[MCPE-47012] Iron Golems in villages will keep attacking players over and over after they kill them

Okay, I've loaded up a world, found a village, tried to attack a Villager, and an Iron Golem tried ot kill me. Thats how it should be. But, after it kills me, it still tries to attack me over and over! This bug was fixed in an older version, but added back in this version! Please fix this and do make sure these old bugs don't get added back in this version! I think you should test these versions more carefully to make sure these bugs don't get added!

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BDS-8292 Iron Golems are hostile after I've been killed Resolved

BDS-8950 Iron golems wont stop attacking me Resolved

BDS-11804 Iron golems spawning agro Resolved

BDS-14076 Iron golems won't deaggro even after player death. Resolved

MCPE-45406 After angering Iron Golems through upsetting villagers, they won't stop attacking even after the player has improved the villager happiness level Resolved

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MCPE-47622 Mobs continue to target player after switching to peaceful Resolved

Comments 20

DrageonDB 2019-06-02T03:50:31Z

Iron Golems in villages will keep attacking players over and over after they kill them

Same from Android. I am tested from world "test" to kill villager in survival, becames adding bug can't be saved and back previously world before kill.

Alan Burtner 2019-06-09T18:44:54Z

Affects version 1.12.0.10

Troy Saunders 2019-09-18T13:41:13Z

Same issue for me as well in my son's Realm. I have traded with villagers and had defended the village from two sets of Pillager raids. Regardless, naturally spawning Golems still attack me. Of interest they are not attacking other players in the Realm. This did start when I inadvertently killed a few villagers with a bad lava placement.

John Benjamin Alvarado 2019-11-10T06:00:10Z

I have the same issue. Bedrock realms.

Had village, and natural iron golems.. no problem.

Killed some villagers, and now iron golems (except player created ones) do NOT stop attacking me asap.

Traded with villagers, and don't have any cost penalty. Defended several raids.

None of this has fixed the issue.

Anonymous_46YT 2019-12-22T07:04:43Z

I can confirm that this is a bug. it has been affecting me since 1.13. I live in a village so I have to make sure iron golems can't spawn and kill me. I have tried everything and it is still happing in 1.14.1 on windows 10. btw it is on my brother's realm.

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Jerry Doherty 2020-01-11T18:30:58Z

I've noticed that quitting the game and reentering resolves the problem; the Iron Golem does not stay focused on killing the player when she returns. iOS v1.14.1 (and several versions previous to that)

GoldenHelmet 2020-04-13T22:24:56Z

Did some testing and this is what I found:

If your popularity in a village is low enough (from hitting or killing villagers or iron golems), its iron golems remain hostile even after they kill you or you relog.
Iron golems will not begin to target you in peaceful mode.
If an iron golem has already targeted you and then you switch to peaceful mode, it will continue to target and attack you.
Iron golem attacks do not harm you in peaceful mode, but you can take fall damage if they launch you in the air.

Of the above, only (3) seems like a bug.

kiizde 2020-05-15T16:14:57Z

Iron Golem keep attacking the Player due to his bad reputation.

[Mojang] Mega_Spud (Jay) 2020-05-15T16:16:04Z

Thank you for your report!
However, this issue has been closed as Working as Intended.

See also MC-153921.

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[Mojang] Mega_Spud (Jay) 2020-06-01T13:30:39Z

Reopening for review, as it seems that the Iron Golem is able to knock the player into the air in Bedrock, which doesn't happen in the Java Edition.

Kira Wright 2020-06-07T22:28:29Z

I am having the same problem as John Benjamin Alvarado.

I killed a bunch of villagers in a village and then the golems got angry. No big deal, I just need to trade the last slot and defend the village from raids to get my rating back up right?

Well I did 2 max level raids, and traded the last slot on several villagers for a couple hours, and the golems that spawned were still angry at me. I even let them kill me to see if that would reset their aggro.

As for the helper comment,

If your popularity in a village is low enough (from hitting or killing villagers or iron golems), its iron golems remain hostile even after they kill you or you relog.

They should not remain hostile after hours of trading the last slot, upgrading villager mastery, and defending from raids. All those things are supposed to raise your score with the villagers.

From the bedrock wiki:

Action	Popularity Change
Hero of the Village	+10
Upgrading a villager to Expert/Master	+4
Upgrading a villager to Journeyman	+3
Upgrading a villager to Apprentice	+2
Trading with a villager for the last offer slot on their list	+1
Attacking a villager	−1
Killing a villager	−2
Attacking a villager child	−3
Killing a villager child	−5
Killing a village's iron golem	−10

You need a score of -15 for golems to aggro. I think after hours of trading with multiple villagers for their last trade slot, even if I was starting from the maximum -30, I would at least be at -14? Or even completing two raids and getting hero of the village twice?

GoldenHelmet 2020-06-10T05:54:13Z

@unknown's comment above moved me to thoroughly test popularity changes for myself. I'm sorry to report that the chart of popularity-changing actions she has grabbed from the wiki does not match Bedrock behavior. Here's what I found in 1.14.60, with differences from the wiki chart in bold:

Action	Popularity Change
Adding a villager to the village	+5
Hero of the Village	0
Upgrading a villager to Expert/Master	0
Upgrading a villager to Journeyman	0
Upgrading a villager to Apprentice	0
Trading with a villager for the last offer slot on their list	0
Attacking a villager	−1
Killing a villager	−2
Attacking a villager child	−3
Killing a villager child	−2
Killing a village's iron golem	0

Notes:

If the wiki chart is accurate to Java Edition, then there is a huge parity break here.
The only way to increase popularity in Bedrock is into increase population. This can be by having a baby born, curing a zombie villager, spawning a villager with commands, or bringing in a villager from another village–each of these gives popularity the same boost.

GoldenHelmet 2020-06-26T16:19:15Z

Some changes have been made in 1.16 to make Bedrock closer to Java, but there are still significant differences. Here are the results of my testing in 1.16, with differences from the wiki/Java chart in bold and changes from 1.14.60 in italics:

Action	Popularity Change
Curing a zombie villager	+10
Villager discovers a village for the first time¹	+5
Hero of the Village	0
Upgrading a villager to Expert/Master	1
Upgrading a villager to Journeyman	1
Upgrading a villager to Apprentice	1
*Spending time in a village*²	1
Trading with a villager for the last offer slot on their list	0
Attacking a villager	−1
Killing a villager	−2
Attacking a villager child	−3
Killing a villager child	−2
Killing a village's iron golem	-5

¹ I probably misinterpreted this in my 1.14.60 findings shown in my previous comment. I thought that popularity was increasing any time a villager joined a village. With more extensive testing in 1.16 I've found that each villager will only grant this increase once. So, bringing villagers from one village to another does not increase popularty. Spawning them or having them born in a village increases popularity. This does not stack with the popularity increase for curing a zombie villager.
² Does not increase popularity above 0. I'm not sure of the amount of time needed for each increase, but it seems to be a few minutes.

Benjamin Boer 2020-07-06T22:59:00Z

I was very frustrated and realized if there were no beds the iron golems would not spawn. I removed the beds, killed the golems, and replaced the beds. The golems no longer had aggro towards me.

Tyler Warren 2020-07-23T12:47:44Z

I've seen that in my particular world that the iron golems don't lose sight of me even if I travel hundreds of blocks away from the village

user-189af 2020-08-12T12:02:51Z

They also gain infinite detection range, chased me through unloaded chunks and never forgave me.

L. Barrow 2020-09-06T17:46:49Z

This is a really horrible bug. Ive got a fairly large village, and I had the golems get angry at me for punching a villager. I killed the golems but the new ones that spawned were automatically hostile towards me. There is no way to get out of this loop. I tried trading. I tried letting the golems kill me. This really needs to be fixed right away. It is very frustrating and makes it impossible to enjoy the game...PLEASE mojang , the simplest fix would be that when you die, your reputation goes back to zero and the golems are no longer mad at you. Please fix this, it is ruining my game.

FallCheetah7373 2020-09-22T06:08:31Z

This should be marked as WAI as this was added as a parity feature.

Dakota Kirk 2021-09-18T16:22:14Z

This is not fixed, at least on realms. Me and my friend set up a trading hall and golems started spawning. My friend accidentally hit a villager and then a while later golems started spawning. He hadn’t done anything after spawns, but very golem, even after he was already killed, was attacking him.

GoldenHelmet 2021-09-20T21:40:55Z

As long as a player continues to kill iron golems, their reputation in the village will remain low and new golems will automatically see them as an enemy. Instead of killing golems you can leash them to a fence post. Eventually they will stop spawning and the player’s reputation will rise to neutral. You can raise your reputation faster by leveling up villagers or breeding them, or by curing zombie villagers within the village.

If you think there is a bug with reputation not rising, please make a new report with detailed steps to reproduce.