I Have a basic villager farm for breeding set up. I have 4 brown coat villagers that do the breeding and one villager with the doors under them about 7 blocks deep (basic villager breeder) Before updating to 1.2.1 they would breed like crazy until they were out of food. Now they seemed to have stopped wanting to breed and stand in a group throwing food back and forth to one another endlessly.
No other doors are in the area and the baby villagers are moved over 100 blocks through a water channel away. I have broken the doors for the breeder and placed them back down and I have traded with them and thrown stacks of food at them till they cant pick up anymore. I went into creative to see if I could recreate the problem but they seem to breed with no issue. I'm at a loss as to why they all of a sudden don't want to breed. Just want to add that they were villagers that I removed from a village near by so they spawned with the world and weren't spawned using eggs. I play on hard survival and never been on creative.
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Same server as Robin... To "fix" this, I slaughtered all the villagers, broke all the doors, then I replaced the villagers first making certain I had four brown-coats this time, then replaced the doors. They are breeding now. This situation started when we lost the only farmer we had, and we tried to "fix" this. In the future we'll not worry about a farmer, just get more breeding pairs and feed them externally. This appears to be a horribly elusive bug that will be a pain to attempt to replicate. 😞
Oh yeah, Realms server
Ugh... we have a villager mall, we thought the mall was unloaded, as well as a villager pen some distance out will definitely be unloaded. The question is if even unloaded villagers count towards the cap of ... 50? The only way we can be sure is killing off ALL known villagers, and we are simply not going to do that. We'll count this as a bug issue until we have clarification.
EDIT: I am working off a copy of the backup. I removed the ticking area and the villager breeder is plenty far enough away from the villager mall. I'm hanging out waiting to see if the new set of villagers will resume breeding. The new set did spawn one baby among four breeders, then stopped. After waiting for potatoes to despawn, I'll then start slaughtering all known villagers in the unloaded chunks to see if this will trigger villager breeding again.
Do you have any villages close to you farm? You should be about 250 blocks away from a village to make an efficient village breeder. Also make sure you have no doors within your render distance or that can mess up your farm. I have an efficient villager breeder and it works fine for me because I followed these steps. You try doing this and check back in if you have success..
Sorry, work commitments. I have a copy of the backup of the Realms server. I've slaughtered all villagers outside of the breeder. This includes our Villager Mall and known villages on the entire server. Within the breeder, they are currently throwing bread around, but the farmers are not picking up potatoes. No love hearts, no babies. GruvaGuy appears aware of "villager spawning weirdness", and I've asked him to apply his testing methods so we can iron out this issue. Freakin' Bedrock villagers.
I've been playing with the Snapshot. When I last checked, I had lost 3 of 5 adult villagers "somehow" from https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCPE-21416, then it looks like the two villagers remaining had 3 babies. I'll keep an eye on it, but at this point my wife is mad as hell about the "Buggy Together" update and we are taking a break from Bedrock to deal with the buggy snapshot (also having villager issues) instead. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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We are having the same issue. Our farmer stopped farming, and no amount of food seems to affect them. Eventually they begin throwing food around but not breeding. We are in a 1.2.10 bedrock realm. The breeder was working as designed until today.