The essence of the bees is in my inventory and I try to eat it but absolutely nothing happens, I got it legitimately too. I'm on version 1.20.4

1.20.4 support was dropped. I am only supporting 1.20.1 and 1.21.1 due to those being much more popular Mc versions and to reduce my workload. I am fairly certain I fixed the issue a very long time ago on those versions