[MCPE-20190] Villagers duplicate items they pick up

When in village, villagers throw huge amounts of bread in to the ground, and this is so significant that it crashed my world because of the entities; however, I'm not sure what the bug really is: wether they can't pic the bread up, wether they are duplicating it, wether they're throwing it too fast, or wether they're throwing it too much.

Linked issues

is duplicated by 4

MCPE-20271 Villagers duplicate items. Resolved

MCPE-20279 villagers Resolved

MCPE-20366 Potatoes and bread everywhere in villages Resolved

MCPE-20389 Carrots and bread everywhere?! Resolved

relates to 3

MCPE-20205 Villagers can pick up any item Resolved

MCPE-20156 Villagers throw food far Resolved

MCPE-20278 Farmer villagers don't pick up wheat seeds or beetroot seeds Resolved

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breeding-and-food-sharing-test.mcworld

Comments 21

JavaC0der 2017-02-27T17:32:38Z

*bread to the ground

JavaC0der 2017-02-27T20:18:02Z

And this is also happening with beetroots now, so I assume that they're duplicating every item they get in their inventory, and then they throw them to the ground. It's so frustrating, I can't play in my world anymore 😞

Steve Pluth 2017-02-28T17:04:15Z

I'm having this issue with carrots and bread. So many items are being thrown on ground around home the world is glitching and crashing.

JavaC0der 2017-02-28T17:08:05Z

ikr, super frustrating

PHO 2017-03-01T09:24:28Z

Yeah villagers duplicate items they pick up. Try giving 2 seeds to a farmer and see they plant 4.

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JavaC0der 2017-03-01T09:43:04Z

And I think they can't pick up what was thrown by other villagers either?

Klontola 2017-03-02T10:01:39Z

It's happen to me, they take my wooden sword after I drop it for my brother, they ran quickly and steal it 😞

Klontola 2017-03-02T10:06:38Z

@joäo they can pick up all item thrown by player or other villager

JavaC0der 2017-03-02T10:13:59Z

Oh, maybe they duplicated the bread so much that now their inventory is full, so they can't pick it up anymore, which is causing 0-1 fps on my world.

JavaC0der 2017-03-02T11:54:33Z

I think this might relate to MCPE-19832

SuperGeniusZeb 2017-03-03T00:23:50Z

@unknown, the picking-up-anything bug is reported separately as MCPE-20205.

Sean Stephens 2017-03-10T03:43:47Z

I can confirm this has happened to me as of the 1.0.411.0 update today on windows 10. It didn't just seem to be villagers dropping it though, it seemed to be spawning without villagers present, particularly at stone stairs and stone walls.
I was able to stand in one spot and collect hundreds of loaves of bread with no villagers present.

Possibly related, the children villagers were harvesting all farms, but no villagers would collect thrown seeds. In 10 minutes within a village I had a dozen new villager children as they bred like rabbits due to the wealth of food they had.

PHO 2017-03-10T12:18:14Z

Attached a test world.

Steps to reproduce:

Spawn some villagers in the village.
Give one of the villagers a stack of bread.
Observe that they start throwing breads at each other insanely, both the speed and the amount of breads they throw.

Spike Beer 2017-03-13T23:53:46Z

seen it also happening with carrots and potatoes. I believe the farms throw the crops/bread at other villagers to encourage breeding. The amount is so much other villagers inventories are full and can't pick it up. for me it started with carrots which is what the crop was to begin with. I replaced with potatoes and they started throwing potatoes. I penned up the farmer away from the crops and it stopped. let the farmer lose and it started again.

Elainedel 2017-03-14T03:09:01Z

This seems to happen to MCPE beta 1.0.5 as well. In one of my worlds, villagers are endlessly throwing bread at each other and there are lots of stacks of bread on the spot where the villagers are gathering. They don't leave that spot to go into houses even when it becomes nighttime, they just keep on throwing stacks of bread...

Morgwenna 2017-03-14T11:13:17Z

It seems it just gets into a loop. I had a group of three fletchers all passing carrots to one another without stopping.. 8 chests later and going into and then back out of creative to survival it finally stopped. I had to keep each villager in a single cell to stop it happening again.

Elainedel 2017-03-15T06:06:30Z

It still seems to happen in beta 1.0.5.3. However, unlike last time in the previous version, it now only happens to a specific pair of villagers in a village (last version all of the villagers were trying to throw and get bread). A farmer villager is still endlessly throwing bread at a cleric villager, and the cleric villager seems to try to pick it up but it seemed as if it couldn't since there's still bread all over the ground that keeps on increasing. However, the other villagers which are librarians, armorers and butchers seem to wander around the village. They don't even seem to try to pick up the bread whenever they pass by near the farmer villager or the bread entities.

SuperGeniusZeb 2017-03-15T18:02:44Z

@unknown, that doesn't sound like it relates to this issue (it sounds like something to do with MCPE-20156 and that the cleric might have a full inventory), and I can't reproduce the bug described in this ticket (villagers duping items) in 1.0.5.3, so I'm resolving this issue as fixed.

SuperGeniusZeb 2017-03-19T03:30:48Z

Wow, just realized I had put the wrong Steps to Reproduce in the description. I've removed it now. Sorry for any confusion I may have caused. :S

Marcel Dewith 2017-04-23T18:12:19Z

Didn't want to create another issue specifically for Realms but this is still an issue. Villagers still seem to duplicate bread when they have only farmed a little wheat. I made a farm where a farmer harvests wheat and throws it at another villager with a hopper in front of him: infinite bread! The villager only harvest 10-20 wheat pieces and now throws infinite stacks of bread into my hoppers.

How to reproduce:
1. Make a wheat farm with a farmer and another villager
2. Place a hopper in front of the non-farmer villager with a chest attached
3. Watch the farmer throw infinite stacks of bread at the other villager after having picked up a few pieces

I'm using Win 10 edition and noticed this issue in Realms world.

SuperGeniusZeb 2017-04-24T00:35:16Z

@unknown, that is a separate bug, and has been reported as MCPE-21324.