Do villagers need sunlight?

Not completely, no. You will need some sort of air shaft. Villages, in Minecraft, are just a collection of doors that meet the condition of having more spaces on one side exposed to sunlight (This page on the Minecraft Wiki goes into the details).

Do villagers need access to sunlight to breed?

Once villagers have enough food in their personal inventory, they'll become willing to breed and do so as long as there are enough unclaimed beds. These beds (and the doors near them) will need skylights/holes to ensure that the offspring has a place to go once it spawns.

What do villagers need to survive?

Note that villagers cannot infinitely breed without stopping, because they also need to rest at home, sleep, gossip, and work (or wander around if they are a nitwit). Additionally, they need food in order to be willing.

Do villagers need line of sight?

Time of day, line of sight, it all doesn't matter. Villagers will claim workbenches all the same, even when sleeping! Lots of misinformation about this. There is (AFAIK) only one way to stop a villager that is in range of a workstation or bed from trying to claim it: stop the villager from pathfinding.

What do villagers need in their house?

Villagers become willing by having at least 3 bread, 12 potatoes, 12 carrots, or 12 beetroots in their inventories. Players can throw food at villagers to have them pick it up. Villagers will breed depending on the time of day.

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Can villagers live one big house?

A village needs at least one house and one villager to be considered a "village". A "house" is marked by a bed. A village utilizes villager breeding to try to maintain a 100% population level, so long as there are at least two villagers occupying it.

Will villagers Despawn without beds?

Do villagers really despawn without beds? Villagers have no where to go if you break their bed. They tend to panic at night and die due to a zombie attack. Villagers don't breed unless there is an open bed.

How far away can a villager detect a workstation?

A villager can only discover POI blocks that are within 16 blocks horizontally and 4 blocks vertically of their position.

How do you give villagers bread?

You can also throw food to villagers. Villagers become willing to breed when they have either 3 bread, 12 carrots, or 12 potatoes in their inventory. To craft bread, select a crafting table and place three wheat stalks in any row of the 3x3 grid.

Why is my villager not taking a job?

At night or too close to sunrise and sunset, they won't take a job or see that you have destroyed their job block. So, if you have a villager trapped and you're trying to get a librarian to sell you mending books (for example), you want to be in a house big enough to hold two beds.

Why do villagers stare?

Villagers are known for running around and either interacting with other Villagers or exploring their small towns. If a player runs within a certain distance of a Villager, the Villager will stare at the player and until they are chased off by a zombie, when the night cycle begins or when it starts to storm.

How do I make villagers happy?

If you throw food to villagers then that will ensure they have plenty and will encourage them to breed. Bread works best, but carrots and potatoes are good too.

Can villagers starve to death in Minecraft?

Villagers can die in all sorts of ways. They can be struck by lightning, turned to witches, murdered by hostiles, suffocated, starved to death… the list goes on.

Do villagers Respawn in an empty village?

Curing a Zombie villager

Zombie villagers have certain areas where they will definitely spawn. However, they also will spawn randomly, much like regular zombies. Players can dig a ditch around an empty village and wait for a Zombie villager to fall in.

Can nitwits breed?

Breeding. Even though it may feel like they do not do anything, they can still breed like regular villagers. Players can easily create a villager breeder where they use only nitwits for breeding.

Will villagers breed on their own?

A. Villagers do not breed on their own. Villagers need to unlock their willingness by completing a trade with a player.

Can villagers access chests?

Villagers cannot open chests.

Do villagers unlink from beds?

Description. If a villager is linked to a bed (can sleep in it), it will not unlink from that bed if it goes to another dimension, such as the nether or end.

What happens if you sleep in a villagers bed?

A player can, however, sleep in a bed being used by a villager. The player may first wake the villager (pressing use on the villager) and then quickly enter the bed before the villager can lie down again. The villager reclaims the bed after the player wakes.

How do you stop a villager from dying?

Keeping your village well-lit, fenced-in, and patrolled by iron golems is a sure way to keep out the undead. Zombie-proofing your village's homes with fence gates or raised wooden doors will keep zombies out of your houses and prevent your villagers from being killed or turned.

How do you make a village bell?

Bells aren't craftable – instead, they're generated naturally in all village variants, usually pretty close to the middle of the settlement. You'll need a pickaxe to mine one, otherwise you'll destroy it.

Can villagers open trapdoors?

Villagers can't open fence gates or trap doors, nor can they use buttons or levers, allowing you to use iron doors, iron trapdoors, or just about any redstone-based door mechanism without them being able to escape.