If you’ve been keeping bees in Minecraft, you might’ve noticed that some of the bumbly insects weren’t where you left them. It seems that bees have had a habit of disappearing into the digital abyss for some time, but now, at last, a fix is on the way. Minecraft update 1.18.1 will prevent bees from despawning.
According to the bug (ha) tracker, bees inside of hives or nests would sometimes despawn when the world was reloaded. In 1.18.1 release candidate 1, that’s been fixed – the improvement
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