Wheat causing lag in update 1.2.3

having the same issue with lag, XB One S. wheat caused major lag, sunset caused freezing/lag, collecting sugar cane even caused lag. i cant even play for more than 30 seconds without the entire game freezing up (i have 2 farms, animals in a pen and about 50 villagers where I'm at). first i thought it was my Xbox but other games run fine.

I'm also experiencing the symptoms described in the initial report and comments. It's difficult to pinpoint any singular root cause, as I have a village heavily saturated with crops, animals, and structures. There was no issue rendering the same village, prior to the update.

My lag occurs within a minute or less, upon spawning in my village, and is greatly intensified when playing split screen. The lag is so intense that it renders the game unbearable to play.

XB1 S

I've tested, and sure, the game lags, a lot, when wheat and animals, specially cows and sheep. Even though, went into a cave, in peaceful mode, no aggressive mobs present, and still it lagged, not as severely when wheat or animals present, but still, got some cycling lag about every 15 seconds. Again, both in Windows 10 Mobile and PC versions. Also, a friend with Android version in a Galaxy S8 told me he's also getting severe lag, didn't gave me details, but stopped playing until an update fixes the game.

I have been experiencing the same issue on an original XBox One since the 1.2.3 update. I originally isolated the issue to my farms animal pens but didn't know why. After reading this I did some testing. The lag is caused and created by chickens, pigs, cows and sheep (horses not tested). I first created a temporary spawn location away from my house/farm with a bed and chest to keep my test items. I start the game with my toon at the temp spawn point and remove any food items my animals would want from my toon. I then went to the pens, which are located above my house, 2 blocks separate my ceiling from the pen floors. (House is in a cliff face on the water) No appreciable lag occurred. I left the area and went back to my temp spawn point to get some seeds and put them in my hot bar. I went back to the pens and selected the seeds while outside the pens. Lag was instant and the more chickens I had the worse the lag, I tested this several times. Once I left the area the chickens would notice the seeds from the lag disappeared. I returned to the temp spawn location and removed the seeds from toon's inventory. I then headed back to the farm and lag would start anytime I got near the chickens even though I no longer had the seeds. I then went into my house and lag would start when I was under the same areas that it lagged above. The lag in this area only went away after a reboot of the world. I tested this the same exact way for each animal always starting with a freshly loaded world with the same results. I then tested it on each animal without reloading the world and had roughly the same result with the only noticeable difference being that the lag location now covered all the animals and the whole area was a loss as the game was unplayable. I did that test starting with chickens, then pigs and last the sheep & cows. When I got to the sheep & cows the game became so unresponsive I could not exit the game, I could not use the X button on the controller to return to the XBox One dashboard and was forced to hard reboot the XBox One. I would say this is a critical issue as a large player/customer base would have farms and rely on those farms. This issue cripples that element of game play and until resolved will make many players worlds unplayable.

Elton Oliphant, it sounds as if your results duplicated mine. If you can, try entering your animals' pens while holding the food(s) you offered, so that they can pathfind to you. You don't have to actually feed it to them, just let them crowd around. Then put the food away before leaving the pen. After I did this, the lag either stopped or was greatly reduced. If you could confirm that, it would be helpful.

David Salazar, lag can be caused by very many problems. Some of your lag (the part wheat and animals) could be related to this, but some isn't. If you have any additional details about those cases, you should report them in a different ticket. Please remember to do a search first to see if it has already been reported.

Rachel Thompson, having a floor between you and the animals is the same as having a fence. If they can't find a path that gets them next to you, the problem will start as soon as the wheat is selected in your hotbar.

It's possible that getting close enough to let them get next to you does not cure the lag, but only reduces it. In my case, it seemed to go away, but I might have a faster processor than you so you may see it continue.

This issue may relate to MCPE-28022, which reports excessive lag near villages, especially at night. Several users have described these similar issues in the same ticket. They may or may not have the same root cause, but for the present time we're treating them as independent issues. So if you have additional information about excessive lag, please try to choose which of these two tickets seems the more appropriate one (or, if in doubt, you could comment on both). Thank you.

Same problem here. Crazy lagging since latest update 😞

There is so much lag on Windows 10 in my survival world when I enter a area with mobs or villagers. So bad I can't even move. Also animals will not follow you if you have wheat, seeds etc. They recognize it for a second and stop. The update is so broken.

Please feel free to add any new information about this problem. But if you just want to let us know that you are also having a problem, use the "Vote for this issue" link up at the top right instead. Comments alone do not count as votes.

I'm on a high spec windows 10 machine (i5-6400, 8Gb Ram, GTX 1060 video card). Since 1.2.3 update feeding all of my animals has become a slideshow (very low FPS perhaps 2 FPS!). I don't think the problem is just with wheat. Also have noticed lag / stutter at villagers after midnight (even on peaceful).

It slows down worse where I have more animals in a small space, especially my 8x8 pit full of chickens. It seems to lag only when I switch to seeds to feed them. Then it will lag horribly even when I switch to a sword or other item. It lags until I move far away from them.

Noticed in the Changelog for Bedrock Edition 1.2.3:

Food particles now appear when feeding animals

Could that be related?

I've tried disable texel AA, AA, plutonium mode, fancy graphics, turned off Faithful64x, particle render ditance down to 0 (was 100).

A related bug is how the animals don't follow you as closely. They won't jump up or down blocks to follow you while you're holding food. I noticed with my chickens, they don't all face me, some are facing further away, when I hold seed, like as if they have my location wrong and they are centred on a block a few blocks infront of me rather than where I'm standing!

Please read the comments before yours. Everything you describe has already been described in this and the related tickets. Repeating information is not helpful, but upvoting is.

I believe it affects also 1.2.5

@Nicola Rampazzo, are you using 1.2.5 and experiencing this problem? We haven't had any reports of it in the beta, but I would expect it to be affected.

@auldrick I tried 1.2.5 because of map conversion bug, found GPS dropping near my base and farm. Need to test direct correlation with wheat crops near farm...

I am now running 1.2.5.12 on Xbox one and confirm the lag is still present. FPS is dropping to around 4.7 and not recovering without relog.

Auldrick - Did upvote before commenting. Sorry i should have read all the comments on this page. Had read some of the 'duplicate' tickets. Am trying to help.

Lag over network when feeding animals
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Yesterday my daughter joined my survival game over our gigabit ethernet network (she is also on a good Windows 10 PC). When she was feeding our farm animals, I was inside our base and we both experienced the lag problem. I was using a pickaxe expanding our cave base inside, and could barely do that due to the FPS drop. (I'm reporting this because another report said that their husband was able to join on the network and didn't have lag, maybe they weren't feeding animals).

Eating Sounds?
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Something strange happened the other day but I haven't been able to reproduce it. I was feeding sheep cows (and as they started to eat we heard the beginning of the eating sound our player makes when eating, a munching sound. only 1/10 of a second of it or so. Daughter heard it too, she said that's a new sound! Haven't heard it since though. It seems to only happen when feeding cows!

Also not getting as much lag feeding cows. Is it because there are less packed into a small space (mine are contained within fences), (Still notice that, same as the chickens, some still don't face towards the food properly. Some will face back towards you, with their face turned to the side.)

Thank you for the additional details. The strange munching sound hasn't been reported before. It may or may not be related, but if you continue to hear it in this context please do mention it again.

There seems to be a correlation between the amount of lag and the number of animals who notice you holding food. I have chickens, pigs, cows, and sheep in pens all right next to each other. The chickens are the most densely packed and lag the worst, then the cows (their pen is big but I have a lot of them), then the pigs (I don't have very many). I don't count the sheep because they have a huge pen (so that they always have grass) and their density varies widely. So yes, I think the density is a major factor. But bear in mind that part of the bug is that animals don't visibly act interested if you're trying to feed them over a fence, so it's hard to tell exactly how many are reacting and causing lag.

Incidentally, most mobs (even hostiles) have a behavior called "look at player" that causes them to turn their heads to look at you, then a moment later turn their bodies toward you. This behavior occurs whenever you approach them unless they're doing something higher priority like panicking or targeting you. If an animal happens to be standing near the fence when you approach with food, "look at player" can be mistaken for the normal "targeting" behavior of rushing toward you but being held back by the fence. They're different, though: For "look at player" the animal merely turns, but for "targeting" it always moves as close as it possibly can, so you can tell the difference by moving a step to the side and seeing if the animal moves. As far as I can see, these animals are never targeting the player across a fence, but some of them do look at the player because that's just what they normally do. So don't be fooled into thinking that it's only certain animals that are ignoring the food, I believe they all are.

I have no more lag after killing the villager of the wheat farm

As for a "strange sound"; my wife and I were playing last night close to the cows and she gets a "strange sound" like and thumping/metallic sound. We thought it was something to do with the cows and the only way to explain it is a cross between the metallic clanking associated with iron golems and the thumping of of stomping cows combined. Only my wife experienced the sound but it was loud and annoying enough for me to hear it in the other room. I was in her world and we were playing on the Xbox one. Sometimes it was only a few but other times it was very long winded to say the least.

@Lucas Cardoso de Castro, This issue is mostly about lag experienced when attempting to feed animals. There is a related issue that describes lag related to wheat in villages. We aren't sure whether it has the same cause as this issue, so we're tracking them separately. Please also add your comment to MCPE-28022, and thank you for the comment.

Observation: Most, if not all, of the triggering conditions for this issue seem to be related to the behavior of animals rushing toward a player holding food. If this is implemented as the "target-player" behavior (which seems plausible), the root cause may be the same for this issue and MCPE-28022.

I have also seen my animal farm region, that has a lot of grass growing lag a lot. Just walking around with all of the animals, the framerate is at least halved (from the previous update). However, when I try to harvest or plant grass, it slows to single digit framerate and looks a slowmotion movie. The closer the field is to all of the animals, the slower the game will become. It seems to slowdown worse with more animals. I killed all but handful of them, and there is still much slowdown. In the previous update, I had an estimate of 100 animals in that enclosure and there was never any slowdown during feeding, harvesting, planting, or anything else.

I have also noticed some slowdown in villages and in open areas with several animals throughout. There really appears to be some issue with mob pathing. All other areas of the game appear to be the normal 60 fps and lag-free (despite maybe a minor drop here and there).

Same issue goes for monsters when there's numbers of then tracking the player at the same time. The FPS just drops. I have to play in peaceful because of the monsters lagging me when they see me.

The pathfinding thing is likely the issue.