Villagers despawn permanently from maps when they are no longer rendered.
I have tested this with multiple villages and multiple villagers, including zombie villagers.
whether they are in a boat, trapped in a dirt box, anything, anywhere. I saw that others where having issues with their villagers as well. I wonder if they are related issues.
Thank you.
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Here are some examples:
1: I spawned next to a village. Explored the village and found all the villagers. I left the village to scout around the area, and when I came back to the village to do some trading, all the villagers had despawned/disappeared. They were all on a relatively small island so there is nowhere for them to roam or hide.
2: I found a village about 1600 blocks from world spawn. I set up a nether portal to make the trip back and forth faster. I went through the portal and returned to the village within 60 seconds, and when I returned to the village, all the villagers had disappeared again. It was during the day and there were no hostile mobs around.
3: I found a third village and got a villager tagged with a name tag, put him in a boat, rowed him all the way back to my base. it had turned night time by then so I left him in the boat to clear the beach of hostile mobs and to sleep the rest of the night. when I returned to the boat, which was no more then 50 blocks away, the boat was empty, there was no villager anywhere, nor was there any zombie villagers near by. So, once again, the villager despawned/disappeared, even while name tagged.
At this point, I don't want to discover any more villages due to this issue, and it is making for a very frustrating time of advancing in the game.
Hmm, thanks for the information. We already have another ticket about this: MC-153904. We haven't found out yet when exactly this issue occurs, so any further info is very appreciated.
Yeah same. Am on Xbox One and I trapped a villager in my under cave so he can auto farm my potatoes for me and I have done this 3 times already. He kept despawning am not sure why but I feel like when am out of the render distance. I did noticed that my villagers that auto farm for me like moving a lot tend to despawn on me but while the villagers I trap in the boat never despawn and both of them are right next to each other. Seem like the villagers who auto farm have despawn or disappear a lot out of no where for no reason and these guys are trap in a glass box. Am assuming is the render distance for it happens randomly. Sometime I go on a far journey and their still there but sometimes I come back to them, their gone.
If possible, could you help us to understand what happened better? What were you doing while the villagers disappeared? Were you able to find a way to reproduce the issue consistently?