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Bedrock AFK Screen

A recent change causes a “press any button to play” screen to appear in Bedrock single-player worlds after being inactive, which effectively stops the world from running. It’s frustrating that this is being applied to long-running worlds, as late-game survival has always relied on AFK mechanics like farms, smelting, and passive resource generation. Removing the ability to AFK without warning changes how established worlds are played and breaks systems players have spent a long time building. This behaviour should not be forced onto existing worlds, and there should at least be an option or toggle so players can choose how their world behaves.
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    I understand servers need to be able to limit AFK to be fair to all players. However, there is no impact on anyone else in a single player world. There should be a switch in the settings.

     

    This is particularly bad for mobile players. I may be an outlier, but I have LOTS of farms in my mobile worlds. The main way I enjoy the game is to build farms and then AFK at them. I wouldn't have been able to build most of what I have without AFK to gather XP and materials. The reason I say this is unfair for mobile is, PC players can rig things so their machines appear to be active when they're really not. Just putting a book on the spacebar would work for a lot of cases. Mobile doesn't have that option. 

     

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    this is a seriously frustrating change as a long term player, especially because if you aren't playing with other people or playing on a server, you can just pause the game

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    This issue has seriously impacted the quality of life for my Realm, where we rely on AFK farming for basically all our shared resources. I hate that this was implemented without warning, though frankly I hate that it was implemented at all. Minecraft is one of the most popular games in the world. You can't tell me Microsoft doesn't have the $ to improve server capacity, if that's the issue. I pay a monthly fee to maintain this Realm for my group, and this change has ruined our game.