Djinnistorm
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While interesting, the reason this ticket was made was because players were having villagers they had put time and resources into disappear, such as enchanters who gained valuable enchants or toolsmiths with diamond pickaxes, not novices.
For the record, the disappearances in my server's world are not nether related. The first reported disappearances were before nether portals were opened, and even after they were the portals were not villager accessible.
Oddly enough, I have not gotten any reports of villagers disappearing recently. The players in charge of the closest major village recently completed some sort of "Villager Mall" where the villager's movements are strictly controlled, and since then there have been 0 disappearances. It's been a few days even. The villagers in this setup are either trapped next to their work block, or trapped in a specific square area. Their beds are nearby, but not accessible. Maybe the disappearances are sleeping related? Or maybe they just occurred when wandering the village? The village was fenced in and well lit, with plenty of golems, so I doubt they died.
EDIT: Also confirming that this village in particular is very close to the world spawn point, but one user in particular lived pretty far off and still had issues, like...1000 blocks away in the X direction alone.
EDIT2: I meant the villagers sleeping, not a player. I have no evidence of relation though, just the circumstantial "my players' villagers aren't currently sleeping and also aren't disappearing."
@violine1101 sure. here is a dropbox to my world since it is larger than the 10mb limit: https://www.dropbox.com/s/z3f10h2ps9fen74/world.zip?dl=0
As stated, the problem has been occurring since the beginning, noticed mostly at the village that's right near the world's spawnpoint. Most noticeable disappearances were the librarian with mending and the toolsmith with silktouch diamond pickaxes. I can confirm both of them existed, and now cannot be located. Meanwhile, the only cartographer in the town has seemingly been there since the very beginning and not disappeared.
The missing villagers seem to be completely gone since other villagers are taking their beds and worktables, but I can't say much more than that. Let me know if I can assist further.
My players seem to believe triggering a night to day switch using beds on the multiplayer server has caused the issue in the past, but I can't confirm this since in their large spread out villages it's hard to keep tabs on each villager. The bug is mostly noticed when an important villager disappears. A player on my server spent a very large amount of time and effort getting a librarian with mending, so when the guy was nowhere to be found yesterday that's how we knew the bug was still occurring (beyond that message in the logs, which appears plenty). Sorry I can't be more helpful, and let me know if there is something I can try to assist further.
@violine1101 I have not received reports about any disappearance beyond villagers, and I have not noticed any cows or chickens disappearing, but it may be hard to notice other entities that are collected in large numbers like livestock disappearing. None of my players have armor stands to my knowledge. Let me know how else I can assist.
To be clear, neither of the triggers mentioned by H B were observed to be causes way back when I observed this problem. No player ever was observing a villager and witnessed it ceasing to be. Your issue may be unrelated.