That last point is a doozy. I needed a lot of support to migrate, because there were hidden requirements around other MS account stuff. Like, i needed to create a PlayStation account, or something like that? But if you play other MS games you may not have the problems i had.
I’m still enjoying the game. I actually bought two licenses and sometimes have it running on two machines at the same time. (Typically one in spectator to help me debug a farm.)
Woot!
My son helped me build ilmango’s ice highway in the end. It’s now possible to walk from the center Island to about 4 end cities, and if it keeps running without glitching for another hour or two, there will be nearly a dozen cities that are accessible by foot or boat. (And boats move VERY fast on ice.)
Next up I’m hoping he will help me build a shulker farm, as it would be nice to have a large supply of shulker boxes.
Even if that doesn’t work, there are now lots of shulkers within reach to kill. (Although esthetically, i prefer farming to hunting the naturally occurring ones.) This highway opens up a much richer section of the end then one outward portal i got when we killed the dragon.
Back in the overworld, I’m expanding my trading hall. After that, I’ll probably build a honey farm and a gold farm. Then my goal is to build an attractive botanical garden, mimicking most of the major biome types in general shape and vegetarian. That will include a little lush cave and dripstone cave beneath. And i hope to populate the garden with appropriate animals. Although I’ll have to think about how to keep them in their proper biomes, and not wander off.
Then I’ll probably be done with Minecraft. 
But it will take a while.
I see one has to BUY Minecraft now. I dunno about this…
The first time I played Minecraft it was free, but it was also still in beta.
If you had previously purchased from Mojang, you had a long time to convert to a Microsoft account for free, with pretty decent user support. I’m surprised how much I’ve gotten out of my purchase.
I cannot eat things. My hunger bar is almost wholly depleted but eating food doesn’t work. It does the animation, but no effect, and the good doesn’t deplete. So now what? Restarting makes no difference.
Are you injured and recovering? That uses food quickly. Are you under any sort of effect? That can use food quickly.
Can you arrange to die in a convenient spot? That should reset everything.
Are you in peaceful mode? I think maybe you can’t eat in peaceful, but you can get hungry if you injure yourself (like by falling). Or maybe you get injured, but don’t get hungry?
It might be a bug where part of the code thinks you are in peaceful, and another part thinks your aren’t. I’ve had weird bugs that messed with world generation (are required a restart), and this kinda smells like that.
I never play in peaceful mode. I want the monsters to come for me.
I tried dying near my house, it doesn’t fix it.
It may be a lag issue. I decided to breed a LOT of chickens on the peninsula across from my base. I have lost count of how many chickens there are; it’s certainly in the thousands. It’s a hill literally covered with chickens. I’ve learned a lot about chicken pathfinding. (They want to walk up, not down.)
Interesting. Mooshrooms also want to walk up. I started near a mushroom Island, and I’ve been breeding a few for my food, while letting the “wild ones” roam unhindered. They are mostly stuck at the top of hills by now.
Are your chickens in you spawn chunks? If so, can you get them out of “always loaded” chunks?
I don’t even understand the question. What’s a spawn chunk?
The world is divided into chunks.
Most chunks are only loaded into active memory when a player is near them¹. A few chunks near the world spawn, “spawn chunks”, are always loaded. So you want to avoid having memory intensive stuff in the spawn chunks.
I play java. If you are in bedrock, it looks like the default is to only load stuff near a player.
There are some non-player mechanics that can keep a chunk loaded. “Chunk loader” is a good search term if you are interested. They are mostly used in farms to keep the farm active without a player around. They are especially useful in two-dimensional farms if a single player wants to make it work. But they are pretty weird situations that you are unlikely to have accidentally created.
He’s not enthusiastic about that, so I’m working off some online tutorials. I’m nearly ready to transport a shulker to my farm, then i guess i find out if it works. There are two shulkers that are easy to get to portals, so i guess i have two shots to make this work.
If the spawn chunk is only 16 blocks square from where I first spawned, Chicken Hill is definitely not in that area.
I have completed enclosing most of the chickens in a massive sandstone pyramid, 128 blocks by 128 square, 64 blocks high. It’s becoming filled up with aggressive mobs, which I find amusing, but when I go in there the game slows to a crawl, I’d assume because it’s trying to keep up not only with a few thousand chickens but now zombies and creepers all the time.
Are you worried the creepers will take out a lot of chickens?
Also, have you resolved the “can’t eat” problem?
It took me several tries, but i didn’t kill the shulker, so i only had to use one of then. And note I’m gazing at a chest with 64 shulker shells in it, and the farm is still chugging away.