Forum: gaming.stackexchange.com
Tags: <minecraft-java-edition>
Title: Can I make the Village bigger?
Question: Villages. Can someone legitimatly expand a village by building more houses for villagers (Testificates) to breed and fill? Would these houses have any conditions to be met beyond a roof and a door?

Answers:
sents: text: Yes, this is entirely possible.
text: I keep meaning to do it myself, but haven't gotten around to it.
text: Villagers will breed until there are .35*[number of doors] villagers.
text: To be defined as a house, the building must have at least one block with no opaque blocks blocking its view of the sky.
text: In Minecraft 1.8, the Willingness mechanic was introduced in order to make it more difficult to rapidly breed villagers.
text: A villager will always become willing to breed the first time a new offer is traded, and has a 20% chance of becoming willing from each subsequent trade of that offer.
text: Alternatively, a villager can become willing by having 3 bread, 12 carrots, 12 potatoes, or 12 beetroots in a single stack in their inventory.
text: Upon becoming willing, the villager will consume the required food from their inventory.
text: If a villager has more than the required amount of food (generally from farming) they will throw the excess food to other villagers.
text: You can also throw food to villagers yourself to get them to the required food level.
text: Source
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/15092/SaintWacko
score: 13
sents: text: Yes, a village can be expanded.
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text: The Village House A building is a village house if it has a wooden door , an "inside" and an "outside" .
text: The "inside" needs a light level of less than 15 and should not have a direct view of the sky, while the outside needs a light level of 15 and a direct view of the sky.
text: The "inside" is the side which has more "roof" blocks than the other side of the door, with the "roof" blocks being within a five block range from the door.
text: A house does not have any requirements other than those three.
text: An example of the smallest house is something like this:
text: "The dirt blocks the light from reaching the space below it, and so counts as a roof block.
text: There is one "inside" space, covered by a roof block, on the right side of the image and zero on the left.
text: Since one is more than zero, there are more covered spaces on one side of the door than there are on the other, and so the game counts this as a house."
text: Breeding of Villagers Villagers will try to breed to keep the population above 35% of the total amount of houses.
text: A villager must become "willing" in order to breed .
text: If you want to make villagers willing, you can add a farm, or give the villager either 3 bread items, 12 carrots, 12 potatoes or 12 beetroots.
text: Villagers with too much food will throw their food to other villagers, in order to make them willing too.
text: You can also make them willing by trading with them.
text: When trading a new item with them for the first time, they will become willing.
text: They also have a 1/5 chance to become willing once you trade with them.
text: If they become willing after you trade with them, green "sparkly" particles will appear above them.
text: These particles are called happyVillager .
text: Warning in Regard to Expansion Note that a Zombie Siege can occur if a player is in the village and if the number of houses is above 10 or the number of villagers is above 20.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/112980/Jacques Marais
score: 8
sents: text: As of 1.8, villager mechanics are changed, to where you can still build houses the same way as before (a door and a block at least 5 blocks behind it, you can put extra doors in between)
text: but the villagers will not breed until the are "willing.
text: " You must trade with a villager until green particles appear, and then do it again for a nearby villager.
text: So, the answer to your question is yes.
text: It just takes a lot of resources and time.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/126476/hjk321
score: 3
sents: text: Villagers will only breed when they are "willing".
text: This can be achieved through trading and by ensuring they have lots of food (either 3 bread, 12 carrots, 12 potatoes, or 12 beetroots in one stack in their inventory).
text: After mating, they will no longer be willing, and must be made willing again.
text: All this is trumped by the door rule - villagers will mate until the number of adult villagers equals or is more than 35% of the number of doors in the village.
text: "Villager generators" still work in 1.10.2 though, what I normally do is surround a farm (garden,field) with doors and then place a block above each door on the "inside" of the farm.
text: I have a village with 12 naturally occurring doors as well as three of my generators and my village population currently includes 12 adults, four children and an iron golem.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/152254/Thunder Forge
score: 3
sents: text: The amount of villagers depends on the amount of doors.
text: You must place the door with an "inside" and "outside".
text: You will need to place a block next to door to count as a roof.
text: Then you will be able to breed villagers.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/125410/Jim
score: 1
sents: text: Villagers will breed until the number of adult villagers equals or is more than 35% of the number of doors in the village, oddly enough.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/152553/SilverXDestiny
score: 1
sents: text: Just exit Minecraft and enter it again, and their jobs will update, giving them a different robe.
text: There!
text: Now you have a nice growing village.
text: You must have an Iron Golem or fences protecting them from zombies.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/148944/thetwitt
score: 1

Summary of the answers:
A village can be expanded.
A village can be expanded.