I also am unable to find a specific chunk loading ticket, & am having a TON of issues with that. My elytra & ice roads are virtually unusable. Also agree w Sef that the freezing/chunk loading/lag issues seem to be intertwined since they all started with the 1.18.3 update. Please advise if there is another ticket that we can vote for/follow.
I have still noticed lots of issues with villagers despawning, mostly ones that aren’t trapped in a 1x1 space. I’ve had villagers that are free roaming a certain area in my trading hall disappear while I’m in the trading hall, sometimes when I save/reload & sometimes w no apparent trigger. I’ve also had the farmer villagers in my auto carrot/potato farms disappear after replacing them a couple of times (since 1.18.30), the fletchers who are trapped persist but not the farmers 😢
EDIT: I’m playing a single player survival world on Switch, about 450mb
Reply from @unknown: could you provide a picture/screenshot and coordinates of the part of your trading hall and crop farms where villagers repeatedly disappear? Are you absolutely sure they are not getting out, falling, or otherwise taking damage? If you are playing on easy difficulty, zombies could spawn, kill them, and then despawn without leaving a trace.
Second what hexagon5un said about chunk loading, the elytra & ice roads are nearly pointless. I’ve also been working on my villager trading hall & am experiencing Ching a lot of freezing issues when working w them, as well as villagers disappearing even tho they’re within a single chunk. I’ve also had 2 game files corrupted & totally unusable, just will not open. I’m around 450mb which I know is pushing the limits of the switch 😬 thankfully I back up every few hours.
Very glad to see this is reopened. I’ve noticed freezes most often when around a lot of mobs, interacting w shulker boxes, and especially when traveling long distances. The ice road I spent hundreds of hours building is virtually pointless ATM.
Not resolved. I played for 5 minutes on 1.18.32 before an auto save and surprise…. I’m frozen.
EDIT: for context, this is my long term survival world that’s over 400mb. I realize that’s a fairly large, but my world was working fine before 1.18.30😞
Another edit: it IS a lot better, but I’m still experiencing freezes mostly during autosaving. They’re thankfully less frequent and aren’t lasting as long, but I am having to hit the home button to break out of the freezes.
I'm glad to hear this is in progress, hoping for another status update soon. I have a 480mb+ world on my switch I want to export to my PS5 for the same reasons others have mentioned.
Since the last update on this issue says the fix will be trialed after 1.19 is released, I hope this is coming soon so I can continue playing my long term survival world!!