Game crashing immediately upon opening world

Just to be transparent, I had asked Claude AI about my problem and it generated the following report as the problem is very long and difficult to explain by hand

Summary

Minecraft Education crashes immediately when opening any world — brand new empty worlds and existing worlds alike — on build 1.26.32. This did not happen on the previous build (1.21.133). The issue has recurred multiple times over several weeks despite reinstalling and clearing app data.

Device & App Info

Device: iPad Air (M3)
iOS/iPadOS version: 26.6 (previously reproduced on 26.5 as well)
Minecraft Education build: 1.26.32
Branch: edu_r26u3
Commit: cbc2f3d137d2647753660e36a71ca4f82ca8d9aa
Flavor: Publish

Crash Reports Submitted

Two separate crash dumps from two separate occurrences, both showing the identical failure pattern:

Crash ID: 514905ff-efa1-45bd-a391-8d8a2cbb606d — Aug 8, 2026
Crash ID: cc5a4731-6ed2-41db-baa7-212747758b04 — Aug 20, 2026

Both dumps show the same signature:

Exception occurs on the same thread (thread id 259) during world initialization
Exception address is a tiny near-null offset both times (0x40 in the first, 0x11a in the second) — consistent with a null/uninitialized object being dereferenced during world load, not a hardware, GPU, or memory-corruption fault

Steps to Reproduce

Open Minecraft Education (build 1.26.32)
Open or create any world
App crashes instantly, before the world finishes loading

Reproduces on:

A brand new, empty world with no add-ons
An existing world with custom behavior/resource packs
The same existing world after removing all third-party add-on packs

What's Been Ruled Out

Not a specific world/save file issue — happens on brand new worlds too
Not the add-on packs — crash persists after removing all behavior/resource packs from the affected world
Not device spec/hardware — iPad Air M3 is well above minimum requirements (1GB RAM min / 2GB storage min per official specs)
Not a corrupted local install (short-term) — reinstalling the app has temporarily fixed it before

Troubleshooting Already Attempted

Action	Result
Sign out / sign back in	Fixed it temporarily (~1-2 days) on one occasion; did not work on a later occurrence
Uninstall and reinstall app	Fixed it temporarily (~3-4 weeks) on one occasion; did not work on the most recent occurrence
Cleared iCloud backup data for the app, then reinstalled	Did not fix it
Removed all add-on packs from the affected world	Did not fix it
Checked device storage and iPadOS version	Storage is not the issue; device is on a current iPadOS version

Timeline / Pattern

World loading worked normally on build 1.21.133
After updating to 1.26.32, crashes began
A reinstall resolved it for roughly 3-4 weeks of normal use
Crash recurred; a later reinstall + clearing iCloud data did not resolve it this time
The exact relationship to iOS updates is unclear — an iOS update occurred at some point in this window, but it isn't confirmed whether it directly triggered the recurrence

Notes

This looks like a recurring/regressing local state issue specific to build 1.26.32 on this device, rather than a one-off crash — the fact that fixes (reinstall, sign-out) only hold temporarily before the identical crash signature returns suggests something is being rebuilt in a broken state over time, or that 1.26.32 has a bug on this hardware/OS combination that periodic resets only mask.
Happy to provide the full .dmp and .crashedsession files for both crash IDs above if needed.