With water world custom generation, the bonus chest does not spawn / spawns in an unreachable location. That preset is completly impossible whitout the wood/tools from bonus chest.
Possibly solution is to place the chest on the players spawn point on custom world generation, so its can't get lost in hardcore enviroments.
Edit: bug, bonus chest does not spawns at least in water world preset.
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Is this still a concern in the current Minecraft version? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases. If this has been done, we can reopen the issue.
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Confirmed.
Relates to MC-5336.