Iron golems not spawning

The 1.16.0.51 changelog clarifies the workststion requirement:

At least 75% of the villagers must have worked in the past day

This implies that if your villagers are not successfully linking to workstations, then you won’t get iron golem spawns.

The village at x=1370 y=71 z=138 had 6 Iron Golems until v1.16.0.51 Beta Update. It now has 2 Iron Golems. Based on the latest Iron Golem spawn rules fewer Iron Golems are being spawned, not "Increased": 

From the Beta Update website:

 ** Increased golem spawn rate and modified spawn rules (MCPE-47157)

•  At least 75% of the villagers must have worked in the past day

• Minimum 20 beds and every villager has a bed

• Only 1 golem will spawn for every 10 villagers

75% of the villagers must have worked in the past day which is not possible, because the villagers do not take jobs, see above screen shot.  There is a workstation and two villagers will not take it.

This is still an issue with Windows 10 PC v. 1.16.0.57 Beta. Villagers do not take jobs, so iron golems are not spawned.

I got this to be fixed with using these methods below. you need to make sure the villager is assigned a specific bed and role before you lock them into place. using this video i got iron golems to spawn .(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GSI-3BD7VQ&t=134s) dont know if you are allowed to comment with youtube videos

•  At least 75% of the villagers must have worked in the past day

• Minimum 20 beds and every villager has a bed

• Only 1 golem will spawn for every 10 villagers

@kyle fuss Posting a link to a YouTube video on the bug tracker is fine if it adds new information to the report. However, please read previous comments before commenting, because the information you provided has already been analyzed above.

The problem covered by this report is that MCPE-49580 blocks villagers from claiming workstations or seeing beds, and as result iron golems may not spawn in villages where they should spawn.

Hope this helps as these are my observations:

1) Villagers appear not to take trades   Solution: Give them a bed first and they take a trade/workstation

2) Sometimes a working iron farm (the new higher rates in betas are nice thank you) seems broken if you come to the farm via Nether Portal or by simply travelling there in Overworld. Solution: Close and re-open world where the iron farm is.  Appears a variable gets reset when you relog. This may also help people wandering into new large village where an iron golem should perhaps spawn because the spawning criteria is met (if golem is not spawned at world generation).

3) As noted by a gamer called "OldGuy" - he notes that certain trades do not work in the rain thus making your iron farm/village seem broken. Seems crazy that in RL fishermen work in winds/rain in the open ocean, farmers work in all weathers and librarians sit on their *** in the warmth of a library but still work even if its raining outside. Solution: None as yet but I'd have game designed so if worker is protected from the sky ( a roof e.g.) then rain doesn't affect, etc...

@Darren Westlake re (1) I believe villagers are not counted as being in the village until they claim a bed, so that makes sense.

re (2) one variable that resets on relog is the villager POI query queue, which is the subject of MCPE-49580. That definately impacts iron golem spawning as noted above.

re (3) that's seems like a key point I hope the devs consider.

You could request parity from 20W19A snapshot, 'Villagers can now spawn iron golems regardless of their profession status or latest working time'.

I'm presuming this is linked. Villagers are breeding despite sufficient lack of beds.
I have one bed..which is visibly linked to a farmer..observed sleep etc. 4 other villagers.
No other beds within distance to link to.
Villagers breeding.

I have the same problem since 1.16.0.61 and so far with new updates it has not solved, my farm has 80 villagers, 80 beds, 80 work tables and worked very well until the update that I talked about above, solve this soon because it is very frustrating

I built several variants of iron farms that have been known to work in previous version all to fail since around 1.16.0.61. I am now on 1.16.0.63 and the problem persists on Xbox One.

Those of you saying that your problem started with 1.16.0.61, could you check whether iron golems are actually not spawning, or whether they are despawning before they can be killed?

I watched for an hour last night from a spot right next to my latest iron farm. None spawned, but cats kept spawning.

The only Iron Golems I have seen in my survival game have been in villages where they already existed and once they are gone I never saw another one in that village. I have not tried creating any because of a lack of iron...

my case neither cats are emerging anymore:/

The Same is happening to me but on win 10

Could you please provide a copy of a test world where this is occurring?

• On Windows 10 you can use the Export world feature.

• On Android or iOS you need to use a file explorer to navigate to Device storage > games > com.mojang > minecraftWorlds

• On Xbox or Switch the only way is to upload it to a Realm, and then download the world on Windows 10 or Android/iOS. (Please do not purchase a Realms subscription just to provide a world to us - but if you have a Realm already this may be a viable option if you wish to do so.)

If the world is larger than 10MB you can upload the world to OneDrive or a similar file sharing site, and then share the link.

Still not working, since villagers are still not working.

Have the same issue, no Golems spawned at all even after playing for an hour 

Okay.Update
Survival world 55 beds 55 workstation freemovement to pathfind 200 blocks up yaxis not linked to any other village: killed all villagers not linked to bed and workstation.
Bred villagers. New villagers linked to beds but refusing to take any workstation at all when grown.
Testing World:
30 Beds.
4 villagers, 2 workstations.
Villagers spawned in by egg.
All 4 took up trades before any workstations placed. 2 workstations placed. Work taken up. Trading with 2 working.
No bread taken up by any of 4 villagers.
No breeding by any villagers over a period of 10 minecraft days.
Android latest Beta..latest Android.

@@unknown thank you for the update. There is another bug where after you kill a villager, another can link to its workstation without changing profession. This makes them unable to work or link to new workstations (unless you zombify and cure them). Take a look at the first 5 steps under MCPE-56889 (or this comment on MCPE-62080) and see if that applies to your survival world. If you break and replace the workstations after the villagers have grown up, they should link.

For your test world, it's normal for villagers spawned by spawn eggs to start with random professions. (If you think that's a problem, add a vote to MCPE-46034.) Villagers not picking up food is usually due to either their inventories being full, or mob griefing being turned off.

In update 1.16.0.67 the spawn of cats and iron golems does not work, just to keep informed that it has not yet returned to normal.

I just got updated to 1.16.0.68. I am going to carve out some time tonight to rebuild an Iron farm and see if it works in this version. I will report back tonight or tomorrow.

Okay...
Survival Y200
After a lot of killing villagers and moving things around I finally have: 47 beds, 47 villagers linked to beds and sleeping, 47 villagers linked to workstations and working.
They do switch both beds and work stations frequently but since my set up allows path finding, this is not an issue.
Test World:
31 Beds, 30 Spawned Villagers all linked to work stations. Simply cannot get them to breed! ( not in peaceful or creative mode.)

No Golems in Either.

@@unknown: Thanks for retesting. Since you say you can't get villagers to breed or iron golems to spawn in your test world, I wonder if you have "Mob Spawning" turned off? I've made that mistake trying to test villager issues.

I read somewhere they change spawn rates 1 golem for ever 10 villagers now

@@unknown 1 iron golem for every 10 villagers is a cap, not a rate. The cap has not changed. The rate is indeed increased in 1.16 compared to 1.14, but that is not relevant to this ticket. Please only comment new information about the issue described in the ticket.

@@unknown I only see 8 villagers in that picture. You need at least 10 to spawn an iron golem.

The iron golems you find in newly discovered outposts and villages are created as part of world generation and don't rely on the spawning rules.

Does anybody know if Iron Golems can't spawn is a peaceful, ancient type world?

@@unknown They should still spawn in peaceful and in old worlds as far as I know. For help try the Minecraft Discord or the MCPE Subreddit.

Survival:
If beds are floating, all bred villagers will unlink from beds and stop pathfinding. Slab under half bed resolves this.
Testing world:
Iron golems will spawn for egg spawned villagers.
Egg spawned villagers won't breed.
Cured Zombie Villagers not breeding and working at stations not allocated eg weaponsmith working at composter.
Testing continues...

@@unknown Villagers working at the wrong workstation is tracked at MCPE-56889. This is actually an important clue to what is happening in your test worlds, and possibly for other users who can’t get iron golems to spawn. When a villager that is linked to a workstation gets removed from a village (either by being killed or by being timed-out while in unloaded chunks) unemployed villagers will link to the newly available workstations incompletely. They do not change profession and do not work, but they tie up the workstation. If you have enough villagers like this it will prevent iron golems from spawning because of the new work requirement in 1.16.

MCPE-62080 is also related to this problem.

Edit: @@unknown also, why are you still on 1.16.0.68 beta? 1.16.0 release and 1.16.20.50 beta are available.

Golems were spawning perfectly in 1.16 then we had the update to 1.16.1 and things went mad from then on. Spawning started pefectly and then stopped. To check that I did not have a golem that had spawned elsewhere, I tested whether it was bed vs villager count getting confused. I killed off a lot of my villagers and let them breed and spawning then started immediately. However, I moved a bed and spawning stopped. Would a bug in the bed/villager count be causing the issue i.e. not updating properly because a bed move should not cause spawning to stop.

@@unknown All villagers in a village do need to be linked to beds in order for iron golems to spawn. Moving a bed should not stop spawning permanently in most cases, but there are some ways it could:

• If the new bed location is not detectable by any villager (not within 16 blocks horizontally and 4 blocks vertically), then no villager will be linked to it.

• If the new bed location causes the center of the village to shift, and there are no valid iron golem spawning spots around that center, then no golems will spawn.

These are both reasonable game mechanics so I don't think there is a bug with beds. There were no changes to iron golem spawning in 1.16.1, so I think the timing of your issue is just coincidence. However, there is a bug with workstation linking related to killing off villagers as I described in my previous comment. If you've experienced that you can reset the links by breaking and replacing workstations.

• • • edit - GoldenHelmet watched my video and told me about the villagers not working their job blocks because they were a block too high - 1 block above their heads.  I thought that was not an issue based on my previous build (https://youtu.be/8RPg6k6Uy-s), but he / she pointed out that in that build, I had them in minecarts on rails, so they were slightly elevated and that's probably why they were able to work.  I went back into my test world, moved the blocks down to head level, and they started working again.  ***

I have read the wiki.  Many times.  I'm still having problems.

I tried to build an iron golem farm in a single chunk.  It's a creative flat world, Bedrock, 1.16.1.  Daylight cycle and mob spawning are on, weather is off.   https://youtu.be/9ttB4T8GIXQ

It worked at first and I let it run for an hour.  These were all egg spawned villagers.  The beds are 'floating' and the villagers constantly link and de-link during the night, but the farm kept working.  During the day, they would go to their job site blocks, work, and golems kept spawning.  They were all working at the correct station - the one they had linked to originally as I placed them.

But when I came back after an hour, I noticed 2 problems.

1) Cats had spawned on the wall / edge even though I had slabs - I saw a cat on a block 'inside' a slab.  I hit it and knocked it into the water.  So I changed the slabs to carpet, and they spawned on that too.  So I changed them all to trap doors vertical.  I was worried about the corners being open on one side, so I tried a fence post.  I found one spawned on the outer corner of the block where the fence post was placed.

2) An iron golem had spawned on the 'villager level' I created.  I only had ~100 iron.  You can see in the video how many levels up, but I thought I had done it at the 4th level up i.e., one level above the top of the 16x6x16 spawn area.  I raised the villager 'floor' another level, killed the iron golem, and immediately a new one spawned inside the farm.  So, I thought things were fixed and good.  An hour later, I came back and tallied up the iron ~185, much better.  I left it running just in case, and about 5-10 minutes later my son comes running to me that an iron golem had spawned up on the villager level - that's basically 5 levels up (given where the beds are, the max should've been 3).  Again, in the video I note what I thought was the '6' vertical and how the iron golem has now spawned what I think is 2 above the top of that, given where the single layer of beds is.

I tried to raise the level again, but I had to break and replace job site blocks, so I probably ran into the problem of incomplete linking like GoldenHelmet mentions.  But, I did break and replace workstations and it was still broken.  I even spawned and linked 10 brand new villager and job sites and it remained broken.  Still, I would not have had a completely broken farm if the golems had not spawned at a higher level I didn't think they could spawn at.

I can't remember having this problem on a different design I made. Here's where I 'fix' it for 1.16 and it ran beautifully.  https://youtu.be/8RPg6k6Uy-s

But I don't know if that still works because on July 7 I spawned a Wither, totally the wrong way, without a backup save, and it destroyed that base.

Also, GoldenHelmet says a bed is detectable by a villager 4 blocks vertically.  My testing before building this farm indicates that villagers will detect a bed 4 levels up (the level they're standing on / feet + 3 more above that) and 5 levels down (the level they're standing / feet + 4 below that).

Thank you, I hope this helps, especially the video.

@@unknown The reason I added the note above about reading the wiki is that I had just updated the section on village iron golem spawning in Bedrock myself. Before last week it was incomplete and slightly inaccurate.

Iron Golems and cats do have different rules than other mobs about what blocks they can spawn on & in. For the golems at least, they can appear to spawn on non-full blocks like lower half-slabs or cauldrons if the block underneath is solid.

I did watch both of your videos and I think the issue with golems continuing to spawn with the villagers as you raised the upper floor level was due to the village center shifting to the position of one of the workstations. This may or may not have been due to the bed de-linking. The village center is the trickiest part of iron farms; it always starts as the head of the first bed placed, but it can shift based on where other POI (beds, workstations, and bells) are placed, and due to delinking. I believe it should be near the geometric center of the linked POI, but in my experience it does not change block-by-block, but rather it jumps erratically.

As for the vertical bed detection, it is a 32 x 8 x 32 cube, 4 down and up from the villager's feet. Your description is correct, you're just counting the block with the villager's feet twice. 😛

@GoldenHelmet Thank you for the excellent info.  So, I put the one-chunk on the back burner to see if I can solve the de-linking issues leading to a job site block becoming the center.  Silentwisperer just released a video of a trade hall that does an excellent job with water and keeping them in place - now I just need to translate that to an all-in-one iron farm / trade hall combo...  For now, I decided to go with my "old" design, ran it for ~4 hrs, then 3 hrs, bed linking and de-linking still happens, but the center has not shifted to a job site block (yet?).  So we'll see how that goes as I continue using that world for more video making.  If you're interested, I'll upload tomorrow and probably make it public that day or the next.  It'll be called "Done Right #2" and something about iron farm / mob farm / trade hall combo.  Basically, it just uses the entire 8x8 spawn area of the golem, adds that to a 5x5 bed setup of 20 beds, so every bed is 'safe'.  Thank you again, many times, for reviewing the videos and helping me learn more about the mechanics of Bedrock. 🙂

I am using one for the latest version it is just really slow, It works great in a flat world but in a normal world its slow for what ever reason.

@Disneykid93 Have you lit the caves and are within the spawn/despawn radius? The mob cap might be filled up, causing it not to work.

@@unknown lighting caves has nothing to do with iron golem spawning. That only applies to monsters spawning during the natural spawn cycle.

@[Helper] GoldenHelmet Doesn't the mob cap count towards iron golem spawning? I know they don't need light to spawn, but wouldn't too many hostile mobs prevent an iron golem from spawning?

@@unknown Monsters have their own population control caps of 8 surface and 8 cave. These also count toward the global cap of 200 mobs. But even the global mob cap only applies to the “natural”, regular spawning cycle. It does not prevents iron golem spawns, or cat spawns.

Oh, I understand now. But I cannot reproduce in 1.16. He must be using a flawed design to farm them as I am having them spawn every min for me.

Iron golem farm abruptly stopped working once the 1.16.20 patch hit our Bedrock Realms server. Destroying and replacing worksite blocks fixed the issue, golems started spawning again.

I can confirm what Larry M Barthel Said, none of my villages or my iron farm were spawning Iron Golems anymore. Go around and break ALL your villager worksite blocks and re-place them. Iron Golems immediately started spawning again! This happened right after the 1.16.20 patch, mildly annoying but it's an easy fix.

UPDATE: I THOUGHT this was a fix. Turns out it didn't do anything. It fixed my iron farm but my villages are not spawning golems. I've checked caves under ground, destroyed all the beds and worksite blocks and replaced, still no golems spawning. There are over 30 villagers and worksite blocks in the village, and a few less beds.

Somehow i cannot get this to work on 1.16.20 , i've made this ironfarm and placef 4 villagers and a zombie. 
the villagers dont get scared by the zombie although i have shut them off from sight for 1 night. 
i also broke all workingstations in the town nearby and re-placed them.
anything obvious that i forgot ?

<< Removed picture as it was really big and an answer was given >>

@@unknown please review the information linked in the description above. Your picture shows a Java Edition design. Zombies have nothing to do with iron golem spawning in Bedrock Edition.

I have Bedrock (XBox One) Minecraft and cannot get iron golems to spawn.

I have 20+ villagers all with beds and occupations. I have (at some point) traded with each one and their trades have refreshed each time they work so that is how I know they are linked to their workstations. All villagers also sleep every night.

I have attempted to break and recreate the workstations with no change in spawning of golems.

Thoughts?  Is this still being worked on? I am using version 1.16.4002.70.

I would like to add that I am using this (Youtube link) design on a realm, and it works quite reliably. Have not ever had to replace any workstations/beds/villagers since completion.

Resolving this report as Cannot Reproduce.

This report was originally created during the 1.16 betas after changes were made to iron golem spawning conditions. Once those changes were clarified, the report was kept open because another bug, MCPE-49580, could prevent the spawning conditions from being fulfilled. Another possible contributor preventing the spawning conditions from being fulfilled was also identified in the workstation linking issue behind MCPE-62080 and MCPE-56889, but that is minor in comparison. Now that MCPE-49580 is fixed, we have no reason to think any specific bug is preventing iron golem spawns.

Please keep in mind that the bug tracker is not designed to provide design advice or troubleshooting for builds. If you need help with an iron farm, you should visit the wiki pages linked in the workaround panel or reach out to the player community. Here is a link to the Minecraft Discord.

Not resolved as stated in my last update 4 days ago.
I have cats spawning all over the place but no golems.
Is there a way to confirm where the village center is? I have a bell but the notes clearly state that is not the center, just a meeting place. The villagers are free range and gather to discuss in a specific location every day before and after working, but is that classified as the center? All 25+ villagers have beds, all but 3 have occupations.

Guess I give up on Minecraft... everything I have done is not working.

Same as Gene above me, have tried everything, including linking up to a bell, adding/removing beds, re attaching to workstations and NADA. Tons of cats but j don't want a string farm.. my world is on bedrock realms of that helps. Am happy to share the world so you can see for yourself. 

I would be happy to examine a world save to see if there is some other issue going on.

I play on Xbox One using realms, is there any way of me getting the world file over to you? 

I don't know about getting the world file from the Xbox One, but you if you can download the realm world PC or Android or iOS device you can access the files. See https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/360035131551-Where-are-Minecraft-files-stored-