Minecraft: How to breed villagers?

If you are here, you must have already established your starter base in the game, however, there’s a lot more in it. The villages in the game are inhabited, which brings you the opportunity to raise the population by breeding villagers.

This improves trading in the game while also making the enormous globe of Minecraft a little less lonely. We're here to help if you're unsure how to breed villagers in the game.

Minecraft Java Version 1.13 and earlier

The breeding process in Minecraft Java v1.13 or earlier is slightly different from v1.14 and later. Here, instead of beds, the number of doors determines the breeding capacity.

1. Find or start with a village, with at least one house – just four walls that are at least two blocks of height would work.
2. For every two villagers you want to breed, add three doorways. Install numerous doors along the perimeter.
3. Check to see if the villagers are willing to breed. Each villager requires 12 food points to activate willingness, with loaves of bread worth 4 points and carrots, potatoes, and beetroots worth 1 point each. When they are willing, hearts appear over them.
4. If feeding your people does not drive them to reproduce, you must trade with them. Leave the villagers alone in the building once all of the requirements have been met.
5. In the next 20 minutes, a baby villager might appear. After another 20 minutes, he or she grows up.

Minecraft Java Version 1.14 and later

As mentioned above, the v1.14 and later versions of games have slightly changed the breeding process – which more or less remains the same, except for substantial changes like the doors being replaced by beds. Therefore, you need three beds for each couple, now – one for the baby. Here’s how to do it:

1. Find or build a village, with at least one house – just four walls that are at least two blocks of height would do the job. Some buildings adjacent to each other are considered a village, as per Minecraft.

2. Now, here comes the deal: Make sure that the building where villagers are going to breed has at least three beds, with two or more blocks above them.

3. There should be three times the number of beds as there are adult villagers.

4. Make at least one trade with your villagers. This isn't always necessary, but it might help when "willingness" is absent.

5. Make sure the people have 12 food points so they can breed. Bread is worth four points, whereas carrots, potatoes, and beets are only one.

6. Allow two villagers to be alone in a building. Remember to leave three beds with two free block spaces above them.

7. As mentioned in the previous process, a baby villager would appear in about 20 minutes.

Minecraft Bedrock

This also has pretty much the same process as Java versions – here’s how to do it:

1. Firstly, as done in other modes too, find or start building a village with one or more buildings. It includes four walls, with three blocks of height – no roof, etc is needed.
2. Make sure that the building where villagers are going to breed has at least three beds, with two or more blocks above them.
3. Start trading with villagers, for at least once. This isn’t mandatory, however, if villagers are in no mood of breeding – this may work.
4. Make sure that villagers receive 14 food points – a bread delivers 4 points and similarly, potatoes, carrots, beetroots come with 1 point each.
5. After that, leave two villagers in a building and come back in the next 20 minutes – a baby villager would appear, and grant a bed to him/her as well.
6. If you move the baby out of the room, you can have the two villagers breed again. Of course, their willingness must be there, as does a wait period.

Minecraft Survival Mode

In this mode, there’s a high probability that the villagers could be killed by zombies – thus, you will have to breed more. Moreover, villagers won't breed if they feel unsafe. Here’s how to deal with this:

1. Make sure that there’s light in the village. Place torches – craft them from sticks and coal.

2. Build a timber fence or a cobblestone wall to encircle your village. It should ideally encompass the entire perimeter and have a gate that can be closed at night.

3. Create iron golems to protect your community if it has fewer than 16 residents. They spawn automatically in large villages.

4. Instead of iron golems, you may tame wolves to guard the village. To tame a wolf, give it 12 bones.

5. Instead of using wooden doors, make steel doors with some form of switch to open them — zombies can't break them. This option, on the other hand, permits your folks to exit the building.

FAQs:

1. How much does Minecraft: Java & Bedrock for PC cost?
   It starts at $29.99.
2. Who created Minecraft?
   Markun Persson, who is also known as Notch.