It doesnt happen that often but when it does its very frustrating, im talking about when the trader dies and leaves items at the edge of the map which the villagers try to collect and die.
Ive been able to remedy this by following the path of the villagers to and pressing tab and trying to find the item/items on the ground and recycle them.
The issue is it can take a long time to find the items the villagers are going to get.

Im making the assumption that its a trader dying from searching the internet as there should be no reason for any items to be that far out (edge of the map)

I cant think of any way to fix this other than to make the trader immortal and i also cant work out how to make this happen, any ideas?