Skyblock Villager Guide

Villager guide

Villagers on Skyblock work a little different than what you are used to. This guide will give you some general information and tips you may find useful in the event you plan to get villagers. Please note that information you find here is not an official documentation of their encoded behaviour and both small and big details might be missing or incorrect. However it should still give you a good idea of how they work on the server. That said, let's first list what they can and cannot do to challenge your expectations.




What villagers can and cannot do

There are several features about villagers that are restricted on the server. They cannot...​

• Trade with players
• Produce iron with iron golem farms

Even if not having these things take away most of their appeal, they do have most other vanilla functions. They can...​

• Liven up your island
• Harvest and plant crops for you (farmer villagers only)
• Breed
• Spawn iron golems (but no iron drops)

Getting your own villagers

If you don't have any villagers yet, presently the only way to get them is by curing zombie villagers. Here's a full refresher on the appropriate steps:​

• Prepare yourself with a splash potion of weakness, a golden apple, a bunch of building blocks and a nametag with a desired name for your zombie villager .

• Ensure you turn on mob spawning in /settings and wait for mobs to spawn at night. If you're lucky, a zombie villager might spawn.

• Isolate and roof the zombie villager to protect your zombie from outside harm. Optionally, you can nametag the zombie right now as this is not possible once it's cured! Using a nametag will also prevent it from potential despawning .

• Throw the splash potion of weakness and then use a golden apple on the zombie. Conversion starts and it becomes a villager after several minutes.

On Skyblock Survival it's possible to spawn villagers with a monster spawner. However, these ones will despawn. It may be possible to breed these villagers and get ones that don't despawn, but this info is incomplete.

If you already have villagers and you want to breed them here's a link to a tutorial.




Under the surface

Villagers have 1.12 AI and have their own category in spigot. This means separate and slightly different configurations than animals and hostile mobs.​

• Villagers can actually stack if there's too many of them in one place (±20 villager limit). Unlike other mobs, villager stacking only occurs one by one until the limit is no longer exceeded. Even if the profession of the villagers don't match stacking can still occur, but their profession will be preserved. This means your stacked villager will be able to return to its previous professions by killing them.

• Villagers stop moving when you're too far away from them. To keep them active, they have to be inside your villager activation range; it's a cylindrical range with a radius of 16 blocks and height from bedrock to build limit. This is important to keep in mind if you want to use your villagers to farm crops.

The guide ends here. Feel free to comment with questions or if you think something is wrong or missing. I hope the content answers most of your questions regarding villagers on skyblock and that it'll help you along the way.
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Many thanks to Mai for making these amazing banners​

 

Using a nametag on villagers doesn't (seem to) work so you'll have to use it on zombie villagers before curing them

 

I re-highlighted some words based on your regard! (thank you) No changes have been released for villagers as far as I know, though if there are other parts in this guide that aren't as clear be sure to let me know, I'm not the best writer ;~;

 

Awesome guide Adrian, thank you!