I have not heard anything to confirm the above to be true.
It seems to me that not many people realize just how many doors they need to get villagers to breed. Villagers will only breed if there are less then 1 villager for every 4 doors. That means that if you have a population of 10 villagers, and want one more to breed you need 44 valid doors. If you want a total population of 20 you'll need 80 valid doors, population of 30 needs 120 valid doors, etc.
However, there is a much easier, more efficent way of amping up the population in your village.
This design consists of a breeding "room" several blocks below or above your village, with 8 doors, one villager and a view of the sky in front of each door. No villagers in this room breed, however they cause the villagers in the village above/below the room to constantly breed until the population cap is reached.
I usually build my breeding rooms under the village so that they can be hidden. Here are some details on how to build one under your village if you choose to do so:
Dig out a room that is 4 wide 5 long and 2 tall under the centre of your village (doesn't have to be exact, in fact it doesn't really have to be under the centre but I prefer to build them there for a couple of reasons). The floor of this room must be at least 6 blocks below the lowest area any villager has access to (other then the villager you will be placing in the breeding room).
In this room you will place your 8 doors and a villager. I prefer to secure my villager a couple of blocks away from the doors in a little booth to prevent him from constantly opening and closing the doors (the sound will likely drive you up the wall). In front of the doors, you must dig holes to the surface, so that there is a view of the sky somewhere in front of each door.
Here is a top down view of the layout of the room I discribed:
Glass = hole to the sky (can be topped off with a transparent block)
Bookshelves = doors
Logs = barrier of some sort, i usually build a counter (this is to prevent your villager from opening and closing the doors, if you don't mind them opening the doors contantly you can exclude this row from the design completely)
Cobble = floor
Notch = Villager
The last component required to make this room work is to have 2 (or more) villagers in the village above, they must be able to get close to each other to breed.
Note: If you want to "turn off" the breeding room, all you have to do is place solid blocks so that they block the view of the sky in front of the doors in the room. This way, you only need to remove those blocks when you want the breeding room to "turn on" again.
If after reading this you are still unable to fix the problem you'll need to provide us with a little more info to get a more specific soloution to your problem. How many villagers do you currently have on your map? How many do you want to have? How many valid doors are in your village? Also providing one or several screenshots of you village (specifically some of the houses/doors in the village) might help.
Its true because i have done it many times lol. Having alot of doors on 1 building attracts the villagers to that building where they are more likely to breed. Doors spread across the village dont really help if the villagers all stick to only 2 or 3 buildings anyway. I have gone from 2 cured zombie villagers to over 40 villagers doing this.
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I have not heard anything to confirm the above to be true.
It seems to me that not many people realize just how many doors they need to get villagers to breed. Villagers will only breed if there are less then 1 villager for every 4 doors. That means that if you have a population of 10 villagers, and want one more to breed you need 44 valid doors. If you want a total population of 20 you'll need 80 valid doors, population of 30 needs 120 valid doors, etc.
However, there is a much easier, more efficent way of amping up the population in your village.
This design consists of a breeding "room" several blocks below or above your village, with 8 doors, one villager and a view of the sky in front of each door. No villagers in this room breed, however they cause the villagers in the village above/below the room to constantly breed until the population cap is reached.
I usually build my breeding rooms under the village so that they can be hidden. Here are some details on how to build one under your village if you choose to do so:
Dig out a room that is 4 wide 5 long and 2 tall under the centre of your village (doesn't have to be exact, in fact it doesn't really have to be under the centre but I prefer to build them there for a couple of reasons). The floor of this room must be at least 6 blocks below the lowest area any villager has access to (other then the villager you will be placing in the breeding room).
In this room you will place your 8 doors and a villager. I prefer to secure my villager a couple of blocks away from the doors in a little booth to prevent him from constantly opening and closing the doors (the sound will likely drive you up the wall). In front of the doors, you must dig holes to the surface, so that there is a view of the sky somewhere in front of each door.
Here is a top down view of the layout of the room I discribed:
Glass = hole to the sky (can be topped off with a transparent block)
Bookshelves = doors
Logs = barrier of some sort, i usually build a counter (this is to prevent your villager from opening and closing the doors, if you don't mind them opening the doors contantly you can exclude this row from the design completely)
Cobble = floor
Notch = Villager
The last component required to make this room work is to have 2 (or more) villagers in the village above, they must be able to get close to each other to breed.
Note: If you want to "turn off" the breeding room, all you have to do is place solid blocks so that they block the view of the sky in front of the doors in the room. This way, you only need to remove those blocks when you want the breeding room to "turn on" again.
If after reading this you are still unable to fix the problem you'll need to provide us with a little more info to get a more specific soloution to your problem. How many villagers do you currently have on your map? How many do you want to have? How many valid doors are in your village? Also providing one or several screenshots of you village (specifically some of the houses/doors in the village) might help.