It is, but now only lasts a few seconds, so it doesn’t affect gameplay too much anymore.
I have also been having trouble with nether portals linking across all versions of the game while offline.
This is no longer an issue.
Seems to work properly again.
I left hide hand on. This is not a big.
Oh, I guess I just got really lucky then.
I have found out that the size of the character does not matter.
I’ve played the game some more and found that this only happens if they are killed by a player.
They naturally spawn with the items.
This is still an issue in the latest versions of 1.21.