Villager Overpopulation? Make a Suicide Booth!

[ViperZeroOne]

Is your village just seeing far too many births?  Do your houses look like sardine cans when the sun goes down?  Are you self-conscious about the amount of lag you're creating?  Need something to thin out the herd?  Build a suicide booth!





No word of a lie!  My village was getting seriously overpopulated, so I built a couple of these babies and it really thinned things out.  Didn't kill off all my villagers, they still wander, breed, etc.  It got rid of the overpopulating problem though.

Building it is REALLY easy.  All it is is a 1x1 hole, 3 blocks deep, that has lava on the bottom.  Then you build a 3x3x3 building to keep players from accidentally falling in, put a door on it so villagers can enter, and voila!  You can put a trigger plate at the door if you want, but I just let the villagers go in on their own.

[Selkon_Hunter]

I like it. Small, efficient, and humane. Maybe we should require these for all villages as a quick solution to the lag issues until a more permanent solution is found to the villager problem.

[Boshiwarrior]

Awusome idea! I don't want a visit from Opticalza and Nick...

[DiamondKnight629]

Yeah thats a good solution to any problem

[illiwill]

Why can't I shoot them with my bow? Lol, jk, this is a really good idea viper!

[ViperZeroOne]

Why can't I shoot them with my bow? Lol, jk, this is a really good idea viper!

You can shoot them if you want!  But only in the knee... 

[ViperZeroOne]

ANOTHER GOOD REASON...

...for you to build a Suicide Booth is to keep your villagers fresh.  You can (apparently) only trade a limited number of times with a villager before they become useless.  If you keep refreshing your villager population you'll always have fresh villagers to trade with and won't have to search through a mass of unusable ones!

[Nick3306]

We have throttled the number of villagers that can exist in a certain area. If there are too many, the server will automatically kill them when the chunk is loaded.

[ViperZeroOne]

I haven't been online since Opti did that, so I'll have to see how it's affecting my island.  The breeding happens in a different location than where the villagers are wandering.  I might still need my suicide booths.

[Selkon_Hunter]

ANOTHER GOOD REASON...

...for you to build a Suicide Booth is to keep your villagers fresh.  You can (apparently) only trade a limited number of times with a villager before they become useless.  If you keep refreshing your villager population you'll always have fresh villagers to trade with and won't have to search through a mass of unusable ones!

As I understand it, the villagers can only have three trades available at a time, and each trade has a limited number of uses before it 'expires'. However, when a trade expires it makes room for a new trade to become available for that villager. My sincere apologies if my information is incorrect.

[ViperZeroOne]

ANOTHER GOOD REASON...

...for you to build a Suicide Booth is to keep your villagers fresh.  You can (apparently) only trade a limited number of times with a villager before they become useless.  If you keep refreshing your villager population you'll always have fresh villagers to trade with and won't have to search through a mass of unusable ones!

As I understand it, the villagers can only have three trades available at a time, and each trade has a limited number of uses before it 'expires'. However, when a trade expires it makes room for a new trade to become available for that villager. My sincere apologies if my information is incorrect.

You could be right, I'm really not sure.

[raul7legend]

We should give them a choice between quick and painless or slow and horrible :p

[Nick3306]

We should give them a choice between quick and painless or slow and horrible :p

Ya I would like to place a collect call.

[ViperZeroOne]

*Removed all the bullshit and unlocked.

So it looks like the plugin does a really good job, but I still had a bit of an overpopulating issue so the Suicide Booths will still come in handy for anyone designing an island like mine.  My problem (if you call it a problem) is that I force my villagers to spread out, which kinda gets around them grouping up to be targeted by the slaughter plugin.  I logged in last night and had probably 60 villagers moving around town.  I fully admit that's far too many villagers.  I placed a few suicide booths in the most populated areas of the island, and it thinned them out literally overnight.  *LOL*  Now I'm down to having a regular population of about 20 villagers wandering around, which I think is reasonable.

We should give them a choice between quick and painless or slow and horrible :p

Slow and horrible death eh?  Anyone know if you can import Justin Beiber audio tracks into Minecraft?  *LMAO*

[Chipaton]

There's a mod for that