Before After MCPE-21416  There is a horrible  bug in Minecraft that causes mobs and entities to despawn at random. Minecraft (Bedrock codebase) MCPE-21416 Mobs and Entities can despawn randomly What is an entity?  An entity is an object in Minecraft that moves or can be moved.  It includes a long list of inanimate objects like armor stands, paintings, and item frames that can be moved or dropped as an item.  'Mobs' , are"mobile entities" that are AI-driven to resemble a living creature like a cat or a villager.  I found out about this the hard way when my armor stands (and the displayed armor) disappeared.  I had previously lost pets and villagers, and blamed that on the fact that I was teleporting, but losing my displayed armor was devastating. Reading through the JIRA these disappearances may be caused when: Mobs cross  chunk borders between saves. You change your spawn location (i.e., your bed) You play for a long time without saving. You tele...

(Above - Zombie Villager at Welcome Desk) In my Minecraft world, the nearest naturally-spawned village is a good distance away. I decided to make my own village.  I took materials from a deserted village and used them to make new buildings at a site closer to base. Then I enclosed the new village with a high wall. I put a row of sweet berry bushes outside the wall. Sheep were being killed by brushing against the bushes so I put another fence around the bushes that were around the wall. I lit the village with torches and Redstone lamps with daylight sensors. I built gardens with beets, carrots, potatoes, and wheat. I also put in some melons, pumpkins, and sugar cane. My Little Village When I felt the village was ready I looked for villagers. The nearest populated village was an overnight trip away, so I decided kidnapping distant villagers to bring them to my village would not be practical. I decided to get new villagers by luring zombie villagers to a safe place where they couldn't...

According to Sportskeeda  there are five ways to get Ancient Debris: strip mine, TNT explosions, bed mining, finding Netherite scraps in Bastion Remnant chests, and by exploding end crystals. I've tried the first three methods. Since Ancient Debris is rarer than diamonds, strip mining can be a long process. Exploding beds can be dangerous, usually starts multiple fires, and makes a smaller crater than a TNT explosion. I prefer mining Ancient Debris by using TNT. To mine Ancient Debris with TNT you need : TNT - you can find it in desert temples and shipwrecks, but it is easy to make from sand and gunpowder. You can find gunpowder in desert temples, dungeons, shipwrecks, and woodland mansions, but the easiest way to get it is by killing creepers and ghasts. I also get a lot of gunpowder from my larger mob grinder. Redstone powder and levers .  Some of your dust and levers will be consumed by the explosions, so be sure to take plenty. (You can also try shooting at the TNT using ...

While I was lighting up the caverns underneath my base, I found a skeleton spawner. I put up torches so that light levels were high enough to stop the spawner from working, and carved out a 9x9 block space with the spawner at the center. Then I put up a circuit of Redstone lamps that could be turned off and on from a safe space. Nothing fancy - view from safe place into spawning chamber. No chutes, no conveyer belts. I turn off the lights and wait for the skeletons to fill the space, then I turn on the lights, wait for the skeletons to stop shooting each other, and go in to kill off the survivors. I got 17 arrows in a short space with a lot less effort than it took to make the big mob grinder I called "Wombat"*. *See previous post

Because I play Vegan Minecraft I don't kill chickens, so I don't get a lot of feathers. Without feathers I can't craft many arrows. Most of the feathers I've gotten have been given to me by my cats. Most of the arrows I've gotten have come from killing skeletons.  I use a lot of arrows, especially in the Nether. I've watched YouTube videos showing plentiful mobs falling from mob grinders  and I've read articles like "1000 Items of Mob Loot an Hour With This Easy Mob Grinder", and I thought that if I built a mob grinder I could get a lot more arrow drops. I'm a bit more skeptical now after building my first mob grinder (otherwise known as 'Wombat'*). I built it following traditional  Mob_grinder  tutorials. The bottom of the first level is at 107 elevation, and the bottom of the chute is at level 63. I optimistically put in a Redstone-operated closure halfway down the chute so that I could kill stunned-but-not-killed mobs for the XP poin...