How to Breed Villagers in Minecraft

Want to populate your village? First, you need to know how to breed villagers in Minecraft.

How to Make Villagers Breed in Minecraft

To encourage villagers to breed, get them alone together and give them enough food and beds to start a family.

1. Collect food. To get villagers to breed, you need to give them at least 12 Beetroots, 12 Carrots, 12 Potatoes, or 3 Bread.
   

   To always have a steady supply of crops, plant some seeds and start a garden.

2. Find a village. Search in plains, savannas, snowy tundras, and deserts, or use the cheat command /locate village to see the coordinates of the closest village.
   

3. Make Beds. In a Crafting Table, put 3 Wool in the top row and 3 Wood Planks in the middle row. You need 1 bed for each adult villager, plus 1 additional bed per child.
   

4. Get two adult villagers in a house and close the door. Hopefully, you can find two villagers already in a house. If not, you can transport villagers using a Minecart or a Boat (even on land). A riskier method is to find a zombie villager, let it follow you into the house, and then cure the zombie villager.
   

   The gender of the two villagers doesn't matter.

5. Place at least 3 Beds in the house. Add additional beds for more children. Make sure there are at least two blocks of empty space above the beds so that your villagers can get up.

6. Give your villagers food. Drop your crops on the ground and they will pick them up.

   How you drop items depends on your platform:

   • PC/Mac: Q key
   • Xbox: B
   • PlayStation: Circle
   • Switch: B
   • Pocket Edition: Tap and hold the item in your hotbar
     

   If the villager will not take your food, make a trade with them. Interact with them and swap some of your items for theirs, then try again.

7. Leave the house and wait about 20 minutes. Don't forget to close the door behind you.
   

8. Check back later to find children villagers playing inside or near the house. Add more beds and give the parents more food to continue growing the family.

Why Breed Villagers in Minecraft?

Villagers (with the exception of those in green robes) can take on occupations as soon as they reach adulthood. Villagers of different professions will trade different items, so it helps to have as many villagers with as many different jobs as possible.

As long as you haven't traded with a villager, you can change their occupation by destroying their job block and replacing it with a different one. Place one of the following job blocks near your child villager so that it will take on the corresponding job:

Profession	Job Block	Items for Trade
Butcher	Blast Furnace	Meat
Armorer	Smoker	Chainmail, Armor
Cartographer	Cartography Table	Maps, Banner Patterns
Cleric	Brewing Stand	Ender Pearls, Bottle o' Enchanting, Lapis Lazuli
Farmer	Composter	Brewing Ingredients, Food
Fisherman	Barrel	Fish, Fishing Rods
Fletcher	Fletching Table	Bows, Arrows, Flint
Leatherworker	Cauldron	Leather equipment, Horse Armor, Saddles
Librarian	Lectern	Enchanted Books, Name Tags
Mason	Stonecutter	Cut Blocks and Bricks
Shepherd	Loom	Wood, Paintings
Toolsmith	Smithing Table	Tools
Weaponsmith	Grindstone	Swords, Axes

Other than trading, expanding the population of your village has a few other advantages. For example, if you have enough villagers, they'll build an Iron Golem to protect the settlement.

What Do I Need to Breed Villagers in Minecraft?

Before you get two villagers alone in a house, you'll need the following items:

• 2 Beds + 1 additional bed for each child
• 3 Bread, 12 Carrots, 12 Potatoes, or 12 Beetroots
  

How Do I Make Villagers Breed Automatically?

If you want the family to keep growing without having to feed them yourself, start a garden outside the home with Carrots, Potatoes, or Beetroots. Your villagers will start to harvest crops for themselves.

As long as you set out extra beds, the family will continue to grow. After about 20 minutes, young villagers grow into adults, so you can use them to make even more villagers.