Steve West

I recreated the world using the same seed, transplanted my -3 -1 region file and then walked to the tower. That worked. The modified tower structure is present and the backup is only ~60MB instead of ~600. This is now 1.21.5. The problem is still present. I observed exactly one instance of a pillager setting off a pressure plate at the bottom of the pit with a number of others falling in and not setting them of.

Do you also need the level.dat file?

Sorry, how do I do that? I can give you the world backup, but it’s 600MB. I don’t know how to extract just the tower structure. I can give you the .mca file the tower is located in. That’s only 9MB. Is that sufficient?

Finally, here is an occasion when it worked as expected. The pillager fell in, the pressure plate activated, and the piston caused the note block to play.

Here is the view with the debugging information turned on.

Here is the view from the top with a pillager having just hit the bottom and died.

Yes, nothing has been done to affect their spawn rate. They spawn, come to the tower any typically fall into the trench one at a time, occasionally two or three at a time. They drop only the ordinary and expected loot.

I have not experimented with other kinds of mobs falling into the trench.

Here is a view from the top looking down into the trench with a pillager in the process of falling in. When he hits the pressure plates at the bottom he visibly dies and despawns but the pressure plate usually does not activate. They activate perhaps 5% of the time when pillagers fall on them. When I jump into the trench, they always activate, and I presume this is because the height is not fatal to me.

OK, the correction here is that Minecraft works fine (on locally created worlds or on the home Bedrock server) when I sign out of my Microsoft account but as soon as I sign in to my Microsoft Account, the App freezes completely. Not always straight away but within a fairly short space of time.

Actually this only partly works. We use our own Bedrock server (running on Linux at home). I did the above but after about 30secs of playing on the server Minecraft freezes again (completely).