I have spawn proofed a a water monument by creating columns of solid blocks to the bottom of the ocean other than in one spawn location then created a bubble elevator using soul sand to raise guardians up to a kill chamber to farm for prismarine. The guardians however will not spawn over the soul sand block and will only spawn in non flowing source water. According to previous versions of the game this is a bug but maybe its a parity change hard to tell as this maybe is just how java have always had it and now we have it too
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A work around I have been using since finding this issue has been to make the 8 bubble elevators flanking the a spawn column and the guardians will eventually wander into the bubble elevators of their own volition
I have replicated this issue using version 1.18.31 on 05/22/22 on PC and PS5 and the issue exists!
Problem: Guardians do NOT spawn within soul sand bubble elevators.
Why it's a problem: This is an unfortunate issue because Guardian Farms are a rare and challenging achievement! Few players will try in the first place, and even fewer will now be successful with the resurgence of this bug.
Edit 05/23/22: Additional 5 hours of observation spawned a single Guardian. This may show that Guardian spawning within bubble columns happens either never, or with extreme rarity once the soul sand bubble elevator is built.