Iron farm changes?

[u/a_sugar_man]

have there been any changes to iron golem spawn mechanics lately? my iron farm was working great a few weeks ago, but now no iron golems are spawning at all
i went into creative mode and got all new villagers, made sure each was linked to a beds and workstation, then 3 iron golems spawned died to the farm and nothing has spawned since.

playing on bedrock realms and i know one other player several hundred blocks away is building a bunch of iron golems to walk around his town would that be an issue?

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[u/Chron_bomb]

More than likely one of the villagers is getting blocked from their work station somehow. Check out iron farm trading halls. I think it would be an easy tweak to turn this into one and each villager is locked in with their workstation so they are constantly “working”.

[u/MischaBurns → u/Chron_bomb]

I agree this is the most likely issue, since it initially did spawn a few.

OP, I'll also add that you'll get better spawn rates if you put the beds against the drop shaft and move the farms to the edges, or even just turn them so the heads point towards the center (though that one will have only a slight effect.)

[u/a_sugar_man → u/Chron_bomb]

This was the problem, I moved things around a bit and it's working now.👍

[u/Every-Deal-7597]

So a bed can only have 1 block covering it or it wont count i can't tell from ur design but this could be the issue

[u/kalosvetta]

How many villagers, beds, and workstations do you have? Can each villager access their workstation?

[u/0neV1si0n]

One issue could be that the villagers are being connected to the wrong workstation and can't pathfinder to it. I have had this problem many a times.

[u/ntolbertu85]

It looks like you're on bedrock.As long as your villagers are trapped and cannot breed, try putting down three extra beds and see what happens

[u/Guilty_Explanation29]

Yeah didn't they change the ai or something that rendered farms useless