I just ran into the same problem. This happen in 1.24.124. and looking at all of the comments going back for around 4 years I'm a little disappointed that this issue hasn’t been fixed yet. We are talking back to 1.19 version.
I had a cleric that I traded with around 2-3 hundred blocks away from my villager trading hall. I locked him in and even got him to the next level. I went down to a mob spawner to get some levels and went to see if he had refreshed his trades because I sold him a bunch of zombie flesh, and then had a fisher man instead. In the trading hall I didn’t give them beds, (I was testing to see if they needed to be linked to a bed to refresh the trades). I do have a mending villager who hasn’t changed jobs , and he has been in the hall for a while. Before i had the hall built he stayed in a little cube for a while with is job station and a bed. I’m going to be testing if its something to do with other workstations around him or if its because the wasn’t linked to a bed after the day cycle came. I’m not sure if its just a glitch because he couldn’t sleep the first night that he was a cleric or if there’s too many barrels around i have been using a good amount of barrels in my builds but I’m hoping it was just a one time thing and not a world issue, I have used around 64 barrels as decoration around my medieval village and I'm not going to try to find the one he is linked too.
He might just end up as bait or a farm if he keeps this up.
I will do some testing and send another comment if I get a solution.
I will add that I did change it to peaceful when I was getting to his spot in the hall. Then i changed it back to hard when i was going to go use the mob grinder.
Isaac Ahrens
I just ran into the same problem. This happen in 1.24.124. and looking at all of the comments going back for around 4 years I'm a little disappointed that this issue hasn’t been fixed yet. We are talking back to 1.19 version.
I had a cleric that I traded with around 2-3 hundred blocks away from my villager trading hall. I locked him in and even got him to the next level. I went down to a mob spawner to get some levels and went to see if he had refreshed his trades because I sold him a bunch of zombie flesh, and then had a fisher man instead. In the trading hall I didn’t give them beds, (I was testing to see if they needed to be linked to a bed to refresh the trades). I do have a mending villager who hasn’t changed jobs , and he has been in the hall for a while. Before i had the hall built he stayed in a little cube for a while with is job station and a bed. I’m going to be testing if its something to do with other workstations around him or if its because the wasn’t linked to a bed after the day cycle came. I’m not sure if its just a glitch because he couldn’t sleep the first night that he was a cleric or if there’s too many barrels around i have been using a good amount of barrels in my builds but I’m hoping it was just a one time thing and not a world issue, I have used around 64 barrels as decoration around my medieval village and I'm not going to try to find the one he is linked too.
He might just end up as bait or a farm if he keeps this up.
I will do some testing and send another comment if I get a solution.
I will add that I did change it to peaceful when I was getting to his spot in the hall. Then i changed it back to hard when i was going to go use the mob grinder.
-McCreamy6105 12/1/2025