Hi,

I managed the farmers to pick up the crops finally, but now they seem to hold onto them.
Is there a setting preventing them to drop them or give them to other villagers?

Can't find anything anywhere.

Is "Item Toss By Mobs" protection turned on?

Yes, that's the option.

Hi I have the same problem. I have managed villagers to allow them to pickup crops etc. but they are still not able to throw items to each other even though the item toss is off (image below). Any idea what can cause that?

And if you unclaim the chunk they start doing it?

To be honest I am not sure what exactly helped at which point. I changed the following three options to include "minecraft:villager"

I also changed the setup my villagers where placed in to have more space. Previously they only had one block window and it seemed like this also caused some issues, but now it seems like they are able to throw food properly.

Also for others there is specific requirements on how much food the villager throwing and being thrown to, has to fulfill to be able to throw food between each other, so check if those are met (they should be on the villager page on minecraft fandom wiki)

Edit: Villagers can only throw food at specific time of the day (something between 0 - 2000 ticks and 9000 - 12000 and they will not share food during day when they work and during night when they sleep (no matter if they are working/sleeping or not)

Thanks for the info! I kind of doubt those options are what fixed the issue. Can you check if removing "minecraft:villager" from them still keeps it working?
I have a feeling that it's really just the vanilla requirements not being met for villagers to drop stuff.

As you said the villagers can throw food, it just comes to specific requirements of vanilla. Btw I updated previous post because there is also time constraint on those.

However the first option "Entities Allowed to Grief" still requires minecraft:villager entry to be able to allow them to harvest crops. Without that they will try to pick it up but will fail to do so.

@HousikTV No, you can give villagers access through the exception group in your player config. None of these options affect throwing items though.

Could you point me towards the option which control that? Is it Blocks (Villagers)?