Summary: When a villager with no profession turns into a zombie villager, it will not be able to enter minecarts or boats. Steps to Reproduce: … Turn the villager into a zombie villager. Does a zombie villager Despawn? Zombie villagers that are in the process of converting do not despawn if the player moves far away from them. A zombie Maybe you could make it so that the mobs on your map that you need for that moment would spawn only when the player moves into that room, it might take some creativity but its possible. For hostile mobs generally, it's not worth the effort unless one keeps nametags handy (and if one does so, one is probably near a pre-built trap). For zombies (and variants), some can pick up items: if a zombie does so it becomes non-despawning (which can be a handy substitute for name-tagging) Villagers aren't supposed to despawn even if they aren't named; are you sure that they are completely safe from zombies? There's a bug report on this issue, marked as "cannot reproduce" but also "community consensus", meaning that it is a widely known problem but only happens in some unknown circumstances (version is only through 1.5.1 but in the comments you can see reports of it happening in Feb 24, 2022. #3. they aren’t despawning they’re falling through the floor and dying to fall damage/the void. will add tips in a second. epic pro tips: Don’t let villagers near doors. Don’t let villagers near trapdoors. Don’t let villagers near really any non full block. Don’t let villagers have more than 1 block of floor space. Like villagers, iron golems do not wander away from a village, regardless of how they were spawned, but sometimes stand at the border of the village. An iron golem sometimes faces a villager as if they are conversing. Do iron golems Despawn without a nametag? Golems aren’t supposed to despawn whether they have name tags or not. However, they Yes, they will despawn. Not unless if have them carry a dropped item, name tag or wear and equipment. Having them carry an item is more important. This keeps coming up on this sub. Yes zombie villager will despawn. Use a nametag to prevent it or don't leave the area until they're done. Don't change to peaceful while they're a zombie. Name them with name tags. [deleted] • 3 yr. ago. Check with the server admin and see if they use any plugins/mods that might cause villagers to despawn. In vanilla, they aren’t supposed to disappear. If nothing on the server’s end is causing it, odds are that a zombie/husk/drowned is somehow getting to your villagers, or else they are Several causes of this issue been fixed: Zombiefying a renamed Villager would not copy the PersitenceRequired-flag. It was possible that a nametag appeared to have been applied while this was not actually the case for the server. Mobs in boats disappeared when they were saved in a different chunk than the boat. Summon a baby zombie riding a chicken. Baby zombies have an additional 5% chance of spawning as a chicken jockey in Java. But here is the summon chicken jocky command if you want to make it happen. Note that the chicken has the nbt tag IsChickenJockey which allows despawn as per usual hostile mobs.‌. 9BhJa.