I built a Netherail to a village for easy access to villagers and now I've decided I want to transport them to my base. How difficult would it be to get them into the nether and on the rail, given that the portal is around 30-40 blocks from the village? Or would it be more practical to build a new Overworld rail system?
It should be as simple as pushing them into the mine cart, so it's as hard as that is I suppose.
Keep in mind, leads don't work on villagers, and there is no way to lure them.
If you want to have fun you can funnel them into the mine cart by forcing them down a path and having a zombie encourage them.
No matter what you do it sounds quite time consuming, so I suggest maybe finding a closer village, curing some zombie villagers, or just dealing with it as is.
either way is fine. Both the ways will be pretty easy, but it will take some patience. It'll be a pain to push the villagers into the minecarts over and over again though.
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quote=DerpRedstoner
I built a Netherail to a village for easy access to villagers and now I've decided I want to transport them to my base. How difficult would it be to get them into the nether and on the rail, given that the portal is around 30-40 blocks from the village? Or would it be more practical to build a new Overworld rail system?
Moving villagers is always going to be an exercise in frustration ; that said:
If your base is far enough from the village you went to the trouble of building a rail system in the nether (rather than just a nether tunnel), moving the villagers throughte nether would almost certainly be more efficient / easier than building an overworld rail system.
Transport would be in three stages:
Village to portal
Given the portal is only 30-40 blocks from the village, I'd just "temporarily" move the overworld portal. (30-40 blocks would be a 4-5 block offset in the nether so the connection should still work; if you build a second Overworld portal at this end, deactivate the first.)
Build a pen around the portal and bump the villagers into the pen, then through the portal. [Slime blocks and a water bucket may be preferable to bumping YMMV.]
Through the Nether
Before bumping the villagers through, fence or wall off the receiving area and run a gated spur of your rail line into it.
Placing several mincarts (or boats if you are short on iron) in the area can help keep the ones you're not moving "out-of-trouble".
Once you have the villagers into the nether, bump them into mincarts and set them on their way. (If the rail line is long, you'll need to follow along to keep them loaded and trouble shoot; running is better than riding a minecart unless you're sure there will be room to exit the cart safely at any point along the line.)
At the base end of the Nether rail the villagers should stay in their carts in another holding pen. One at a time break the carts then bump the villager through to your base. [This is another case where building a "temporary portal" quite close to where you want them to end up can be helpful.]
Base to Villlager area
Again, you'll want to have prepared a secure area for the villagers coming through the portal with minecarts / boats to hold villagers temoparily.
Ideally, they will be "right there" and bumping or temporary water streams will work.
What ever system you go with, I'd move at least one villager all the way through it to trouble shoot.
Once I was confident in the system, I'd move the group in steps (eg all into the nether then all to the base end of the nether, etc)
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Depending on geography and how far is village from your base, it may be a good idea to build a waterway, especially if you got a number of villagers to transport. Digging a channel at y 62, incorporating oceans and rivers as much as possible, work it over with a bucket. Push villager into boat, get in yourself and go.
Depending on geography and how far is village from your base, it may be a good idea to build a waterway, especially if you got a number of villagers to transport. Digging a channel at y 62, incorporating oceans and rivers as much as possible, work it over with a bucket. Push villager into boat, get in yourself and go.
Its a good idea but its hard to get villagers in the boat, also to move the boats is a pain
maybe if you used a minecart system with powered rails, it will speed up the process a bit.
it'll also be automatic, so you just need to push the villagers into the carts.
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The easiest way I've found is to get the villager into a small area (ideally a 3x3 floor surrounded by fences), place a boat so the villager is between the boat and the fence, place water on the 'other' side of the boat.
The flowing water will push the villager into a corner and the boat will follow, causing the villager to get into the boat.
Unfortunately no equivalent for minecarts.
The best I've been able to do in that case is to place a group of minecarts in a 'U' or 'V' then nudge whichever one the vuillager mounts onto rails.
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"Why does everything have to be so stoopid?" Harvey Pekar (from American Splendor)
WARNING: I have an extemely "grindy" playstyle; YMMV — if this doesn't seem fun to you, mine what you can from it & bin the rest.
I built a Netherail to a village for easy access to villagers and now I've decided I want to transport them to my base. How difficult would it be to get them into the nether and on the rail, given that the portal is around 30-40 blocks from the village? Or would it be more practical to build a new Overworld rail system?
It should be as simple as pushing them into the mine cart, so it's as hard as that is I suppose.
Keep in mind, leads don't work on villagers, and there is no way to lure them.
If you want to have fun you can funnel them into the mine cart by forcing them down a path and having a zombie encourage them.
No matter what you do it sounds quite time consuming, so I suggest maybe finding a closer village, curing some zombie villagers, or just dealing with it as is.
either way is fine. Both the ways will be pretty easy, but it will take some patience. It'll be a pain to push the villagers into the minecarts over and over again though.
the potato looked at me. I looked at the potato. I was the last thing it was going to see.
quote=DerpRedstoner
I built a Netherail to a village for easy access to villagers and now I've decided I want to transport them to my base. How difficult would it be to get them into the nether and on the rail, given that the portal is around 30-40 blocks from the village? Or would it be more practical to build a new Overworld rail system?
Moving villagers is always going to be an exercise in frustration ; that said:
If your base is far enough from the village you went to the trouble of building a rail system in the nether (rather than just a nether tunnel), moving the villagers throughte nether would almost certainly be more efficient / easier than building an overworld rail system.
Transport would be in three stages:
Village to portal
Given the portal is only 30-40 blocks from the village, I'd just "temporarily" move the overworld portal. (30-40 blocks would be a 4-5 block offset in the nether so the connection should still work; if you build a second Overworld portal at this end, deactivate the first.)
Build a pen around the portal and bump the villagers into the pen, then through the portal. [Slime blocks and a water bucket may be preferable to bumping YMMV.]
Through the Nether
Before bumping the villagers through, fence or wall off the receiving area and run a gated spur of your rail line into it.
Placing several mincarts (or boats if you are short on iron) in the area can help keep the ones you're not moving "out-of-trouble".
Once you have the villagers into the nether, bump them into mincarts and set them on their way. (If the rail line is long, you'll need to follow along to keep them loaded and trouble shoot; running is better than riding a minecart unless you're sure there will be room to exit the cart safely at any point along the line.)
At the base end of the Nether rail the villagers should stay in their carts in another holding pen. One at a time break the carts then bump the villager through to your base. [This is another case where building a "temporary portal" quite close to where you want them to end up can be helpful.]
Base to Villlager area
Again, you'll want to have prepared a secure area for the villagers coming through the portal with minecarts / boats to hold villagers temoparily.
Ideally, they will be "right there" and bumping or temporary water streams will work.
What ever system you go with, I'd move at least one villager all the way through it to trouble shoot.
Once I was confident in the system, I'd move the group in steps (eg all into the nether then all to the base end of the nether, etc)
Depending on geography and how far is village from your base, it may be a good idea to build a waterway, especially if you got a number of villagers to transport. Digging a channel at y 62, incorporating oceans and rivers as much as possible, work it over with a bucket. Push villager into boat, get in yourself and go.
Its a good idea but its hard to get villagers in the boat, also to move the boats is a pain
maybe if you used a minecart system with powered rails, it will speed up the process a bit.
it'll also be automatic, so you just need to push the villagers into the carts.
the potato looked at me. I looked at the potato. I was the last thing it was going to see.
On getting villagers into boats:
The easiest way I've found is to get the villager into a small area (ideally a 3x3 floor surrounded by fences), place a boat so the villager is between the boat and the fence, place water on the 'other' side of the boat.
The flowing water will push the villager into a corner and the boat will follow, causing the villager to get into the boat.
Unfortunately no equivalent for minecarts.
The best I've been able to do in that case is to place a group of minecarts in a 'U' or 'V' then nudge whichever one the vuillager mounts onto rails.