Location: "Village". Note the roofsheep infestation - shameful.
In the interests of science, I have begun documenting an experiment with a local village, unironically named "Village" by the locals.
At first, Village isn't much to look at, beyond the majestic mountains in the distance: houses, farms, the usual. Peaceful. Serene. Tranquil.
BORING.
Upon arriving, I couldn't help but notice the villagers were life-threateningly stupid. At least 3 of them were trapped in a hole, with no apparent means of escape. Neither they, nor their safer brethren, seemed concerned by this. Coupled with their complete lack of defenses, I estimated their unassisted chances of survival lasting, at most, a few minutes.
Step one of the project was to erect a wall around Village, to save them from themselves. As much as seeing a spider carry one of these people off would have been amusing, it would have also tainted the experiment irrevocably. More than that, the wall kept them in, so they could not fall into any more holes. While no formal study was conducted, I strongly suspect that giving these villagers a glass of water would cause them to drown.
The wall, post-construction. A villager took interest in the camera, before attempting to eat it. He has been ear-tagged as "Walter".
Strangely, the villagers did not seem to notice or care about wall construction. This might suggest they have extremely poor eyesight, and likely no hearing at all. Alternately, they may have been ignoring the wall, since it was not edible. I have made a note to not construct walls out of ham, going forward.
The villagers' level of technology seems appalling at best. While they have a rudimentary grasp of basic construction principles, they lack any source of electricity, plumbing, bathing, and possess primitive agrarian techniques. Their social structure (if one can call it that) is pure chaos. There are no clear leaders, laborers, specialists, anything at all. While some of their clothing varies, their day-to-day tasks rarely change. If any interaction took place, it was in the form of cryptic conversations. At this time, it is unknown what their nasal utterances mean.
Here, we see two villagers (now ear-tagged "Marv" and "Pubert") talking, presumably about sorcery. Walter looks on with jealousy - he is rarely included in these conversations, it seems.
To assist them, I began construction of a new road system, to replace the slipshod gravel mess they were using before. Both for beautification reasons, and for instilling terror in the locals, I opted to use nether brick for this task. Unsurprisingly, this task is massively laborious and tedious, so I attempted to enlist the villagers' help, by building a statue of myself, for them to admire. Shortly after, they begun following orders. Sadly, orders often had to be repeated, and reinforced with the use of an Experimental Discipline Stick.
The statue serves as the town's new centerpiece, so they never forget who their benevolent experiment supervisor is. EVER.
This is an unprecedented opportunity both for myself, and for you, the reader. A fully intact village, preserved from monsters and the elements, existing solely to fulfill our experiments! Naturally, I wouldn't be documenting this experiment if I didn't want your input and expertise!
Please include below what experiments you feel would best suit this project, dear researchers. Anything goes, because this is for science! Want to test their combustibility? We can do that! Curious how they stand up to extreme pressure? Doable! Let's hear what experiment we should conduct for day 2!
Why not renovate their farms and construct a large green house? Of course, the glass shall not be green. The villagers would surely try to eat it then! I'm sure they would enjoy the space, and a green house would be a place of relaxation. *Light bulb moment.* Hey! Why not build them a simple park with play toys, and see how their young interact with them. It may open up an opportunity to communicate and would show us how they see fun and what social interactions the young ones have with each other. If you conduct an experiment that includes trading with them, please do realize that all of their offers are complete rip-offs as I have experimented in this area myself. Perhaps a chance to replace their lanterns with glowstone, or better yet, a network of redstone lanterns conected to a central daylight detector!
Thank you ever so much for reading my absolute fail at trying to reply to this topic and have a nice day, boy this a long run on sentence, I hope I have the sense to end it soon or else I will get a little bored of wri...
Thanks,
Lytning31
BTW: The sentence never ended...
Anyhow I think that since the village is walled off you should do a test of their carrying capacity. Set conditions for a high growth rate now that all major threats have been extinguished and see what happens when the population reaches a high density. Will they become more efficient? Fight each other to death for the last carrot? Only time will tell.
Could u give the seed of this village?...there is some really nice mountains near the village.
Hopefully Sach doesnt mind if I give the seed number. I originally found the seed in 1.7.2, but it should work fine in 1.8 snapshots.
Seed: 8273570472534601379
Default World Gen.
That is hilarious.
Also, you should test how bouncy villagers are when dropped on slime blocks.