[G2E]

i have recently built a place for my villagers and they dont seem to want to breed, id like to know if they will breed in the way i have built it.

i have villagers on top, then a layer of stone, and underneath it doors.

-------villagers-------
-------stone------
--------Doors-------

does everyone understand me?

[FinalFouad]

Does the entrance to the doors have a clear view to the sky?

[monkeychunks]

i have recently built a place for my villagers and they dont seem to want to breed, id like to know if they will breed in the way i have built it.

i have villagers on top, then a layer of stone, and underneath it doors.

-------villagers-------
-------stone------
--------Doors-------

does everyone understand me?

Villagers have very wierd behaviors, and there a many factors that effect villagers. They need light, a roof, and tons of doors to breed. They need to be relatively close to breed. For every three doors there is one villager. Villagers will also all crowd in an area for no reason sometimes. I don't think glass can be the roof either.

[G2E]

ive spoken to some people in game and i know how to fix it now thanks guys.

[Spritzo]

You have to have at least 6 blocks of clear space in front of the door of an NPC house, and those 6 blocks must be exposed to sunlight. This is what my setup looks like...and it works almost too well. I get tons of NPCs breeding like crazy. I also have their homes completely covered with glass, works fine.

[Prodigy9]

i have villagers on top, then a layer of stone, and underneath it doors.

-------villagers-------
-------stone------
--------Doors-------

does everyone understand me?

If I'm understanding correctly, the stone forms a solid layer covering the doors and the area around the doors? If so, Spritzo is correct. The two sides of the door have to have differing amounts of "outdoors" areas in order to count as a village door. i.e. there have to be more spaces (within 6 spaces of the door, as Spritzo explained) on one side that are exposed to sunlight (either no blocks above them, or only transparent blocks such as glass above them) compared to the other side of the door.

With your setup, both sides of the door are being counted as "indoors" because of the stone covering both sides. This prevents the doors from counting towards the village size, and as a result the villagers will not breed. To correct the problem: replace some of the stone (on just one side of the doors) with glass, so that side will count as outdoors while the side still covered by stone will count as indoors.

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Side view (S = stone, G = glass, D = door):

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If this still does not work, perhaps the physical separation between the villagers and the doors (regardless of whether it is transparent) makes the villagers count as being outside the village, so they will not breed.

Edit: whoops, missed the post about you getting it figured out. Hope my post is still helpful in some way.

[Soul K]

Villagers can be wierd I guess. For the prison I made for them its like stone pillar, then 4-5 doors then a stone pillar and repeats till its a square. As for the roof its stone and glass blocks. In front of the doors is only 2-3 tiles before the wall (iron bars). The whole thing is only 3 tiles high.

I have 4 that are built very similar but only 2 always fill up and the other 2 dont fill up as fast.

[G2E]

i think they might be related

[Meowrocket]

Totally off topic, but what texture pack is that you're using G2E?
And this is why I don't bother with villagers.

[faldette]

Speaking of villagers, I really should do something about mine. Horrendous dirt pen is horrendous. >.>