Something I’ve noticed while playing with a timer is that the game will always freeze on 30 second intervals. For example when it unfreezes with a minute timer on 0:30, the next time it freezes will be on 1:00, 1:30, 2:00 etc. what I don’t understand is why it doesn’t always freeze, for instance I could afk for hours and never (to my observations) experience a single freeze, and then if I’m mining in a cave, It’ll freeze in 30 second intervals like I described
I couldn’t attach files here for whatever reason so I uploaded it as an unlisted YouTube video: https://youtu.be/fzAu5MIfuAA?si=hntp_JDRl4vt088i
My switch model is the standard non-Lite non-OLED model and the current software version I am on is 19.0.1. If it could possibly help, my switch was purchased in 2018.
As of 1.21.50, it now freezes upon sleeping in a bed
edit: this doesn’t happen when repeatedly sleeping in a bed during the night with Daylight Cycle turned off or when setting the time to midnight immediately after sleeping, but it does freeze after about a minute of not sleeping
From my experience (I’m not sure if this will work for anyone else) the best way to know if you have the freezing glitch and get it freezing reliably every time is by going into settings and then exit out, this should (if you have the glitch because not everyone has it it seems) freeze the game for around 21-30 seconds
While I am not the original reporter of this bug, I can confirm that the issue occurs in both Single and Multiplayer.
I’ve found that the freezing actually freezes the player in place within the server so for example, if you would to be falling and you freeze, your player character would stop falling and would freeze in midair to other players
I’ve heard of people having different freeze times and I have witnessed irl someone with no freezes at all, this is definitely a strange bug for sure.
I’ve been having my game freezing for 21 seconds every time it happens, it also happens when I go to the settings and exit out
Can confirm that It still freezes in 1.21.60