Beacons work inconsistently in the Nether

This is bordering between bug and feature request. Sure, the intended feature is to have the beacon cast a light beam if there's a pyramid under is, but what use would this have in the Nether, when visibility is extremely lower than the overworld?

Works within 14 blocks of the nether ceiling, provided it's clear to the bedrock, and seems to only work in certain places.

@ FireHunterX:
Yes the second thing is not valid but since the first one is, this ticket should not be closed. Maybe a moderator could just edit the description.

I made a lot of testing in creative. I did not find when and how beacons work or won't work but:
1) If a beacon won't work, breaking blocks in the ceiling to have direct view of bedrock won't help it work.
2) A beacon can work even without direct view to the ceiling's bedrock.

In all tests there was a 14 block clearance above the beacon.

I can confirm it works inconsistently, but I see the following:
1. Beacon does not always require a shaft to the bedrock ceiling to activate, but
2. Beacon beam always requires a shaft to bedrock to show up.

It says on the minecraft wiki that "Beacons do infact work in the nether aslong as all blocks above it are world genurated not player/piston/enderman or any other way" So the belife of the spike to bedrock conjoins with this theroy since bedrock cant be player(ect) made!

"2. Beacon beam always requires a shaft to bedrock to show up."

I can't reproduce it. Beam won't show up. Beacons' behavior is totally unpredictable in the Nether.

I was able to reproduce the problem in creative mode when building a beacon under a block of nether quartz. Removing the quartz block fixed the beacon.

Affects 1.6.1 , 1.6.2

the issue of beacons working in the nether seems to be chunk related as you can see by this image.

this is a bad bug report because neither of those two things are actual problems. and this report blocks me from posting my actual bug report.
1. i am having problems with beacons not working even if there is a clear path all the way to bedrock
2. whether there is a beam of light is a feature request, i dont care at all about that, i just want them to function properly with aesthetics being irrelevant

as you can see in the image i attached, the beacons seem to not work based on chunks and change from working to broken on chunk boundaries. i dont know what is causing this, or how exactly to reproduced it, but someone has to have had this problem and the chunk border thing must provide some clue to the cause.

Is this still a concern in the latest Minecraft version 14w05b? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases.

Still a concern in 14w06b.

And yes, as @unknown stated, the inconsistency is also chunk related, in addition to the other problems. And I've also seen working chunk suddenly not working.

Beacons don't need 14 blocks of air above them, nor to be less than 14 meters under the celling.

Inconsistencies still evident in 14w21b.

I say remove the line of sight requirement all together

it would be much easier to let a beacon work anywhere with no restrictions.

as for the beam of light add in some code to change the length of the beam and allow the beam to always render and just stop when it hits a block rather than not render at all.

i am kinda frustrated and frankly sickened that this issue has survived so many updates without a resolution. and competent modder could probably fix this within a few days

Still broken in the last pre-release 1.8.1 Pre-4. I filled a 60x60 zone with iron block with beacons on top using the /fill command in a newly generated world, and not a single one was working until I smashed everyblock above INCLUDING bedrock.
I hope to see this one getting fixed before official 1.8.1.

Not resolved in 1.8.1.
Created a fresh new world, went to nether, placed the pyramid and the beacon didn't shine until bedrock was broken.