The bug
Locking difficulty doesn't work in singleplayer.
How to reproduce
Create a new singleplayer world
Change the difficulty to "Hard"
Click the lock and lock difficulty
Save & quit the world and re-enter
→ ❌ The difficulty was reverted to normal and unlocked
Linked issues
Comments 6
Is this still an issue in the latest snapshot 16w44a? If so please update the affected versions.
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Fixed in 19w11a along with MC-44471.
Can confirm.