Hey, wasn't sure where to post this but I have a question! I'm making a little kingdom and thought it would be fun to have villagers roaming around, and I wanted to make a little villager breeder, but nothing fancy, as in, I want the ones wondering about to naturally breed on their own.
I'm not sure of the mechanics for this, other than that you need three minimum. Here is what I was thinking:
Would it be possible, if these villagers are roaming freely around a little farming field, to still breed? If I put the doors and the detector villager five blocks underground, would that work, and is there anything I need to do to make sure everything is fine and working? Would the doors of other houses in the actual kingdom above ground affect their breeding, i.e. change the detector villager or something?
I'm admittedly a noob to game mechanics even though I played way back in 2014 for years before I took a break and came back and decided to actually try understanding farms and redstone (both of which have been terrifying to me as a learner). If you have any tips on how to make this villager breeder hardly noticable, I'd be so thankful! (Worry not, I have the gathering of the villagers under control, I just need to prepare the area for them before I try getting them in).
Yes, having doors upstairs will move the center of the village but that shouldn't be much of a problem, you should be able to compensate by moving the detector and his doors further down. If you have more doors in the cellar than up top then the village center should be closer to the cellar than the ground level.
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I'm a little unsure about the exact distance but I would aim to have the village center at least 7 blocks below the surface.
So that would mean you should put the cellar doors at least 15 blocks down.
And you might need to have the detector villager a few blocks above the cellar doors to be certain that he's in the village proper.
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Do you understand the requirements for valid doors?
That they need sky access within 5 blocks straight out from the door, more blocks on one side than the other.
Thank you! This is good to know, now, a few extra questions, at what point do the other doors no longer count as village doors (i.e. if the doors are 50-100 blocks away, do they still get thrown in?) Do the doors have to be oak doors (as I've seen in tutorials) and when I saw the underground detector villager, they had trap doors and ladders just above him in a 1x6 entrance to that lower layer: is that necessary? Or will it still operate if he is completely covered (with torches, of course), or does the transparent blocks between him and the upper villages make it work? Sorry if this is a lot or you don't know.
That makes sense, thanks! Is sky access needed for the detector villager to operate? That'd be the end of my questions, I think I'm ready to make this village breeder thanks to ur help lol
Hey, wasn't sure where to post this but I have a question! I'm making a little kingdom and thought it would be fun to have villagers roaming around, and I wanted to make a little villager breeder, but nothing fancy, as in, I want the ones wondering about to naturally breed on their own.
I'm not sure of the mechanics for this, other than that you need three minimum. Here is what I was thinking:
Would it be possible, if these villagers are roaming freely around a little farming field, to still breed? If I put the doors and the detector villager five blocks underground, would that work, and is there anything I need to do to make sure everything is fine and working? Would the doors of other houses in the actual kingdom above ground affect their breeding, i.e. change the detector villager or something?
I'm admittedly a noob to game mechanics even though I played way back in 2014 for years before I took a break and came back and decided to actually try understanding farms and redstone (both of which have been terrifying to me as a learner). If you have any tips on how to make this villager breeder hardly noticable, I'd be so thankful! (Worry not, I have the gathering of the villagers under control, I just need to prepare the area for them before I try getting them in).
Yes, having doors upstairs will move the center of the village but that shouldn't be much of a problem, you should be able to compensate by moving the detector and his doors further down. If you have more doors in the cellar than up top then the village center should be closer to the cellar than the ground level.
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I'm a little unsure about the exact distance but I would aim to have the village center at least 7 blocks below the surface.
So that would mean you should put the cellar doors at least 15 blocks down.
And you might need to have the detector villager a few blocks above the cellar doors to be certain that he's in the village proper.
---
Do you understand the requirements for valid doors?
That they need sky access within 5 blocks straight out from the door, more blocks on one side than the other.
Just testing.
Thank you! This is good to know, now, a few extra questions, at what point do the other doors no longer count as village doors (i.e. if the doors are 50-100 blocks away, do they still get thrown in?) Do the doors have to be oak doors (as I've seen in tutorials) and when I saw the underground detector villager, they had trap doors and ladders just above him in a 1x6 entrance to that lower layer: is that necessary? Or will it still operate if he is completely covered (with torches, of course), or does the transparent blocks between him and the upper villages make it work? Sorry if this is a lot or you don't know.
If the upper doors are out of range then the villagers next to them will be as well so they won't breed.
66 blocks is a usual benchmark for distances between doors in different villages.
The doors have to be wooden to count but any wood will do.
Iron doors don't affect villages.
The trapdoors would be to provide the sky access.
The ladders would just be to provide access for you.
Just testing.
That makes sense, thanks! Is sky access needed for the detector villager to operate? That'd be the end of my questions, I think I'm ready to make this village breeder thanks to ur help lol
Without sky access the doors won't be counted.
Just testing.
That's all I need to know, thank you so much!!! This has been super helpful. On my way to make it now.