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Okay, just some quick information before I go rattle on about the bugs in my game - I'm running Mac OS X Lion 1.7.4 (I know there are several more updates but I have a password on my computer that I don't know that is currently blocking off updating any more) on a 2010 Mac Mini, I don't use custom skin packs (although I did change my character's skin, she's in my avatar), and I've had Minecraft since July 28.

Anyway, up around October my game started behaving funny - I would be walking around or just looking around when torch flames would flicker on-screen for a nanosecond. Even if they were hidden by walls, or even at BEDROCK level, I would see them. It was a visual annoyance, but it was easily ignorable.

Then my game began sticking. I'm looking around - bam, the game freezes for about 2 seconds, still easily ignorable.

But yesterday, my game completely spazzed out. I was in a jungle biome in a new save file (bringing me to a grand total of 26 saves!) and it was acting ridiculously slow. As in, like, freezing-every-3-seconds slow. Even when I left the jungle biome and ended up getting lost (yes, that info was necessary!), it kept freezing and irritating me.

So, while I was lost, I climbed a tree (back in the jungle). I was hoping to see any light that would indicate my house (it was built in a cave, I'm into building cave-houses right now), but my game was hoping to stick every time I turned, and I let go of Shift for literally 1 second. At that moment, my game unsticks. And my character falls (while I'm whisper-yelling a lot of words) to the ground, which isn't ground, more like tree leaves. Does it matter? She still died.

But it takes 10 seconds for the game to REALIZE that she died. I heard the smacking noise the second she came down, but her hearts didn't do anything. And then when the game finally realized it, it didn't throw my stuff out of my inventory (I was still holding cobblestone, to be a little more clear). I hit Respawn, and it took 5 seconds to even register that I clicked it, at which point EVERY block that was terrain disappeared, so I saw the Void without the Void-fog. Just blue.

So the game is trying to plonk me down in my house. It shows me different triangles of black (the Enderman black, I mean), then the fogless Void, then black again, and then I finally fall down in my house. At this point I am seriously freaked out, because this has NEVER happened. I slam on the Escape key and try and pull up my toolbar, but my computer has literally locked up at this point, though it unlocks about 30 seconds later. I have to Force Quit the game, it's literally stopped working.

Does anyone know what's going on? I'm open to any suggestions except for mods, considering that I don't know how to install them and they're probably not ready for 1.4.5 yet anyway...I want to play my game, I've had a game die on me already and I'm not ready for Minecraft to go yet... :/