In all 1.16 snapshots so far, the spawn chunks (the 12x12 chunk area from where you spawn) have not been staying loaded. I've been playing on my main world using snapshots and the spawn chunks stopped staying loaded, they were working on previous versions. I tested this on multiple worlds on two separate devices with the same result.
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I can confirm that this issue exists on 1.16.4. My spawn point is set to my bed, within my house. Right outside I have two wheat fields, when I am at the village approx. 500m away the wheat never grows. This is very annoying because it is making it very difficult to make bread to give to villagers for them to breed. I have not reset my world spawn point to this, only the spawn point. it is my understanding that the spawn point is the central location to where the chunks will stay loaded around.
Why do you think they don't stay loaded? Can you please provide more details, what actually is your issue?
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