Amy H

Jay Sirrom, I've become aware of that 12% each use while searching for this thread.

However, having such a streak of "Bad Luck" between multiple users with new Anvils Back to Back since the update—it's more than just the Odds playing against you.

I've never had such a bad string of luck in Minecraft or any game minus my own user errors. It's especially troublesome when Anvils are expensive and/or in newly Opened Worlds.

And well, let's face it, Iron Farms in Bedrock are...."meh" at best.

Made Two Anvils on vanilla Realms Bedrock. First one was used a Max of Three times with two name tags and a Applying Mending to a Silk Touch tool. Made a Second one, 1 use, a Mending book to a Fortune tool

Let me add to this in a significant way. I, like Victor Adkins here, moved villagers over 100 blocks away, Librarians in this case. One at a time, wait out the librarian(Sitting in a boat) breaks connection to single workstation and renew trade options until a desired book trade appears(green particles and everything over Villager and workstation)  I paper trade until he locks up and confine him to his 2x3 cubby with assigned bed and workstation, Rinse and Repeat, perma lock him in. I add in Villager 4 lock him in—and everyone Switches workstations to a workstation in another cubbyhole. In this Case Villager 1 seems to want either Villager 4's station, 4 want's V3's, V3 takes V2's and V2 to V1.

I have Noted that this seems to occur when you get more than 3 villagers in an Area, and or, finally getting a Mending Villager screws everything up. Can't break the workstations either and try to Reset which station a villager claims, because as a Villager you have traded with and started unlocking won't lock into a workstation again, making it impossible to even really make a workable trading system.

Makes me miss the Old Villagers. These new ones either don't stay locked to an accessible station or run refusing to take a job—(Regular unemployed Villagers, not Nitwits)

The Villager Trades changes whenever you go into the nether as well, but not when you unload the chunks, in Creative and Survival. Also applies to Regular Play in addition to Experimental.