Villagers sometimes don't restock

Using /data command I managed to obtain an interesting piece of information. One of the villagers that didn't restock had their job_site NBT Tag in a place filled with air, supposedly there has never been any composter (as the villager was a farmer) in this area. Strange.

Edit: Having checked other villagers, I came to a conclusion that they just don't update their workplace block after it has been destroyed. However when I performed a test in singleplayer, it all worked fine, so I dont know why it does not work on my server.

Interesting. This aligns with my experience. I think it was when I deleted and re-placed the villager's associated workstation. I might have in inadvertently "refreshed" the villager's job_site tag.

Even more info:

I have been testing this issue with my friend for some time now and we managed to notice one repeatable case:

When a villager picks its job site, you can destroy it and they will pick a new one if possible. However, when you destroy that block when the villager is far from it (about 20 blocks in our case), he has still job_site coordinates the same as before destroying it, even when there are 8 composters free to claim just next to him.

We believe that the issue is happening because the villager doesn't notice their work block has been destroyed when they are too far away from it.

In your test, you did not put a bed to the villager. This is probably why he does not take over stock since he can not sleep.
Try adding a bed and give us your feedback.

In our case room was full of beds. The only thing we changed between two tests is the distance between the villager and the composter to be destroyed

In my testing, villagers will often times fail to even recognize a block as a workstation.  Sometimes when the block is next to them or even when it's directly in their nbt.

So, I've done some more testing and am getting more confused. Here's the video I recorded.

Basically, one time the villager normally changes its workplace block as they should and the other time (second part of the video) the coordinates get stuck and don't change after destroying it or placing another composter. I don't know whether there is some feature I don't know about or it isn't supposed to work like that. Anyone can reproduce it?

Found my particular problem.... I had my villagers restrained in minecarts (a classic way to organize a villager trading hall) with their respective workstation next to them. In this configuration, the villagers never restocked. Once I released the villagers and let them wander freely with their workstation close by, restocking worked normally. Even being in the nether, the villagers restock approx every two in-game days.

I can confirm that this bug is still an issue in pre-release 3.  Villagers sometimes just don't recognize their own workstations or if there is a workstation in their area.

This also seems like a pretty major bug for an update focused around villagers and I do hope it gets prioritized.

Still occurs in 1.14 pre-release 4...

So having 20 villagers with 20 lecterns each in a separate space isn't working in pre release 5. A villager that has a lectern in front of it will still choose his job site somewhere else he can't get to. Only 1 villager has been able to restock in this setup.

I'd say Alexis ^ is lucky to even have one of his/her villagers restock. I can't get any to restock. It took about 15 minutes of forcing permanent work time in a creative singleplayer world with only a single villager before he finally restocked.

From those villagers, most had their job site on a block that does not contain any workbench, but had one before. It has not changed for many. So destroying the workbench does not update their job site either.

Maybe it's related to MC-148013

@violine1101 Can you confirm the info of "villagers are meant to only restock twice a day"?  In all my testings so far, it's extremely common for villagers to restock 3 times throughout the day.  In which case the description should be changed to 3 times, and not 2.

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-snapshot-19w11

The villagers will restock up to two times per day (if they can work at their work station!)

If they restock more than twice a day, please create a ticket about that.

Edit: Also, in the game, if a villager is locked up and you hover over the crossed-out arrow, a tooltip shows up which says

Villagers restock up to two times a day

@violine1101 Is there any condition, that has to be given, that they work on their station except having direct access to it? Like having food, enough light etc.

The only thing I can imagine that they need to replenish their trades is a bed to sleep in, though I haven't actually tested yet whether that is actually the case.

Okay i had a villager that i locked up for very long and he never gave me new trades, even if he had his work station there. Now i "released" him into the village and in about 2 minutes he unlocked all of his trades, maybe because there were reachable beds or because he is "free" under the sky, if you know what i mean

An other idea would be, that they want to have access to the center of the village, which would be confirmed by the behaviour described in the comment above.

@violine1101 The number of restocks was changed during the 19w12a snapshot, which marks as having "Villager AI and trade improvements"?  It may have been changed and never documented, but I don't know enough about it to make a proper assesment.

This bug could be potentially caused by villagers attempting to go to locations of interest that don't exist, such as MC-149012 

and villager AI getting caught up with them trying to go to inaccessible or non-existant areas.

I have tested restocking trades by putting villagers in a locked cell with only one eligible job site block next to them, but no beds in range. They were still able to restock multiple times per day. I'm assuming beds have no influence on restocking trades at all.

But I have not experienced this issue yet anywhere, can't confirm.

I have this issue with converted villagers. Some convert just fine, others have a point of interest and a bed that I have seen them use and they still don't restock. It's odd.

I've had 4 different villagers that have not reset trades. I started with no villages and no workstations. I spawned in 2 villagers, then 2 workstations. the villagers were 2 blocks from the workstations but could not touch them. the stations were one block below their feet. i traded with each of them 4 times. 3 days later still no trade resets. repeated process of clearing the villagers and workstations. 2 more villagers spawned in, 2 new workstations, same scenario no trade resets

Note that the doDayNightCycle gamerule might affect this, due to their scheduling.

this is not from the daynightcycle command. I loaded my world and have issued no commands other than to turn off the weather

i verified it is set to true

A villager needs a bed to sleep in to restock

@@unknown Villagers have never needed a bed/sleep to restock within 1.14 snapshots or full release.  They only require sleep to spawn iron golems.

I was referred to this after having a similar concern. The issue is that the fishermen villagers (and one of another profession i forgot) don't restock (even though they have an abundant stock of barrels to access to). I had transferred them from their old spawned village back in 1.13. I had plenty of barrels in the new village i constructed for them, and every villager coming in would take up a fishing profession, so i destroyed some to allow the others the other workstations i had placed. perhaps they are tied to a single individual instance of that block workstation ❓ and destroying it erases their association. Perhaps a bug with reemployment. All in all, I can't get to trade with them again. (The other professions are not bugged out and do replenish their stock)

Im having the same problem. I dont get it, none of my villagers will restock i even knocked out the whole village grrr, hope this gets fixed asap

And when i try to reset the village now their just running around not detecting the reset

Happened to me. Strange thing is this. I have a trading hall about 400 blocks away from my new one and the villagers there restock like they are supposed to.

I had a similar issue that occurred in the trading hall on the server I play on (strictly vanilla) after a bell was placed, and possibly rung, and then removed (this may not have been the cause of the issue). Most villagers who had x-ed out trades simply did not restock their trades, even after their supposed time to do so, for several in-game days. We sought to troubleshoot and fix this using operator methods (like changing gamemodes and such, and using commands, mainly /data) because, well, we had spent time getting the right trades. After many different attempts, I managed to fix the restocking issue in my case by using:

/data modify entity <villager id> uses set value 0

I tested this by advancing game time multiple times to tick values that had potential trade restockings tied to them, and in every case the villager restocked their trades (after being maxed out), so I applied this to all affected villagers and it seems to have worked so far. Maybe this will work for other people?

Still in 1.14.1 Release

I have had this issue as well, made a trading hall in my singleplayer world, my villagers always restocked without fail, and then the villagers just spontaneously stopped refreshing their trades out of the blue. It has been 30+ ingame days since the villagers last refreshed their trades, very odd. even tried using commands to get them to restock and that didn't work

Here's a link to get my world for anyone who wishes to inspect
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1leTzXxz4QP6mTk4A3xi1IEwZTMdcbQb3?usp=sharing

i have the Same problem in 1.14.1  villagers Dont restock...

Still in 1.14.2 Pre-Release 2

At first everything was okay, but when i began to intensify my trading (selling 64 pumpkins and melons all at once,), the villagers stopped restocking. Weird.

For me it seems very consistent. As opposed to "raw" 1.14, where tradeing seems to be working fine, in 1.14.1 and 1.14.2. Pre-Release2 villagers (librarians at least) simply won't restock after locking out a trade.  I can reproduce this every single time without any hassle. 

Lock a villager in one position, put a lectern next to it so it chooses profession.

Lock out a trade and there you go.

I'm also getting this issue in 1.14.2 pre-2. Main issue is with two farmers I have, but at least one of my librarians isn't restocking either. They're in one-block spaces with their profession block right next to them.

I have the same problem in 1.14.1 release till 1.14-2.pre-2.

In minecraft 1.14 release the restocking worked fine for me.

So I checked  /data get endity <villagerid> Brain in 1.14-2.pre-2 and the villagers sometimes losses their workstation information. Sometimes their find their workstation again,but it doesn't take long then their losing it again. Maybe their is a problem with pathfinding.

My villager (all max level) are put 3-block spaces in the hope it helps, but it doesn't.

If I change back to 1.14 there is no problem.

I've had this issue on the Mindcrack server, there are VODs of everything I've tried and my configurations. Sharing my experience in case this helps. I think there are four things that happened to me: 

1) Master level villagers specifically seem to "lose" their workstation and stop unlocking trades, and may not be able to reclaim another workstation if they're all occupied.

2) Villagers will "lose" their workstation and sometimes "claim" workstations that they can't reach in their near vicinity, and maybe shouldn't even be able to see.

3) New jobless villagers will "claim" Master level villagers workstations (especially in a chaotic open area where villagers are mass-breeding even without enough beds).

4) Villagers chunks not being loaded during the proper hours, villagers needing to gossip❓ , villagers disappearing, or villagers being catapulted into the ocean.

In my own base I ran into problem number 1 & 2 in conjunction (as well as 4 but that's for another bug report), where I had a number of librarian villagers at Master level that would unlock very irregularly. To fix this, and as a last ditch effort after trying to reset their station and block off the view of each villager one by one, I eventually just let all the librarians have access to all of the lecterns. Now if they try to claim their neighbours workstation, they can access it, and if gossip is necessary for unlocking then they can do that too.

I have a separate room with a number of other villagers with different professions, they are spaced two blocks apart and can see each other (and each others workstations) so that they can gossip, but obviously since they have different professions they don't try to claim each others station and lock up.

https://bugs.mojang.com/projects/MC/issues/MC-152182?filter=allopenissues

I am as well having this same issue, and I have run some tests to further prove my point. And note I am running Minecraft V1.14.1

In my survival world, I cured a zombie villager, and after he was cured, he instantly attained the Cleric profession because he was right next to my brewing stand. I was able to trade with him until he reached his max trades, but then I noticed this issue. His trades are now always locked out, and he will never restock even if he is standing right next to his workstation. I've tried to change his profession but that doesn't work either, he is always a Cleric regardless if there is a workstation nearby or not.

So I went into creative and duplicated this outcome. I spawned a zombie villager, cured him and gave him the Cleric profession by putting a brewing stand right next to him within his reach. I then maxed out all of his trades, and after waiting some time, I went back to him to see if he had restocked and nothing. All of his trades were still locked out and I was unable to trade with him.

However, when I go and trade with nearby villagers from villages, after some time of their trades being stocked out, they will eventually restock and I will be able to trade with them again. So this seems to only be happening with villagers in which I cure.

Still in 1.14.2 pre-release 3

What i found: the villager can lose the workstation when is just next to it, and only can claim one when is at least one block away. (tested in 1.14.1 and 1.14.2 pre 3)

I believe the reason for this bug is due to https://bugs.mojang.com/projects/MC/issues/MC-152182?filter=allopenissues This bug report goes in depth on how to reproduce too with an included video.

@Ayrton Muniz - that's hard to say for certain as this bug has been present long before MC-152182 or even MC-147740

It should be noted that these bugs are NOT the same as this one, but it's impossible to test whether or not this bug is fixed unless the other two are fixed first as these two bugs can cause some of the exact same issues as were present before.

This exists in 1.14.2 Prerelease 4.

Bug seems to be fixed in 1.14.3 Pre-Release 1. They are all restocking two times a day. Pathfinding now even works, when the villager is next to workstation.

Sadly the pre-release broke my  automatic wheat farm, Farmers with full inventory doesn't break wheat, but that is another problem.

I'll do some quick testing to verify if this is fixed, or still in-progress.

I can confirm that this at least seems NOT to be fixed and still occurs on 1.14.3 pre-release 1.

Villagers may restock 3 times a day(as per the 19w12a changes noted earlier).  Typically their normal restock times are 2000, 5500, and 9000.  (these times can vary depending on when the time it takes them to restock)  Occasionally they will delay this time slightly, causing them to sometime not restock at certain points of the day.  This results in the villagers restocking sometimes between 2-3 times per day.

There might be some sort of discrepancy between when the game schedules villager's to check if they need to restock, and the times they are able to restock that may cause this.

Still not fixed in 1.14.3

@unknown, please note that villagers can only restock during certain times of the day and up to twice a day.

@unknown I'm aware of that. My villagers stopped doing trades and working, but they still sleep.

Are you talking about MC-154201 perhaps?

Can confirm this is still a problem in 1.14.3. 

EDIT WORKAROUND: Pretty much confirmed this is an issue with villagers switching and claiming other workstations. Opened up all of my librarians to all of the lecterns and eventually they restock, same with other professions. Until the random workstation switching gets fixed it seems like the way to deal with it .