Villager AI (farming) broken
Farmers (and other brown-coated villagers) who were happily farming in 15w40 now stand around staring at ripe crops. They very occasionally remember how to break them, and then usually leave the drops on the ground to despawn and fail to replant.
The only time they seem to successfully do anything is when they "switch tasks" between farming and breeding attempts, farming and wandering, or farming and running for home at sunset. After one successful operation they get stuck again.
EDIT: Villagers who are pushed into the farm block can harvest/re-plant, so it appears to be an issue with the distance for walking to/from a crop and the distance for working on a crop/farmland block not matching up anymore.
Environment
Windows 8 64-bit
java version "1.8.0_51"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_51-b16)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 25.51-b03, mixed mode)
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Farmer villagers have forgotten how to farm
Farmers (and other brown-coated villagers) who were happily farming in 15w40 now stand around staring at ripe crops. They very occasionally remember how to break them, and then usually leave the drops on the ground to despawn and fail to replant.
The only time they seem to successfully do anything is when they "switch tasks" between farming and breeding attempts, farming and wandering, or farming and running for home at sunset. After one successful operation they get stuck again.
Environment
Windows 8 64-bit
java version "1.8.0_51"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_51-b16)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 25.51-b03, mixed mode)
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Farmers (and other brown-coated villagers) who were happily farming in 15w40 now stand around staring at ripe crops. They very occasionally remember how to break them, and then usually leave the drops on the ground to despawn and fail to replant.
The only time they seem to successfully do anything is when they "switch tasks" between farming and breeding attempts, farming and wandering, or farming and running for home at sunset. After one successful operation they get stuck again.
EDIT: Villagers who are pushed into the farm block can harvest/re-plant, so it appears to be an issue with the distance for walking to/from a crop and the distance for working on a crop/farmland block not matching up anymore.
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It appears that farmers are not "close enough" to the block of farmland they are targeting. If nudged forward a little bit, they will harvest/plant the block.
Confirmed for me. Both my automatic wheat and beetroot farms have stopped working. Every 2-3 minutes the villager finally decides to harvest/replant a patch or two. More often than not, he harvests and doesn't replant at all. He's just constantly looking down, doing nothing, as if totally depressed!
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Farmer villagers still harvest, but they don't pick up the items or replant. It seems that most of the mobs AI's are broken.
Maybe you should try putting pressure plates to detect when they harvest to trigger water that flows the crops into hoppers.
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You could change the title to something more accurate like "Villager harvesting AI partwise broken" or something similar
Still an issue in 15w42a
Still an issue in 15w43a
Still an issue in 15w43b / Confirmed
15w43c too
Confirmed for 15w43c.
In the attached screenshots you can see that the pathfinding of the villagers stops one block too early to plant, harvest, or go through doors.
I'd be willing to bet this is related, if not a duplicate, of
MC-89938.Linking as related.
Still in 15w44a.
Mine was ´duplicated´ of this one but my villagers wons do ANYTHING they will never pickup, never farm, they only walk on them.
(15w44b)
Franke van Zuilen: They're probably the same issue. If the fix for this bug doesn't fix your issue, please re-report.
Still in 15w44b, attached video
when the villager try to havest the crop , they can't havest the crop because they stand not close enough
to the crop , so they can't destroy the block .as the result, they keep staring at the without doing anything, after the player push them a little bit, they are close enough to destroy the crop and pick up them
Can confirm that the issue seems to be that Villagers don't stand close enough to e.g. the wheat (or the farmland that needs a seed).
You can see it demonstrated in Panda4994's snapshot test video of 15w44a:
Starting at https://youtu.be/vCtgyeaq_cA?t=2h31m31s for 2 minutes
May be AI pathfinding has issues?
Villagers error:
1. Unable to farming.
2. Unable to correctly open the door. (
MC-90397)3. Unable to escape the zombies. (
MC-91832)I think that it is just a universal pathfinding issue, hence my link to the bug with zombies path finding.
Is fixed in 15w45a
Confirmed fixed in 15w45a