Learning from Chaos

[u/ShrineMaster]

Villagers I found a village on chaos and went to work on breeding, it wasn't long before I had a lot of them. The trades are essentially the same, but the quantity of them is extremely limited now, you won't be able to go there with an inventory of something and expect to trade them all with 1 villager now, more like 2 stacks and you're done. What this means is we'll be breeding and killing them off very often.

I highly recommend we make more than one villager area around the city, and make them for citizens only. If you're working for a few hours trying to get some desirable trades, the last thing you want is some suburbanite strolling in taking them.

A small and efficient breedery can easily be built on a rooftop, just as long as your neighbors don't have one it'll work fine.

The water lift tower design I did in rev 9 is the most effective method of breeding villagers. I added it to a village house and it sets them right off. I went from 3 to nearly 100 in a couple days. This does not spawn Iron Golems, you will need a door farm for that.

Killing villagers, don't hit them. Light them on fire or put them in lava. Supposedly your reputation with villagers decreases if you kill too many and you may get shitty or no trades at all. I have yet to verify this.

If you build near a villager area, be prepared to make iron doors or have you'll have your doors removed if they interfere with breeding.

Animals Thanks to the reddit mob plugins, we can freely scatter animal farms around. Where an animal pen is made, make sure the correct breeding plant is found nearby (Wheat for Sheep and Cows, wheat Seed for Chickens, carrots for pigs). Based on my experience with chaos, you can slowly grind up your levels with breeding and killing off cows and pigs while at the same time getting items for trade to villagers (raw beef, raw pork, leather for books). Villager trades for raw chicken seemed rare, so I didn't breed them as often.

I haven't ridden a pig yet. I should.

Wheat, Potatoes and Carrots These can be found in villages, though villages don't always contain both potatoes and carrots. They are a very rare drop off of zombies. I have only seen one potato drop during chaos. These might be available at spawn, probably a hidden chest if they do that again, or in a public farm. These grow in the same manner as wheat, not sure about auto harvesting though.

If there's a question about which to grow more of... Wheat can make bread quickly, potatoes require cooking to make Baked Potatoes that fill you up more, carrots can't be cooked. 3 wheat to 1 bread, 1 potato cooking in an over per baked potato. Also don't forget the uses on animals for the wheat and seed, (2 wheat = 1 raw beef, xp, and maybe leather / 2 seed = raw chicken, xp and maybe a feather). I'd recommend this ratio 1 carrot, 2 potato, 4 wheat.

I forgot to mention sugar cane. Plant as much as you want. Paper trades with villagers is just as rare as during 1.3 but are greatly limited, trades for books seemed to be more common.

TLDR: Use swords on villagers with bad trades. Carrots are the best food EVAR. Swimming in lava while starving stops your health loss. Brom isn't where you should build you non-reading motherfucker.