Okay firstly I am aware that some people will not like this, but please just read it and post why you hate or like it, please don't have any arguments =D.
So my idea is that villagers are very... undeveloped(?). I think that it is being improved on now but here are some of my ideas.
1. Villages stages. Spawned, expansion, defense, and war.
First stage: When the village just spawned.
second stage: This is when the number of villagers are more than the number the amount of houses can provide, the villagers will walk around and find places of flatland around their village and build about 5-6 houses. If flatland cannot be found, the villagers will destroy pieces of blocks and build their houses. This destroyed blocks will then go into an inventory in the villagers and you can get those blocks by killing them. It is basically just expanding the village by a little. Maybe the villagers can walk to the spot where they want to build and just put block by block.
third stage: This is probably a few (minecraft)days after the second stage has finished and the villagers will start building trenches around the village filled with lava(or just pitfalls to trap mobs) and build fences in certain areas. At this stage, about 6 villager soldiers will spawn, they wil assist the iron golems in guarding the village. I will explain about the villager soldiers later. Oh, and MAYBE there should be a few dogs added into the village to help guard. They should act just like the norma tamed dogs, except that they follow villagers and maybe have a brown collar?
Fourth stage: With the village all safe and sound, another 8 villager soldiers will spawn and travel away from the village. Explain later.
2. Villager soldiers.
This guys will look like the normal villagers except that they hold an iron sword like the way that zombie pigman hold theirs. Their robes could be swapped with a leather armor. These soldiers have an inventory and EXP meter. Killing them will give you 1/5 of the exp they get from killing mobs and all the items they obtained.
Health: 10
Armor points: 3
Damage: 2
Attacks: They attack everything except YOU and Creepers, they also attack wheat blocks that are more than 50 blocks away fromt the village center. Yes, meaning they steal your wheat and slaughter your animals. And they attack you if you attack them.
Healing: half a heart every 1 minute.
Drops: The items that they were carrying and 1/5 of the exp they obtained.
This villager soldiers will spawn during the third and fourth stage of the village. During the third stage 6 of them would spawn and patrol the village. Of course this would mean that villages are too overpowered so that means that iron golems have to be weakened drastically. They behave normally during the day but at night they would stay outdoors and walk around in their groups. It is possible for other villages to reproduce soldier villagers, but if the soldiers are killed they will not automatically respawn, so the only way is for villagers to reproduce. If you attack the iron golem or any villagers, this soldiers will attack you.
During the fourth stage however, 8 of them will spawn and travel aimlessly. They will never return to the village and instead plunder other places. The 8 of them will attack all monsters they encounter, taking the drops and experience points and continue travelling. If they find a wheat farm away from the village, they will destroy those ready to be harvested, which means that you have to protect your own wheat farms. When they encounter your house, they will slaughter your lifestock and take items from chests. Yes they can take items from your chests. This would make them a pain in the neck unless they are stopped. When they are killed, no more will spawn.
If the 8 of them somehow encounter a village, they will attack the villagers there, however they will lose as the iron golems will keep respawning.
There are ways to protect your base, like walling up a huge area around the village as they can still destroy blocks during the second and third stage of building.. You can also create exp "farms" by letting the soldiers to kill monsters for a few nights then slaughtering them.
Thank you for your kind attention. I know that this is not the best idea in the world but please do not flame or anything.
But what about those people who want too help them build their villages, instead of the venturing villagers just killing everything, make it so that they are very nice towards you and other testificates.
For NPC's that are a threat, let's add a new one, they would be very stupid, not very strategical, and move in camps.
So my idea is that villagers are very... undeveloped(?). I think that it is being improved on now but here are some of my ideas.
1. Villages stages. Spawned, expansion, defense, and war.
First stage: When the village just spawned.
second stage: This is when the number of villagers are more than the number the amount of houses can provide, the villagers will walk around and find places of flatland around their village and build about 5-6 houses. If flatland cannot be found, the villagers will destroy pieces of blocks and build their houses. This destroyed blocks will then go into an inventory in the villagers and you can get those blocks by killing them. It is basically just expanding the village by a little. Maybe the villagers can walk to the spot where they want to build and just put block by block.
third stage: This is probably a few (minecraft)days after the second stage has finished and the villagers will start building trenches around the village filled with lava(or just pitfalls to trap mobs) and build fences in certain areas. At this stage, about 6 villager soldiers will spawn, they wil assist the iron golems in guarding the village. I will explain about the villager soldiers later. Oh, and MAYBE there should be a few dogs added into the village to help guard. They should act just like the norma tamed dogs, except that they follow villagers and maybe have a brown collar?
Fourth stage: With the village all safe and sound, another 8 villager soldiers will spawn and travel away from the village. Explain later.
2. Villager soldiers.
This guys will look like the normal villagers except that they hold an iron sword like the way that zombie pigman hold theirs. Their robes could be swapped with a leather armor. These soldiers have an inventory and EXP meter. Killing them will give you 1/5 of the exp they get from killing mobs and all the items they obtained.
Health: 10
Armor points: 3
Damage: 2
Attacks: They attack everything except YOU and Creepers, they also attack wheat blocks that are more than 50 blocks away fromt the village center. Yes, meaning they steal your wheat and slaughter your animals. And they attack you if you attack them.
Healing: half a heart every 1 minute.
Drops: The items that they were carrying and 1/5 of the exp they obtained.
This villager soldiers will spawn during the third and fourth stage of the village. During the third stage 6 of them would spawn and patrol the village. Of course this would mean that villages are too overpowered so that means that iron golems have to be weakened drastically. They behave normally during the day but at night they would stay outdoors and walk around in their groups. It is possible for other villages to reproduce soldier villagers, but if the soldiers are killed they will not automatically respawn, so the only way is for villagers to reproduce. If you attack the iron golem or any villagers, this soldiers will attack you.
During the fourth stage however, 8 of them will spawn and travel aimlessly. They will never return to the village and instead plunder other places. The 8 of them will attack all monsters they encounter, taking the drops and experience points and continue travelling. If they find a wheat farm away from the village, they will destroy those ready to be harvested, which means that you have to protect your own wheat farms. When they encounter your house, they will slaughter your lifestock and take items from chests. Yes they can take items from your chests. This would make them a pain in the neck unless they are stopped. When they are killed, no more will spawn.
If the 8 of them somehow encounter a village, they will attack the villagers there, however they will lose as the iron golems will keep respawning.
There are ways to protect your base, like walling up a huge area around the village as they can still destroy blocks during the second and third stage of building.. You can also create exp "farms" by letting the soldiers to kill monsters for a few nights then slaughtering them.
Thank you for your kind attention. I know that this is not the best idea in the world but please do not flame or anything.
For NPC's that are a threat, let's add a new one, they would be very stupid, not very strategical, and move in camps.
Kind of. I imagine they would be on something like a mission, you know http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_(Christianity)
But since Minecraftia is not really a safe place, they have weapons and armor too keep them safe.