Where is bed data stored?
In Minecraft, players use a bed to set their spawn point. If they die and the bed is gone, they are sent back to the world spawn. However, I was wondering where this data is stored and how that affects game play. If a player sleeps in a bed to set their spawn, destroys the bed, and immediately puts it back in the same place, does that destroy their spawn? If the data is stored with the bed block, it would. If the data is stored with the player data, it might not. But I haven't been able to find any information about immediate bed replacement anywhere.
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Depending on game version, breaking and replacing a bed can reset a spawn, (currently doesn't reset). However, the data is stored in the world's metadata, not the blocks of the bed, as you still spawn next to the bed if it is in an unloaded chunk, and can you change spawn points with commands.
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The bed data is stored with that instance of the bed block. So if you break it and then immediately replace it, you would still spawn at the world spawn as the newly placed bed would be a new instance of a bed block.
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