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Campfire cause unusual behavior of bees

Bees are expected to produce wax/honey in their hives with flowers, however when a campfire is placed underneath their hives, they work unusually slow: normally they take approximately 30s to pollinate and 2 min to raise one honey level(which can be viewed in looing_at_block_state in debug screen). With a campfire beneath their hives, it would need approximately 1 hour IRL to produce honey/wax, even with all three bees.

How to reproduce

Place a hive then summon 3 bees in a closed space (like the attached screenshot, which involves a wall), then place a flower. Run /tick rate 10000 and potentially /gamerule advance_time false. Place a campfire beneath hive finally.

Expected results

Bees should produce wax/hive in approximately 10 minutes.

Observed results

it takes approximately 1 hours or even worse.

Notes

Bees are generally known by their horrible path finding AI. Although I’m not sure about if this issue is somehow related to their ai.

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More Information can be examined in these two screenshots: At very beginning, their are three bees at Day #0, the honey_level shows 0

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And when it comes to day 3, which is already IRL 1 hour equivelent passed, the honey level is still 0 with campfire

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