Over the past couple of days our bedrock realm has been experiencing intense lag. The lag we’re experiencing isn’t FPS lag but it’s constant server lag. When we place blocks they just disappear, mobs are laggy, every time we try to eat food it just goes right back into our inventories, and when we break blocks they just float in the air rather than letting us pick them up. I’ve tried my personal single player worlds to see if the issue still occurred and it didn’t, it’s only happening in the realm. Please let me know if this is an issue I can fix on my part or if it’s just a genuine error, the realm is becoming unbearable to play and I’d hate to quit this world just because of server lag. Thank you
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This issue is being tracked at MCPE-222147.
Hi! I’ve been having the exact same problem on Nintendo Switch, and after many tests I found the specific cause of the extreme lag:
👉 The issue starts when you tie a Happy Ghast to a fence with a lead.
As soon as the Happy Ghast is leashed, the world begins lagging horribly:
Blocks disappear when placed.
Mobs freeze or glitch.
Items float instead of dropping.
Inventory actions get reversed.
The game stutters constantly.
✅ Once I removed the Happy Ghast or didn’t tie it, everything went back to normal.
I tried this multiple times and confirmed it was the lead + fence + Happy Ghast that caused the lag.
You can try entering your Realm, removing the lead from the mob (or killing the Happy Ghast), and see if performance improves.
I’ve already submitted a bug report about this issue. Hopefully Mojang patches it soon. It seems to be affecting multiple Bedrock platforms, not just Switch.
Let me know if removing the Happy Ghast works for you too!