While playing a Survival world in Realms, I noticed one of my two named Iron Golems missing and searched the area for fence breaches or cave-ins but found none. After switching to creative and remaining very close to the other Iron Golem, it too vanished, likely while I was very close to or inside the loaded chunk. The only similar issue I saw posted involved animals dying while chunks loaded and unloaded, but these golems didn't die... they just vanished, and right under my nose as I was within 20-100m both times.
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This bug is very annoying in Hardcore mode, as my defenders keep vanishing. I keep one tied to a post outside the entrances to my house. Post is still there, Iron Golem is gone, lead is gone. It's getting very expensive to keep my house safe...
Is this still a concern in the current Minecraft version? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases. If this has been done, we can reopen the issue.
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Unable to reproduce problem in version 1.8.1, after putting an iron golem in a well-lit room with stone pressure plates on the floor (connected to an alarm if the golem were to disappear) on a super-flat map in creative mode and normal difficulty, and waiting for almost 9 hours.
This has happened to me also, in the current version, and coincidentally my iron golem went missing when I too went to the Nether... It was in a fence and I just let him out to kill things and then would rebuild fence around it. Came back from the Nethe for the first time and he had gone..!
I don't know how to update the affected version. But that bug still exists in 15w35e. I just happened to me now. I had built 6 golems for my gold farm (With portals in the overworld). All 6 were temporarily "traped" in a 2 by 2 walled hole while I was updating my design. Went to my main base to get some stuff (+128 blocks away) and came back to find only one left. 5 had vanished 😞
Current version as of March 7th, sorry don't know exact version. I built 3 iron golems in my mountain fortress.
One was in a hallway 5 wide and 12 high surrounded by about 20 doors with 6 villagers living in the area.
Two was spawned in an unpopulated intersection of tunnels approx 12 wide and 12 high, medium monster spawn rate area.
Third was spawned in an open clear grassy area in the middle of my outside area of my fortress with almost zero mobs ever spawning near it, he just wandered around the yard like a good golem.
Two disappeared first about about a day or two real life time, I figured he died which would be odd because mobs don't spawn when your not close enough for them to spawn and I hadn't been over in that area in some time.
Then the Third disappeared but this one was weird. I came out the main door of my fortress and I literally seen the pumpkin block and an iron bar in the air where the iron golem should of been and then it dropped to the ground but right before it hit the ground it disappeared too. I ran over to try and salvage the iron but it was already gone. There was no hostile mobs anywhere to be seen in any direction, and it is a pretty well lit and secure area. The only other mobs around are pigs, cows, chickens and some horses, but they are all securely locked in barns and stables far removed from the golem.
Then Finally the First one despawned, he hung around the longest in the hallway with the actual villagers, no monsters ever spawned in the hallway either it was to well lit.
I'm assuming this is either an issue with the game trying to put the golem back when you been away from it for quite some time, like horses and tamed pets, some glitch causing them to despawn into their base components instead of reform as an actual golem, or maybe their is a check in their AI to seek out the village and when they can't find one and it doesn't have enough villagers they get confused and fall apart.
Either way this is highly aggrivating when you play in survival and take the time to make some golems to clean up trash mobs like zombies from your area and they just despawn and fall apart. I can say without a doubt 2 of my 3 golems just despawned, fell apart, failed to reload, the third probably did the same but I didn't observe it enough to say 100% what happened to it.
I've also observed this four times. On one occasion, the iron Golem was attached to a fence via a lead. I was leaving the area and going into the nether, so I'm not sure what triggered the golems to despawn.