So, I was playing Minecraft Xbox 360 edition, and and I decided to make an iron farm, so I got 2 villagers and started breeding them. After a while they got up to 10 villagers (the bare minimum for iron golem to spawn), and I made them a special chamber for them to be in while I went afk for iron golem to spawn and die. Eventually I forgot about it and the Xbox turned off, and when I loaded the world back on I heard sounds of dying villager, and when I went back up into the room almost all of them were dead! Two of the four Chambers were completely empty, one had one guy left,and the other still had all 3 villagers in there.
Things to note about the incident:
-their cells were 2x3, with 3-2 villagers in each of the four cells and the ceiling of each was up to their head (so, 2x2x3)
-there was a torch in every room so it was physically impossible for a zombie to spawn in there and kill them
-there were lots of doors around (I followed a specific farm example online) so it did count as a village
-there was water in their cells, but shallow and not enough to drown in
The game always has been weird with loading entities. I've witness them inside of walls dying when loading a world, so chances are that's what happened.
Yeah, the likely glitched into the wall and suffocated. When I've seen that happen it's been where there are multiple villagers in a small space. They can push each other, and I think what happens is the villagers push each other and then the game loads in the walls, and if they happen to have been partially in the wall space when it loads they get stuck and die. Either separate your villagers into individual small cells (1x1 is fine) or put them together in a larger cell with water that pushes then towards the center.
On a different note, you said you built underground, have you provided sky access on one side of the doors? If not then the doors are not valid, you don't have a village, and won't get any golems. That's why most golem farms are built elevated off the ground.
So, I was playing Minecraft Xbox 360 edition, and and I decided to make an iron farm, so I got 2 villagers and started breeding them. After a while they got up to 10 villagers (the bare minimum for iron golem to spawn), and I made them a special chamber for them to be in while I went afk for iron golem to spawn and die. Eventually I forgot about it and the Xbox turned off, and when I loaded the world back on I heard sounds of dying villager, and when I went back up into the room almost all of them were dead! Two of the four Chambers were completely empty, one had one guy left,and the other still had all 3 villagers in there.
Things to note about the incident:
-their cells were 2x3, with 3-2 villagers in each of the four cells and the ceiling of each was up to their head (so, 2x2x3)
-there was a torch in every room so it was physically impossible for a zombie to spawn in there and kill them
-there were lots of doors around (I followed a specific farm example online) so it did count as a village
-there was water in their cells, but shallow and not enough to drown in
-the entire thing was underground
Anyone know what the heck happened to them?
The game always has been weird with loading entities. I've witness them inside of walls dying when loading a world, so chances are that's what happened.
Stay fluffy~
Yeah, the likely glitched into the wall and suffocated. When I've seen that happen it's been where there are multiple villagers in a small space. They can push each other, and I think what happens is the villagers push each other and then the game loads in the walls, and if they happen to have been partially in the wall space when it loads they get stuck and die. Either separate your villagers into individual small cells (1x1 is fine) or put them together in a larger cell with water that pushes then towards the center.
On a different note, you said you built underground, have you provided sky access on one side of the doors? If not then the doors are not valid, you don't have a village, and won't get any golems. That's why most golem farms are built elevated off the ground.
Building the villager cells out of glass or glowstone will prevent them from suffocating too.
And has the added benefit of ensuring there are no places that mobs could possibly spawn