Wrong villagers harvest crops

Well, unfortunately I don't have these world seeds, I'll try to find another one.

I found one: -6503170732033053842, coordinates X-1415, Z1660 by the church in the middle is where I saw a priest and blacksmith doing it. In fact I went there again and got the same result, so it may depend on seed. It was a desert superflat village.

I agree with Paul Smith in that villager professions appear severely imbalanced. I have a following example with a seed that contains 3 villages within 300 blocks of one another:

Type: Flatworld ("overworld" preset)
Seed: 1
(all coords are approximate and are only meant to get you to each village)
Village 1: x=141 / z= 67
Population Breakdown: Butcher-9, Leatherworker-3, Librarian-3, Weapon Smith-3, Cleric-3, Tool Smith-2, Armorer-1

Village 2: x=-208 / z=91
Population Breakdown: Butcher-3, Leatherworker-3, Tool Smith-3, Weapon Smith-3, Cleric-3, Librarian-2, Armorer-1

Village 3: x=-148 / z=-232
Population Breakdown: Leatherworker-5, Librarian-3, Weapon Smith-3, Cleric-3, Fisherman-3, Butcher-2, Armorer-2, Tool Smith-1, Shepherd-1, Fletcher-1

Note the total lack of farmers in all villages, though several farms are present in each village (see screenshots).

I also observed fletchers and fisherman farming; perhaps it's related to the brown robes they wear? I saw no other trades attempting to harvest ripe crops.

I also took a few hundred random samples of generated villagers from spawn eggs in creative mode. I dug a 2-block pit and spawned a hundred at a time in it, then counted each one (killing them as I went to prevent over-counting).

The most interesting results were that Clerics and Librarians tallied about 40% of the total sample population (roughly 20% each), and the rest of the 60% evenly distributed across all other trades (including farmers). Tool smiths came in at the bottom with the lowest sample (approximately 6%).

This has been tested with the latest snapshot (14w11b as of this posting), so this issue is current.

Screenshots attached.

Does this issue need to be entered as a separate ticket?

I cannot do this issue, yet this must be brought up. If I submit it in a separate ticket, it would be marked as a duplicate. Funny thing is, none of the duplicates have successfully been confirmed, even though the first one submitted has an official note from a moderator attatched to it, AND a picture of too many clerics in the village. Instead, an issue was confirmed for farmer villagers not spawning if there is no grass. This is most definately a bug, but I don't know what to do about it... I noticed these villagers farming a few snapshots ago, I don't know if they still do it. They probably do, though.
By the way, all brown-robed villagers will farm, regardless of their career.

For many bugs, mods can confirm, but when there are questions we really have to wait on Mojang people to provide an official word.

Ok, thank you, that explains some things. But I'm confused to why a bug of mine originally got marked as confirmed, then got unconfirmed because it turned out to be a duplicate of another issue, but that other issue wasn't confirmed...

Please note that brown robed villagers are farmers. Doesn't matter what career they are. There are professions (0=farmer, brown robe, 1=librarian, white robe, 2=priest, purple robe, 3=blacksmith, black apron, 4=butcher, white apron, 5=generic villager, green robe, not naturally occuring, removed in 1.8 snapshots) and then there are careers which are a sub-division of professions (fletcher, shepherd, etc). All of the villagers with occupation=farmer will harvest the crops and replant random ones (based on what they have in their inventory of course, not truly random). (EDIT: Guess I should've read closer. Someone included this point as an aside at the end of a long paragraph). Also many of the buildings spawn 2 villagers, some of whom are random. Having said that the other week when I cured a bunch of zombie villagers on creative every single one of them turned into a useless priest (6 of 6) so something might be broken with the villager randomizer. Might want to try testing in creative with a villager spawn egg to see how random it is.

See my screenshots. These aren't brown robed villagers. Go to the seed and location and you will see a cleric farming, if it still works. Also the buildings are suppose to spawn specific villagers. When two are spawned, the other is a farmer, like a customer. Like how butcher shops are supposed to spawn with a butcher and a farmer. I've noticed that farmer villagers are the only ones randomized, as villagers that aren't farmers spawn in the farmhouses, which isn't supposed to happen. But i should talk about this in the issue that this falls under, yet it could contribute to this one. Actually, should i make this ticket about two issues and rename it "strang villager behavior" or stick with the original? I think it would be a duplicate, actually...

Confirmed with the seed / coordinates of Ethan Wilson

Which seed was it and what type of villager was farming I want to see this just to see if the seed does matter?

Type: Flatworld ("overworld" preset)
Seed: 1
x=141 / z= 67
A butcher was harvesting

Ok thanks I just want to see it

That issue "farming fishermen?" Is working as intended. Farmers, fishermen, shepherds and fletchers are all part of the "farmer" profession, so they will all farm. This issue has to do with different professions farming upon village generation.

Hi, Paul. Per your request, here's my post pasted in here from MC-45489:

In my experiences with villagers (I've been observing 14w11/17/18 versions over the last 5 weeks), I've seen librarians, clerics, and even blacksmiths farm crops in various villages. As to whether they've emerged from a farmhouse is not known, but I have seen every other type farm at one time or another. There's apparently an unrelated bit of AI code activating regardless of villager trade that's causing them to farm crops, independent of what kind of house they are generated (or even randomized from a farmer).

One idea: Take a village from a particular seed and compare the actions of the villagers from each of the following builds (14w04a/06b/11b/18a) and see if anything is different. I personally doubt anything significant was changed from the 06 build, and that improper trades are still farming (non-brown robe).

Thanks Ethan, I did test the seed from my description, and the same priest and blacksmith were farming there as before, so no AI changes. Blacksmith emerged from his smithy, priest from his church. It seems after 06, they held off on fixing the problems with the AI of the mobs, since there are a lot with them and the new AI.

Confirmed for

• 15w51b

Just noticed this on 1.9.2, I had a cleric harvesting and planting crops.