[MCPE-170189] Previously linked Villagers won’t link to job block after update

My previously linked villagers will not relink to their moved job block. This ALWAYS happens after an update. I moved my previously linked villagers. They will link to a bed (green particles) but when I put their job block down. I get nothing. It has been 24 hours and it is still not resolved. They villagers are just staring at me. Please fix. I wrote a post like this after the last update, and it was fixed within 24 hours. This issue is still happening after every update.

Linked issues

duplicates 1

MCPE-79433 Using too many job site blocks prevents villagers from linking to their workstations Reopened

Comments 19

leahoclocal 2023-05-01T14:50:03Z

I know this says duplicate. I accidentally posted this twice but it’s not resolved

hazeleyessss 2023-05-01T16:53:11Z

I'm having this problem too. I have villagers who were linked to their job blocks and now they won't link again after I moved them and the job blocks.

SPDRCR 2023-05-01T18:59:54Z

Same issue I’m having. Very irritating and time consuming

GoldenHelmet 2023-05-01T19:29:40Z

Can you provide a copy of the world where this occurs?

leahoclocal 2023-05-02T00:14:29Z

I’m not sure how to do that since I am not the realm owner. I will ask the realm owner for a copy.

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leahoclocal 2023-05-02T02:46:16Z

It is happening in a realm with the cured zombie villagers. They were linked to a job block, moved them to a new area. Placed beds down, they linked (green particles) then placed their job block, and no green particles, nothing happens, they just wander around or just look at me. This happens every time there is a new update.

GoldenHelmet 2023-05-02T14:07:47Z

You don’t mention whether you broke their original job block, nor how far you moved them, nor if they had already been linked to a bed. One possible scenario is that they remained linked to their original job blocks and added the beds to the existing village.

Your previous report gives no indication that a bug was fixed. Instead, it implies that your issue went away on its own with time. That may have occurred by means of existing village mechanics. When an existing village cannot find a villager that is linked to it, it drops the villager’s links after 20 minutes of running time.

To further investigate this issue it would be very helpful if you could provide copies of the realm backups from before the update and after you loaded your villagers after the update.

leahoclocal 2023-05-02T19:43:19Z

Before the update, I bred multiple babies (one baby per bed), so babies were linked to there beds (green particles) babies turned into adult villagers. I put multiple job blocks down, the adult villagers would link (green particles) to a job block (example-turned into a cleric). I traded with them. It would lock them into cleric. I was able to break the brewing stand, villager would get red/angry particles, I was able to move the brewing stand. And when I placed it down again it would relink to the brewing stand ( green particles). After they were linked to a job block, I would get a zombie to turn them into zombies, then cure them with potion of weakness. After they were cured, I was still able to break the job blocks, they would get the red particles, placed brewing stand back down, they would relink. I believe the update happened before I moved them (70 blocks by minecart/rail). I picked up all the brewing stands (1 per cleric), moved them in a secure building. Placed beds down, clerics linked to beds (green particles), placed the brewing stands down and nothing. Yesterday it looked like some were linked (cleric on top of brewing stand / and inventory refreshed) then I broke the brewing stand to move it 4 blocks over and placed it back down and the villager wouldn’t link. No green particles

leahoclocal 2023-05-02T19:52:20Z

How do I make a copy of the realm?

hazeleyessss 2023-05-03T02:09:12Z

The original block was broken and moved to a new location less than 100 blocks away with the villager. The villager was linked to a bed but the bed was also broken and taken to the new location. The villager links to bed but not job block. I attempted to wait it out. This happened over the weekend and the villagers finally linked on Monday...more than 20 minutes. Now I have 3 librarians who will not link. Last night I broke their lectures to move it 1 block because I'm redoing the library interior, when I placed their lectures back down, the didn't link and still are not linked...more than 20 minutes past. They are linked to beds. This has happened before in a different world about 2 months ago.

How do I provide a copy of the backup if I can identify the correct one? My realm has about 40 just today alone with more backups generating because the day isn't over yet and my realm members play daily all through the day. I'll have to go back several days.

hazeleyessss 2023-05-03T03:27:27Z

Update...the 3 librarians are now linked 24 hours later. Even though they're now linked, what would cause it to take so long. For future, how do I provide a copy of the backup?

[MCQA] Justyna Oleś 2023-05-03T06:45:56Z

LINK if you don't have your backup yet, here are some tips, how to do it.

If you have your backup, you can attach it via attach button under your bug report title, or upload it on any shareable site, if the file exceeds the limit, (eg. onedrive) and paste the link to it in the comments, or update your description.

leahoclocal 2023-05-03T12:09:41Z

This is not resolved. Yesterday I attempted to screen record the clerics. I broke 2 brewing stands. It seemed like they linked, because they were standing on the brewing stands and their trades were refreshing. After I broke them the cleric had red particles. I put the brewing stand back down. And nothing again it has been 12 hours and they still havent linked back to the unlinked brewing stands. This morning, another player in the realm told me, he went to move a traded weaponsmith, broke job block, placed it close to where it was, the villager went to bed then turned into a fisherman, he is over more than 100 blocks away from the clerics. Veronicalaura is the realm owner. I will ask her to make a copy of the world.

leahoclocal 2023-05-03T12:34:41Z

From the other player in our realm “Picked up untraded with weaponsmith from -800,350 next to village bell. Moved to -500,350 and traded with weaponssmith. Placed bed and grindstone. Villager went to sleep and next day linked to a nearby cauldren. Have broken cauldren (no longer in world) and replaced grindstone several times, villager remains a leatherworker”.

SPDRCR 2023-05-03T15:45:47Z

How would someone make a copy of the issue on bedrock 1.19 and paste it here?

GoldenHelmet 2023-05-03T16:09:50Z

Files larger than 10 MB can be uploaded to a file sharing site like onedrive, googedrive, mediafire, etc., and the link given in a comment here.

Based on comments there may be multiple issues causing the problems. Here are 2 known issues:

There is a limit of 32 unclaimed workstations that a village can detect (MCPE-79433). This is often an issue where barrels are used for storage. For example: if your villagers happen to detect 32 barrels and you have no fishermen or unemployed villagers to take them, then your clerics and librarians will not be able to re-link to their brewing stands or lecterns if you break and replace the brewing stands or lecterns. However, the unclaimed workstations have to be re-found each time the world is loaded, so a villager who can't link in one session may link immediately in the next session because the workstations are detected in a different order.
Villagers sometimes switch professions after trading (MCPE-117852). This one has no confirmed explanation yet. It seems to involve a desync, ether between client and server, or between individual villagers and the global "village manager" function that assigns workstation links. It may involve some kind of "stuck in a loop" or process priority bug in the village manager.

Plausibly, the issue your realm has with villagers not linking at all has the same underlying cause as MCPE-117852, but it would be important to rule out blockage from too many unlinked job blocks.

hazeleyessss 2023-05-03T16:54:06Z

That makes alot of sense. Our issue may be issue number 1 that you explained because there were about 50 villagers in the trading hall at the time when we were moving them to separate areas.

We also had an issue with #2. We were converting villagers so when we broke job blocks to prep for that, 2 linked stonemasons who we traded with 1 time to lock them in became jobless, no stonemason uniform, then linked to brewing stand and became clerics with locked level 1 trade.

I'm the realm owner and will try to transfer the backup so I can share the file.

hazeleyessss 2023-05-04T02:06:46Z

I've been trying to upload the backup from Saturday but I'm having issues. I think it's because the game on my computer isn't updated to the latest version? And I'm having trouble updating it. Also, I can't find the save files on my computer. I can't find this path: %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MinecraftUWP_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\games\com.mojang\

leahoclocal 2023-05-05T12:32:09Z

We broke the unused/ decor job blocks (barrels, grindstones, cauldrons, blast furnaces etc. the villagers are linking again! We had way more than 32 unused job blocks used for decor. Thank you for all your help! So if your villagers are not linking, break the decor job blocks.