How to Protect a Village! ▫ Minecraft Survival Guide S3 ▫ Tutorial Let's Play [Ep.18]
The Minecraft Survival Guide Season 3 continues in Minecraft 1.20!
Villagers are very useful to keep around, so let's make sure we can keep them alive! In this tutorial, we explore how to defend villagers against the threat of zombie attacks.
First we build trading booths for our recently cured Zombie Villagers. We look at how to keep them safe from zombie variants while still keeping them open for trading, and discuss how having villagers around actually prevents pillager patrols from spawning - within a certain area, anyway.
Then we head out to the first naturally generated village we discovered in this world, and spend a few days setting it up to be protected against zombie attacks - using approaches like lighting, fencing off the area, taking advantage of the village's Iron Golems, or just sleeping for the night!
We also protect the villagers from environmental threats like nearby caves and, in some cases, their own farms.
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Hey folks! I'm very happy I demonstrated how to back up your world in this episode, because this morning I had to use that backup. My PC crashed during gameplay, the world got corrupted, and I now have to rebuild all the progress I made for the next video! While we're on that topic, please read the latest community post, because the upload schedule for Survival Guide is going to change while I send my PC off to be repaired. kzhead.infoUgkx6xkLHjLMqPBCELYXuFR0EOMf-1L6J7_j
I love the survival guide You are the one who though me so much from the firs one Thank you so much
Good luck dude I hope it works out for you and tysm for making these videos they are very relaxing
Sorry to hear about that. 🫂 I hope you have a good backup system for your computer. I learned early in my career the importance of backups and redundancy, which is why my system has RAID-5 storage to guard against disk (now SSD) failures plus LTO backups I run weekly to guard against corruption or data loss, which I have had to use a few times both for software upgrades that didn’t work out and mistakes I’ve made.
I didn't realise how happy your intro made me until I heard an ever so slight tonal change in this video and thought, heyo, something must be wrong... PC glitches and other related issues can be very frustrating so the tip on making backups is yet another excellent one 👍 Thanks so much for this guide and all your great content Pix, keep up the great work and I hope your PC feels better soon! 😊
Thank you for showing how to back up your world, but could you please continue and show us you how to load our saved worlds? There are a few videos that show how to save a world, but they all stop short when it comes to showing how to move a saved world and have it show up in your saved worlds folder, thx.
Personally I just like to enter a village, ring the bells like crazy, and block up the doors of the villager houses as the villagers flee into them. Quick and dirty, but it ensures all the villagers survive.
Don't forget to make sure the houses are lit up inside.
Make a day 1 iron farm ey, anyway good idea, i tend to collect the beds for the farm
Two things I've learned the hard way about village perimeter fences. If the ground and the fence line forms a 1-block-deep "trench" between the ground and the fence, an iron golum will walk right over that trench and then go over the fence. He probably won't be interested in getting back inside the perimeter fence. Make sure any "trenches" between the ground and the fence are at least 2 blocks wide. Second, if you enclose too much area inside the perimeter fence, a raid can spawn inside the fence! That mistake cost me all my traded-up villagers. :-(
Remember that on Java edition, Zombie Sieges can happen inside villages starting at midnight regardless of light level as long as the player is there, so try to go to sleep by midnight if you're in a village or just leave before that point.
Making the backup of your world is only half the solution. The backup is typically made on the same hard drive as the world itself. To avoid losing the world and the backup, you should open your backups folder and copy the backup/s to another drive altogether. Perhaps a second drive in your PC, or an external drive.
It was definitely the solution to a problem I had today, when my computer crashed while playing Minecraft and corrupted the survival guide world. Luckily I could restore the world from the backup I took in this video
I love that you address concerns for whether or not villager living conditions are humane.. "but hey. its a videogame!" That made me chortle.
Time for the Bedrock tips!! First, villagers don't move towards you when you interact with them, so the best thing to do in that situation is put blocks where you can and if you shift over them you might be able to push them! Second and last thing, you have a preview of a villager's next trade, and when they unlock it, it happens immediately, youcan just go ahead and do those trades. This is different, because on Java, if it wasn't clear enough, you need to close the trades window before they can upgrade, and it takes them a few seconds to do so! Actually, there is one more thing for me to say! There is no in-game way for us Bedrock players to check the light levels, or at least no practical ones. What we can do is wait to see if a mob spawns or place a lot more torches, so yeah!
Im a bedrock player
Well, if you're just discovering Minecraft, I hope this helps!
Thanks for the tips :D
You can play with the light settings, I forget what its called, smooth lighting or something, so you see a noticeable light level change per block....you still have to count blocks from the light source to estimate the light level, but it's something I guess 🤷♀️ lol similar to trying to figure out where chunk borders are with leaves and graphic settings. I really wish they would even the field a little bit and give us an easier in game way to check for this...😕
@@mineralnoodles No problem, I'm happy to help!
Savanna Villages also contain Tall Grass in their Chests, which is a super rare collectable block. While 2-block (and even 3-block) variants exist naturally in your world. finding the 2-block grass variants can only be found in Chests in Savanna Villages.
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@@bleh-zj1hy what does a canman mean?
3 block grass?
@@whaletastic9200 haha it's a youtuber his channel name is camman but people call him canman for fun
Don't forget to put torches on the roofs of the houses in the village. 😉 The roofs have solid blocks. 😊
Before the update where the mobs could spawn only at light level 0 it was really a big issue. I had to lit every roof in the village (I like keeping natural villages). Now most of the generated houses are OK. Only the tall ones have to be lit.
@@veta7438At night, it need to be lit, no ?
@@DeathLord9999 Of course it has to have enough light at night. And in Java you could always check. And if you're in advance stage you could do something like daylight sensors. And in old version I had so many times skeletons or zombies jumping out of the roofs or trees only after I missed a bedtime by a little bit! (In a game rather then IRL 😇)
11:11 You can also get those outfits naturally on zombie villagers that spawn in a jungle or a swamp
You can also breed villagers in those locations for it
@@garrylove8955Yep! I assumed that it wouldn't count as "natural" but yeah that's the simplest way to get them in survival (although I think it's like a 50/50 chance whether you'll get the biome based variant or the parents based variant?)
Here’s a horrible thing I always do: Kill The Nitwits! They take up bed space and can’t have jobs. So when I find one I’ll put it in a boat, take it beyond it he notice of the golems and villagers, and once secure, take it out Old Yeller style. And no one ever asks “Wonder what happened to Jeffrey?” 😂
Pix makes me happy every time he uploads 😃
Same
Same hehehehhe my sec account
Pix is the first Minecraft KZheadr I ever watched and really helped when I was first starting the game almost a year ago! Love all the stuff you do!
I don't build a starter base, I take over villages and remodel them until late game, so there are some more tricks I like to do: (a) Confiscate all the beds as soon as you get there, put them all in the biggest house, and let the villagers go in at dusk before sealing the entrance. Guarantees their safety while you work. (b) Since the villagers are confined to a smaller section of the village, you could start just by securing that small part and take your time doing the rest to avoid errors in the defense from rushing. (c) Instead of fences, you can use sweet berry bushes. Mobs won't pathfind through them and they grow crazy fast. In early game is a lot easier than fences. (d) If you want free-range villagers, make sure to put a lightning rod nearby as well. (e) Villagers are 2 blocks tall, so even something as thin as a carpet in front of a 2 block tall doorway will prevent them from going through it. Although, they will still try and also open the door if they can reach it. (f) Sweet berry bushes with carpets on top will also block pathfinding over the carpets as well, making it easier to control villager movement while not interfering with the look of builds or player movement through it.
I do the same thing, in transforming and adding onto an existing village rather than building a base from scratch. I'm going to have to play with these suggestions and see how much of them apply to bedrock because they'd be super useful. I struggle to find different ways to block area and control mob path finding thats not a wall or fence (at least inside the village, I still use walls inside my crop farm area because it works esthetically)
Just 1 simple carpet in front of a doorway blocks them? I didn't know that, lol. What I usually do is when I build my house in the center of the village, I put a trapdoor to the front of my doorway to block villagers and it works until I use a pit with a string and carpet trick to disable mob pathfinding.
@@karkovb1522 Yeah, I typically put a berry bush beneath the carpet for the same thing. I dislike that they continue to open the doors even though they can't fit through it with just a carpet, bc they don't close them again.
Sometimes the differences between Java and Bedrock bug me. Lol I tried these methods of blocking pathfinding on my bedrock world and so far only the berry bushes on top of the grass blocks works. The carpet allows them to pathfind over it and it doesn't stop them from fitting through doors unfortunately. 😑 dang it,I was hopeful. Lol
@@RedSeabird96 Dang, yeah I only have Java. I just checked the wiki, and apparently they did make Villagers slightly shorter on Bedrock. Weird.
If you have plenty of pumpkins, you can make jack-o-lanterns which provide 15 light instead of 14. You could then place those into a 1 deep hole, and then put carpet (or moss?) over it to hide the light source. When you mentioned the block light of 1 is enough, I thought a light level of 7 was low enough to allow spawning but apparently that changed in 1.18, sweet! Fewer torches to spam in my village!)
Yep, the light level change was absolutely huge.
Every time I hear Pix say "Regis" I think "Now he needs a Kathie Lee and a Kelly!"
6:05: The villager actually nodded to you! How nice!
I've been playing this game for at least a decade, but this has still been an interesting series to follow along with. It would be neet if villager trades were different depending on which biome they came from.
I like to take my time with the villages. I repair "enderman" looking potholes, reshape the dirt paths, clear all the grass, trim the trees so the leaves can all be walked beneath. Then I make all the fields larger and put down all the grass seeds, pick the crops and replant all that. If I have enough material to give them all beds and and chests and work stations then I'll do that too. Then I try to secure the nearby caves so nothing crawls out of them, and put torches all over everything: tree trunks corners of houses, corners of fields, along the sides of the pathways. I spend a good in-game week or two fixing it up like Animal Crossing and try to make it feel like home. I gather as much wheat as I can during that time period, and before I leave the village I turn it all into bread and distribute it amongsr the villagers. They have to worry about jobs by day and monsters by night, so the least I can do if I am going to raid their chests is to repay them with kindness.
Hey Pixl, I've been playing for a few years, but I still love watching your guides. Sorry to hear about the computer issues. I do have a request/suggestion. I appreciate the notes on-screen about spawning radius, etc., regarding Java vs. Bedrock. I would love to see a kind of Survival Guide Appendem discussing how to read things from the wiki and how it relates to some of these discussions in a separate episode.
Question about villages right next to water: Do Drowned care about villagers? If so, what is the best way to protect against them?
Wall And at night drowned act like zombies but mornings should be safe(in java)
@@Tree_-wp5znn bedrock if you have them underground (cave or player-made), they can attack them... But yes probably a good idea to protect the villagers against drowned.
Yea, down will go after villagers at night.
Instead of building these outdoors villager traps I did one rather nifty thing! For the fletcher villager, I made a small room for him under the staircase, since there was just enough room for a basement there. For the farmer, I simply put the workstation and the bed in the original wooden viking house (I didn't destroy it and I built the main house a bit further to southeast) so it ended up being perfect for a beginner villager house :)
Pix, baby zombies riding chickens can still glitch through the trapdoor setup by your house. I found the best way to deal with that is to close the trapdoors. You also need lightning rods for storms in both places, I don't know how many for a space the size of your second village, and you need to make sure lighting strikes 5 blocks away from a villager, or lightning will turn villagers into witches.
"Iron golem is naturally a village protector, and they should be treated with care." Pixleriffs next couple episode :
Villagers in Bedrock are weird.The ones I live with act like they can't enter their houses and stay up at night.
Found a fun bug on Bedrock today regarding iron golems. Apparently a regular pumpkin does the job 😅
Great tip to start off. Survival Guide is such a great evolution of Minecraft tutorial let's plays.
Remember kids: never save a backup on the same machine
agreed, buy a completely new device just for minecraft backup saves, good advice.
@@brxnqtyou can use an external HD, a pen drive, maybe save on the cloud. But never on the same machine
Also: test your backups
Hey Pixl, Thanks for the eps, I didn't know a couple of stuff you mentioned, Thanks
I still think Mojang should make them not jump down on more than 2 blocks high ground because a lot of cave/ravine spelunking that they did made them unable to get back up
Fence in a smaller area, move beds into inner houses, and block the villagers in their houses while you do all the work.
Great video Pix. Not sure if you want to remove the grass block that is connected to the fence that is to the right of the composter or not.
I noticed that too!
I follow along with this even though I’m a bedrock player because the mechanics are partly similar. Would you ever do a dedicated bedrock run to show off how farms work in that version?
yay! another great episode! thanks pixilriffs
Great video, Pix!
These videos really make me wanna start a new world but everytime I do so I get bored very quickly
One tip I have about defending a natural village is: have backup villagers. Lock 2 villagers in a small house or cave. This saved me when I found a nice village on a mountainside but almost everbody (including the golem) died to powdered snow.
I found one of these snowy mountain villages too, but it took me a while to get up there and by the time I reached it the village was deserted. I only found out from looking at the game logs that its villagers had died from powdered snow. 😢 It’s a ghost town now.
Didn’t know that about a back folder… good to know. Have you heard about cherry trees leaves being green…seems to be hard to know how to fix this issue
Just doing my due diligence and giving Pix a like and a comment. Can’t wait to see what he starts doing later game. Secretly hoping for New Pixandria or another ancient Capitol.
I like to increase the populations by building a sort of bunkhouse full of beds in the biome theme and some extra farmland with composters. This is after lighting up and fencing etc.
Thanks for the demo of how to make backups in-game. I had no idea that was possible, and have always copied the saves folders in windows (and then copied them to our home server). Having the backup automatically zipped is definitely quicker, as well as less fiddly for less computer savvy players :)
I've found a cool circle of savanna in the middle of mangrove, with another spot of mangrove in the centre of the savanna. looking forward to making a donut village there, and maybe getting a mix of savanna and swamp outfits! (assuming mangrove counts as a swamp in this case). I've never really messed with villagers before so hopefully these villager videos will help me out a bit
I need to find my external drive I bought last year and never unboxed it. Yup. I am working on my base build - I am getting it done. Across water from a village. Just following along from Ep. 1 and going forward. :-) Enjoying this - I know a lot of what you show since I did your first survival guide. But it's fun - and I'm learning new stuff since this is 1.20.1 Yup.
I backup my world after just about every session and upload the backup to Dropbox. I haven’t needed it yet, but I’ve seen too many horror stories.
Needed something to go to sleep to. Thanks
I started a new world just this update and didn’t plan to be involved with village early but the world decided to spawn me 100 blocks away so yeah… ended up defending them anyway 😂
Not sure if yk yet bc I haven’t watched all the vids but u do know the massive hill by ur base, the main one w the waterfalls, ye it has a GIGANTIC cave in it I just explored in creative and wow u just gotta go in the right tunnel and u will find it
I can't wait for Pix to return to the Pirate Grotto™
Unfortunately I always seem to get those screwy villages with half the houses 20 blocks up on a mountainside. Some of those guys might have to take one for the team.
All those blocks fences and trapdoors to protect villages and skeletons be like, am I dead to you.
They kinda are
Skeletons do not attack villagers
Put em in a 1x1 hole with a lava dispenser on the side in case they get out of line.
This responsibility is so freakin biggg
An Early Game method is to put blocks on their doors after they go to bed at night. Then come back later when you've got the materials to do what you did.
This Is Great 👍
I have never seen a double melon 15:23 before in all my years of playing Minecraft.
I want pink cherry blossom villages with villagers that wear pink flower outfits
There is a village right behind your home base mountain. When go behind it just look for a snowy patch of spruce trees
Pretty sure he knows. He’s just taking his time.
RE: Backup Folder. Is there a way to designate which folder MC Java backs up to? It would be nice if it were a One Drive folder that automatically backs up to the MS cloud. That way, incase the hard drive accidentally got dropped in a lava pool, the MC world would still be safe. (or at least a recent copy of the MC world.)
i just use the ianxofour's trading hall design. it makes villager trading faster to start.
That and the early game iron farm together instantly breaks the early game progression grind. And I love it! Let's get that mid-game going, fast.
Just build a big wall around the village with a over hang so spiders can't get in light it up and done. Now you and villagers are safe.
I'm building in the same valley area, and on the same seed in java. I have a small villager hut about 50-75 blocks due south east of your house and my house is about 75 blocks west of my villager hut. Also have a house built where yours is...I had a patrol spawn on the front deck of the house that is in the same location as yours. Isn't that contradictory to the 5x5 chunk area around a village??
PC issues are sad! Hoping its fixed quickly! Love your content!
Hi pixelriffs, I thinkyou should call our fletcher Flick!
Flick Ohmsford?
Love this series!
Lost my world a few weeks ago. Starting again
just ring the bell and place a couple of blocks in front of the door after the villagers walk in 😅 easy
I missed the uploads at the weekend
0:11 I thought he was going to say 'saving your mom'
My computer just did that!
I'm a little nicer, I gave my villagers a 2x3 area to walk in, in like a market stall style of build
If pillagers appear, couldn't one just flip down the trapdoors in this design?
Hi @pixlriffs can you show us how to make a trident farm please.
One of my favorite things to do when protecting a natural or custom village is to surround it with fences to keep the villagers inside, and then place a wall of leaves, two or three blocks high, just outside the fence to keep the monsters out and block their view to the inside. Players can see mobs moving around outside the 'hedge' but the mobs outside can't see the player or villagers inside. Be aware that skeletons will attack iron golems, if they can see them over the fence. A tall hedge or wall will help prevent that. When fencing a village, be careful to place the fence far enough away from the center of the village so that iron golems spawn inside the fence. Also make sure there are no points inside the fence where iron golems can cross over.
oh my god imagine if the s3 world would've been corrupted.
About PC-resets: Do not think your minecraft worlds are safe with in-game backups. I had to re-set my PC a while back, and lost all my worlds. Even those backed up in-game. Re-setting windows removes MC worlds as well as other windows files. You still need to back up your worlds by manually copying them from your appsdata folder to a different drive (than C:) to make sure you'll get to keep your worlds.
Better yet, copy them to offline storage or at least another computer. I use LTO tapes, but that’s a bit advanced for most people. An external USB drive or cloud storage would do as well.
@@trevinbeattie4888 Yes. All of these are good alternatives as well. Agreed.
these have honestly become my comfort videos :D
Love your videos so much I'm watching Everyday your videos keep doing that ❤️😘💕
How U described how U kept the cows in Minecraft and then went on to explain that it's a video game and you don't have to live up to realistic standards, yet that's exactly how animals like cows are often treated in real life soooo
I'm playing on bedrock and a fortune 3 diamond hoe doesn't take durability damage when harvesting the basic crops
Bedrock is attached to your Microsoft account so unless a catastrophic meltdown occurs or you do something dumb. You won't lose a bedrock world. I think.
I'm recent devout follower and have been looking through a lot of your old vids. In your live vids I've noticed something I've been afraid to bring up. But I'll do it here. Do you have a skin disorder? I have psoriasis and recognized some similar symptoms.
Side note, I don't do social media so this is where I have to ask.
Yeah, I get some mild dermatitis (eczema) flare-ups, often on my face between the eyebrows and around the eyes. It's mild enough that I've never had it formally diagnosed - luckily it doesn't bother me too much if I keep a regular skincare routine.
@@Pixlriffs Good to hear it's only mild and you take care of yourself. Mine has developed into psoriatic arthritis and it's quite the task looking after it. Wishing you good health and thank you for the entertainment!
Minecraft has a built-in backup feature? I've been copying manually...
Put him in a box 😂
Free range villagers.
“The village also has natural protection in the form of light sources” Me, who just stole all the lanterns: Oops.
It's a Pix episode!
Binge Watching 04-15-24
Same
Or you could lock them in their house by ringing the bell then blocking the doors with blocks
I am the person who goes through the headache of setting up a good villager hall early, and friends LOVE to complain about the working conditions. (Although they never turn down the free fully enchanted diamond gear and golden carrots)
im playing in a superflat world for bedrock, and i have cured 2 villagers and i have one fletcher who decided to raise the stick price for a emerald from 22 to 45 like a little scammer. why did this happen. please help.
Love your vids
Pix, I think you should also check on the top of the wood of acasia tree . There might be no light on it and might spawn mobs.
Transparent blocks such as leaves n. Glass can't spawn mobs
@@jafferjamal109 i meant the wood blocks of the acasia tree.. since acasia tree branches goes to an opposite directions there might be enough gap for mobs to spawn if there is no enough light on it..
Nah the wood blocks r always covered with leaves always doesn't matter which tree it is
@@jafferjamal109 Acacia trees have enough variations that 2-block air gaps above wood blocks are possible.
@@THE_bchat thts rare and mobs spawing is also kinda rare in those spots
What happens if you copy the world ?
Wake up babe, new survival guide episode just dropped.
People: That seems kinda cruel. Pixlriffs: This is a video game. Me: You of all people? =P
Something I personally like doing is to have a redstone lamp to light up the villager, also a piston with tinted glass at the one opening to close and to let you see into the set up. This makes the light in there toggleable and if you're building or afk near the area chances are it'll get converted for you to cure for better trades and the zombie would just despawn. This works best if all the caves near your trading hall are well lit. Its only downside is that you don't know if it's gonna work in ten minutes or an hour so it's really for the casual single player world that has all the time to spare.
Very nice and informative video. I was wondering about Zombie Sieges thinking they spawn regardless of light level. I checked the wiki and got they need complete darkness. 😅😅
I’m loving the series! How long does it take you to edit each episode?
Does anyone else "recruit" villagers from multiple biomes for different jobs in their custom village?
I personally never did that
I do mostly savanna villagers as librarian as their costumes match with hat of the librarian
I don't even like recruiting villagers from the village I'm transforming. Lol ive thought about doing this, but I just dont have the patience to transport them from different biomes. I hate trying to work with villagers, they're such a pain. That's why I transform an existing village, I don't have to move them anywhere and its way easier. 😅
I’m currently in the process creating one now. It definitely is helpful to get early an d easy access to limited items like mending books.
I just grab two swamp villagers and use them in my breeder so I can have the coolest looking villagers
First. Great to see another episode in this series😁
I'm sorry you're having PC issues! I hope everything is taken care of and you are able to get your system back up and running ASAP!