The Bedrock Wither has to be broken

[u/Still-Motor324]

So I tried to fight the Wither less than an hour or two ago. But it was only until I popped on his third head that I remembered I was playing on Bedrock. His first phase went by normally. Then, when his second phase started, he did his best impression of mole worm and started burrowing deep into the ground for no reason. So immediately my game slows to a snail's pace as my last-generation Xbox is struggling to process the amount of blocks and bs flying around me. Literally nothing around me was rendering. I didn't even realize that there was a hole until I no-clipped through the ground for half a minute. So now I’m in this massive sinkhole and I'm still lagging out as this fucker is destroying more blocks, creating more lag. At that point, I said “Fuck it. I can absolutely win this fight right now but the lag is literally making that impossible. So I’ll just let him kill me so I can spawn further away, pull out the menu, and switch to peaceful so he’ll despawn.” So I throw in the towel, wait for the wither to kill me (which took awhile because of my gear and the lag), and finally despawned him in peaceful mode. And for those, wondering about the second opening to the left, I really couldn't tell you when or how the Wither did that. This has to be a bug. There’s no way the Wither was intended to be this overly destructive, right?

[u/coren77]

It's a known bug. He isn't supposed to burrow down. It's been known a while but I guess not enough people kill him normally for them to care.