Put the summary of the bug you're having here
What I expected to happen was...:
Beacon effect should stay permanent until you manually change it
What actually happened was...:
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Beacon resetting to previous selection randomly
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make a world in 1.16.2
2. Make a beacon in that world
3. Update the world
4. Select a effect and relog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwFEHWKvVrw
please watch my video on it, it will help you understand it better
this wont work everytime, so try it again if it doesnt work the first time
Does the beacon happen to lie on a chunk border? If so this might be MC-219507