I usually play single player about 160mb world, but i have played multi player with my 2 sons on split screen. it is not possisble to play multi player anymore do to freezing with updates. The freezing and or glitching has slightly improved when i am away from my main village and base, but when i am near my village or main base (about 45 villagers) or near main bases that has auto pumpkin, melon, sugar, bamboo, pig, cow, chicken, and sheep farms. the freezes is so bad i have to home button to main screen and reload game.
i see 3 main freezing glitches. first is when mining. when game glitches i see black screen with stars in background if blocks are many solid blocks ahead of me, but i can get a glimpse of a cave 50-75 blocks away during the chunk loading by scanning left and right. i mine towards the cave and find new caves this way. second is near village or main bases, game just freezing usually 30 sec but up to 4 min. the third glitch is also near main base, the screen is almost like watching snapshots, its not a smooth transition with play but more of seeing every other second or two.
What hexagon5un wrote above applies to me, Under 1.18.30, the world continued on as the player froze. Under 1.18.31, the world appeared to stop with the player, which is good for single-player, but can't possibly work out for multi, right? Under 1.18.32, the old behavior of the world moving on reappeared – the time that it froze for 4 minutes, the sun had set and it had gotten dark by the time my character could move again.
this is not a resolved issues, thankyou for you continued support.
Unresolved issue, please continue to look into this. I was playing in overworld near a minicamp 1000 blocks away from main base, (10 villagers, less than 150 crops, 50 farm animals) there has been a decrease in number of and durations of freezes. The game is unplayable near my main base. I headed into nether fortress today attempting to collect wither skulls and blaze rods. The first time I died was the software closed on me when I was near 2 wither skeletons and a couple of blazes, and piglins. I reloaded game and saw the respawn screen. The second time I died, is when I headed back to collect by gear the game froze with full bar of health, only to unfreeze with 1 heart left, killed by wither skeleton. thus, again went back to collect gear and this time it vanished. I lost my diamond gear on the freezing game glitch. It feels disheartening not being able to play a world we have spent hours building due to updates. Please continue to look into these issues, thankyou for you continued support.