I’ve built my tavern in 3 different locations in hopes to resolve this issue. Tavern Patrons are showing up as intended, but it as if there is an invisible barrier around my tavern that they are getting stuck on. They have almost no health and are hunched over like they have been injured. They will not enter the tavern and I cannot interact with them outside before they disappear.
That’s weird, never seen that before.
Just one idea: Do you have siege cauldrons on your base? I saw tavern guests being attacked with them. Spiked palisades and similar items might have the same effect.
no I currently have it built far away from my base just in case something I had was causing it. its an isolated building with nothing else near it.
Damn. Then I’m out of ideas. 
Single or multi player?
Mods?
playing online multiplayer, official #1561 playing with no mods.
Very strange.
Ok, is it on flat ground or do they have to climb stairs? Is there anything else possibly blocking them?
While I don’t think this would be tied into the Tavern system, just throwing blind darts, but do you have a thrall pot?
Are there enemies around?
Have you witnessed any strange NPCs spawning with them?
Where exactly are your taverns located?
I’ve attempted building in 3 locations. All 3 yield the same results. Currently its built on on flat ground near no enemies. No other enemies have spawned with them. I have tried adding a thrall pot and removing it but nothing changed.
I’m in the east jungle, a little west of where the silkwood is located (near where the hops and leavening agent spawn is)
Is the tavern structure built in an open configuration (clear access from all directions) or have entry points. (doors, openings without doors or door frames).
I vaguely recall a few times where I’ve seen patrons show up appearing injured (as you described) in a couple of taverns I’ve built before.
One crazy idea I can suggest is to remove all walls and leave the bar sitting only on foundations with stairs if necessary to access the bar. Try a 4x4 foundation set up if possible. I’m sure you’ll discover something.
Tested this in single Player and cannot reproduce this effect at all. Tavern works in EL as it should. Comvined with the OPs Tests, I guess it’s Server related.
I actually noticed this as well on my official pve-c server #1942.
Some of Tavern peeps had a 1/4 heath bar, but they were seated in my Tavern.
Also the occasional time I’ll jump on my horse and it will have 1/4 health. Dismount, remount it has full health again.
These two are probably unrelated bugs (despite similarities) - Khaletohep’s test suggests the tavern bug does not occur in singleplayer, but I have definitely experienced the mount health bug in singleplayer. It’s great to have confirmation that it also occurs on official servers.
The mount health appears to be purely a UI fail, whereas the tavern patrons appear (by the sound of things) to have actually lost health. (Both are worth us knowing about 
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Me, too. And I can also confirm that it’s purely visual.
Thank you so much for the replies! I have built up with no walls or door frames and it’s still happening. Slight update: It works once per day (perhaps on server reset?) I log in the AM and the thralls are all surrounding my tavern and as I approach they all walk in. After this one time, they return to what they were doing previously and they get stuck on the invisible wall with almost no health and I cannot interact with them and they despawn after a few seconds. I certainly appreciate everybody’s input 