The bug
When lightning hits a villager that is sleeping in a bed, the villager will turn into a witch, and the bed will stay occupied forever.
To reproduce
Place a bed
Spawn a villager next to it
Set time to night
Run
/summon minecraft:lightning_bolt ~ ~ ~while on the bedThe villager turns into a witch and leaves the bed
Right-click onto the bed
→ ❌ The message "This bed is occupied" appears
Code analysis
Code analysis and potential fix can be found in this comment.
Linked issues
is duplicated by 5
MC-176818
Striking Villagers with Channeling While Sleeping Glitches Beds
Resolved
MC-189209
Beds that contain villagers remain occupied after the villagers are converted into witched
Resolved
MC-196643
bed problem
Resolved
MC-206781
Can't sleep in the bed if a villager is sleeping and becomes a witch
Resolved
MC-259104
Bed stays occupied after the villager becomes a witch
Resolved
relates to 2
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Comments 20
Comfirmed for 20w17a, 20w18a, 20w19a, 20w20a, 20w21a, 20w22a, 1.16 Pre-Release, 1.16 Pre-Release 2, 1.16 Pre-release 3, 1.16 Pre-Release 4, 1.16 Pre-Release 5.
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This occurs because witches have the capability to store a bed location in their entity data exactly like villagers. The minecraft:home (bed coordinates) from the struck villager is preserved when spawning the witch entity.
The easiest fix would be to clear the bed from the list of POIs when the lightning strike happens, and to NOT preserve the bed location when spawning the witch.