Any recent changes to death in game? Help!

Hi. This morning I was playing with my daughter before school. We were getting Kelp for her turtles when one of the bush sniper mobs killed her. When she died she lost 3 items from her hot bar. Did something recently change where you can lose items from your hotbar? there was nothing in her tombstone either. I tried googling but nothing has come up. Thank you for any help. Tried restarting our games too.