[MC-3736] Village spawned iron golem problem Created: 23/Nov/12  Updated: 08/May/17  Resolved: 25/Feb/13

Status: Resolved
Project: Minecraft: Java Edition
Component/s: None
Affects Version/s: Minecraft 1.4.5, Minecraft 1.4.7
Fix Version/s: None

Type: Bug
Reporter: Franco Pellegrini Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Works As Intended Votes: 2
Labels: attack, iron_golem, village
Environment:

Windows 7 64bits, java 7u9 64bits.


Issue Links:
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Confirmation Status: Community Consensus
Game Mode: Survival

 Description   

I have a village of aprox 25-35 villager, and 2 natural spawned iron golems. I killed 4 villager (because they get stucked with me in a hole and I cant dig out without attack them) and the golems start to kill me over and over. I kill them 2 times both, but when they naturally respawn, they continue their attack. They kill me a lot of times and the aggro continue. They should be calmed right now, but they are aggro permanentrly.



 Comments   
Comment by Cailan Ferguson [ 20/Dec/13 ]

There is a reason. The reason is the village popularity. when you kill villagers, or hit them, you lose popularity and when a village detects that you have a popularity below -15, all natural Iron Golems attack. visit http://minecraft.wiki.com and type in Iron Golem or
Village

Comment by Tails [ 25/Feb/13 ]

From the Minecraft Wiki:
"Presently, popularity has one effect: if a player has -15 popularity or less, iron golems of that village will become aggressive to that player."

Comment by Jon Drews [ 27/Jan/13 ]

I fixed this by using NBTExplorer (http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/840677-nbtexplorer-nbt-editor-for-windows-and-mac/) to reset my reputation in the village. Looks like it wasn't being reset after leaving for a while.

This can be done by going to your minecraft save folder and opening world/data/villages.dat in NBTExplorer. Then from there navigate to villages/players, find entry with your name and change "S: <some number>" to something greater than -15. At <=-15 the golems will keep on killing you.

Comment by Jon Drews [ 27/Jan/13 ]

I have this issue on a 1.4.7 vanilla minecraft server. Things I've tried:

  • Long walks away from village and iron golems
  • Restarting server
  • Sleeping
  • Letting them kill me 30+ times
  • Traveling to nether
Comment by Pete Frisky [ 14/Jan/13 ]

Have this issue too in single player, Snapshot 13w02b. As much as I'd like to control golem aggro it is too random. Sometimes I can walk past the golem fine but I have been killing zombies and zombie villagers and the golems starts attacking me and not the zombies. The agro is not reset even after i die, or exit map.

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