How Can I Protect My Village from Attacks? (2024)

FAQs

How do you protect your village in Minecraft? ›

Build a wall to protect the village from a future raid by constructing a city wall and add at least two watch towers and a gate.

A stack or more of expendable blocks to barricade village houses. Iron blocks and carved pumpkins. This can summon iron golems providing additional reinforcements to the village. Unlike golems that are spawned by villagers, they won't attack you even if you hurt them.

If the only goal is to keep the villagers safe (or as a temporary measure until walls are built), wait until the villagers have gone indoors (in centrally-located buildings), then place blocks or fence gates outside doors to barricade all the villagers inside their houses.

TIP: When you block an arrow with your shield, you can earn the advancement called [Not Today. Thank You]. It will take up to 5 shields and nearly 15 minutes to break the pillager's crossbow. And once the crossbow breaks, the pillager will no longer attack.

Once all of the villagers run into their houses, find all of the villagers that you need or find important. Then, cover their doors with cobble, and start the raid. The pillagers cannot break cobble, so they won't be able to kill the villager(s) inside of the house.

To do this, you need to remove all grass/sand blocks in the area, and light the place up to prevent pillager spawns. If you are on PvP, the pillagers can be used as defense against enemy players. An alternative way to pacify the outpost is to replace the wooden floors with bottom slabs of any type.

Iron Golems are a unique neutral mob in Minecraft, they can be found all throughout the world in every biome. Iron Golem are known to protect players and villagers if harmed.

Can villagers defend themselves in Minecraft? ›

The villagers are strictly pacifists, but the iron golems, not so much. So during a raid the villagers will actually upgrade an iron golem or help out other villagers.

Villagers are scared by a zombie up to 8 blocks away. Villagers need to see 2 others, and they need to be within 10 blocks of each other. Villagers also need to sleep - so the line of sight to the zombie needs to be interrupted from time to time.

A guard for villages! Unlike iron golems, guard is a TRADE that any villager can take up if the position is open and someone is unemployed, a guard villager will not attack mobs on sight, but will attack if a mob attacks another villager.

House. A village needs at least one house and one villager to be considered a village. A house is defined as a bed. The game utilizes villager breeding to try to maintain a 100% population level, so long as there are at least two villagers occupying it.

To feed villagers, the player must throw the food to them, and let them obtain it in their inventory. A villager requires 12 food points to be considered ready to breed. Below is a table indicating the number of points for each food item.