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Add the ability to disable autosaving and to exit without saving

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    Yes! Bring back disable autosave and exit without saving. Honestly dont even want to play the game like this cause as said above it takes away the ability to experiment. I always play hard survival so on this version of you wanna try something your stuck with it or you waste a lot of supplies. I love minecraft but this ruins it.

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    I am LIVID right now!  Words can not properly describe how frustrated I am!  I had spent hours crafting diamond equipment and enchanting them to optimize them in as best as I could, and after a while, I find a Desert Temple.  It's the first one I ever found, I had never been in them before, and I went to explore.  After carefully finding a way to make it down to the treasure, Before I even check all the chests, I get curious and step on the pressure plate.  Seconds later, KABOOM!  I'M DEAD!  

    I WAS going to go back to the my last save since the last time I died I was playing the Wii U version, and now playing on the Switch.  BUT NO!  Instead it SAVES MY LOSS and punishes me to have to start over finding diamonds, getting the enchantments, and using up MORE time that I DO NOT HAVE!

    WHY WOULD ANYONE THINK THIS AUTOSAVE THING WHEN YOU DIE IS A GOOD IDEA?!  LET US GO BACK TO OUR LAST SAVE LIKE GAMES HAVE ALWAYS ALLOWED US TO IN THE PAST!  GOING BACK TO YOUR LAST SAVE SHOULD NOT BE A CHEAT!  IT'S SOMETHING GAMES HAVE ALWAYS ALLOWED US TO DO AND I HAVE NEVER...

    EVER...

    EEEEEVER...

    HEARD OF A GAME THAT SAVES A LOSS OF PROGRESS AUTOMATICALLY!  Maybe I'm just too old but I'm trying to connect with my nephew through Minecraft, and all this STUPID auto-save bologna does is make me WASTE MY TIME!

    I want to see this fixed PRONTO!

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    You covered all the reasons why we need optional auto-save, I hope it gets added soon, minecraft just isn't the same without it.

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    For the two scenarios provided, I agree that everyone should be able to experiment equally in their game without being limited by their platforms. Not sure if allowing player to disable autosave is the right solution, but there should be a solution.

    The interruptions scenario however does not really match to this suggestion. First, everyone has distractions and interruptions, not sure why you'd think that only applies to console. Second, not saving the world isn't a solution tot he interruptions. The solution for interruptions is to be able to pause the game. For which I had posted a suggestion here: https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/community/posts/360009305432-Ability-to-pause-single-player-games-Bedrock-

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    As the owner of a xbox 360 TU12 world that transferred to xbox one, I have invested an infinite amount of time along with many members of my community world. It is unacceptable to allow a highly prized project of this magnitude to deal with the risks of autosave and saving on exit. I have dealt with many kinds of people that cause many damages, and without these features being added, it would be a loss. I am not creating a copy everytime I load it and I am not going to Bedrock until these features are realized by the developers.

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    If they add it I hope it isn't considered a cheat

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    It should be considered a cheat, i like it though!

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    Why is this issue not being attended

    From pc, 360 and one, If its not broke dont fix it. The disable autosave was a simple and near perfect mechanic to counter mishaps unless you failed to save for hours. The copy world mechanic does 2 things wrong. One you have to exit the game in order to copy kicking all your players out and 2 it automatically changes the name and is saved as a seperate version of the world.

    The best question in this matter is why was manual saving removed from minecraft. On top of the all new gui and hard to use menus in bedrock it was decided that manual saving was bad, how so and why.

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    Additional comment: Autosave causes the game to lag. This is noticed as animals, players, and blocks not moving or being interacted with. FPS (Frames Per Second) also take a noticeable drop during Autosave. Autosave does not need to happen every 20 seconds, and Bedrock player enjoyment suffers greatly from this. Legacy Console has Disable Autosave, Exit Without Saving, and Autosave Timers being set from 5 minutes to 30 minutes. Multiplayer is barely enjoyable on Bedrock because of mandatory Autosave. All I can ask is please, expedite this feature from Under Review to Feature Added.

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    I don't see how just remaking the exact behavior of an Xbox one legacy world and its saves being a cheat. I we really going to die on this hill? Do you care that much about achievements and "Minecraft honesty" to not allow EVERYONE this feature? I see a lot more good with change not being a cheat than any real bad. 

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    Being a control-freak, I never really liked it when the ability to disable autosave was taken away.

    It seems like when I'm going in one direction for a while, the autosave slows down my game.  Not sure how it triggers, like if it's every environmental chunk or whatever, but it's very noticeable.

    I also think the game would be more friendly to newer players if you were able to disable autosave to allow a little "oopsie" factor.  It would allow another layer of customization to every minecrafter, rather than just a difficulty level.

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    Basically I wish to ask if a stand alone save feature could be added.

    As many times I have played I have wanted to save my gameplay as Im nearing a dangerious place (near lava) or accomplished a (very long build session) only to either stop and exit/save or die in the most common cases and lose everything as the game saves the moment I decide to leave or try to recover what Ive lost.

    In some rare cases the ext/save function has trapped me or placed my character in a situtation where I can do little or nothing, in those cases I have had to start a new world every time.

    I hope the idea of a stand alone SAVE GAME function will be considered for addition to the game.

    Thank You,

     

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    Please give back disable auto-save. I've had several instances of saving a game and coming back to load into a "you died" screen, or just no inventory. I'm not saving on dangerous edges, or weird spots. I save/exit in a house i took over from a village. Disable auto-save allows us to play and if we die because of a bug we don't lose everything.

    Please bring back disable-auto save without disabling achievements. Some people say who needs achievements? it is not the achievements as much as being able to show you built something amazing without dipping into creative mode. If the game was bug free, then sure....BUT it is very buggy and I have died too many times.... I don't even want to play anymore without it. So until it is brought back.... Good-bye Minecraft, at least until you fix this issue.

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    It’s not a cheat?!? if you die you have to restart whereyou last saved regardless. it’s a serious problem and like most said the game just is not the same. without this feature i will not play minecraft again.

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    What in Hell are they thinking !!!!! ?????? ---- Why are they so hell bent on DEMANDING/FORCING everyone to play with "Autosave" ??????  ----  I HATE THIS AUTOSAVE FEATURE !!!!!! ---- HATE IT , HATE IT , HATE IT  !!!!! ---- This  "RUINS"  the game !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ---- bring back disable autosave and exit without saving !!!!!!!!

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    And to manually save at any time as well.

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    I literally don’t play Minecraft anymore because there’s no exit without saving. It’s not that I’m bad at survival, it’s that other people are bad at building. And I don’t like being mean but now I have to say “No, I can’t let you build because you’re bad at it.” That’s really rugged to even just type and now I have to say that to my cousin at some point because he keeps wanting to play on a specific world that I have. I don’t wanna hurt feelingssss

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    428/5000
     
     
     
    If you cannot disable automatic saving this game loses its charm. Manual saving and the "exit without saving" option are essential to experience things in survival mode. When you spend many hours to get something and you can't experiment for fear of losing it the whole game is no longer fun and if it stops being fun, what is the use of a game?
    (Spanish translation by google translator)
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    Agreed, I think the current Bedrock system of auto saving is flawed, and MUST be changed. It actively punishes people who experiment, and regardless of world backup capabilities the old system worked so much better, and I think that auto saving upon death is a mechanic, regardless of the previous should be removed. If I die because I wanted to TRY something I should not have to live with that mistake for the rest of that world. Please fix this it is absolutely necessary. I have thrown away countless worlds because this "feature" get rid of it!

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    I was coming on the post the same issue. I HATE that this option was taken away when PlayStation joined cross-platform play. I want the option to choose!! Sometimes I want the option the play around or search for new biomes... Without effecting my world or creating a copy world. I need this now! We had it before and it should not have been removed for cross-platform. It makes me want to quit Minecraft all together.

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    360 Ver. Save format preferred.

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    having the ability to revert to a previous save was easily one of the best features of the xbox edition of minecraft. When i lose valuables that took me hours or days to acquire (ie, a saddle which took me 4 days of running around the map to find) it really just makes me not want to play anymore because hours of hard work just vanished and theres nothing i can do about it. 

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    I would like to see the option to exit without saving and disable auto save. My 8 year old and I play split screen on ps4. He likes to mess about on our survival world when I'm at work, so I have to amend stuff when I get back it.

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    Yes, specially now that Ps4 has bedrock... I never play with autosaving, because my town has a bad electricity connection, so usually the light goes off.. I don't know if this happens with other plataforms where people play minecraft, but in Ps4 if it is autosaving, and power goes off... the data gets corrupted and the world basically gets destroyed...

    So it is a necesity in Ps4 to be able to disable autosave... I don't want to spend hundreds of hours in a save... and then loose all my data unless I make thousands of copies that last like 5 minutes to be made...

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    I strongly agree that you shouldn’t have to save when you leave the game, at least for CREATIVE. It wouldn’t matter if you accidentally duplicated things because you already have it all. Some of my worlds I have made on my own in creative, like mini games. I have to exit without saving or the world will be ruined. Love bedrock and everything it has to offer but not being able to disable automatic save is awful. I personally play Minecraft with my much younger siblings, mistakes come often but I love playing the game with them. Now I’m worried for my world that I’ve had for almost 2 years, I really hate the idea of not letting them play anymore just for something I could have just left without saving for.

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    Im seriously annoyed and disappointed this ability/freedom was taken away in the first place, especially when there isnt even a real reason to remove it in the first place, please fix this

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    This would have been perfect for the situation I'm in. Currently somehow (i really don't know how) a zombie got into my villager farm and killed them all. A few are zombified villagers, and I think it would be easier to just cure them than to go find new villagers. But anyways my master tool guy, and armorer died and I put hours into the farm. If I could have disabled autosave (i had been playing for only 10 minutes or something so don't care if I lost the progress) them all my villagers would have still been alive. But because it saved when my villagers died, I can't get them back. Also know that in my world I have not found a nether fortress so I will have to find one to cure them. If there was just a disable autosave feature then I would have been good. Also if this was added it should not be counted as a cheat.

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    This something that I loved Minecraft for and now it’s gone I can’t play it hardly now I lose stuff and I can’t get it back please mojang for all of us give us back this tool

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    My game had a glitch appear which caused endless holes and was very disappointed, I couldn’t exit without saving so the holes wouldn’t be there.

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    I logged on to play minecraft today. After about 4 different crashes (which used to be unheard of, clearly not anymore) and insanely long loading screens, I realized you can't even turn off autosave anymore? Seriously? It doesn't exactly help when your forced "exit and save" takes 5 minutes to finish.

    And here I was about to drop some money at the minecraft store. I've been playing since I had a ps3 but I'm done. When you start taking away common sense features you lose credibility as a developer. Seriously what a bafflingly stupid move.