Bee Blessing

Major performance overhaul. All features work exactly as before — this release fixes the lag spikes reported on busy servers.

Fixed

Crop searches no longer force-load unloaded chunks, which could cause severe lag spikes near chunk borders. Removed a cleanup routine that iterated every entity on the server on each chunk load. Fixed a counter leak that could permanently stop bees from working in a chunk after the original bee flew away or died. Improved

Crop detection now uses a single combined scan instead of two, reads block types without creating objects, and skips unloaded chunks — over 100× less work per search. Crop searches are now spread out: a limited number run per cycle (performance.max-scans-per-cycle), so server cost stays flat no matter how many bees are loaded. Bees that find no crops nearby now wait before searching again (bee.scan-retry-seconds) instead of re-scanning every second. Container search for harvested items is a single early-exiting pass instead of one full scan per container type. Config values are cached instead of being read from disk structures every tick. Config — new keys added automatically with safe defaults; existing settings are kept:

bee.detection-radius-vertical (default 5) — how far up/down bees look for crops; set to your detection-radius to restore the old full-cube behavior. bee.scan-retry-seconds (default 10) — wait before a bee searches again after finding nothing. performance.max-scans-per-cycle (default 4) — max crop searches per task cycle.