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Villagers Open Trapdoors, Fence Gates, Climb Ladders

With the villager improvements coming soon, I had been thinking about what villagers can't currently do that could be pretty useful in the update. So, what if villagers could use fencegates, trapdoors, or ladders? As an example for fencegates, farmer villagers would be able to harvest crops from protected farms, so that only pesky players will trample the crops, and at night, zombies can't get in. (Edit: With Ravagers destroying crops during raids, this could be very useful) Villagers climbing ladders could be used for two story player-built houses. The first floor for work, the second as home. Pair this with a possibility of setting a villager's home to return to at night, and we're in business! 

(Edit) It may also be useful to still be able to black villagers from entering certain areas, so what if there was a "villager locked" door? Crafting a door, Trapdoors, or fence gate with a sign of it's wood type could locked the door for villagers, simply adding a sign with a villager's head crossed out on the door, and villagers won't go through that door, fence gate, or Trapdoors. Zombies would still knock down lock dooors on hard difficulty.

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• February 28, 2019 10:55
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  TheAloneKings commented

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  • March 02, 2019 13:46
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  I RELY LOVE THIS IDEA (:l=

   

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  NightWing1154 commented

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  • July 30, 2019 22:56
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  This would be a great idea! (Especially since 1.14 with the new structures in villages they keep getting stuck in their animal pens)

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  • May 11, 2020 22:39
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  As a way to prevent villagers from going through fence gates, I suggest the addition of Iron Fence gates. Working on the same principle as Iron Doors in needing a redstone singal to operate.

  For the villagers being able to decidedly pathfind via ladders would also help villagers acutally fully utilize their homes in the few naturally generated village structures which does generate with ladders. (it has always wondered me why mojang added ladders to some village structures when villagers are incapable of using them correctly)

  And for villagers to use trapdoors would also be nice. This however might lead to some problems in regards to using trapdoors for their intended purpose, trapping/deveiving mobs and therefore also villagers. So this especially requires some carefull thoughts to not break more than it adds.

  Being able to craft regular doors/trapdoors/fence gates into variants that are inoperable by villagers is a feasible solution. Perhaps the opposite could also be an option. Make villagers unable to operate regular doors/trapdoors/fence gates and only be able to operate ones that has been marked as "villager doors" perhaps by crafting a door together with an emerald. This would ofcourse require naturally generated doors in villages to be of this new type.

  Anyways, I would love for villagers to be able to uttilize these in their normal pathfinding :)

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  Robotics5 commented

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  • September 11, 2020 22:07
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  Instead of lock doors, why not just use the iron variants?

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  Dicrosoft commented

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  • November 16, 2020 10:45
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  Villagers should attempt to sleep in the bed closest to their job site block. Currently I have (eg) Farmers sleeping in the bed at the Weaponsmith's house.