Breeding villagers in Minecraft is a valuable skill to cultivate thriving communities in your virtual world. Not only does it add more life to your villages, but it also allows you to trade with new villagers and expand your possibilities. In this article, we will explain the necessary steps and requirements to successfully breed villagers.
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What are Villagers in Minecraft
If you don’t already know, villagers are passive mobs in Minecraft that live in villages. Each villager, if not unemployed, has a specific role to play in the village. And you can trade for different items with each type of villager depending on their occupation. Additionally, depending on the biome where the village spawns, the villagers’ outfits and houses vary drastically.
Among the variants, you can find witches, villagers, wandering merchants, and even zombie villagers. You can also heal zombie villagers in Minecraft, but raising villagers is a good replacement for restoring the population. Anyway, the only variants we will focus on are the normal adult villagers and the baby villagers.
Benefits of Breeding Minecraft Villagers
Here are some of the endless benefits of raising villagers in Minecraft:
- Villagers in a specific area automatically cause the Iron Golem to appear.
- A variety of villagers can help you get a variety of trade deals (as well as discounts)
- If you have enough farmers, you can create several automated food farms.
- Villagers, like librarians, can provide rare items, such as enchanted books, which you can use for the best sword enchantments, the best trident enchantments, and more.
- Aesthetically, your base can be more colorful and active with the villagers in it.
Required Materials to Breed Villagers in Minecraft
To raise villagers, you will need: additional beds (more beds than villagers), food (3 breads, 12 carrots, 12 potatoes or 12 beets), and the will of the villagers.
Step-by-Step Guide to Breed Villagers in Minecraft
Here is the step-by-step guide you need to follow to Breed Villagers in Minecraft:
1. Establish a Village
- Locate or create a village by finding naturally generated villages or building structures such as houses, farms, and job stations.
- Villagers need at least one bed and one job station to breed, so ensure there are surplus beds available.
2. Food Supply
- Villagers require sufficient food to initiate the breeding process. Carrots, bread, potatoes, and beetroot are commonly used for breeding villagers.
- Collect a significant amount of food and store it near the village for easy access.
3. Door and Population Requirements
- Ensure there are enough doors in your village to support the desired population.
- Each “house” within a village must have an appropriate number of unobstructed doors to be considered valid for villagers.
- To count as a “house,” there must be an unobstructed view of the sky above a door block within a five-block radius.
- Each valid “house” requires at least one villager and one bed.
- The number of villagers you can breed depends on the available houses.
4. Encourage Villager Breeding
- Distribute extra beds within your village to provide opportunities for villagers to pair up.
- Drop food items near villagers, ensuring that they can pick them up.
- With enough food and available beds, the villagers will begin to breed. Hearts will appear above their heads during the breeding process.
5. Extra Tips for Successful Breeding
- Make sure you have enough valid “houses” to support the desired population.
- Keep an eye on the food supply and regularly restock it near the villagers.
- As the villagers population increases, expand the number of beds and job stations to accommodate new villagers and their professions.
Conclusion
Breeding villagers in Minecraft allows you to create thriving and self-sustaining communities within your world. By following the steps outlined above, you can ensure that your villagers have the necessary conditions to breed successfully. Remember to maintain a steady supply of food, provide enough beds and job stations, and regularly monitor the population to guarantee a prosperous village.
FAQs
How to Automatically Breed Villagers in Minecraft
All you have to do in this situation is create a garden in the area where the villagers are and plant some seeds. If you have extra unclaimed beds, the villagers will take care of the rest of the work and raise themselves until all unclaimed beds are claimed. Adding additional beds will increase the potential size of your village.
How to Breed Villagers through Trade in Minecraft
When a villager is found, the only way to allow them to start breeding is to increase their “willingness”. Now that you know how to increase its “willingness,” you need to know how to unlock it. Doing this is quite simple. If the villager has a new job that you haven’t completed before, there is a 100% chance that the villager’s “readiness” will be unlocked. If it is a trade you have already completed once before, you have a 20% chance. You can use this as a way to increase the chances of your villagers taking the food in their inventories and spawning.
How to Select a Baby Villager’s Profession
If there is an unclaimed job block nearby, the baby villager will claim it as a new profession as soon as it grows up. There is an exception with the villagers in green robes, these villagers are known as idiots. Idiots can’t be given a profession. As long as no trade is made with the new villager, you can still delete the claimed job block and replace it with another to change its profession.
How long does it take to grow a villager?
As mentioned in this tutorial, a baby villager only needs 20 minutes to become a fully developed adult. However, it does not affect or prevent adult villagers from raising more babies.
Is there a limit to reproduction among villagers?
No, villagers can spawn indefinitely if you have added enough beds and available food to your spawn area. If the location is not overcrowded, villagers will continue to spawn with a 5-minute cooldown. So yes, you can create an infinite villager breeding farm if you’re interested in that.
Where is the best place to create a Villager Breeder?
You can create your own breeder or breeding farm within an existing village to reduce transportation time. It also saves extra effort in creating houses and beds for them.
