In a world with no villages, I decided to make a village from scratch.
I built a large square island out of cobblestone in the ocean, then waited around on it, killing hostile mobs as they appeared, and luring zombie villagers into a trap, were I cured them. Now I am building houses out of giant red mushrooms on the island to make a village.
I want my new villagers to breed and create a fairly large population, so I was going to place a large number of doors underground in the middle of the village with glass on top to allow sunlight to reach the gorund but let villagers walk on top. The large number of extra doors seems to help, but I would like to hide them under carpet.
I heard somewhere that carpet does not block light. Is that true? If so, then I can hide my super door monstrosity out of site. If not, then the light will be blocked and render my fake extra housing useless.
"Carpet is an opaque block but does not decrease light going through it.
Because of this and the fact that it can be placed on any block, a
common decorative strategy is to place carpet on glowstone, illuminating a room and hiding the light source at the same time."
If I had to guess, I would say the carpet would conflict with the game registering the underground doors as a village. It has nothing to do with whether the light is blocked; the doors would not be "open to the sky" (per se) and not count as a house/village.
If you just want a way to breed villagers (for whatever purpose) I suggest building an Iron golem farm. Most designs will breed up to 16 villagers, repopulating if you remove any from the holding cells. On top of that, you get loads of free iron.
In a world with no villages, I decided to make a village from scratch.
I built a large square island out of cobblestone in the ocean, then waited around on it, killing hostile mobs as they appeared, and luring zombie villagers into a trap, were I cured them. Now I am building houses out of giant red mushrooms on the island to make a village.
I want my new villagers to breed and create a fairly large population, so I was going to place a large number of doors underground in the middle of the village with glass on top to allow sunlight to reach the gorund but let villagers walk on top. The large number of extra doors seems to help, but I would like to hide them under carpet.
I heard somewhere that carpet does not block light. Is that true? If so, then I can hide my super door monstrosity out of site. If not, then the light will be blocked and render my fake extra housing useless.
So does sunlight go through carpet?
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As per the Minecraft wiki:
"Carpet is an opaque block but does not decrease light going through it.
Because of this and the fact that it can be placed on any block, a
common decorative strategy is to place carpet on glowstone, illuminating a room and hiding the light source at the same time."
If I had to guess, I would say the carpet would conflict with the game registering the underground doors as a village. It has nothing to do with whether the light is blocked; the doors would not be "open to the sky" (per se) and not count as a house/village.
If you just want a way to breed villagers (for whatever purpose) I suggest building an Iron golem farm. Most designs will breed up to 16 villagers, repopulating if you remove any from the holding cells. On top of that, you get loads of free iron.