Cultivating professional farmers is a key step in establishing a sustainable food supply and resource acquisition system. The entire process involves a series of meticulous steps, from acquiring basic villagers, assigning professions, and breeding the population to improving efficiency. The primary prerequisite for cultivating farmers is to locate a village and ensure there are at least two or more unemployed, ordinary villagers present as a base. If you encounter villagers with already fixed professions, you must first destroy their originally linked job site blocks to return them to an unemployed state. Once a villager has traded with you, its profession becomes permanently locked and cannot be changed. Additionally, nitwit villagers generated in the village will never have any profession. Both of these types of villagers cannot be cultivated into farmers.
The core operation to transform an unemployed villager into a farmer is the use of a job site block. You need to place a Composter near the target villager. The Composter is not only the exclusive job site block for the Farmer profession but can also be used to convert crops and plants into Bone Meal, serving a dual function. Once the villager detects and claims this Composter, it will immediately transform into a Farmer. Villagers detect and bind to unclaimed job site blocks within a certain range around them. Therefore, you must ensure the placed Composter is the closest and accessible job site block to the target villager to prevent it from binding to other types of profession blocks.
The key to expanding the number of farmers is promoting villager breeding, which requires creating suitable breeding conditions for the villager population. The foundation for breeding is providing a sufficient number of valid doors. A valid door is defined as one where the number of “outside” spaces within five blocks on either side of it is unequal. Villagers will continue to breed until the number of adult villagers in the village reaches approximately 35% of the total number of valid doors. On this basis, you must provide the villagers with ample food. Typically, each pair of willing-to-breed villagers needs to consume 3 Bread or 12 Carrots, or 12 Potatoes. Farmer villagers will actively throw excess food to other villagers, which helps automatically meet the food requirements for breeding. Ensuring the safety of the breeding environment is crucial. This involves placing torches to provide sufficient light and building walls or other defensive structures to prevent monster attacks at night, as villagers will stop breeding if they feel threatened.
After cultivating farmers, you need to understand their working mechanisms and manage them properly to improve efficiency. Farmers will automatically seek out nearby farmland and perform farming activities such as planting and harvesting. Therefore, you need to ensure the farmland area has a water source for irrigation to keep the soil hydrated and regularly replenish farming resources like Wheat Seeds, Carrots, and Potatoes. A farmer’s profession level and the items available for trade will improve as the number of trades increases. High-level farmers can offer a richer variety of crop trade options. To build an efficient agricultural system, it is recommended to plan a centralized farmland area for farmers to work uniformly. You can also design simple automatic harvesting devices, utilizing water streams, Hoppers, and Chests to automatically collect the agricultural products harvested by farmers, thereby reducing the workload of manual collection.
