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Villagers Turning into Zombies not 100%

So, in a recent change, villagers will retain their trades if they are converted into zombies and cured again. However, on lower difficulties, villagers have a strong chance to simply die without leaving behind their zombie self for you to change them back. On hard mode, you are always guaranteed a zombie villager.

Now, I play on a hard mode world in 1.13.2, and I use this mechanic to purposefully infect villagers, so I can get different trades of the same profession group. On harder difficulties, you are more likely to properly protect villagers that have desirable trades anyway, because people who play on hard mode typically understand the game better. So I find that the villager keeping their trades doesn't make sense gameplay wise if you're just going to keep it so that villagers can just die outright at lower difficulties. It's ironic that it's harder to keep villagers alive on lower difficulties. I mean, sure there are more zombies on hardmode, but at least there's a chance to save every one of them.

My suggestion is that, on lower difficulties, zombie villagers always spawn from villagers dying to zombies, and have the ones that would've just died to be more docile (neutral to players, less likely to attack fellow villagers).

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    It's like locking people out of villager mechanic cause they play on lower difficulty for me i can't do it cause my server admin won't change it to hard so i don't get good discounts if i do i might lose the villager that sucks. D:

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    Yeah, He's right, on hard, you can have a villager be in a room with a zombie, the zombie will "kill" the villager with the death sounds happening as soon as the villager is changed, after that, I kill the zombie, and trap the ZV in a boat. It might work on lower difficulties, but if you can, turn it to hard. Thanks Ray! P.S, ZV=Zombie Villager

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    Just lost a fletcher with a weakness arrow trade when I tried infecting him.

    I traded ~200 villagers up to master to get him, and lost him in an instant due to this.

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    Wish someone would make a resource pack that allows it to be 100% when infecting villagers. I lost up to 3 stacks of emeralds making my armorer give the 1 iron for 1 emerald trade. Please send me a resource pack if you have one.

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    Yes it seems like it makes villagers harder to play with on easier levels, like if your on easy your guaranteed that the villager you’ve been working with will die with no chance of saving them. I’d understand like maybe on easy mode zombies wouldn’t pathfinder to villagers or something but this logic always confused me. Also makes it more annoying to play on a server in medium difficulty that I can’t change the difficulty of.