[MC-170509] Named Villagers lose their PersistenceRequired data value when converted into Zombies

Description: When a named Villager (with a Name Tag) is converted into a Zombie, it loses its PersistenceRequired value, causing it to despawn if the player is far enough.

Steps to reproduce: For ease, you can reproduce it in Creative, but it happens in Survival too.

Spawn a Villager
Give it a name using a Name Tag
Use /data get entity <entity id> PersistenceRequired (to confirm that it switched to 1b)
Get it converted by zombies
Use /data get entity <entity id> PersistenceRequired again (the data tag is now 0b)
/tp <Player> ~ ~150 ~
/tp <Player> ~ ~-150 ~

The Villager has despawned.

Linked issues

duplicates

MC-88967 Most NBT tags are not kept when a mob converts to another mob

Comments

violine1101 2020-01-28T10:02:16Z

Thank you for your report!
We're actually already tracking this issue in MC-88967, so I resolved and linked this ticket as a duplicate.

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