Steps to reproduce
Load
in Bedrock.
Press the button and start a stopwatch.
Clear your inventory.
After some length of time press the button again, and count the wheat that you get.
Load
in Java.
Press the button and start a stopwatch.
Clear your inventory.
After the same length of time as in step (4), press the button again, and count the wheat that you get.
Expected result
You get about the same wheat in Java and Bedrock.
Observed result
You get significantly more wheat in Java.
Summary: It feels like wheat grows much slower in 1.19 than it did before. They also don't mature at the same rate anymore, making harvesting much more inefficient.
This is likely true for the other crops as well, however I haven't tested them.
Observed: wheat takes much longer to grow
Expected: wheat takes the normal amount of time to grow
below: picture of patchy growth in 1.19
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We would need more specific information about how fast the wheat is actually growing, as this can be affected by several factors, including lighting, whether the ground is "hydrated", whether the area is continuously loaded, etc. Also, the growth depends on random ticks and there is no guarantee that it will all grow at the same rate.
You can improve the growth speed by planting different types of plants in alternating rows.
To test this I created the attached test worlds, which each have 320 blocks of farmland (18 x 18 plot with 4 water sources) and command blocks that automate planting and harvesting. The farmland is open to the sky and the worlds are set to default random tick speed with daylight cycle off and time set to day. Here are the results of three tests I ran:
| Bedrock | Java |
|---|---|---|
Test 1, 30 minutes | 23 | 33 |
Test 2, 40 minutes | 68 | 96 |
Test 3, 55 minutes | 152 | 207 |
This is probably related to the fix MCPE-145612. I would guess that crops growth was adjusted based on that fix and a mistake was made in the calculation.
for reference it is currently easier to create a grass farm for seeds than it is to harvest wheat to expand your farm