How can I make my farmer villager replant crops? (1.8)
According to the notes for the 1.8 update, farmer villagers will harvest ready crops and replant them. The farmer will hold the produce (wheat, carrots or potatoes) they harvest for up to 6 stacks then it will fall on the ground. Using this information I setup a farm with a hopper minecart running underneath the crops to pick up the items they drop.
I'm having trouble making them harvest crops, even after giving them 6 stacks of each type of crop they can harvest. Am I doing something wrong? Can I make this more efficient?
More info: I made a 4 9x9 field of crops with 2 farmer villagers in it and fenced off.
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I had the same problem. Same set up with the mine cart running under the farm.
I have a Village with about 50 Villagers. It seemed the only thing my farmer wanted to do was get to the other Villagers or get to the center point in the Village. I moved the Farm about 50 blocks from the Village and he now farms.
I put 8 stacks of seeds on a farmer/fisherman/shepherd or fletcher,(any villager with a solid brown robe). I only did Wheat because it's the only one that seems to work with the mine cart under the farm.
Carrots and Potatoes seem to work a little differently with the farmers. If you fill the farmers with 8 stacks of carrots or potatoes they wont pick up anything. But they will place it. So I use water to push the items to a hopper for the carrots and potatoes. The farmer will replant after the flush.
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Farmer villagers can harvest these seeds and replant them in Minecraft. After planting the seeds, bring an unemployed villager using a minecart. Make sure there is no way for them to escape.How do you make farmers villagers harvest crops?
Lock them in place with blocks and all that's left is to till the soil and plant your preferred Minecraft crops. When the farm villager attempts to trade with the delivery villager, the items will fall into the hoppers and wind up in your chest.How do villager farmers work?
If a farmer villager has any seeds, carrots, potatoes, or beetroot seeds in his inventory and finds an air block above farmland, the villager moves to it and plants a crop.How to make villagers plant crops for you - Minecraft
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UPDATE: I threw more stacks at the farmers until they were full. I also removed any doors nearby. I removed some grown crops manually and they did replant. Will see if they harvest too.
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