New to the game and I have tired to do some research but I can’t figure out the problem. I have built walls to keep stuff out. Made sure everything was lite up including roofs. I made iron golems. I had even started a survival in peaceful mode. It seems after a few days I have fewer and fewer villagers until none remain. Any advice?
New to the game and I have tired to do some research but I can’t figure out the problem. I have built walls to keep stuff out. Made sure everything was lite up including roofs. I made iron golems. I had even started a survival in peaceful mode. It seems after a few days I have fewer and fewer villagers until none remain. Any advice?
Villagers don't just despawn like hostile mobs do, the only way you lose villagers is via world corruption (basiclaly, the world doesn't save that chunk properly and the last save state gets loaded instead), villagers glitching through blocks and running around in the wild (where they eventually die), or gradually taking damage until one day that half-heart fall finally kills them.
Check for holes, check for dark spots, check for drops greater than 3 blocks. If all of these things are proper, you are looking either at world corruption OR a zombie siege/pillager raid situation.
I have never had the luck of finding a village that was so flat and compact (and therefore easy to defend) as yours! Your village looks really well-secured, so assuming there aren't any hidden holes for the villagers to fall into and assuming you don't go afk while in the village (leaving your villagers to the danger of being killed in a zombie siege or a pillager attack), I suspect a bug. You might try moving beds away from walls and making sure there is enough headroom so that villagers don't glitch into a wall or ceiling when they wake up. If you explore caves or if you tunnel underneath the village during the night, it might be possible for you to attract a siege without realizing it. I am always afraid of that happening in my villages, so I try to sleep every few minutes while underground. I don't know how deep I have to be for my presence in the village not to register, so I may be just over-cautious. Make sure you have enough beds and that your villagers have farms and farmers so they have enough to eat and can breed.
If you have cheats turned on, you might want to temporarily switch to creative mode and spawn in some new villagers to experiment with. I would consider that to be a scientific experiment and not cheating in this circumstance.
If you find out why your villagers have been disappearing, I hope you will post the reason. Good luck!
I'd think you would have noticed by now if they were being killed by zombies but it really doesn't look to me as if there are enough torches to light everything up properly.
New to the game and I have tired to do some research but I can’t figure out the problem. I have built walls to keep stuff out. Made sure everything was lite up including roofs. I made iron golems. I had even started a survival in peaceful mode. It seems after a few days I have fewer and fewer villagers until none remain. Any advice?
Since my first answer to this thread I have had the same problem with my newest village. The village had started to thrive and the villagers were breeding babies. Then all of a sudden I discovered that several villagers were missing, leaving only two farmers and a cleric.
My advice after this experience is to check your fortifications. Sometimes mobs can't get in, but villagers can get out. If you mistakenly leave a block adjacent (even diagonally adjacent) to a fence, villagers can "escape". I assume that is what happened to me. Another possible escape route is a door in tall fortifications. Villagers just open the door and leave the village. If you must have a door, secure the exit with an additional gate as well to keep villagers in.
Today I found one of my villagers outside of the village and across the river from it. I tried to get him to move back in the direction of the village, but he kept going farther and farther away. Finally I pushed him into a boat and slid down the hill and into the river to get nearer to the village. Even when he got on land, it was hard to get him to take a step in the direction of the village. So I ended up rowing on land as near as I could go and building an extension of the village fence around the boat. I had to build a staircase up the side of a hill, too. Finally the villager was back home, but it cost me around an hour of my life. I believe my other missing villagers also ran away from home, but they weren't so lucky to be rescued.
New to the game and I have tired to do some research but I can’t figure out the problem. I have built walls to keep stuff out. Made sure everything was lite up including roofs. I made iron golems. I had even started a survival in peaceful mode. It seems after a few days I have fewer and fewer villagers until none remain. Any advice?
maybe pictures will help lol
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Villagers don't just despawn like hostile mobs do, the only way you lose villagers is via world corruption (basiclaly, the world doesn't save that chunk properly and the last save state gets loaded instead), villagers glitching through blocks and running around in the wild (where they eventually die), or gradually taking damage until one day that half-heart fall finally kills them.
Check for holes, check for dark spots, check for drops greater than 3 blocks. If all of these things are proper, you are looking either at world corruption OR a zombie siege/pillager raid situation.
I have never had the luck of finding a village that was so flat and compact (and therefore easy to defend) as yours! Your village looks really well-secured, so assuming there aren't any hidden holes for the villagers to fall into and assuming you don't go afk while in the village (leaving your villagers to the danger of being killed in a zombie siege or a pillager attack), I suspect a bug. You might try moving beds away from walls and making sure there is enough headroom so that villagers don't glitch into a wall or ceiling when they wake up. If you explore caves or if you tunnel underneath the village during the night, it might be possible for you to attract a siege without realizing it. I am always afraid of that happening in my villages, so I try to sleep every few minutes while underground. I don't know how deep I have to be for my presence in the village not to register, so I may be just over-cautious. Make sure you have enough beds and that your villagers have farms and farmers so they have enough to eat and can breed.
If you have cheats turned on, you might want to temporarily switch to creative mode and spawn in some new villagers to experiment with. I would consider that to be a scientific experiment and not cheating in this circumstance.
If you find out why your villagers have been disappearing, I hope you will post the reason. Good luck!
I'd think you would have noticed by now if they were being killed by zombies but it really doesn't look to me as if there are enough torches to light everything up properly.
Just testing.
does your wall block spiders from climbing it?
Spiders won't attack villagers, just players.
As far as the villagers are concerned you only have to worry about zombies, drowned and pillagers.
(Unless they get in the way of something attacking you.)
Just testing.
Since my first answer to this thread I have had the same problem with my newest village. The village had started to thrive and the villagers were breeding babies. Then all of a sudden I discovered that several villagers were missing, leaving only two farmers and a cleric.
My advice after this experience is to check your fortifications. Sometimes mobs can't get in, but villagers can get out. If you mistakenly leave a block adjacent (even diagonally adjacent) to a fence, villagers can "escape". I assume that is what happened to me. Another possible escape route is a door in tall fortifications. Villagers just open the door and leave the village. If you must have a door, secure the exit with an additional gate as well to keep villagers in.
Today I found one of my villagers outside of the village and across the river from it. I tried to get him to move back in the direction of the village, but he kept going farther and farther away. Finally I pushed him into a boat and slid down the hill and into the river to get nearer to the village. Even when he got on land, it was hard to get him to take a step in the direction of the village. So I ended up rowing on land as near as I could go and building an extension of the village fence around the boat. I had to build a staircase up the side of a hill, too. Finally the villager was back home, but it cost me around an hour of my life. I believe my other missing villagers also ran away from home, but they weren't so lucky to be rescued.