edit: okay so the following is still happening... but villagers with beds in two block high ceilings suffocating... this has started to happen again too... alot. im pretty sure it was fixed in 1.11.2... added a pic. its clearly resurfaced in 1.11.4 somehow.
villagers disappear for no apparent reason and it can happen when i just look away...
for example, i was watching my auto farm cycle. the villager then started planting. so i turned around to check the timers... i was less than 50 blocks away for only a few seconds. when i go back to check on him, hes gone... didnt even finish planting.
that was in a flat world with mob spawn turned off... it had been happening before, but i didnt realise they were literaly poofing as soon as i turned my back. the only reason i immediately noticed this time was because he was the only mob in the whole world...
edit: still happening as of 1.11.4 and its still confounding. really wish i had some more to add : /
adding a pic of the 12 man golem farm i was running. even had a escapee catcher and farm land to compensate for the despawning... geuss it couldnt keep up.
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I can confirm this too. I have created my own village with a complete set of villager professions; and whenever I am not in the vicinity for awhile, villagers would despawn. I know that mobs tend to despawn along chunk borders when a game crashes but these didnt happen during a crash. At first, 1-2 villagers disappeared, but recently, out of the 15 villagers I had, 10 had completely disappeared all at once after not being in the area for just 1 day! Name tagging them does nothing to prevent this and they all have high XP level badges. So frustrating! Im playing on IOS.
Please fix this!!!! It seems once I level them up to Journeyman or past that they start to disappear.
I can confirm. I witnessed a villager standing on a bed in a two-block-high room suffocate because his head was buried in the ceiling. I couldn't break the bed in time to save him. Note that the player cannot jump onto such a bed - why can a villager?
Villagers don't seem to have a very strong sense of self-preservation - they will gladly wander off 3+ block high cliffs and take falling damage.
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I have the same problem. It seems that if you wander too far from a village they despawn.