I have a habit of building my house in villages and every world I've done this in (5 separate worlds with many more villages in the past couple weeks) this has happened. It doesn't matter if I'm near the village or so far that the chunk is unloaded, it doesn't matter if I sleep or not, every villager and every golem as well will despawn after about a week or two in-game. There used to be a way to get them back that I did where I unloaded the chunk and then came back but that no longer seems to work.
Daniel Mortenson
I have a habit of building my house in villages and every world I've done this in (5 separate worlds with many more villages in the past couple weeks) this has happened. It doesn't matter if I'm near the village or so far that the chunk is unloaded, it doesn't matter if I sleep or not, every villager and every golem as well will despawn after about a week or two in-game. There used to be a way to get them back that I did where I unloaded the chunk and then came back but that no longer seems to work.