Lawrence Krysak

alberto_balsalm's video is a perfect representation of what we're seeing and experiencing since 1.19.60. 

Girlfriend and I updated to 1.19.60 on our Switches just half an hour ago and we are experiencing the same thing. The game freezes for a second or two and then continues on jittery and repeats the cycle a few moments later. Was bad when she was playing single-player and definitely not any better when I connected and came into her world. Noted that it seemed like the auto save was taking a very long time as well.

Just adding another comment to back-up Alejandro Cruz’s issues. I tried connecting to my girlfriend’s Windows 10 world from my PS4 this evening. And the connection times out just the same as it has with the Switch earlier in the day.

It’s not just a Switch issue.

I am having the exact same issue as the OP.

My girlfriend bought  Minecraft for PC, running on Windows 10. 

I can see her world from my Switch while she’s playing and it says the world is joinable. She’s even sent me an invite from PC and it showed up on my Switch. But the connection to her PC world is never made. Exactly like OP says: “Eventually an error is returned that the world cannot be joined and the connection timed out.”

I’ve tried disabling the firewall, making sure Minecraft is whitelisted within the firewall settings, I’ve uninstalled third party antivirus software, I’ve tried port forwarding, and I’ve tested wifi vs wired connection. All come back with the same result: connection times out.

Any advice or some insight into whether there’s a larger problem would be much appreciated.

I play with my girlfriend a lot. We don’t use realms. She has a world on her Switch and I come into it via my own Switch. Since 1.18.30 and 1.18.31, whenever the game is experiences the autosave freeze bug, I’m almost always disconnected from her game and sent back to the menu. I’ll reconnect to her game easily enough once it has unfrozen, but I’ll just be disconnected again on the next autosave. As you can imagine, playing together has been very frustrating the last couple weeks as a result.

Nintendo Switch. 

I will add that I was trying to take a long minecart ride after updating to 1.16.100 and the lagginess/jitteriness of it made it such that it was seemingly faster to just run along the tracks.

Also encountered invisible mobs in a cave. I was taking damage from nowhere. Didn't know what was going on so I just ran ahead and encountered two zombie standing frozen in place. I attacked them but did not die without a long pause.