This may or may not be intentional for creative mode players to easily move beehives without using a silk touch pickaxe, as beehives retain bee count data when broken by silk touch.
So far my game has given me drops just fine. Consider posting your hardware specifications to help Mojang Studios deduce the problem
I put cobblestone in "input", and a lava bucket in "fuel". coal did not work as a fuel source. all ores also did not smelt automatically. they always just pop into the correct slots in the Blast Furnace but smelting does not start and nothing goes to output.