Whenever I get close to a village, the game lags to about 5-10 fps, and sometimes causes the game to crash. This has never been a problem in the "old" villages. And It's a small village, and should not be causing this much lag. And it is not my device, because previous Minecraft versions have never lagged whenever I have near/in a village until this release. Please resolve this issue.
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We're actually already tracking this issue at MCPE-42953, so we will resolve and link this ticket as a duplicate.
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