Minecraft’s new, free inventory-expanding backpack has been consuming gamers’ loot

Your Minecraft stock can refill somewhat rapidly when you begin exploring, so having a bit extra space at hand is a welcome boon. There have virtually at all times been methods to do that with the assistance of Minecraft mods, however this week Mojang confirmed off a brand new addition to the Minecraft Market that’s too good to move up. The Herschel Backpack Trials add-on is free, and while you’ve completed upgrading it you may have entry to 16 pages of area, for a complete of 384 slots. There’s only one drawback: some gamers are logging in to search out their baggage mysteriously empty.

The brand new add-on is a collaboration with Herschel, and arrived alongside an precise backpack of the identical design, which is only one of all kinds of Minecraft-themed equipment being bought by the corporate. The true-world filth block version bought out somewhat quickly, however you possibly can simply get your in-game model without cost from the Minecraft Market. It comes with a sequence of challenges to finish, which steadily improve the quantity of pages in your bag, together with including different helpful optionally available options similar to computerized sorting, depositing, restocking, smelting, and even a helpful lantern.

There is a soul sure function, too, guaranteeing the backpack stays with you in case your exploration turns deadly. Sadly, some gamers have reported that after logging out after which returning to their worlds later, the objects that they had left of their backpack had been all gone. One consumer even says that they examined this a second time: “I attempted to repeat this by loading the pack up with stuff, exiting the sport, and coming into once more, and as soon as once more, the pack objects had been gone.”

A number of different gamers have responded saying that they’ve additionally fallen foul of this item-snatching bug. “I had been mining for 5 hours,” writes one distraught adventurer. One other says they nonetheless bumped into the problem with the soul bond improve enabled. The unique poster has additionally submitted a bug report for this by way of Mojang’s assist system, which stays marked as ‘unresolved’ on the time of writing.

It is value noting that the variety of reviews for this are comparatively few, whereas the backpack add-on boasts a really respectable 4.5 stars on the Minecraft Market, so it is probably that the problem is simply affecting a small variety of gamers. With the sheer quantity of stuff you possibly can theoretically be cramming into the backpack over the course of a play session, nevertheless, even a tiny probability of getting all of it vanish is probably morale-shattering.

On condition that Mojang has been selling the brand new Herschel Backpack add-on by way of its most important channel, this nasty bug will most likely get precedence consideration quickly sufficient. In the meanwhile, nevertheless, you may wish to simply play it protected and just be sure you empty out your backpack earlier than logging off for the day.