Connected Villager Job Site [DATA PACK]

By
ScorchedPsyche

Connect a Villager with a work station close to him.

=== 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.