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Better villager AI/Pathfinding

Villager pathfinding is awful in its current state. They tend to get stuck on the smallest things, and don't understand how stairs or doors work. I think this is because their AI doesn't let them find a new route if their first one doesn't work, unlike other mobs that do find a new route. Zombies should not be better at getting into villagers homes than the villagers, this often leads to them getting killed because they can't make it inside before being attacked. Not only that, but if their job block or bed is inside of a building with multiple entrances, they instead like to stand near the wall nearest to their bed/job block.

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    maybe villager pathfinding could be based off of what way they find is the best to get to where they want to go, like towards a bed or occupation block, pretty much if they find a path that works, they are going to take that path more often

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    I have been trying to make a functioning city in my Minecraft Bedrock creative world and the villagers just cannot get to their workstations. There are viable paths, and they just don't path find using them. We really need better villager AI

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    Please, its insane how stupid those villagers are (Bedrock) - I was playing on peaceful and one day my Mason wandered out from his house and disappeared - either he despawned or fallen somewhere to death or I dont know what happened - could not find it even with commands :/ .. So I did wanted to replace him with new one from creative using the egg, I did placed stone cutter and spawned him next to it - surprise - he was fisherman .. ugh .. as barels are everywhere in my area because nice decoration being it also job block is so problematic ... same with cauldrons ... ok so that did not worked so I did moved like 200 blocks away from everything, created dirt room with 3 block high walls, put stone cutter inside, spawned villager - surprise - he was cartographer .. what the hell .. that is not that common block and the only one I knew was like 300 blocks away and breaking it did not helped .. I have no idea where he got that idea. I had to spawn like 10 of them until one finally picked the stone cutter next to it (the only block they had access to), separate him and lava the rest. I did also had to install iron doors and buttons to not loose any of them anymore and they still tend to get stuck in their houses (I guess problems with stairs and top slab floors?) not finding bed or their workstation and those houses are not that complicated (plain noodle or L shape with ground level, one floor and basement undecorated yet). Those mechanics should not bring that much frustration :/

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    True i've build a two story house for my cartographer and when its nighttime ve gets stuck at his workstation because his bed is on the upper floor or reversed