When new chunks are loaded at night, bee nests spawn with no bees

I cannot reproduce this. I created a new world with seed 1386203392314492889, set time to midnight and daylight cycle off. I then searched until I found a bee nest at -1971 80 -618. When I switched time to day bees came out of the nest.

Try harvesting the nest with silk touch at night. There are no bees.

I used the same seed and coordinates with time set to midnight and collected the nest with silk touch. Then I set time to day and placed down the nest. Bees came out.

Just because you cannot reproduce it doesn't mean it's not a problem... I just explored 9 full sized maps and every bee nest i discovered and collected at night stacked together. Placing them down during the day produced no bees. I am currently playing on Xbox but I also noticed it on PC.

Maybe the stacking is what triggers the issue then? You did not make that step explicit until now. I’ll leave the report open for now until I can test it again or someone else can corroborate.

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I do not know what you consider explicit instructions, and I would assume that multiple nests would be harvested if you are searching for them.

Is this still an issue for you in the latest version? Also, when you collect the nests, are you putting campfires under them first?

I tested it again just now in 1.19.2 and the results were more confusing than the last time. I grew a bunch of trees to get hives because I was having a very hard time finding them naturally spawned. Hives harvested at night from those trees all had 3 bees in them and did not stack. I then spent another another large amount of time finding a naturally spawned hive and when I harvested it, it stacked with one of the other hives that I harvested before. But when I placed these down, even the stacked ones, during the day, three bees came out of all of them.

Thank you for your report!

However, this issue has been temporarily closed as Awaiting Response.

Is this still an issue in the latest version? If yes, can you please add it to the affected versions (or mention it if you are not the reporter)?

Also, could you please export and attach a world in which this issue can be observed?

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