After the 1.13 update, I noticed that one or two of my max villagers were no longer present.
A few more hours in the world, and I return to base to discover only 2 of my 8 max villagers remained, and the village has a head count of about 40
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We're actually already tracking this issue at MCPE-21416, so I will resolve and link this ticket as a duplicate.
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