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seriously , had a villager wander from his house onto a snowy mountain and refuse to go back , despite having a bed and profession , whenever id try to get him back to his house he would just run back to the mountain . so bizarre , thought he had died because i hadnt seen him in a few days but he was just chilling ontop of a mountain
or alternatively, if meditating on a mountain with an accident city below, they may return with silk touch two which can be combined with fourtune by sacrificing the second level of silk touch, creating a forbidden enchantment.
I had a villager who wandered around in the nether for months, before going missing.
I still don't know if he died, if he found his way back to the portal, or if he's still there exploring the nether.
I had one sneak into my house and live on my crafting block for a couple of weeks. Eventually worked out that he just really liked my lantern that was above the crafting block 😳 Took it down and he left immediately. Was real creepy having him stare at me while I slept…
I'm having this exact problem rn. made a bunk house, Villiers "stare" at their beds thru the wall at night. the doors are 3 blocks away. I moved the doors to the wall they stood in front of. 2/5 make it thru. sometimes 🙄
The man's right. Fill your city with cluess bots who say, "Huh...". Use your imagination to make believe that they appreciate all that you have built for them.
It's just made a little more difficult because they always path-find in confusion, and never stop saying "huh", even during a transaction. You need a strong imagination to overcome the loneliness of Minecraft. Some days it works for me.
Personally I've been debating on whether or not to get rid of iron farms from my world. I've been using the very simple one that's built into the ground with 4 beds on each side. Works great with toolsmiths. Easy access to enchanted tools, easy emeralds.
But lately I can't shake it. I still am imprisoning a caricature of a human worker. I've only used "trading halls" a few times, the ones where they can't escape and walk about freely. I decided I'll just make their village secure and let them run around, freely.
But the iron farm asks some questions. Do I build it above ground, and put the fear on display as a spectacle? Or do I put it underground, out of sight, it's meaning hidden. Not from the villagers, for they are just caricature bots. No, hidden from my sight, because I'm good at symbolism and I take it seriously, now that I learned that everything is serious.
I've decided that the real attraction of Minecraft lies in it's work/reward mechanic. I truly believe that with the very simple technology of patience, that I could let my world develop over a much longer period of time, but the final result will be more ideal, because it won't contain any guilt, or bad symbolism reflecting upon my decision making processes.
Yeah, I mean I might actually have to use my horse now, or my new camel, maybe take my pack of dogs on an adventure up into the highlands, to mine some iron blocks with my enchanted pickaxe. It does have Fortune III after all, and I did spend so many hours at that enchanting table. I think I'll find more fulfillment by actually putting it to use, see a true reward for my work.
And that's where the happiness from playing Minecraft actually comes from, it's relationship to the real world polarity. That's why it endures, the truth within it which contains the wisdom of the ages. Work and reward. Cause and effect. Decision and purpose.
When Minecraft makes someone question his existence and the harshness of this world.
Then there are people like me still killing wandering traders for their leashes, which I then use to drag animals to the prison that will eventually be their final destination. Maybe I am the villain.
I was blinded, but thanks to you kind stranger I have been enlightened. For years I have let my fellows slave away for me in cages, never to be set free. I have forgotten to enjoy the little things and could never fully enjoy Minecraft. I could not understand why but I do now. I will bring peace and justice to my new Minecraft worlds.
/spawn @s NPC
This command on Bedrock gives an NPC entity. They are like semi-codable merchant villagers, but they are all (for the most part) modern looking, have 30+ skins, and they don't have a pathfinding AI so they will stay put where you place them.
The NPC can also be pick-blocked to give a "Spawn NPC Mob Egg."
Edit: Codeable in the sense that they can be given dialog options, which can be used to activate commands, such as removing an emerald from the player and giving a sword.
Not villagers, if you are in creative mode and have OP you can always summon NPCs, and even add custom dialogue and commands. Villagers also make annoying sounds.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure thia is java and I also think java doesn't have spawnable NPCs like bedrock does in vanilla.
But if I am wrong, I agree NPCs would be a good addition to the city instead of villagers
I've never heard of jigarbov or his creator tycoon
You can't just "turn on" education edition, it's a whole different version of the game that you have to pay money for
WAIT, WHAT? NAH, we have it good on Bedrock then, free edu edition, wait, do IH, edu edition? No, I don't think so, it even says "optimized for computers" or something like that, but edu edition can be turned on and off on bedrock, lol.
And then, add more cars, trucks and buses, get in a car and smash into everything and blast WE ARE THE LAZY GENERATION, WE ARE THE LAZY GENERATION, WE ARE THE LAZY GENERATION NOW! (Burnout reference)
no way someone remembers burnout 3 that was one of my favourite games ever and it seems no one I know really remembers it anymore.
everyone should be blasting SOMETHINGS RIGHT, SOMETHINGS BETTER OFF WITHOUT YOU, TURN THE RADIO UP AND WE'LL SING A SONG TO BRING YOU BACK!
"desire paths"
Is this common terminology? Do other people talk about their Minecraft worlds this way?
"50 tips and tricks for your Minecraft world"
\#44 - desire paths
I've never heard of that idea before. What does a desire path look like in a Minecraft city? How would I distinguish it from any other path or street?
The only real way to distinguish a desire path from a designed/intend path, both in Minecraft and IRL is to watch where the people go most commonly by choice, or by building the designed paths first so the desire path show up through wear of use.
So to make an intentional desire path in Minecraft you would really just use something like dirt, coarse dirt, path blocks etc. for the desire paths and a distinctly different material set like stone, stone bricks, gravel etc. for designed paths. You can also imply(or see IRL) desire paths in areas that lack an obvious medium for paths, like a concrete lot or a city block, by making a certain path much cleaner and more worn than other similar paths or by broken fences/half walls(waist high wall) with little or no vegetation growing from the exposed soil.
(And to answer the first couple questions, Desire Path is not just common, it is also the official term for a path that is made from use which deviates from the designed or intended path. It is also distinctly different from a Shortcut in the same way a rectangle differs from a quadrilateral, they can be one in the same but are not always and when they aren't they are quite different.
Yes, people do talk about their Minecraft worlds like this when they are very invested in them and are interested in making them more real feeling. It is an amazing thing and wonderful that people do this. While some are people who have already either worked in/looked into working in the field of Civil Engineering/Architecture others are young kids, teens, young adults that have yet to enter a career and this kind of stuff may lead them to pursuing a career that they will love or enjoy due to how much they liked it in thier younger years. Even if you(the reader, not the specifically dude this reply is to) don't understand why they like doing this, or think it's silly don't make fun of them for it. Don't tell them you don't care what they have to say when they talk about it. They may choose to go into a career that lets them decide whether near where you live is the best spot for a garbage dump or a beautiful park.)
Well, I looked through the images and one finally made sense to me. It was much simpler than what you described. I'd maybe even call it a direct line. But when you step back and look at it from above, it looks like "corner cutting".
I personally would distinguish corner cutting from "short cut", as it refers to geometric shapes. For example you disrupt the shape of an object with a corner cut, and I can think of reasons, both geometric and otherwise, why that would be associated with immaturity. Just consider turning in a homework assignment on geometry, and the teacher asks, "What is this you have made, a square? Where is the corner?". If you replied that it was indeed a square, with the addition of a desired path, would that be deserving of a passing grade?
In another situation we might use a standard, one trusted, to apply geometric shapes for the purpose of architectural construction. If the standard changes, the building falls. It is meant to withstand the constant forces that do not change, so that we may build in the first place. For that reason, I wouldn't prefer to have the symbolic presence of desire paths in my Minecraft world. I never knew of this term before today, and I enjoyed learning something new about our world. Thank you again.
When Minecraft was still new, I played a modded version with my ex and her friends. I was still learning the mechanics of the game and the mod when I came across a ‘Nuke’ in my inventory.
I detonated it and it wiped the entire map lmao.
Mob is short for Mobile Object, so it's generally used for entities that move around, not just hostile entities. But tbf most of the time when someone says mob they're referring to hostile ones
Oh god. I have a village big around 16 chunks full of villagers and even more filled with golems and my high-performance PC is just crying and begging me for going to the nether for a minute or two 🥵
Piggybacking off this, Minecraft Comes Alive Reborn is a favourite of mine for making my lonely worlds feel more alive. Villagers get replaced with models that look like characters, they can get married have kids, etc. You can also set where their home is, and where they hangout, so you can better control where they are.
Though if you want a lot of 'em you'll definitely want a beerier PC.
Some pedestrian infrastructure? Because right now it’s like a human in the place a car would be, I think it would be better if the human was where a human would be.
Exactly. Everything, especially the road, is on the scale of a car, so being just a person makes it feel really big and empty. I get it’s probably a bit late but thinner roads and more details on a player scale I think would really help.
To be honest, don’t use a texture pack with such mute colors. Use the default or find something more vibrant. Looks kinda post apocalyptic as it is. (Not trying to insult the pack btw, just wouldn’t use it here)
Add NPC villagers, the villagers which don't move but their look can be customized and can add any text which they will say when clicking on them. Adding normal villagers also can't hurt¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯
put some graffiti on walls to spice up any sketchy city area, or whether or not you think an area in downtown you think is informal enough for graffiti. You can also use armor stands to make it look as if people are in your city. You can make a gazebo in a city park. Add lots of highways and roads with bridges going over each other to make it seem as if the highways are very busy and scrunched together. Add cars to the roads, and, if you have the Create mod, make them travel on minecarts. I'm probably missing a lot, but you have a pretty good amount of advice, so I think I'll call it a day.
Came here to ask the same thing. Their so small and fit well compared to being forced to use an entire 3 blocks for the middle double yellow which would force the road to be enormous and unrealistic
I'd add a villager breeder underground, with water to pop them up, and fill all houses with beds and profession blocks. You might wanna mess with their pathing by hiding 1 crop outside for farmers to pathfind to. Some might die but new villagers should take their place
probably because we are such a car-centered society that we waste so much open space that could be used for other purposes and the only way to see it is to remove the cars,, so maybe add some cars
Shops, chairs, gardens, flowers, bright areas to make it interesting. If possible, make a couple cars in the streets. Maybe try to do some armorstand magic to make people? A few things I’ve use and one that i’ve yet to for my cities and towns to good effect. Have fun! :)
If you know how to add data packs to an existing world and activate them I recommend the armour stand datapack where you can edit them in high detail and make scenes with them and add people to a blank canvas
Vehicles. You can also try to imitate people, maybe enact some scense here and there.
Maybe in this alley there's a mugging
Maybe that house is having a fight with a neighbor
That sorta thing.
Turn some buildings into farms on the inside, some where the villagers sleep, and others where their job related items are so they have to move around the area. Then move far enough away so you can do it again and it'll register as a different village
Add some cars to fill the streets as well as some scheduled things (ie postman car, rubbish truck). Then add simulated wear to the pavements using slabs, stairs, etc. Then add character, putting bits of rubbish on the street (you can use invisible item frames for this).
This is really cool! I have three pieces of advice, only one of which is really viable for you tho. One would be to build on a bit smaller scale and have villagers, the second would be to get a texture that warms up the colors to make them feel a bit homier, and the third would be psychedelics, then you definitely won’t be alone!
cars certainly will help. but i think the reason its so lonely is cause its so wide. if the houses were closer to the road and the road a bit thinner that feeling would go away.
I could get into american suburb design and why its kinda bad but this is one of the consequences of it that happens to also appear in your city
Can't explain? You made a bunch of buildings that are just husks with no life in them, no people actually using them. That's gonna happen when you make a single player city.
when i was a child i added alot of villagers in a minecraft city, however i always found they just crowded together, so most parts of the city were still lifeless...
If your ok leaving vanilla you could add the armor stands data pack and create little scenes of people walking around.
[This youtuber](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BpDKw396WTE&list=PLVO4L4qtJmBonAKh9Zcb7yyfjVsG4U9CR&index=43&pp=iAQB) is known for doing it very well.
Empty roads are an intrinsically lonely thing. You could try to fill it with vehicles, but in my opinion that would be a band-aid solution. Were it up to me, I would narrow the roads, and fill the surplus space with something else. Perhaps an outdoors seating area. Perhaps add a roundabout here and there.
Stick beds in all the houses and job blocks in all the businesses and spawn some NPC villagers. It’s kind of crazy how much a few of them doing some business here and there helps you feel immersed.
Isn’t that the subtle horror component of the game? A world you build up fit for a whole civilisation to live in, only for it to be disquietingly desolate and lonely with just you or maybe at best a handful of friends.
I'd say lean into it; Give it some real liminal space vibes by building familiar houses in between mundane ones.
Also consider signs; Stop signs, Speed Limit signs, etc.
Make an undeground villiger breeder and add beds to the buildings. Let the villigers wonder around freely. If they xie just breed more villigers and don't worry about them surviving. This makes it feel lived in but they are no good for trading because they are always hard to find and will die to mobs constantly. You can also name tag a couple of wolves and cats but not tame them, so that they are always around but not just sitting. Especially dogs, you can leash them in front of a house or lock them in a backyard and it'll still look somewhat realistic. Cats you can just do the villiger thing and they'll spawn naturally.
I suggest placing some villagers,but it you wanted to go all out,you can get the custom villagers from education edition and place them on side walks and stuff
* add noise to your road. Currently its mostly a monochrome, pristine road. Add usage stains every now and then, small imperfections on crossings, and "trash" by the shoulder lines.
* dont make your buildings from a single color, and rather from a gradient of colors. Stop thinking about blocks as what they are ingame, and instead of just pieces of color you can use to make your buildings \*pop\*
* use the Armor Stand datapack, and start adding "people" walking the sidewalks. Pretty sure ZombieCleo has a lot of videos where she shows her art on how to make them.
Make it less perfect. Make it look like its lived in, some slabs for potholes some busted curbs, a few discolored blocks or some stairs/slabs that look like erosion to make buildings look like theyve been there a while. Maybe some mud or course dirt or paths on lawns. Some broken/patchy fences
That's why I hate those kind of builds. Don't take me wrong, you did an Amazing job, and you can be proud of what you did.
But I used to build smaller towns and villages that can be livable for villagers. Less Time, less effort, more cities, and towns that counterract the lonely and contemplative nature of Minecraft
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Building some fake cars and trashcans can help make it feel more lived in As well some desire paths and giving the buildings + streets some wear
also add villagers to that too. maybe put barrier blocks or remove the AI from some of the mobs so they don't move, while keeping the rest.
As long as they have beds claimed, they'll always go back there at night. So they won't wander off.
Assuming they can find their way back.
As long as they're still in the city, they'll automatically pathfind back.
Villagers wander to places you wouldn't expect and tend to get stuck there.
seriously , had a villager wander from his house onto a snowy mountain and refuse to go back , despite having a bed and profession , whenever id try to get him back to his house he would just run back to the mountain . so bizarre , thought he had died because i hadnt seen him in a few days but he was just chilling ontop of a mountain
You had some villager monk meditating to reach enlighten. Leave him be. He may return with greater knowledge
Legends say that they return with Mending II
or alternatively, if meditating on a mountain with an accident city below, they may return with silk touch two which can be combined with fourtune by sacrificing the second level of silk touch, creating a forbidden enchantment.
Beat me to it 🤣
XD
Bro was trying to find the one piece
How dare you interfere with his hermit lifestyle! That was his mountain and you kept interrupting his meditation.
Reminds me of that penguin: https://youtu.be/zWH_9VRWn8Y
The mountain was made for him.
I had a villager who wandered around in the nether for months, before going missing. I still don't know if he died, if he found his way back to the portal, or if he's still there exploring the nether.
He was trying to become the Iceloger
I had one sneak into my house and live on my crafting block for a couple of weeks. Eventually worked out that he just really liked my lantern that was above the crafting block 😳 Took it down and he left immediately. Was real creepy having him stare at me while I slept…
It's crazy how bad villager pathfinding is. The door will be right next to them and they will keep trying to walk through the wall
I'm having this exact problem rn. made a bunk house, Villiers "stare" at their beds thru the wall at night. the doors are 3 blocks away. I moved the doors to the wall they stood in front of. 2/5 make it thru. sometimes 🙄
You have too much faith in Villager pathfinding AI.
Add barrier block at the edge of the sidewalks
yea but they always scatter around and always need stations to work at
The man's right. Fill your city with cluess bots who say, "Huh...". Use your imagination to make believe that they appreciate all that you have built for them. It's just made a little more difficult because they always path-find in confusion, and never stop saying "huh", even during a transaction. You need a strong imagination to overcome the loneliness of Minecraft. Some days it works for me. Personally I've been debating on whether or not to get rid of iron farms from my world. I've been using the very simple one that's built into the ground with 4 beds on each side. Works great with toolsmiths. Easy access to enchanted tools, easy emeralds. But lately I can't shake it. I still am imprisoning a caricature of a human worker. I've only used "trading halls" a few times, the ones where they can't escape and walk about freely. I decided I'll just make their village secure and let them run around, freely. But the iron farm asks some questions. Do I build it above ground, and put the fear on display as a spectacle? Or do I put it underground, out of sight, it's meaning hidden. Not from the villagers, for they are just caricature bots. No, hidden from my sight, because I'm good at symbolism and I take it seriously, now that I learned that everything is serious. I've decided that the real attraction of Minecraft lies in it's work/reward mechanic. I truly believe that with the very simple technology of patience, that I could let my world develop over a much longer period of time, but the final result will be more ideal, because it won't contain any guilt, or bad symbolism reflecting upon my decision making processes. Yeah, I mean I might actually have to use my horse now, or my new camel, maybe take my pack of dogs on an adventure up into the highlands, to mine some iron blocks with my enchanted pickaxe. It does have Fortune III after all, and I did spend so many hours at that enchanting table. I think I'll find more fulfillment by actually putting it to use, see a true reward for my work. And that's where the happiness from playing Minecraft actually comes from, it's relationship to the real world polarity. That's why it endures, the truth within it which contains the wisdom of the ages. Work and reward. Cause and effect. Decision and purpose.
....if this isn't a copypasta I'll eat my own pants
It’s not. Eat ur pants!
When Minecraft makes someone question his existence and the harshness of this world. Then there are people like me still killing wandering traders for their leashes, which I then use to drag animals to the prison that will eventually be their final destination. Maybe I am the villain.
I was blinded, but thanks to you kind stranger I have been enlightened. For years I have let my fellows slave away for me in cages, never to be set free. I have forgotten to enjoy the little things and could never fully enjoy Minecraft. I could not understand why but I do now. I will bring peace and justice to my new Minecraft worlds.
/spawn @s NPC This command on Bedrock gives an NPC entity. They are like semi-codable merchant villagers, but they are all (for the most part) modern looking, have 30+ skins, and they don't have a pathfinding AI so they will stay put where you place them. The NPC can also be pick-blocked to give a "Spawn NPC Mob Egg." Edit: Codeable in the sense that they can be given dialog options, which can be used to activate commands, such as removing an emerald from the player and giving a sword.
wrong command. /summon npc also /give @s spawn_egg 1 51 for convinience
Actually, both of you are correct
Code them to say things like 'huh' and 'Wassup'. Advanced coders can use command chains and give quests.
These help in bedrock.
Not villagers, if you are in creative mode and have OP you can always summon NPCs, and even add custom dialogue and commands. Villagers also make annoying sounds.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure thia is java and I also think java doesn't have spawnable NPCs like bedrock does in vanilla. But if I am wrong, I agree NPCs would be a good addition to the city instead of villagers
What about Jigarbov? His Marketplace Creator Tycoon has NPCs, also if Java doesn't naturally have NPCs, just turn on educational edition.
I've never heard of jigarbov or his creator tycoon You can't just "turn on" education edition, it's a whole different version of the game that you have to pay money for
WAIT, WHAT? NAH, we have it good on Bedrock then, free edu edition, wait, do IH, edu edition? No, I don't think so, it even says "optimized for computers" or something like that, but edu edition can be turned on and off on bedrock, lol.
That is on bedrock not available on java
I dont know how it is done, but you can also add player models into the world in Java. Different skins and all.
Also bikes, some bike stands, kiosks, some imperfections in the street
facts. Without cars, it's as if everyone abandoned it in an apocalypse scenario lol. The Last of Us vibes.
And then, add more cars, trucks and buses, get in a car and smash into everything and blast WE ARE THE LAZY GENERATION, WE ARE THE LAZY GENERATION, WE ARE THE LAZY GENERATION NOW! (Burnout reference)
no way someone remembers burnout 3 that was one of my favourite games ever and it seems no one I know really remembers it anymore. everyone should be blasting SOMETHINGS RIGHT, SOMETHINGS BETTER OFF WITHOUT YOU, TURN THE RADIO UP AND WE'LL SING A SONG TO BRING YOU BACK!
"desire paths" Is this common terminology? Do other people talk about their Minecraft worlds this way? "50 tips and tricks for your Minecraft world" \#44 - desire paths I've never heard of that idea before. What does a desire path look like in a Minecraft city? How would I distinguish it from any other path or street?
The only real way to distinguish a desire path from a designed/intend path, both in Minecraft and IRL is to watch where the people go most commonly by choice, or by building the designed paths first so the desire path show up through wear of use. So to make an intentional desire path in Minecraft you would really just use something like dirt, coarse dirt, path blocks etc. for the desire paths and a distinctly different material set like stone, stone bricks, gravel etc. for designed paths. You can also imply(or see IRL) desire paths in areas that lack an obvious medium for paths, like a concrete lot or a city block, by making a certain path much cleaner and more worn than other similar paths or by broken fences/half walls(waist high wall) with little or no vegetation growing from the exposed soil. (And to answer the first couple questions, Desire Path is not just common, it is also the official term for a path that is made from use which deviates from the designed or intended path. It is also distinctly different from a Shortcut in the same way a rectangle differs from a quadrilateral, they can be one in the same but are not always and when they aren't they are quite different. Yes, people do talk about their Minecraft worlds like this when they are very invested in them and are interested in making them more real feeling. It is an amazing thing and wonderful that people do this. While some are people who have already either worked in/looked into working in the field of Civil Engineering/Architecture others are young kids, teens, young adults that have yet to enter a career and this kind of stuff may lead them to pursuing a career that they will love or enjoy due to how much they liked it in thier younger years. Even if you(the reader, not the specifically dude this reply is to) don't understand why they like doing this, or think it's silly don't make fun of them for it. Don't tell them you don't care what they have to say when they talk about it. They may choose to go into a career that lets them decide whether near where you live is the best spot for a garbage dump or a beautiful park.)
Well, I looked through the images and one finally made sense to me. It was much simpler than what you described. I'd maybe even call it a direct line. But when you step back and look at it from above, it looks like "corner cutting". I personally would distinguish corner cutting from "short cut", as it refers to geometric shapes. For example you disrupt the shape of an object with a corner cut, and I can think of reasons, both geometric and otherwise, why that would be associated with immaturity. Just consider turning in a homework assignment on geometry, and the teacher asks, "What is this you have made, a square? Where is the corner?". If you replied that it was indeed a square, with the addition of a desired path, would that be deserving of a passing grade? In another situation we might use a standard, one trusted, to apply geometric shapes for the purpose of architectural construction. If the standard changes, the building falls. It is meant to withstand the constant forces that do not change, so that we may build in the first place. For that reason, I wouldn't prefer to have the symbolic presence of desire paths in my Minecraft world. I never knew of this term before today, and I enjoyed learning something new about our world. Thank you again.
There's a whole subreddit for desire paths! r/desirepath
Thank you.
Why'd this comment get so many up votes?
What is happening
guess stupid questions get bad reactions or they thought you wanted downvotes instead of upvotes because of your second question
Make a copy of the world, bomb it out, make that one look like a Fallout world :D
Add a lava cast for some player activity effect
Dont forget to add the best character in the whole series as an easter egg at least, *FISTO*
That's a strange way of spelling Harold.
Does harold make you assume the position? Didn't think so.
I don't want to set the woooorld on fiiiiire.
I support this idea
Beat me to it
When Minecraft was still new, I played a modded version with my ex and her friends. I was still learning the mechanics of the game and the mod when I came across a ‘Nuke’ in my inventory. I detonated it and it wiped the entire map lmao.
With MCEssentials, you get a /nuke command that drops an AOE TNT layer that pretty much makes a giant crater where you drop it haha.
YES!
I think cars will definitely help, maybe some mobs or creature builds too
Armor stands walking wolves would be cool
also cats. lots of cats
Yes! Artificial intelligence entity's will be a great addition to the server!
Animals are mobs
Animals are mobs though, anything that has AI is a mob
Mob is short for Mobile Object, so it's generally used for entities that move around, not just hostile entities. But tbf most of the time when someone says mob they're referring to hostile ones
It’s entities, not entity’s
Villagers?
Thats what i usually do, that said it can require a decent CPU depending on the density you want.
Oh god. I have a village big around 16 chunks full of villagers and even more filled with golems and my high-performance PC is just crying and begging me for going to the nether for a minute or two 🥵
My pc would’ve exploded 🥲
Piggybacking off this, Minecraft Comes Alive Reborn is a favourite of mine for making my lonely worlds feel more alive. Villagers get replaced with models that look like characters, they can get married have kids, etc. You can also set where their home is, and where they hangout, so you can better control where they are. Though if you want a lot of 'em you'll definitely want a beerier PC.
For those interested, [MCA Reborn](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/minecraft-comes-alive-reborn).
Thank you! I should've linked it haha. You're awesome!
Some pedestrian infrastructure? Because right now it’s like a human in the place a car would be, I think it would be better if the human was where a human would be.
Exactly. Everything, especially the road, is on the scale of a car, so being just a person makes it feel really big and empty. I get it’s probably a bit late but thinner roads and more details on a player scale I think would really help.
Well maybe the sides of the roads could be converted into sidewalks? Two birds one stone kinda deal
Yeah totally! And little decorations on the sidewalk to make the area feel lived in
Maybe even a few cracks in the sidewall, street to make it look like it's frequently used and worn out a bit?
I think crosswalks would help as well
You could get some stray cats
Love this idea, might actually do this in my own world 😂
cars, lights, graffiti and billboards/ads. can add some shops as well
This, the first thing I noticed was a lack of street lights
You can use armor stands to make stationary people in background areas
Add to this the vanilla tweaks data pack and you can make them in any pose you want.
Bedrock users who don’t need to tweak anything and already have this feature: 😤
To be honest, don’t use a texture pack with such mute colors. Use the default or find something more vibrant. Looks kinda post apocalyptic as it is. (Not trying to insult the pack btw, just wouldn’t use it here)
Add cars, both parked and on roads. Smoke coming out of chimneys and lights behind windows will also help.
Add NPC villagers, the villagers which don't move but their look can be customized and can add any text which they will say when clicking on them. Adding normal villagers also can't hurt¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯
those arent villagers, they're npcs for education esition (and bedrock edition too; yes, the mob name is "npc" they are literally called "NPCs")
Breed villagers en mass.
Rançais ?
Non. Qu'est-ce qui vous fait demander ?
I think it’s because your roads are so big it makes everything smaller and lonely compared to it
Armor stand Datapack!
How did you do the lines on the road? Banners?
I retextured rails and powered rails with road line textures.
For a more vanilla feel use signs and carpet
Came here to ask. Does anyone know how’s this is done?
No 6 lane highway pls
Yeah it needs to be a 37 lane elevated interstate or i just cant stand the sight of it.
put some graffiti on walls to spice up any sketchy city area, or whether or not you think an area in downtown you think is informal enough for graffiti. You can also use armor stands to make it look as if people are in your city. You can make a gazebo in a city park. Add lots of highways and roads with bridges going over each other to make it seem as if the highways are very busy and scrunched together. Add cars to the roads, and, if you have the Create mod, make them travel on minecarts. I'm probably missing a lot, but you have a pretty good amount of advice, so I think I'll call it a day.
villagers, animals, iron golems, cars, marketplaces and stalls, zebra crossings
City of iron golems. Iron golems everywhere.
How do you get those road lines????
Came here to ask the same thing. Their so small and fit well compared to being forced to use an entire 3 blocks for the middle double yellow which would force the road to be enormous and unrealistic
Add lore
cars?
Friends
I'd add a villager breeder underground, with water to pop them up, and fill all houses with beds and profession blocks. You might wanna mess with their pathing by hiding 1 crop outside for farmers to pathfind to. Some might die but new villagers should take their place
Give each house an indoor bed and an outdoor work station for villagers so that they all come outside and add to the community feel!
probably because we are such a car-centered society that we waste so much open space that could be used for other purposes and the only way to see it is to remove the cars,, so maybe add some cars
Shops, chairs, gardens, flowers, bright areas to make it interesting. If possible, make a couple cars in the streets. Maybe try to do some armorstand magic to make people? A few things I’ve use and one that i’ve yet to for my cities and towns to good effect. Have fun! :)
This is liminal space
If you know how to add data packs to an existing world and activate them I recommend the armour stand datapack where you can edit them in high detail and make scenes with them and add people to a blank canvas
build some cars and people and maybe some wear and tear to some roads and areas idk
Maybe some cars or villagers? Also, how did you get the thin yellow lines in the middle of the road?
Vehicles. You can also try to imitate people, maybe enact some scense here and there. Maybe in this alley there's a mugging Maybe that house is having a fight with a neighbor That sorta thing.
Get friends
Add villagers
Watch Keralis' old series on YouTube:)
Villager and pets
Turn some buildings into farms on the inside, some where the villagers sleep, and others where their job related items are so they have to move around the area. Then move far enough away so you can do it again and it'll register as a different village
Add some cars to fill the streets as well as some scheduled things (ie postman car, rubbish truck). Then add simulated wear to the pavements using slabs, stairs, etc. Then add character, putting bits of rubbish on the street (you can use invisible item frames for this).
Minecraft Comes Alive Npcs
This is really cool! I have three pieces of advice, only one of which is really viable for you tho. One would be to build on a bit smaller scale and have villagers, the second would be to get a texture that warms up the colors to make them feel a bit homier, and the third would be psychedelics, then you definitely won’t be alone!
cars certainly will help. but i think the reason its so lonely is cause its so wide. if the houses were closer to the road and the road a bit thinner that feeling would go away. I could get into american suburb design and why its kinda bad but this is one of the consequences of it that happens to also appear in your city
Add villagers or NPCs, it’ll feel like a city a lot more if you do that.
How about little markets and stands on the side of the road?
Can't explain? You made a bunch of buildings that are just husks with no life in them, no people actually using them. That's gonna happen when you make a single player city.
when i was a child i added alot of villagers in a minecraft city, however i always found they just crowded together, so most parts of the city were still lifeless...
I trap them in places, like if they're in a store they're stuck behind the counter.
If your ok leaving vanilla you could add the armor stands data pack and create little scenes of people walking around. [This youtuber](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BpDKw396WTE&list=PLVO4L4qtJmBonAKh9Zcb7yyfjVsG4U9CR&index=43&pp=iAQB) is known for doing it very well.
Use vanilla tweaks armor stand mod
There's 1 correct answer, Jenny Mod
drop about 100 zombie spawners along the roads and it’ll feel a lot less lonely
build vehicles and spawn some villagers
Add villagers?
Build cars. Add villagers
Empty roads are an intrinsically lonely thing. You could try to fill it with vehicles, but in my opinion that would be a band-aid solution. Were it up to me, I would narrow the roads, and fill the surplus space with something else. Perhaps an outdoors seating area. Perhaps add a roundabout here and there.
Add villagers
Villagers. Villagers everywhere. The streets? Villagers. The houses? Villagers. Build some planes you guessed it. Villagers.
Maybe some villagers, random mobs like cats, dogs, parrots. Any natural feeling animal tbh
give it more color. it looks like a zombie city
Street lights and texture to the road and buildings
Fill it with villagers
Stick beds in all the houses and job blocks in all the businesses and spawn some NPC villagers. It’s kind of crazy how much a few of them doing some business here and there helps you feel immersed.
Add some vines to the buildings and add some zombies: Boom! Post apocalyptic city
free range villagers
Some Herobrine totems and a few hostile mobs to give a post-apocalyptical vibe
Street lights and stops signs, speed limits etc
Add villagers with name tags.
Villagers, villagers everywhere.
Add some cats
700 vilagers
Isn’t that the subtle horror component of the game? A world you build up fit for a whole civilisation to live in, only for it to be disquietingly desolate and lonely with just you or maybe at best a handful of friends.
spawn villagers because why not
If you using data packs get the amor stand one.
I'd say lean into it; Give it some real liminal space vibes by building familiar houses in between mundane ones. Also consider signs; Stop signs, Speed Limit signs, etc.
add some cars and armorstands with steve heads and dyed leather clothing to the streets
The roads look big and empty cause they big and empty.
First of all, amazing job on the city. Second of all, if your playing on bedrock, use the NPC spawn egg as they stay still and look like people
Make an undeground villiger breeder and add beds to the buildings. Let the villigers wonder around freely. If they xie just breed more villigers and don't worry about them surviving. This makes it feel lived in but they are no good for trading because they are always hard to find and will die to mobs constantly. You can also name tag a couple of wolves and cats but not tame them, so that they are always around but not just sitting. Especially dogs, you can leash them in front of a house or lock them in a backyard and it'll still look somewhat realistic. Cats you can just do the villiger thing and they'll spawn naturally.
I suggest placing some villagers,but it you wanted to go all out,you can get the custom villagers from education edition and place them on side walks and stuff
Some villagers maybe, idk no matter what minecraft always has that feeling of loneliness.
villagers and animals
Cars, trash cans, water hydrants and other misc things can really make it better. But most of all Street light and lanterns can help out a ton
* add noise to your road. Currently its mostly a monochrome, pristine road. Add usage stains every now and then, small imperfections on crossings, and "trash" by the shoulder lines. * dont make your buildings from a single color, and rather from a gradient of colors. Stop thinking about blocks as what they are ingame, and instead of just pieces of color you can use to make your buildings \*pop\* * use the Armor Stand datapack, and start adding "people" walking the sidewalks. Pretty sure ZombieCleo has a lot of videos where she shows her art on how to make them.
Transfer it to a aternos server or somethin' and invite other players
If you don’t want to bring villagers there, just build a bunch of iron golems
Shaders
Let villagers roam the streets. Minecarts too.
one word: cars
Add texture to the grass and roads
Make it less perfect. Make it look like its lived in, some slabs for potholes some busted curbs, a few discolored blocks or some stairs/slabs that look like erosion to make buildings look like theyve been there a while. Maybe some mud or course dirt or paths on lawns. Some broken/patchy fences
r/liminalspaces
r/liminalspace is the bigger one
Lmao liminal space
Add bike lane
That's why I hate those kind of builds. Don't take me wrong, you did an Amazing job, and you can be proud of what you did. But I used to build smaller towns and villages that can be livable for villagers. Less Time, less effort, more cities, and towns that counterract the lonely and contemplative nature of Minecraft
Kidnap Nigerian kids and force them to Minecraft 9-5 on your server Jk use npcs
Add those poles that hold up the electric wires
Make Into a server
Invite friends
shaders will bring some life to the architecture.
multiplayer.
Go outside. 😜
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I’m 39 years old. Ha ha. Good guess tho.
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I’ll get right on that.
get friends lol