Nearly every mob in Minecraft can be directly bred or duplicated to increase their numbers, but this is not possible with villagers. Instead, a more indirect approach is required. Today, we explain step by step how to breed villagers in Minecraft.

How to Breed Villagers in Minecraft

Nutrient Points

• Beetroots - 1 Point
• Carrots - 1 Point
• Potatoes - 1 Point
• Bread - 4 Points

A villager will only become willing to breed when it has accumulated twelve nutrient points within its inventory. A single beetroot, carrot, or potato is worth one nutrient point, while bread is worth four. They can all be mixed, so long as the total value is twelve. Villagers with available space within their inventories pick up these food items when they are thrown on the ground in front of them. Farming Villagers, or villagers with 24 nutrient points within their inventory, will also share food with other villagers naturally over time. Twelve points worth of food is consumed with each breeding attempt, regardless of success.

Bed Availability

Breeding will fail if there is no available bed for a villager’s potential baby to occupy. This means that for two villagers to breed in a village of five villagers, there must be six available and accessible beds. For a bed to be considered both available and accessible, it can not be claimed by another villager, the villagers must be able to access it, and there must be at least two blocks of space above it.

Entering Love Mode

When two villagers have 12 nutrient points, and there is an available bed, they will typically enter love mode and meet within the next few minutes. As long as there is an available and accessible bed is within 48 blocks, the breeding will succeed. After the baby is born, it will claim the available bed and the parents will enter a five-minute cooldown period. Only once the five minutes have passed can the parents become willing to breed again.

Lineage

When a baby villager is born, it has a 50% chance to match the biome it was born in, a 25% chance to match parent one, and a 25% chance to match parent two. This means that if a plains biome villager and a desert biome villager are bred within a swamp biome, there would be a 50% chance the baby becomes a swamp biome villager, a 25% chance the baby becomes a plains biome villager, and a 25% chance the baby becomes a desert biome villager. Without the Villager Trade Rebalance experiment active, villager types are entirely cosmetic.

How to Breed Villagers in Minecraft Infinitely

Villagers are not meant to breed infinitely, but by walking a fine line within their restrictions, it is possible. Most functioning villager breeding farm designs for 26.x rely on a farming villager who produces food for both parents and three to four visible beds technically accessible but, in reality, out of reach. Then, by having a trap that both captures and carries the baby villager away before it can claim the bed, breeding can repeat infinitely since the bed remains unclaimed. The video above by FancyCrafts showcases an easy build guide for one such villager breeding farm with the only note being that it must be built far from any pre-existing villages.