This is the exact scenario I am trying to do. I have an underground village and if I spawn villagers with a monster egg, they stay there just fine. If I cure a zombie villager and put it there, they eventually vanish. I feel they're being treated by the game like hostile mobs rather than an ordinary villager. Such a waste of golden apples and splash potions 😞
Can also ocnfirm this, my minecraft is fully up to date and it's hard to keep wolves. They also seem to still attack when in this aggressive state, even if they are sitting.
I've not tried breeding them but cured villagers also despawn for me. I also feel like they are treated like zombies by the world and despawn in time even though they are cured.
I am having this problem too, I do agree that it feels like even though they are cured they are still being treated like dangerous mobs by the world and despawning after a while. Hope it gets fixed soon, I like curing them and adding them to my village
Hi Nathan,
Those are interestng points and tips, thanks for sharing!
To clear up the confusion on my 'spawn eggs' comment, I went creative to use the spawn eggs after I realised my cured-villagers were vanishing to see if it was just them or villagers in general. Testing purposes there.
The zombie villagers I had cured were a mix of zombie-spawner created and just plain natural spawned on the surface at night time. I have a little sealed-off 'house' near the zombie spawner where I put cured villagers in that came out of the spawner and I also had a big underground village up nearer the surface where I'd lead cured-villagers to that were just spawned at night time by the game. It was when I noticed those surface ones vanishing that I noticed the ones in the house near the zombie-spawner also vanished. There's a few golems in with the big village when I was trying to figure out what was going on.
Before I moved the 'surface spawned' ones in to the big underground village they were in a little house near my home and they actually stayed there for days before they mysteriously vanished, that's when I began noticing something was a little odd with the cured zombies and started paying more attention and trying out little tests.
I will certainly try messing with them during change and I'll see how that works out and comment saying how it goes. Though no zombie villager that is going through the curing process has ever been aggressive towards me, though I have not struck them or anything to provoke them.