[MC-3944] Villagers in Minecraft, when given a roughly 5x5-10x10 area, will arbitrarily pack up in the north-west corner

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I would expect villagers would behave in areas based off of effects such as light, mob presence, door presence, etc. However, they will completely disregard even the presence of zombies to go to the northwest corner of their box.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.produce a box with area between 25 and 100 square blocks
2.spawn roughly 8-12 villager in box
3.you can attempt to lure them in any way you want, but they will stay in the general northwest vicinity

Note: I did test without the pillars present, and got the same results.

Linked issues

duplicates 1

MC-10046 Random destination routine has a small statistical tendency to move more north west (fix included) Resolved

relates to 1

MC-78 Villagers crowd into a single building Resolved

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CubeTheThird 2012-11-29T01:47:31Z

Likely relates to MC-78.

nathan Dukes 2012-11-29T01:59:15Z

there not in buildings though...

CubeTheThird 2012-11-29T02:05:53Z

No, but the other issue also has to do with the villagers crowding in a certain area, which is why 'related' instead of duplicate.

nathan Dukes 2012-11-29T02:14:48Z

oh I get it now :3

Jack Erhardt 2012-12-01T01:31:41Z

Technically, the if doors were to be surrounding the pillars, they would count as houses. I have had the same problem with that set-up as well.

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Jack Erhardt 2012-12-01T01:32:40Z

My apologies for poor grammar

Chris Andrews 2012-12-14T13:14:35Z

This is not only related to villagers. This is related to farm animals (neutral mobs) as well. I started noticing about a year ago (MC 1.0 / 1.1) that my farm animals would crowd the northwest corner of their pens instead of staying evenly distributed. This is most easily noticed with sheep, because the northwest corner of their enclosure will be completely dirt where other corners will will be completely grass.

MisterSanderson 2013-01-06T23:32:38Z

Is this still happening in 1.4.7?

Chris Andrews 2013-01-07T22:50:02Z

Still happening in 1.4.6. My sister took a screenshot and I recorded a little 10 second clip to show the ridiculous PIG PILE that happened on top of a ladder on the west side of my pig enclosure. Hilarious, but definitely needs to be fixed.

http://youtu.be/hUGjheZPsqY

bugi74 2013-02-07T11:28:53Z

After watching a group of 9 villagers inside a 9x9 closed area for 10 minutes, I could not observe the behaviour on 1.4.7. They did often get to various corners, and some other villagers could come to the same corner, too, but all that is quite natural end result of two AI tasks. 1) Without home village they wander randomly, and corners are often nearest to the random target location. 2) Villagers like "meet" with other villagers.

At no time were they all in the same corner, and there was definitely no tendency to get into NW corner more than to others.

Tails 2013-02-19T23:06:44Z

Unable to reproduce either.

kumasasa 2013-06-20T19:36:02Z

Reopened.
As already said, this applies to all mobs, not only villagers.

Dranitsin Roman 2013-07-08T08:52:51Z

Confirmed for all mobs.

bugi74 2013-07-09T09:14:16Z

As it is now considered to cover all mobs, it is likely this and MC-10046 are actually duplicates, not just related; note that MC-10046 does cover villagers, too. Or at least I'd first apply the fix in MC-10046 and see if this one continues after that fix.

kumasasa 2013-07-09T18:12:58Z

Ok. Resolving this as duplicate of MC-10046