Villager sleeping on floor next to the bed.

Possibly related to the fix for MCPE-101202.

Possibly related to the fix for MCPE-101202.

Affects 1.16.100 release

I started having problems with this immediately after installing 1.16.100. This is in an old single-player village that was upgraded to V2 by the Village and Pillage update. I have put a lot of work into this village, implementing changes to assign every villager a bed in a house with a workstation near it. I have installed a bell, created grass paths, and reduced terrain height. I had it working very well, with only a small problem with a couple of villagers sometimes still not able to pathfind to their bed at sunset.

 After installing 1.16.100 I went to this village (to check whether my discounts were gone) and lingered for several days observing them. I have observed a number of anomalies:

Occasionally, when one lies down it does so not aligned with its bed. It then slides over the bed while in the sleeping position, but sometimes it comes to rest half on the bed and half off, like this:

Other times it misses the bed entirely. In this image, you can see the beds inside the doors. The doors were closed when I found them here; I opened them so you can see the beds.

One of the villagers who has trouble finding his bed I found standing just inside a door. I opened the door, walked through the villager, and tried to nudge it toward its bed, which is a technique that usually worked before if I nudged him close enough to the bed. But this time he wouldn't be nudged, because even standing up, he wasn't really there! After the night ended, another villager confirmed this by walking right through him.

Another thing I've noticed is that when they slide over their bed after lying down, they're initially a fraction of a block low and have to rise into the final position.

Another thing I've noticed is that if anything comes into contact with a villager positioned correctly on its bed, the villager will slide off as if it had been pushed. It may turn black if it slides into a wall. It may also disappear entirely. I thought it might be suffocating so I broke the wall and floor in the vicinity but couldn't find it.

If a villager is being rendered in the wrong sleeping position or has disappeared, breaking its bed will cause the villager to appear where the bed was. You can then nudge it out of the way, place the bed down again, and it will go back to bed normally. However, you can push it off again just by standing beside the bed, so this is one way to reproduce at least part of the problem. I made a video that demonstrates this. It's too big to upload here, so I'm sharing it via OneDrive at the following link: https://1drv.ms/v/s!Agfpi9lElwxOgoQMyLvQl47m9y2_fw?e=hnTYz3

Also, if you have mispositioned or disappeared villagers at night, quitting and reloading the world will render them at the correct position again.

I started having problems with this immediately after installing 1.16.100. This is in an old single-player village that was upgraded to V2 by the Village and Pillage update. I have put a lot of work into this village, implementing changes to assign every villager a bed in a house with a workstation near it. I have installed a bell, created grass paths, and reduced terrain height. I had it working very well, with only a small problem with a couple of villagers sometimes still not able to pathfind to their bed at sunset.

 After installing 1.16.100 I went to this village (to check whether my discounts were gone) and lingered for several days observing them. I have observed a number of anomalies:

Occasionally, when one lies down it does so not aligned with its bed. It then slides over the bed while in the sleeping position, but sometimes it comes to rest half on the bed and half off, like this:

Other times it misses the bed entirely. In this image, you can see the beds inside the doors. The doors were closed when I found them here; I opened them so you can see the beds.

One of the villagers who has trouble finding his bed I found standing just inside a door. I opened the door, walked through the villager, and tried to nudge it toward its bed, which is a technique that usually worked before if I nudged him close enough to the bed. But this time he wouldn't be nudged, because even standing up, he wasn't really there! After the night ended, another villager confirmed this by walking right through him.

Another thing I've noticed is that when they slide over their bed after lying down, they're initially a fraction of a block low and have to rise into the final position.

Another thing I've noticed is that if anything comes into contact with a villager positioned correctly on its bed, the villager will slide off as if it had been pushed. It may turn black if it slides into a wall. It may also disappear entirely. I thought it might be suffocating so I broke the wall and floor in the vicinity but couldn't find it.

If a villager is being rendered in the wrong sleeping position or has disappeared, breaking its bed will cause the villager to appear where the bed was. You can then nudge it out of the way, place the bed down again, and it will go back to bed normally. However, you can push it off again just by standing beside the bed, so this is one way to reproduce at least part of the problem. I made a video that demonstrates this. It's too big to upload here, so I'm sharing it via OneDrive at the following link: https://1drv.ms/v/s!Agfpi9lElwxOgoQMyLvQl47m9y2_fw?e=hnTYz3

Also, if you have mispositioned or disappeared villagers at night, quitting and reloading the world will render them at the correct position again.

Seems pretty reproducible but just in case its helpful, I uploaded `village_1_16_100.mcworld` which exhibits this issue.

Seems pretty reproducible but just in case its helpful, I uploaded `village_1_16_100.mcworld` which exhibits this issue.

Not only that, but I have INVISIBLE villagers during day, that actually work and open and close doors... but there is nobody there - a ghost town! 😃

They actually reapear when I reload the game, but two specific villagers become ghost any time they sleep and I am close (again reapearing when I reload the world).

Not only that, but I have INVISIBLE villagers during day, that actually work and open and close doors... but there is nobody there - a ghost town! 😃

They actually reapear when I reload the game, but two specific villagers become ghost any time they sleep and I am close (again reapearing when I reload the world).

@unknown: Currently, my working theory is that villagers whose beds are against a wall and who approach the bed from the other side are more likely to have the problem, because when they lie down they come into contact with the wall and this triggers the bug. If you felt like trying some changes in how close the bed is to the wall and find it prevents the problem, we would be very interested in your results.

@unknown: Currently, my working theory is that villagers whose beds are against a wall and who approach the bed from the other side are more likely to have the problem, because when they lie down they come into contact with the wall and this triggers the bug. If you felt like trying some changes in how close the bed is to the wall and find it prevents the problem, we would be very interested in your results.

I recently took down all the houses in my village to make a trading hall, and all the beds are randomly spread out on the grass, no walls around. Same problem. They will go to bed and immediately as a cat runs by or a golem, or me, they fly off. These beds were originally placed in a row with one space in between each one, but I have since laid them out in different patterns (plus signs, scattering randomly, in a row touching, etc) and the result is the same.

This has literally broken the game for me, as village stuff was my "thing". I can't tell which villagers are in which beds, I can't count how many empty beds I have or how many villagers because when they're asleep they fly away almost immediately, and when they're awake, the visual image freezes in place for some.  I also can't tell who links to what workstation. The village is essentially just broken.

Passive mobs do the freezing thing too - trying to ride a horse is impossible because it will freeze and you can't find it to ride it/drag it or even tie it up. (Although I realize the animals may be a completely different bug issue...just saying.)

He refused to move even after I hit him or splashed water on the floor. His trade was Mending I but it switched to Fire Aspect I after the update. A few of my other villagers have switched their trades, too.

He refused to move even after I hit him or splashed water on the floor. His trade was Mending I but it switched to Fire Aspect I after the update. A few of my other villagers have switched their trades, too.

@unknown: As long as there are other mobs around that can touch the sleeping villagers, you cannot avoid the bug. I didn't mention it in my last comment to Lukáš because he didn't mention having any cats or golems, but it seems that anything that comes into contact with a sleeping villager (other than the bed below it) will trigger the bug. Incidentally, I have the same problem as you. I'm going to try conquering an ocean monument while I'm waiting for this to be fixed.

@unknown: As I discussed above, the villager we can see in your screenshot is just a ghost-like image. The real villager is in a bed somewhere. Nothing you do to the ghost will have any effect.

@unknown: As long as there are other mobs around that can touch the sleeping villagers, you cannot avoid the bug. I didn't mention it in my last comment to Lukáš because he didn't mention having any cats or golems, but it seems that anything that comes into contact with a sleeping villager (other than the bed below it) will trigger the bug. Incidentally, I have the same problem as you. I'm going to try conquering an ocean monument while I'm waiting for this to be fixed.

@unknown: As I discussed above, the villager we can see in your screenshot is just a ghost-like image. The real villager is in a bed somewhere. Nothing you do to the ghost will have any effect.

Playing on Andriod and PS4.  Same bug appears... In addition I have noticed the villagers slide sideways away through walls, without being contacted by anything, while in the sleeping position.  I play with my son and he was an emotional wreck.  Also super choppy multiplayer game play through LAN

Playing on Andriod and PS4.  Same bug appears... In addition I have noticed the villagers slide sideways away through walls, without being contacted by anything, while in the sleeping position.  I play with my son and he was an emotional wreck.  Also super choppy multiplayer game play through LAN

Auldrick: I suppose you already have enough info now, as this got transfered to MCPE-101202

To answer some questions: I always place the the bed pillow facing a wall and I did not see any other villager having the problem, but this one and his room-mate farmer (standing right after the door and wall, where the pumpkin is). These are actually the original two (each from different village) I used to breed the others (not far from this - many librarians).

There are cats spawning, but I do not think they are triggering it, those two ALWAYS disapear when they go sleeping, no matter what.

No problem with these:

Checking the two again and yes, no cat, invisible villagers (librarians are sleeping in their beds, fisherman and farmer are invisible):

Auldrick: I suppose you already have enough info now, as this got transfered to MCPE-101202

To answer some questions: I always place the the bed pillow facing a wall and I did not see any other villager having the problem, but this one and his room-mate farmer (standing right after the door and wall, where the pumpkin is). These are actually the original two (each from different village) I used to breed the others (not far from this - many librarians).

There are cats spawning, but I do not think they are triggering it, those two ALWAYS disapear when they go sleeping, no matter what.

No problem with these:

Checking the two again and yes, no cat, invisible villagers (librarians are sleeping in their beds, fisherman and farmer are invisible):

Thanks for responding! At the time I asked those questions, I was trying to develop a theory to explain why this issue happens to some villagers sometimes but not to others or at different times. Since then it has become clear that one condition causing this is when a mob brushes up against the sleeping villager's collision box. In your case, your cats are probably responsible. (I did a test specifically to see if cats could cause it, because you find them in every village and they'll intentionally jump on a villager's chest while it's sleeping.) I found that they do cause it, and this probably explains a large percentage of the reports we've had. But it also happens after I've sat all the village's cats down far away from the bed, and there's nobody else around. I think part of it is that the villager may contact the wall as it slides over the bed and spins to align itself. From what I've seen, its initial orientation when it lies down may be related to the angle it approaches the bed from, so that would account for a lot of the randomness.

Anyway, thanks for the info. If you find out anything new, please add a comment to MCPE-101202, and be sure to upvote it if you haven't already.

Thanks for responding! At the time I asked those questions, I was trying to develop a theory to explain why this issue happens to some villagers sometimes but not to others or at different times. Since then it has become clear that one condition causing this is when a mob brushes up against the sleeping villager's collision box. In your case, your cats are probably responsible. (I did a test specifically to see if cats could cause it, because you find them in every village and they'll intentionally jump on a villager's chest while it's sleeping.) I found that they do cause it, and this probably explains a large percentage of the reports we've had. But it also happens after I've sat all the village's cats down far away from the bed, and there's nobody else around. I think part of it is that the villager may contact the wall as it slides over the bed and spins to align itself. From what I've seen, its initial orientation when it lies down may be related to the angle it approaches the bed from, so that would account for a lot of the randomness.

Anyway, thanks for the info. If you find out anything new, please add a comment to MCPE-101202, and be sure to upvote it if you haven't already.

Upvoted there already. I am pretty sure cats are not the reason in case of that fisherman and farmer, maybe the barel is, maybe the angle and that it is double-bed, who knows.

But I can confirm that cats can do that, my librarian turned invisible (or is rendered where I cannot see him) and you can see the cats spawned in his appartment:

Sure he is still in his cage during day (after I slept in far away bed - reloading or going far usually fixes it).

Anyway, cheers, bugs happen, people get angry... no need to shout at devs, they are working on it 🙂

Upvoted there already. I am pretty sure cats are not the reason in case of that fisherman and farmer, maybe the barel is, maybe the angle and that it is double-bed, who knows.

But I can confirm that cats can do that, my librarian turned invisible (or is rendered where I cannot see him) and you can see the cats spawned in his appartment:

Sure he is still in his cage during day (after I slept in far away bed - reloading or going far usually fixes it).

Anyway, cheers, bugs happen, people get angry... no need to shout at devs, they are working on it 🙂