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It would seem you can create a village in the Nether with no problem. I made a flat area and plopped down some little wooden huts with doors, moved in two villagers, and they almost immediately made a baby. I fed them and they bred more. The village has grown now to over ten villagers, it has 48 doors and there is a naturally-spawned iron golem.

It seems there are no limits! Let me know if you guys do or do not have a similar experience. I want to investigate because I thought it was only possible to have villagers reproduce with open sky available, and these villagers have netherrack overhead.

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I had to lock up the iron golem because he kept attacking the pigmen, and it makes them go hostile to me, oddly enough O.o;

I think they changed things a while back.

Bedrock and naturally generated netherrack don't count.

Wow I never knew you could do something like this. Nice job!

It's that the blocks are naturally generated as said above. Last time I checked it worked the same with beacons, since they need sky as well

I'd love to see a re-skinned version of these villages for the nether! This is pretty neat though, never knew it was possible.

Ooo, now I have a new project for my survival world!

That's an interesting idea. I might try something similar on my world.

Glad you guys like it! A word of warning, however, watch your village carefully after you reach ten villagers. You could be a long ways away from your village and an iron golem could spawn and start hitting zombie pigmen and that can aggress them to you from far away. I was 8+ chunks away from my village when zombie pigmen suddenly started randomly aggressing me. It took me a while to figure out why.

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Glad you guys like it! A word of warning, however, watch your village carefully after you reach ten villagers. You could be a long ways away from your village and an iron golem could spawn and start hitting zombie pigmen and that can aggress them to you from far away. I was 8+ chunks away from my village when zombie pigmen suddenly started randomly aggressing me. It took me a while to figure out why.

You just spoiled so many death stories...

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You just spoiled so many death stories...

I don't think the best deaths will be lost; those happen to people who don't read the rest of the comments. =]

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Iron golems do attack pigmen but the pigmen don't respond at all. That is how my Nether ceiling gold farm works.

I hear others say the same. I guess it works differently for some than others.

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I've definitely gotta try this! How do you keep your farm from drying out?

It's mainly because of the crops. A simple matter of breaking the crops and quickly replanting.