I have recently made a survival map and I've been in the process of making an Iron Golem farm... This is very tedious work and for the most part, all I have left to do is get the villagers. Is there any easy way to do this that I haven't heard of, or do I have to find two zombie villagers, cure them, and hope my villager breeder works? I don't think the nearest village to my Iron Golem farm is easy enough to connect with rails and transport the villagers... Thanks for any replies!
Unfortunately, those are the 2 best options: Lure Zombie Villagers into the pods and cure them, or bring Villagers in via Minecart. Tutorial videos make it look so easy when they're recorded in Creative mode. Building an Iron Golem farm is definitely tedious work in Survival, and filling the pods with Villagers is usually the hardest part. But if built right, the end result should be worth your effort within a few hours. Good luck!
There is another way depending on the distance. Villagers will move themselves along a line of "houses" as long as you destroy all the valid doors behind them and keep adding valid doors in front of them. Just wait until they cabbage onto the next set of doors in the line before destroying the ones they've just vacated. It's still tedious, but it does work. If you don't know what makes a door valid, you can look it up on the Wiki or Chunkbase has a pretty good tutorial.
It might be too late for you, but it helps immensely to build the Iron Farm at ground level and having the "kill chamber" underground. This is what I did. Even carting the villagers from 380 blocks away was no big deal. You only need two. If the farm was built properly they will breed up to the required number (typically 16 according to most designs).
This means your Iron Farm doubles as an Infini-breeder. Just kill (or release and cart away) a villager and the Farm will breed back up to 16. Since 10 villagers is all that's needed to spawn golems, this doesn't affect your rates at all.
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I have recently made a survival map and I've been in the process of making an Iron Golem farm... This is very tedious work and for the most part, all I have left to do is get the villagers. Is there any easy way to do this that I haven't heard of, or do I have to find two zombie villagers, cure them, and hope my villager breeder works? I don't think the nearest village to my Iron Golem farm is easy enough to connect with rails and transport the villagers... Thanks for any replies!
Unfortunately, those are the 2 best options: Lure Zombie Villagers into the pods and cure them, or bring Villagers in via Minecart. Tutorial videos make it look so easy when they're recorded in Creative mode. Building an Iron Golem farm is definitely tedious work in Survival, and filling the pods with Villagers is usually the hardest part. But if built right, the end result should be worth your effort within a few hours. Good luck!
There is another way depending on the distance. Villagers will move themselves along a line of "houses" as long as you destroy all the valid doors behind them and keep adding valid doors in front of them. Just wait until they cabbage onto the next set of doors in the line before destroying the ones they've just vacated. It's still tedious, but it does work. If you don't know what makes a door valid, you can look it up on the Wiki or Chunkbase has a pretty good tutorial.
I had this problem in my world. I fixed it by making sure each of the four pods had 4 villagers each.
It might be too late for you, but it helps immensely to build the Iron Farm at ground level and having the "kill chamber" underground. This is what I did. Even carting the villagers from 380 blocks away was no big deal. You only need two. If the farm was built properly they will breed up to the required number (typically 16 according to most designs).
This means your Iron Farm doubles as an Infini-breeder. Just kill (or release and cart away) a villager and the Farm will breed back up to 16. Since 10 villagers is all that's needed to spawn golems, this doesn't affect your rates at all.