I've been playing Minecraft on my iPad pro (m1 chip) these days. In v1.17.30 and in a world that I've been playing survival mode all the time, I found that all creatures, including animals and villagers, disappeared when I came back from a place 100 blocks away, even if I fenced all of them and ensured that there's no way out. Name tags and trading doesn't help preserving the villagers. In fact, there has been some missing villagers and animals every time I entered Nether and came back (or went to a far place and came back), but not all. It's really weird that this time, all villagers suddenly disappeared, and I was literally staying in the main world around them.
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I am having the same problem. It started out where just my villagers would disappear, and now all my animals, and villagers are gone! Super frustrating I started a new world because of this.
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Exactly! One of my villagers sells mending.......
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Okay so I successfully duplicated this bug for a few times. If you shut down the game when you are seeing a bunch of villagers, and perhaps right before some "save" functions are called, the villagers will disappear when you re-enter the game. Is this possibly an exception-handler bug or a garbage collector bug?
This phenomenon is especially common in a world where cheating is not enabled. Every time in survival mode I fly to a new village with Elytra, see some villagers, and shut down the game (either immediately or not), the villagers disappear. But in creative mode, such chance is much smaller.
This is a real issue because now if you don't press "save and exit" and the game reloads, then the villagers and animals will disappear. I remember the first time when all my villagers disappear is because I was changing the brightness, and when I came back to the game, it auto-reloaded, and all villagers disappeared.
In sum, the bug is: if you don't press "save and exit" and the game reloads for some reason, you will lose the villagers (in a cheating-disabled world).
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this has happened to me pre 1.17. I had a nice cave with some villagers inside that I was breeding and when we stopped playing and logged off I noticed that, like have of the villagers where missing when we logged back on the next day... pretty stressful bug honestly, I'm lucky, If I hadn't bread those villagers I wouldn't have had pretty much any left at all
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Happened to me as well, however I had some villagers in a little cave over a water ravine and when I returned I found half of the villagers turned into zombie villagers in the water ravine