I am on xbox and it also occurs in local worlds.
My friends and I have been experiencing the same thing, massive lag spikes and it’s making the game unplayable. Even in peaceful there are still major lag spikes, even worse in any of the other difficulties. Please fix the lag.
Just now the world loaded in but I’m not sure if downloading the backup helped. I did not replace the realm world with the backup, just downloaded and tried loading into the copy. It loaded so I then attempted to load into the realm and would have replaced the world with the backup but since it loaded it was not necessary.
Almost an hour has passed and we are still unable to join. Another member joined and went to the area where we are stuck and could see us but could not hit us, and the chunk error was still visible.
I and another realm member are currently experiencing the same issue again. There doesn’t seem to be anyway for us to fix this issue. We get stuck on building terrain. We close Minecraft and reload and still the same thing. We’ve been waiting over 10 minutes for the chunk error to resolve itself but this time it’s taking a long time.
Experienced the same bug again today except this time I cannot connect at all. I had another member log into the realm To see if it fixed it like last time, but it did not work this time. I had a second member login that was closer to where I had been in the realm when the bug occurred but this member also experienced the same bug stuck on building terrain and it would not load. The one member that was able to join would see our gamer tags in the sidebar showing the current players but never received a message saying that player had joined. Whenever I or the other player would close Minecraft after a few seconds it would then give a message saying player has left the realm.
Was trying to show my sister my realm story and she sent me this screenshot. She has no realm stories button.