Villager can only farm when they have the "CanPickUpLoot:1" tag, and for some reason Villagers naturally spawn with the "CanPickUpLoot:0" tag instead, this may be hard to reproduce, I think it's only sometimes it can happen, but spawn eggs also spawn them without "CanPickUpLoot:1", but this bug it may just be me unlucky but I report because it happened.
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but this bug with not using CanPickUpLoot:1 goes for all villagers, example: ALL villagers are suppose to pick up wheat and bread but don't.
Relates to MC-45847 (nearly duplicate)
Attached my most recent savegame with the villager problem
I'm not 100% whether I used the 1.8 release version, but I am about 98% certain (if not, I did start it with the 1.8-pre3). I've started another game with the same seed, but it usually did take a while for the problem to come up, and I'm not sure how much "active playing" is necessary. I'll let that testgame run afk every now and then and see if the problem comes up by itself for now.
I have a test world where the farmers will plant but not harvest.
I will see about uploading the world file. (Size)
As far as the "CanPickUpLoot" flag issue described in this bug's description, it appears that even as far back as 14w04a newly-spawned villagers would have the flag set. It appears to have been fixed in 14w05a for existing villagers.
Discussion where farming worked fine and then stopped is likely either mobGriefing=false or MC-48735.
Are that villagers "Farmers" or a another profession ?