What blocks will villagers not walk on?

Description. In a two-block high house (meaning the ceiling is the third block up, with two empty blocks under it), a carpet makes a villager too tall to walk around. If there is a carpet in front of a door on the outside (like a doormat), the villagers can't get in.
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What blocks do villagers avoid?

Villagers can open all wooden doors and find paths or blocks of interest behind the doors. However, they cannot open any trapdoors, fence gates, or iron doors.
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Will villagers walk on slabs?

With the slabs there, villagers are unable to path find to the doors (they don't see the way to the doors). When the slabs are removed and it becomes a full block stair case, they are able to find and get to the doors. This also occurs with stairs.
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What doors can villagers not go through?

The Minecraft community has realized through observation that while villagers can walk through things like wooden doors, they are unable to cross through wooden fence gates. The gate must be open for them to proceed through. They are incapable of opening them themselves.
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How do you stop a villager from walking?

Use a fence gate or iron door instead of a regular wooden door. Villagers can only open standard wooden doors. Another option would be to build a small patio or deck in front of your house, and use the trapdoors as your decking.
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Can villagers use fence gates?

No, villagers are not able to use fence gates.
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Do trapdoors stop villagers?

In fact, villagers can only open wooden doors. 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.
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Can villagers climb over fences?

If a carpet is put on a fence, a player can then jump over fences, but mobs can't. Fences and Nether Brick Fences do not connect. This allows players and villagers to go through these kinds of fences, but not mobs.
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How do you kidnap a villager?

Kidnapping from a village

Boats can be moved on level ground (without water). A villager can be made to enter the boat by pushing the villager into the conveyance (or driving it into the villager), and the villager does not leave until the boat is broken. However, boats can move only downward but not upward.
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Can villagers Pathfind on carpet?

When a villager is attempting to path-find to a bed (or any path-finding), they can get stuck on various carpet/trapdoor/slab configurations.
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What is villager pathfinding in Minecraft?

A villager will claim a bed if: They are within a 48 block sphere of the bed. It is 'pathfinding'. The bed is not already claimed by another villager.
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What can villagers not Pathfind on?

Description. Villagers are unable to pathfind over beds to get to their bed even if there is an unobstructed route to the bed. The villager will stand next to a bed in their path as if they've hit a wall. Prior to 1.16 the villagers would walk over beds to get to their own.
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Does iron golem protect your house?

If you just build the golem inside your house, they can't get through doors and they protect your house.
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How do you raid proof a village?

There are multiple ways to do so:
  1. Walling off the village. ...
  2. Setting traps. ...
  3. Blocking villager doorways. ...
  4. Ringing the bell to get all villagers back into their houses. ...
  5. Iron Golems. ...
  6. Equipment. ...
  7. Good spawn point in the village. ...
  8. Milk.
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Can villagers use pressure plates?

Diamond pressure plates can only be activated by players. This can be useful in keeping piglins or villagers away from your base, as they can open doors an it's quite annoying.
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Will villagers walk over open trapdoors?

Villagers can jump into their trapdoor structure but cannot jump out, making them unable to run away from Illagers during raids, and Zombies.
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Can villagers open iron doors with pressure plates?

While it's easy enough to secure buildings with iron doors, there is an exception. The oldest door-triggering mechanism – the pressure plate, won't stop villagers. A villager can step on a pressure plate outside a door and enter the building.
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Can villagers hit buttons?

They will count iron doors as normal doors for house determining purposes. They won't use buttons and levels in any other circumstance. If you want to make doors that only you the player can use, you can place the lever/button above the door instead of beside it, as villagers won't make the effort to reach up to it.
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Can villagers use ladders Java?

Villagers can climb up ladders, that's great! Perfect! I strongly recommend the addition of the ability to climb down ladders for Villagers.
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Can villagers open chests?

Villagers cannot open chests.

It may be possible for you to put bread into a dropper (or dispenser) and then automatically activate the dropper with a redstone clock, but you need a good setup for this to solve your problem.
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Do iron doors protect villagers?

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Iron golems serve the purpose of protecting villagers and will kill any hostile mob within range of your villagers.
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Can villagers trade diamonds?

Villagers and Wandering Traders can trade many items, such as Raw Chicken, Cookies, Wheat, Bottles o' Enchanting, Chain Armor, Diamonds, and Bread. They can trade much more too.
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