Connected Villager Job Site [DATA PACK]

=== NOTICE ===

This data pack has been rewritten and renamed to Villager Job Fix to accommodate new features. Here's the new data pack with new quality of life features: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/customization/villager-job-fix

=== Showcase ===

=== About the Data Pack ===

The purpose of this data pack is to connect villagers to nearby work stations – ones that they can actually work with from their current position. This enables you to do trade centers and villager cages without having to worry about them getting a work station that's too far from their position.

The data pack allows you to set the closest villager's job site to one of 17 positions around him.

• If no trades have been made, the data pack will set his job site and change profession accordingly;
• If you have traded with the villager already, the data pack only updates the job site.

The closest villager will always be targeted (10 block radius). So approach a villager, place a work station adjacent to him, and use the command "/trigger cvjs_fixJobSite".

The workstation detection order is as follows:

• Below villager's feet;
• Then the 8 blocks around his legs: N > S > E > W > NE > SW > SE > NW;
• Finally, the 8 blocks below the previous 8 (remember we already checked the middle one below his feet):  N > S > E > W > NE > SW > SE > NW;

=== Notes ===

The entity used for the highlight of the connected Job Site is visible for a brief moment due to a very old bug: https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-88181
Unfortunately Mojang never fixed it so there isn't much I could do. There might be some ways work around it but that'd result in adding more lines of code – for now I'd rather have a cleaner and more efficient code than add more junk just to work around the bug.

=== Links ===

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