Villagers spawned via command do not pick up items, such as bread or carrots. Villagers spawned naturally or with spawn egg are fine.
How to reproduce
Ensure mob griefing is enabled
/summon villagerThrow bread at it
Use a village spawn egg
Throw bread at it
Expected results
Both villagers should pick up the bread
Observed results
Only the spawn egg villager does
Workaround
Manually specifying NBT with {CanPickUpLoot:1b} works
Linked issues
is duplicated by 8
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Comments 9
ignore prior comment, I’m testing with mobGriefing false.
however, this does highlight an issue with mobGriefing where villagers will get stuck trying to pickup items when they are not allowed to.
I’m reopening this because I think it’s a bug that summoning a mob without NBT produces different results from using a spawn egg. You don’t need to specify NBT to give a summoned skeleton a bow, for example.
Thank you for your report!
After consideration, the issue is being closed as Working as Intended.
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CanPickUpLoot defaults to 0b/false,set it to 1b/true.