MCPE-47166Farmers refusing to harvest crops but their inventory is clearly not full
I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? The villagers not harvesting crops! How to reproduce? Good question, I think you will need a bunch of farmers to see if any of them will refuse to harvest crops.
(Note: Mob Griefing is ON!)
If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download and I will give you the link, The coords to the village are in the screen during the video)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the videos for some reason)
New:
I have done some experiments, Take a look at results:
1-Farmers DO re-plant, They dont just harvest them just as you can see here: Image
(That is way more grown than one of the images below)
2-If I clone the world in creative mode they work normally (?!?!?!?!)
Image of the villagers from a good distance
This issue was fixed for Java Edition in Snapshot 19w12a MC-145857
[MCPE Mod] Auldrick
The problem is that farmers who have 3 or more bread in their inventory will not harvest crops. They also will not share bread with another villager unless they have at least 6 (that's by design), so there's no way to reduce their bread enough to get them harvesting again.
Steps to reproduce:
- Open the attached world
MCPE-47166Harvesting demo.mcworld. This is a flat world with 2 villagers, a farmer and a butcher. The butcher's inventory is empty. The farmer has 4 bread but is otherwise empty. The world has 8 crops, 2 each of beetroot, carrots, potatoes, and wheat. The daylight cycle is disabled and the time is 5000. - Set the random tick speed to 100, or just wait for the crops to mature. Notice that the farmer wanders away from its job site occasionally, but never harvests any of the crops.
- Exit the world and use a world editor to reduce the number of bread in the farmer's first slot to less than 3.
- Open the world again. Notice that the farmer now harvests crops.
Update 7 July:
Farmers will also stop harvesting when they have 12 carrots or 12 potatoes. Since this isn't enough for them to share and they have no way to get any more, the only way for them to resume producing and distributing food is for a player to supplement their inventory, allowing them to share and reduce their inventory below 12. They will then harvest again, but will immediately get back into the same state, so it's not even useful as a workaround.
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- Fixed
Golfinho Voador- 13
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- Confirmed
- 228697
- Windows
- An Computer, Windows 10 version 1803
- AI Villager-Profession
- 1.11.4
- 1.14.0
Created Issue:
Farmers not HARVESTING crops but can pick up dropped crops
I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? I dont know!
If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the video for some reason)
- Unresolved
- Open
- Unconfirmed
- Windows
- An Computer, Windows 10 version 1803
- 1.11.4
I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? I dont know!
If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the video for some reason)
I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? I dont know!
If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the video for some reason)
I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? I dont know!
If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the video for some reason)
I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? I dont know!
If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the video for some reason)
I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it?
I dont know!If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the video for some reason)
I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? The villagers not harvesting crops!
If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the video for some reason)
I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? The villagers not harvesting crops!
If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download and I will give you the link!)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the video for some reason)
I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? The villagers not harvesting crops!
If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download and I will give you the link
!)Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the video for some reason)
I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? The villagers not harvesting crops!
If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download and I will give you the link, The coords to the village are in the screen during the video)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the video for some reason)
I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? The villagers not harvesting crops!
If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download and I will give you the link, The coords to the village are in the screen during the video)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the videos for some reason)
I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? The villagers not harvesting crops! How to reproduce? Good question, I think you will need a bunch of farmers to see if any of them will refuse to harvest crops.
If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download and I will give you the link, The coords to the village are in the screen during the video)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the videos for some reason)
Farmersnot HARVESTING crops but can pick up dropped cropsFarmers refusing to harvest crops but their inventory is clearly not full
I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? The villagers not harvesting crops! How to reproduce? Good question, I think you will need a bunch of farmers to see if any of them will refuse to harvest crops.
If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download and I will give you the link, The coords to the village are in the screen during the video)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the videos for some reason)
I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? The villagers not harvesting crops! How to reproduce? Good question, I think you will need a bunch of farmers to see if any of them will refuse to harvest crops.
(Note: Mob Griefing is ON!)If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download and I will give you the link, The coords to the village are in the screen during the video)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the videos for some reason)
I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? The villagers not harvesting crops! How to reproduce? Good question, I think you will need a bunch of farmers to see if any of them will refuse to harvest crops.
(Note: Mob Griefing is ON!)This bug was fixed for Java Edition
MC-145857If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download and I will give you the link, The coords to the village are in the screen during the video)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the videos for some reason)
I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? The villagers not harvesting crops! How to reproduce? Good question, I think you will need a bunch of farmers to see if any of them will refuse to harvest crops.
(Note: Mob Griefing is ON!)This bug was fixed for Java Edition
MC-145857If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download and I will give you the link, The coords to the village are in the screen during the video)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the videos for some reason)
I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? The villagers not harvesting crops! How to reproduce? Good question, I think you will need a bunch of farmers to see if any of them will refuse to harvest crops.
(Note: Mob Griefing is ON!)This bug was fixed for Java Edition in Snapshot 19w12a
MC-145857If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download and I will give you the link, The coords to the village are in the screen during the video)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the videos for some reason)
I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? The villagers not harvesting crops! How to reproduce? Good question, I think you will need a bunch of farmers to see if any of them will refuse to harvest crops.
(Note: Mob Griefing is ON!)This bug was fixed for Java Edition in Snapshot *19w12a *
MC-145857If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download and I will give you the link, The coords to the village are in the screen during the video)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the videos for some reason)
I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? The villagers not harvesting crops! How to reproduce? Good question, I think you will need a bunch of farmers to see if any of them will refuse to harvest crops.
(Note: Mob Griefing is ON!)This bug was fixed for Java Edition in Snapshot
*19w12a *MC-145857If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download and I will give you the link, The coords to the village are in the screen during the video)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the videos for some reason)
I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? The villagers not harvesting crops! How to reproduce? Good question, I think you will need a bunch of farmers to see if any of them will refuse to harvest crops.
(Note: Mob Griefing is ON!)This bug was fixed for Java Edition in Snapshot 19w12a
MC-145857If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download and I will give you the link, The coords to the village are in the screen during the video)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the videos for some reason)
I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? The villagers not harvesting crops! How to reproduce? Good question, I think you will need a bunch of farmers to see if any of them will refuse to harvest crops.
(Note: Mob Griefing is ON!)This bug was fixed for Java Edition in Snapshot 19w12a
MC-145857If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download and I will give you the link, The coords to the village are in the screen during the video)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the videos for some reason)
Image of the villagers from a good distance
Video 2I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? The villagers not harvesting crops! How to reproduce? Good question, I think you will need a bunch of farmers to see if any of them will refuse to harvest crops.
(Note: Mob Griefing is ON!)If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download and I will give you the link, The coords to the village are in the screen during the video)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the videos for some reason)
Image of the villagers from a good distance
Video 2
[This issue was fixed for Java Edition in Snapshot 19w12a |bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-145857]
I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? The villagers not harvesting crops! How to reproduce? Good question, I think you will need a bunch of farmers to see if any of them will refuse to harvest crops.
(Note: Mob Griefing is ON!)If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download and I will give you the link, The coords to the village are in the screen during the video)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the videos for some reason)
Image of the villagers from a good distance
Video 2
[This issue was fixed for Java Edition in Snapshot 19w12a|bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-145857]
I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? The villagers not harvesting crops! How to reproduce? Good question, I think you will need a bunch of farmers to see if any of them will refuse to harvest crops.
(Note: Mob Griefing is ON!)If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download and I will give you the link, The coords to the village are in the screen during the video)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the videos for some reason)
Image of the villagers from a good distance
Video 2
[This issue was fixed for Java Edition in Snapshot 19w12a|bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-145857]I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? The villagers not harvesting crops! How to reproduce? Good question, I think you will need a bunch of farmers to see if any of them will refuse to harvest crops.
(Note: Mob Griefing is ON!)If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download and I will give you the link, The coords to the village are in the screen during the video)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the videos for some reason)
Image of the villagers from a good distance
Video 2
[This issue was fixed for Java Edition in Snapshot 19w12a | bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-145857]
I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? The villagers not harvesting crops! How to reproduce? Good question, I think you will need a bunch of farmers to see if any of them will refuse to harvest crops.
(Note: Mob Griefing is ON!)If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download and I will give you the link, The coords to the village are in the screen during the video)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the videos for some reason)
Image of the villagers from a good distance
Video 2
[This issue was fixed for Java Edition in Snapshot 19w12a| bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-145857]I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? The villagers not harvesting crops! How to reproduce? Good question, I think you will need a bunch of farmers to see if any of them will refuse to harvest crops.
(Note: Mob Griefing is ON!)If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download and I will give you the link, The coords to the village are in the screen during the video)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the videos for some reason)
Image of the villagers from a good distance
This issue was fixed for Java Edition in Snapshot 19w12a
MC-145857
I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? The villagers not harvesting crops! How to reproduce? Good question, I think you will need a bunch of farmers to see if any of them will refuse to harvest crops.
(Note: Mob Griefing is ON!)If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download and I will give you the link, The coords to the village are in the screen during the video)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the videos for some reason)
Image of the villagers from a good distance
This issue was fixed for Java Edition in Snapshot 19w12a
MC-145857
I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? The villagers not harvesting crops! How to reproduce? Good question, I think you will need a bunch of farmers to see if any of them will refuse to harvest crops.
(Note: Mob Griefing is ON!)If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download and I will give you the link, The coords to the village are in the screen during the video)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the videos for some reason)
New:
I have done some experiments, Take a look at results:1-Farmers DO re-plant, They dont just harvest them just as you can see here:Image
(That is way more grown than one of the images below)Image of the villagers from a good distance
This issue was fixed for Java Edition in Snapshot 19w12a
MC-145857
I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? The villagers not harvesting crops! How to reproduce? Good question, I think you will need a bunch of farmers to see if any of them will refuse to harvest crops.
(Note: Mob Griefing is ON!)If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download and I will give you the link, The coords to the village are in the screen during the video)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the videos for some reason)
New:
I have done some experiments, Take a look at results:1-Farmers DO re-plant, They dont just harvest them just as you can see here: Image
(That is way more grown than one of the images below)Image of the villagers from a good distance
This issue was fixed for Java Edition in Snapshot 19w12a
MC-145857
I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? The villagers not harvesting crops! How to reproduce? Good question, I think you will need a bunch of farmers to see if any of them will refuse to harvest crops.
(Note: Mob Griefing is ON!)If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download and I will give you the link, The coords to the village are in the screen during the video)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the videos for some reason)
New:
I have done some experiments, Take a look at results:1-Farmers DO re-plant, They dont just harvest them just as you can see here: Image
(That is way more grown than one of the images below)Image of the villagers from a good distance
This issue was fixed for Java Edition in Snapshot 19w12a
MC-145857I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? The villagers not harvesting crops! How to reproduce? Good question, I think you will need a bunch of farmers to see if any of them will refuse to harvest crops.
(Note: Mob Griefing is ON!)If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download and I will give you the link, The coords to the village are in the screen during the video)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the videos for some reason)
New:
I have done some experiments, Take a look at results:1-Farmers DO re-plant, They dont just harvest them just as you can see here: Image
(That is way more grown than one of the images below)2-If I clone the world in creative mode they work normally (?!?!?!?!)
Image of the villagers from a good distance
This issue was fixed for Java Edition in Snapshot 19w12a
MC-145857
I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? The villagers not harvesting crops! How to reproduce? Good question, I think you will need a bunch of farmers to see if any of them will refuse to harvest crops.
(Note: Mob Griefing is ON!)If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download and I will give you the link, The coords to the village are in the screen during the video)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the videos for some reason)
New:
I have done some experiments, Take a look at results:1-Farmers DO re-plant, They dont just harvest them just as you can see here: Image
(That is way more grown than one of the images below)2-If I clone the world in creative mode they work normally (?!?!?!?!)
Image of the villagers from a good distance
This issue was fixed for Java Edition in Snapshot 19w12a
MC-145857The problem is that farmers who have 3 or more bread in their inventory will not harvest crops. They also will not share bread with another villager unless they have at least 6 (that's by design), so there's no way to reduce their bread enough to get them harvesting again.
Steps to reproduce:
- Open the attached world
MCPE-47166Harvesting demo.mcworld. This is a flat world with 2 villagers, a farmer and a butcher. The butcher's inventory is empty. The farmer has 4 bread but is otherwise empty. The world has 8 crops, 2 each of beetroot, carrots, potatoes, and wheat. The daylight cycle is disabled and the time is 5000.- Set the random tick speed to 100, or just wait for the crops to mature. Notice that the farmer wanders away from its job site occasionally, but never harvests any of the crops.
- Exit the world and use a world editor to reduce the number of bread in the farmer's first slot to less than 3.
- Open the world again. Notice that the farmer now harvests crops.
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I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? The villagers not harvesting crops! How to reproduce? Good question, I think you will need a bunch of farmers to see if any of them will refuse to harvest crops.
(Note: Mob Griefing is ON!)If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download and I will give you the link, The coords to the village are in the screen during the video)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the videos for some reason)
New:
I have done some experiments, Take a look at results:1-Farmers DO re-plant, They dont just harvest them just as you can see here: Image
(That is way more grown than one of the images below)2-If I clone the world in creative mode they work normally (?!?!?!?!)
Image of the villagers from a good distance
This issue was fixed for Java Edition in Snapshot 19w12a
MC-145857The problem is that farmers who have 3 or more bread in their inventory will not harvest crops. They also will not share bread with another villager unless they have at least 6 (that's by design), so there's no way to reduce their bread enough to get them harvesting again.
Steps to reproduce:
- Open the attached world
MCPE-47166Harvesting demo.mcworld. This is a flat world with 2 villagers, a farmer and a butcher. The butcher's inventory is empty. The farmer has 4 bread but is otherwise empty. The world has 8 crops, 2 each of beetroot, carrots, potatoes, and wheat. The daylight cycle is disabled and the time is 5000.- Set the random tick speed to 100, or just wait for the crops to mature. Notice that the farmer wanders away from its job site occasionally, but never harvests any of the crops.
- Exit the world and use a world editor to reduce the number of bread in the farmer's first slot to less than 3.
- Open the world again. Notice that the farmer now harvests crops.
I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? The villagers not harvesting crops! How to reproduce? Good question, I think you will need a bunch of farmers to see if any of them will refuse to harvest crops.
(Note: Mob Griefing is ON!)If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download and I will give you the link, The coords to the village are in the screen during the video)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the videos for some reason)
New:
I have done some experiments, Take a look at results:1-Farmers DO re-plant, They dont just harvest them just as you can see here: Image
(That is way more grown than one of the images below)2-If I clone the world in creative mode they work normally (?!?!?!?!)
Image of the villagers from a good distance
This issue was fixed for Java Edition in Snapshot 19w12a
MC-145857Additional information by[MCPE Mod] Auldrick
The problem is that farmers who have 3 or more bread in their inventory will not harvest crops. They also will not share bread with another villager unless they have at least 6 (that's by design), so there's no way to reduce their bread enough to get them harvesting again.Steps to reproduce:
- Open the attached world
MCPE-47166Harvesting demo.mcworld. This is a flat world with 2 villagers, a farmer and a butcher. The butcher's inventory is empty. The farmer has 4 bread but is otherwise empty. The world has 8 crops, 2 each of beetroot, carrots, potatoes, and wheat. The daylight cycle is disabled and the time is 5000.- Set the random tick speed to 100, or just wait for the crops to mature. Notice that the farmer wanders away from its job site occasionally, but never harvests any of the crops.
- Exit the world and use a world editor to reduce the number of bread in the farmer's first slot to less than 3.
- Open the world again. Notice that the farmer now harvests crops.
Update 7 July:
Farmers will also stop harvesting when they have 12 carrots or 12 potatoes. Since this isn't enough for them to share and they have no way to get any more, the only way for them to resume producing and distributing food is for a player to supplement their inventory, allowing them to share and reduce their inventory below 12. They will then harvest again, but will immediately get back into the same state, so it's not even useful as a workaround.
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I was walking around my village and noticed a lot of yellow on the villager small wheat farm, And what caused it? The villagers not harvesting crops! How to reproduce? Good question, I think you will need a bunch of farmers to see if any of them will refuse to harvest crops.
(Note: Mob Griefing is ON!)
If you cannot reproduce I can give out a world download to the specific affected world, So you can see the problem more carefully! (Give me instructions on where to post the world download and I will give you the link, The coords to the village are in the screen during the video)
Videos and Screenshots below!
(Please dont mind the lag, It was only on the videos for some reason)
New:
I have done some experiments, Take a look at results:
1-Farmers DO re-plant, They dont just harvest them just as you can see here: Image
(That is way more grown than one of the images below)
2-If I clone the world in creative mode they work normally (?!?!?!?!)
Image of the villagers from a good distance
This issue was fixed for Java Edition in Snapshot 19w12a MC-145857
[MCPE Mod] Auldrick
The problem is that farmers who have 3 or more bread in their inventory will not harvest crops. They also will not share bread with another villager unless they have at least 6 (that's by design), so there's no way to reduce their bread enough to get them harvesting again.
Steps to reproduce:
- Open the attached world
MCPE-47166Harvesting demo.mcworld. This is a flat world with 2 villagers, a farmer and a butcher. The butcher's inventory is empty. The farmer has 4 bread but is otherwise empty. The world has 8 crops, 2 each of beetroot, carrots, potatoes, and wheat. The daylight cycle is disabled and the time is 5000. - Set the random tick speed to 100, or just wait for the crops to mature. Notice that the farmer wanders away from its job site occasionally, but never harvests any of the crops.
- Exit the world and use a world editor to reduce the number of bread in the farmer's first slot to less than 3.
- Open the world again. Notice that the farmer now harvests crops.
Update 7 July:
Farmers will also stop harvesting when they have 12 carrots or 12 potatoes. Since this isn't enough for them to share and they have no way to get any more, the only way for them to resume producing and distributing food is for a player to supplement their inventory, allowing them to share and reduce their inventory below 12. They will then harvest again, but will immediately get back into the same state, so it's not even useful as a workaround.
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Thank you for your report!
We're actually already tracking this issue at MCPE-47166, so we will resolve and link this ticket as a duplicate.
If you would like to add a vote and any extra information to the main ticket it would be appreciated.
A cause for this issue was found later; see MCPE-47166.
Reopened because this report describes at least one independent issue not covered in MCPE-47166.
Earlier, this ticket was closed as a duplicate of MCPE-47166, which reports that a farmer who is holding 4 or more bread does not harvest any crops. That issue could be involved in some of these issues, but I started by assuming it isn't.
Villager behaviors have changed since this report was created, and comments have added additional symptoms in 1.11, so I decided to assess which issues are still current. Here's the list of what I found:
- Farmers share a few potatoes at first but then stop. This is different from how they work with carrots.
- Farmers only harvest occasionally and only a small amount.
- Farmers don't harvest potatoes at all.
- Farmers will share potatoes they're given, but not those they harvest themselves.
- Farmers no longer drop excess seeds on the ground. (I was a little confused whether this was meant as an issue or just an observation.)
- Farmers stare at seeds in fields they can't get to, and at seeds they can't even see through opaque blocks.
These issues fall into two groups: Farming and Sharing. Although they're mutually dependent behaviors, these are very different game mechanics and I will treat them separately.
Issue #1: Farmers share a few potatoes at first but then stop. This is different from how they work with carrots
Farmers share carrots and potatoes differently because they have different thresholds defined for them in the vanilla behavior pack. The threshold, called "surplus_amount", is only 4 for carrots but 24 for potatoes. When a peasant villager (which includes farmers) has more than surplus_amount of a food item, it will offer some of what is has to a villager it encounters while strolling randomly. The behavior pack also defines a limit, called "want_amount", that specifies how many of each kind of food a villager wants to have. The donor villager will only drop, at most, enough food to let the receiving villager reach its want_amount. Together, these parameters determine how often and how much food a farmer will share. Since the threshold is much lower for carrots, the farmer will be willing to give carrots even when it only has a few, which it can quickly replenish, whereas it needs to have quite a lot of potatoes before it offers any, and then it takes correspondingly longer to replenish its own supply. (It might seem as if the way carrots work is better and should be implemented for potatoes, but see MCPE-32627 for a problem it causes.)
That leaves the question of why it completely stops sharing. At this time, I don't believe it actually does stop. When I experiment with this, if I give a bunch of potatoes to a farmer who seems to have stopped, it shares them as it ought to. That tells me that the apparent unwillingness to share is a consequence of the real problem, which is unwillingness to harvest. For that, see issue #3.
These behavior pack parameters have been unchanged since at least 1.1 (the earliest release I have a behavior pack for). However, it may be that the new villagers use them differently than the old ones did, and this could cause the reported issue. But at this time, issue #3 is causing at least some part of this problem, so we'll need to see whether the problem persists after that one is fixed.
Issue #2: Farmers only harvest occasionally and only a small amount
That farmers only harvest occasionally is part of the new villager behavior. Harvesting is an activity that farmers perform as part of their work schedule. During their work hours (5000-8000 ticks and 10000-11000 ticks), they alternate between "working" (standing at their job site) and a cooldown period during which they perform their other assignments, including harvesting and sowing, taking a random stroll, and exploring the village's outskirts. On average, the "working" periods last about 25 seconds while the cooldowns last about 20, not enough time to harvest and sow an entire crop field. So this behavior is intentional. I don't see it as being an issue, as long as they keep doing it often enough to keep the village fed. Feel free to comment with a rebuttal if you disagree.
Issue #3: Farmers don't harvest potatoes at all
This just isn't true as a general statement. They may not harvest potatoes in some situations, but to report it as a bug we need to tell the developers what some of those situations are.
So I did some experiments and found one. In a world with a farmer and a butcher, both with empty inventories, I planted 8 potato plants. After they matured, the farmer only harvested 6 plants, collecting 12 potatoes, and then stopped harvesting. I tried again without the butcher, This time the farmer harvested 6 plants and stopped, but a short time later it harvested 2 more plants. Checking, I found it again had 12 potatoes. So it appears that a farmer will stop harvesting potatoes when it has 12. Its surplus_amount is 24, so this means that a farmer cannot harvest enough potatoes to enable it share them with any villagers. This definitely seems like a bug.
Issue #4: Farmers will share potatoes they're given, but not those they harvest themselves
This is a corollary to #3. Since they only harvest 12, which is not enough to reach their surplus_amount, they will not share them. Likewise, they will not share the next 12 you give them, but any you give them after that will allow them to share. It's a not difference between potatoes you've given them versus those they harvest themselves, though, so this issue is a red herring.
Issue #5: Farmers no longer drop excess seeds on the ground
I don't think they ever did. I think what you observed was a farmer sharing surplus seeds with another villager, a peasant. Like non-peasants, peasant villagers share bread, carrots, potatoes, and beetroot, but unlike non-peasants they can also share wheat seeds and beetroot seeds. This seems to be a holdover from the old villagers, where all peasants wore brown coats and shared farming behaviors with farmers, but since non-farmer peasants don't sow or harvest any more, its modern purpose is questionable. The only reason I can think for this behavior to still exist is to serve as a seed reservoir in case the crops and farmers are all destroyed (for instance, by a series of unfortunate events, like a raid followed by a zombie siege and players plundering their crops). If they can make a baby and it grows up to become a farmer, the other peasants will share their seeds with it and the village will have a chance to revive.
Issue #6: Farmers stare at seeds in fields they can't get to, and at seeds they can't even see through opaque blocks
Farmers don't claim individual plots. Even in old converted villages, where if they don't have a composter farmers treat farmland as their job site, a farmer considers it his job to farm every farmland block in the village. In fact, the seeds aren't even part of what you saw. A farmer (or any other peasant) will pick up seeds it happens to walk close to, but it doesn't go searching for them. So I'm pretty sure what you saw was a farmer trying to sow or harvest in the field the seeds were in.
With respect to being able to see its target farmland through an opaque block, I believe that works as intended. If a farmer couldn't detect a field lying on the other side of a building, it might take a long time for it to wander somewhere where it could see it, and then it wouldn't be able to see the fields on the side it came from any more. This would tend to leave some farmland underutilized, so you'd need more farmland to maintain the same food supply.
In summary, the only clear issue I can identify on this ticket that is still an issue in 1.11 is #3. I will update the description field and attach a test world for the developers. If anyone thinks my explanations for the other issues are incomplete or wrong, I invite you to comment and I'll reconsider.
Note: The average durations I stated above for farmers "working" versus doing other things are double the correct values. They should be 12.5 and 10 seconds, respectively.
The sharing parameters don't change. What's supposed to happen is that villagers consume or give away food, which puts them below their want_amount again, and then the farmer can give them more food if it has any. The only time villagers actually consume food, as far as I know, is when they make babies, but there could be other ways (e.g. maybe to regenerate health?).
Here are the actual sharing parameters from the vanilla behavior pack:
Peasant:
| Food Item | want_amount | surplus_amount |
|---|---|---|
| bread | 3 | 6 |
| carrot | 60 | 4 |
| potato | 60 | 24 |
| beetroot | 60 | 24 |
| wheat_seeds | 64 | 64 |
| beetroot_seeds | 64 | 64 |
| wheat | 45 | 18 |
Non-Peasant:
| Food Item | want_amount | surplus_amount |
|---|---|---|
| bread | 3 | 6 |
| carrot | 12 | 24 |
| potato | 12 | 24 |
| beetroot | 12 | 24 |
As you can see, the parameters are always the same for potatoes and beetroot. Carrots are the same as those two except that for peasants, the surplus_amount is 4 instead of 24. (This is reported as a bug in MCPE-32627.)
Now for the important news: I hadn't previously tested a beetroot farm because it was the one crop you said worked perfectly. Now I have, and it changes everything! I think I'm on the same page with you, finally. I have uploaded my test world so you can experiment with it yourself. With it, you can easily compare how harvesting and sharing differ for different kinds of crops. (Unfortunately, as you're on iOS you don't have access to a third-party tool to let you examine the villagers' inventories.)
What I see now is that a farmer's harvesting behavior is different for each kind of crop. Earlier I was assuming that wheat was different because of the MCPE-47166 bug and carrots were different as a consequence of MCPE-32627, so that left only potatoes for this report.
Now I'm rethinking that. It looks like harvesting behavior has separate logic for each kind of crop and seed, and some of them don't work well while others don't work well in combination with each other. Even beetroots are a problem, despite how convenient their harvesting behavior is for automated farming, because it will allow a farmer to fill its inventory with beetroot and its seeds, leaving no room for other crops or bread.
The inconsistencies don't seem to make sense and interact with food sharing in a way that prevents not only automated farming but efficient supply of food in natural villages. So it might be better for us to look at combining all these harvesting issues into a single ticket. I'll be discussing this with [Mojang] Mega_Spud (Jay Wells) and will update later.
After extensive testing in MCPE-44268, I have realized that this issue is a bit broader than previously recognized.
A farmer will stop harvesting crops when it has any of:
- 3 or more bread
- 12 or more carrots
- 12 or more potatoes
In the cases of bread and potatoes, the stoppage is essentially permanent because it can only share items in excess of the surplus_amount found in the behavior pack, which is 6 for bread and 24 for potatoes. Since it only has 3 bread and/or 12-13 potatoes and is no longer harvesting crops, the situation cannot be changed by game mechanics.
In the case of carrots, the surplus_amount is 4, so once it's able to share carrots with another villager it can resume harvesting until it again has 12 carrots.
A replacement world (MCPE-47166 Harvesting demo 2.mcworld) has been provided that can easily be used to test these conditions.
Please see MCPE-47166 for possible linked details.
ISSUE FIXED as per MCPE-47166 in release 1.13.0.
I think this was actually fixed in 1.13.0 by the fix for MCPE-47166. The want/share parameters don't appear to have been changed, so the bug must have been in something else, perhaps some hard-coded logic that was left in by mistake when they refactored to make it data-driven.
For those who are trying to build an automated crop farm and can use a crop other than wheat, a workaround is to ensure your farmer's inventory never gets 3 bread in it. One way to do that is to quickly isolate a newborn baby from villagers who would try to throw food to it. Once it grows up, you can install it in a farm that doesn't include any wheat and it should continue harvesting forever.
Auldrick, As I said on MCPE 44268, which was raised prior to this one but now closed as a duplicate of this one, the beetroot farmer will farm beautifully, the carrot farmer will stop (a change recently because those used to farm well too) but the potato farmer does nothing except maybe plant a few if you do the harvesting for them.
I always and deliberately create new famers to ensure they have never had access to corn/bread but they still will not farm properly. Either this is a different problem or the fact that only the beetroot farmer will do the job is an iOS issue only.
Please can I emphasise that your workaround does not work for iOS.
Morgwenna: I'm glad you pointed that out, because it seems there are issues among the so-called duplicate reports that I neglected, such as the issue that farmers don't share potatoes.
All: I have split
MCPE-44268back into a separate issue. If you stopped watching it when it was linked as a duplicate, you may want to resume watching it.I will also be reviewing the other duplicates for additional issues and will let you know if I split them out again.
Thank you Auldrick..
After extensive testing in
MCPE-44268, I have realized that this issue is a bit broader than previously recognized.A farmer will stop harvesting crops when it has any of:
In the cases of bread and potatoes, the stoppage is essentially permanent because it can only share items in excess of the surplus_amount found in the behavior pack, which is 6 for bread and 24 for potatoes. Since it only has 3 bread and/or 12-13 potatoes and is no longer harvesting crops, the situation cannot be changed by game mechanics.
In the case of carrots, the surplus_amount is 4, so once it's able to share carrots with another villager it can resume harvesting until it again has 12 carrots.
A replacement world (
MCPE-47166Harvesting demo 2.mcworld) has been provided that can easily be used to test these conditions.It happened to me that the villagers wouldn't even pick up the crops (carrots) if I dropped them right where they were standing (MCPE 1.13.0.4 - Android 9.0)
Magikey Magiclavum: That would almost certainly be because there's no room in their inventories. Although you can't see them, villagers have an inventory with 8 slots in it. Naturally, each slot can only hold one kind of item. They can only pick up items if they have an empty slot, or already have a slot containing a partial stack of that item.
At the moment, the MC feedback website states that this bug should be fixed in v1.13.0.13 beta. https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/360033322932-Minecraft-Beta-1-13-0-13-Xbox-One-Windows-10-Android-
Was actually fixed in 1.13.0 release.