I know this has been reported and then ignored by the staff.  But when users report that things are not working, perhaps you need to take the situation seriously.

Bee's nests are not spawning.   You can plant hundreds (5 stacks of 64) Oak and Birch trees with a flower 1 block away, and you will not get a bee's nest.   You can search in flowered forests and not one single natural spawned bee's nest.

Honey is a key ingredient to making machines as it is sticky but doesn't stick to slime.  

You broke it!   Admit that you did and fix it!  Not wait for version 18.    Go line by line through your code and figure out what you did wrong.