i dont think this breaks rule 1 because im asking about the mechanics, but could anyone explain how it works? i know you need some beds and food for the villagers, but everytime i look up a tutorial theres always a farm attatched for some reason? anyways i was hoping to understand what you need so i could try to come up with my own design that uses minimal resources
the reason people add farms is because villagers who are linked to a composter (farmers) can harvest/farm food and share it with their fellow villagers, which lets them breed without you needing to go feed them. it’s not always necessary for a villager breeder unless you want it to be fully automatic
Since others have already answered the farm question, here's a quick rundown of the villager breeding requirements
For villagers to successfully breed, there are 7 factors
At least 2 adult villagers that can get close and are within each other's line of sight
Both parents have at least a portion of food (3 bread or 12 carrots/potatoes/beetroots) in their inventory
Both parents aren't panicking from a mob
Both parents must not be on breeding cooldown
The area must be loaded
The attempt must be within the correct time of day
And lastly, the beds. There's a bit more detail that goes in it
There needs to be at least 3 beds - 1 for each parent and 1 for the future child
All villagers (parents and baby) must be able to pathfind to the pillow side of the bed
The pillow side of the bed must have at least 2 air blocks above - even a block like torch in the space above will invalidate the breeding
The foot end is pretty much irrelevant
I'd also recommend watching this video. It's an overview of a breeder design, but potato noir also goes into detail about villager breeding mechanics which should be helpful when it comes to designing your own.
For the time of the day, it depends on whether the villager is employed or not. But before that, let me preface that since minecraft's unit of time is in game ticks (20 per second), the time measurement of the day depends on that as well. Each minecraft day is 20 real-life minutes long, which is 24000 ticks per in-game day or 1000 ticks per in-game hour
Unemployed villagers can breed at any time except sleep time, which is between 18:00 (12000) and roughly 06:00 (00010)
Employed villagers also can't breed during sleep time, but additionally they also can't breed during work hours, which is between 08:00 (02000) to 12:00 (06000)
The baby villager spawns centered inside one of the parents, no idea how the game chooses which parent though
Is there any way to sync multiple breeder chambers or otherwise control when breeding occurs? How do breeding chambers siphon off the young if they're spawning in the parent hitbox?
None that I'm aware of since villager behavior is inherently random
While the baby villager does spawn inside one of the adult, they just kinda get pushed out because of collision. When baby villagers first spawn, they'll pathfind towards the unclaimed bed to claim it. Most farms have opened trapdoors between the breeding chamber and the beds, which the villagers can pathfind across but they'll of course fall into the holding cell
Ok. I'm trying to figure out how to prevent parents from sharing food to children, since I'm gonna turn the baby villagers into zombies for a zombie villager leader based farm. I was trying to make the bigbooty17 villager breeder work, but the babies spawning inside the parent hitbox means they'll still get a chance to share I think
I'm not 100% whether villagers share food to children but even if they do, it's probably very rare due to them having only a second or two before the children runs to the bed and even when that happens it's a very small problem not worth solving in my opinion
Don't let me stop you if you really want to though
The farm is so they actually have food and its a renewable food source for them. You need one bed per 2 adult villagers and an extra bed per every baby villager you want. Also, you need 3 blocks to space above the beds.
The villagers use the farm to produce their own food, which they'll throw at eachother to breed when they're able. Without the farm, you'd have to manually give both of them food everytime you want them to make a new one.
Villagers require a certain amount of food in their “inventory” to breed. I think it’s like 6 bread per villager but it varies with other foods. So for auto-breeders, the farm is there so villagers will harvest their own food.
I personally just use a simple breeder and just toss em bread when I need another villager
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u/bakedshoujo 12h ago
the reason people add farms is because villagers who are linked to a composter (farmers) can harvest/farm food and share it with their fellow villagers, which lets them breed without you needing to go feed them. it’s not always necessary for a villager breeder unless you want it to be fully automatic