Can You Revive Villagers Multiple Times? Unlocking Minecraft’s Trading Secrets
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Yes, you absolutely can revive villagers multiple times in Minecraft! This isn’t just a fun gimmick; it’s a core mechanic that can dramatically improve your trading experience. By repeatedly infecting and then curing villagers, you can significantly lower the cost of their trades, potentially reaching the coveted minimum of one emerald per item. This process involves transforming a regular villager into a zombie villager, then using a splash potion of weakness and a golden apple to revert them back to their original form, albeit with a new, beneficial perk – a discount. This article will explore the intricacies of this system and answer all your burning questions about villager revival.
Understanding Villager Curing and Discount Stacking
The core concept revolves around exploiting the game’s mechanics. Each time you successfully cure a zombie villager, the healed villager recognizes your kindness and offers a trade discount. This discount stacks, meaning the more times you cure the same villager, the deeper the discount becomes. However, there are a few important caveats to understand.
The Discount Limit
While you can cure a villager multiple times, the discounts aren’t endless. The maximum number of times you can cure a villager and gain a stacking discount is ten times. After the tenth cure, attempting an eleventh cure will reset the discount to a single instance. This means you’ll need to carefully plan out your curing sessions to maximize your profit before hitting the reset point. Think of it as a trade-off – you can get those incredible discounts, but only for a limited time before it’s back to square one.
Curing Mechanics
The process itself requires you to first turn a villager into a zombie villager. This typically happens when a zombie attacks and successfully converts a villager. Then, to cure them, you’ll need to weaken the zombie villager with a splash potion of weakness and then feed them a golden apple. The villager will then undergo a curing process, recognizable by the shaking and red swirls around them. This takes a varying amount of time, with Bedrock Edition taking 1-2 minutes and Java Edition taking 3-5 minutes. Placing beds or iron bars around the zombie villager can decrease the curing time.
Important Considerations
It is also crucial to understand some important nuances to avoid frustrating outcomes.
- Restocking Issues: Villagers will not restock their trades after being cured from being a zombie villager. They still do their regular twice-per-day restocks, and will continue to do this but won’t restock due to being cured. This means you have to plan your trading sessions, ensuring that you trade as much as possible before they restock.
- Forgetting Cures: Be careful when saving and quitting during the curing process. If you leave the game while a villager is still transforming, they will forget they were cured upon your return, negating your discount.
- Personal Discounts: The discount you gain by curing a villager is personal to you. Other players on the same server will see the original prices, no matter how many times you’ve cured the villager.
- Hard Mode Exception: In hard mode, zombies have a 100% chance of turning a villager into a zombie villager upon attack. This is a crucial piece of information when setting up a curing operation.
- Villager Behavior: It’s important to remember that the player must trigger the discount by directly curing the villager. Trading with other villagers near the one you are curing might give you a small discount but the discount only appears for the person who cured the villager.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) About Curing Villagers
1. Can I cure a baby zombie villager?
Yes, you can. A baby zombie villager, though faster, can be cured just like their adult counterparts, using a splash potion of weakness and a golden apple. They will revert to a baby villager with the standard discount.
2. Can cured villagers get a job?
Yes. If a cured villager does not have a job site block associated with a profession available in the village, it can acquire a new profession by claiming a job site block. However, cured villagers retain any professions they had before being zombified if the job site block is still available.
3. How do I get villagers to forgive me if I hit them?
The most effective method to get villagers to forgive you is to cure them. Purposefully infecting a villager with a zombie and then curing them is the surest way to fix bad reputation. Trading with them and other villagers nearby is also helpful but not as effective.
4. Do cured villagers restock infinitely?
No, villagers restock twice per day. Once at the beginning of their “workday” (around 9 or 10 AM) and a second time after their first stock is depleted during the same day. If a villager’s trades are maxed out twice in the same day, they won’t restock until the next workday. Remember that curing a villager does not trigger a restock.
5. Do villager cure discounts stack?
Yes, cure discounts do stack up to ten times, after which the next cure will reset to one discount.
6. Do villagers forget you cure them?
Yes, villagers can “forget” if you leave the game during the curing process. The game does not seem to retain the data of that in-progress transformation when quitting the world.
7. Are cured villagers better?
Cured villagers are better in the sense that they offer a trading discount to the player who cured them. These discounts are permanent and can significantly reduce trading costs.
8. Why won’t my zombie infect my villager?
Zombies won’t attack villagers if they can’t reach them. Make sure the zombie is at a lower elevation than the villager to make sure they can jump to the villager. The villager should also not have a clear path to run from the zombie.
9. Why are my villagers overpriced?
Villager prices are affected by demand. Trading an item until it’s sold out will increase its price upon restock for all players. Additionally, hitting a villager can also cause price increases across the village.
10. Do villager halls need beds?
No, villagers don’t need to sleep to restock their trades. They need access to their workstations to restock twice per day. However, beds are required for breeding and for them to survive.
11. Do villagers gossip about you?
Yes, villagers store memories and gossip about players. Various actions you take influence these gossips which spread from villager to villager whenever they talk.
12. Can I bully a villager off my island?
You can. Bullied villagers may become uncomfortable. Actions such as hitting a villager with a net three times in a row, pushing them for extended periods, and dropping them into a pitfall are recognized as bullying.
13. Do villagers get mad if you hit them?
Yes. Hitting a villager, taking their bed, waking them during the night, or hitting them multiple times will make them mad. Particles will be visible around the villager when they are in this state.
14. Why do my villagers keep dying to zombies?
While being infected, a villager takes damage. Sometimes, if a villager is hit twice in rapid succession, they will die from that damage, not from the infection process. In hard mode this is not a concern, as all villager-zombie encounters will end with the villager becoming a zombie villager.
15. How do you breed villagers?
To breed, make sure villagers receive 14 food points (bread = 4, potatoes, carrots, beetroots = 1 each). Leave two villagers in a space and they will breed a baby villager and give a bed to the child.
Conclusion
The ability to revive villagers multiple times is a powerful tool in Minecraft that rewards strategic play. By understanding the mechanics of curing and trade discounts, you can build thriving economies and gain access to valuable resources at heavily discounted prices. Use this knowledge wisely to become a trading tycoon in your world!