily occur due to bugged mods (particularly unfinished mod versions (alpha/beta), much of Fabric mods under certain conditions, etc.), mod conflicts (particularly in older Minecraft versions when mods used a config file to determine item/block IDs and they weren't changed by the end-user), or wrong versions of mods (for example, many of the 1.7.10 mods are not compatible in Java Edition 1.13 due to the data values changes introduced by the Flattening, but almost all mods for Java Edition 1.16.2, 1.16.3 and 1.16.4 can run on Java Edition 1.16.5, as Java Edition 1.16.3 and 1.16.5 are minor updates with just minor fixes). Yet sometimes, an error report can quickly flash right before the game closes. Large TNT explosions can also cause crashes.Ĭrashes used to have an error report screen, but that feature has been removed. Because of this, it is highly recommended that the player regularly keeps a copy of their save folder (located in the %appdata%\.minecraft directory on Windows systems or ~/.minecraft/ in linux and also /Library/Application Support/minecraft on macOS), to reduce their losses should a world become corrupted as a result of a crash. Crashes can sometimes cause the corruption of save files if the player is not careful enough. Crashes can also be caused by bugs in the game. Attempting to modify the files of Minecraft or individual worlds, even with advanced editors, can also cause crashes. The most common causes of crashes are mods, pre-existing bugs, and updates.

A sign of a server crash during gameplay is a "Saving chunks" or "Shutting down internal server" screen.

When Minecraft crashes, it typically closes immediately, though it may show an error report marking the location of the exception that caused the crash instead of closing. Ī similar "legacy" crash screen for Minecraft Alpha.Ī world crashing due to running out of memory.Ĭrashes are unexpected shutdowns of Minecraft, generally caused by unhandled "exceptions" while running the game. Image for Launcher 1.3.8Īn older "legacy" Minecraft crash screen. The old Minecraft crash screen, with more options. The Java Edition crash screen in the current launcher. This feature is exclusive to Java Edition.
