MCPE-61581Villagers in 1.14.1 have terrible environmental awareness
Villager mechanics are a bit broken at the moment.
1.) villagers repeatedly walk into things and get stuck I have no idea why.
2.) if a villager sees his bed through a window or knows it’s on the other side of a wall it will literally try to walk through the wall and get angry... but the door is literally next to it or on the other side of the house, it isn’t even far. (Two examples being a wooden house (large) with large windows and a cobblestone house (small) both with the same results no connection between the two or why it happened.)
3.) villagers will also not understand how to move AROUND objects anymore. I put down two rows of beds in a large house to account for all villagers, professions and nitwits. The rows each have two full blocks between the rows and yet a villager will just stand at the foot of the first row and angrily stare at his bed. He could walk around the three beds and go to his like 50% of the villagers do but 50% are about as smart as rocks and simply won’t budge.
4.) villagers get stuck on fence posts randomly. The bell that naturally generated in a dead village has fences with a block up in the air and the bell under it. Villagers will walk to it and get stuck in the fence itself. You have to chop it down to fix it. I now have bells floating in mid air because I got tired of it when three villagers were stuck to ONE fence post, how?
5.) if you build a multi level building and place a bed on the second floor guess what the villager does? He stands at the bottom and stares up at where his bed is angrily. All night. Every night. If you have a multi level building with a floor underground the villager will walk in look down where his bed is and be angry. He could take the stairs, or you know just stand there forever. In distances my experiences were the door to enter is not far away and has a clear and easy path to take but doesn’t seem to understand you can’t walk through walls, glass or phase through the floor.
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Villagers in 1.14.1 have terrible environmental awareness
Villager mechanics are a bit broken at the moment.
1.) villagers repeatedly walk into things and get stuck I have no idea why.
2.) if a villager sees his bed through a window or knows it’s on the other side of a wall it will literally try to walk through the wall and get angry... but the door is literally next to it or on the other side of the house, it isn’t even far. (Two examples being a wooden house (large) with large windows and a cobblestone house (small) both with the same results no connection between the two or why it happened.)
3.) villagers will also not understand how to move AROUND objects anymore. I put down two rows of beds in a large house to account for all villagers, professions and nitwits. The rows each have two full blocks between the rows and yet a villager will just stand at the foot of the first row and angrily stare at his bed. He could walk around the three beds and go to his like 50% of the villagers do but 50% are about as smart as rocks and simply won’t budge.
4.) villagers get stuck on fence posts randomly. The bell that naturally generated in a dead village has fences with a block up in the air and the bell under it. Villagers will walk to it and get stuck in the fence itself. You have to chop it down to fix it. I now have bells floating in mid air because I got tired of it when three villagers were stuck to ONE fence post, how?
5.) if you build a multi level building and place a bed on the second floor guess what the villager does? He stands at the bottom and stares up at where his bed is angrily. All night. Every night. If you have a multi level building with a floor underground the villager will walk in look down where his bed is and be angry. He could take the stairs, or you know just stand there forever. In distances my experiences were the door to enter is not far away and has a clear and easy path to take but doesn’t seem to understand you can’t walk through walls, glass or phase through the floor.
- Unresolved
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- Unconfirmed
- iOS
- iPad 7 iOS 13.3
- 1.14.1 Hotfix
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I don't think any of this is new. Pathfinding AI for mobs in this game mostly only moves things in straight lines toward a target. Villagers will look for alternate paths (like around a wall) for maybe just 1-2 blocks to either side. They will go up and down stairs to get to beds and workstations as long as it would not require them to move opposite to the direction they ultimately want to go. Therefore, when setting up villages and houses, it helps to have all doors and stairs oriented toward the village center where they gather twice a day. You may also need to fence off certain zones where they tend to get stuck. In my experience, if you can get them to their bed or workstation once, then they seem to remember how to get there (but that may just be wishful thinking on my part). Also, I don't think glass for "seeing" the target matters; they "know" the block coordinates of their bed and workstation and try to pathfind to that.
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