How to Cure Zombie Villagers! ▫ The Minecraft Survival Guide (Tutorial Lets Play) [Part 34]

Hello everyone my name is pig Soros and welcome back to the Minecraft Survival Guide I hope you’re all having a good day I hope we’re going to have a good evening I’m starting this episode with the Sun going down because we have some work to do in the dark my friends dark

And devious work indeed we are going to be trying our best today to find and cure a zombie villager and for that I have starts to put some potions here in our brewing stands but I’m going to need a couple of other things before we set

Out I’ve got my electron me I’m actually going to use those to get to an area that is nice and dark so we can do our interesting work here I’m not I’m not entirely certain how this is going to work out now I need to find a couple of

Things there we go we’ve got some er nametags fantastic I’m going to I’ve got to change one of these nametags to something nametags are a very interesting thing in Minecraft because they prevent entities that you have nametag from D spawning let me give you an example say for example a creeper or

A skeleton or something that you’re fighting some kind of hostile mob which would normally de-spawn if you get like a certain distance away from it like at 32 blocks away this mod will stop moving and it will probably despawn it has a chance to be spawn at 128 blocks away

From this thing it will permanently despawn if you nametag a thing that does not happen to it which is very useful when it comes to capturing zombie villagers because zombie villagers are occasional zombies that will pop up and they are kind of converted villages it is possible to cure these guys and

Convert them back the problem with them is that unless they occur very close to where you have your basin where you have all of the equipment that you need to cure said zombie villager they tend to de-spawn before you’ve got back to them with all of the stuff you need to kill

Them so one of the things it is a good idea to do is set up a name tag that you can name tag the zombie villager with capture it in some way and then come back to it and then you can be guaranteed that it will not be spawn so

As insurance against any kind of D spawning issue with the zombie villager we are going to name this one patient zero and that name is not necessarily going to last after they have been cured but we have a name tag so that if necessary we can name tag

Zombie villager if we happen to find one now the other things we will need I will get to it later but first off we’re going to start by grabbing some blocks of some kind I’m probably going to go with wood just because it’s a relatively easy to break substance but you can just

As easily surround them with other materials like leaves and so forth the main thing is you want some kind of solid material to surround the zombie with in case the Sun comes up and it starts to burn in the sunlight so what I’m gonna do is I’m gonna grab my

Electra and we’re going to fly a decent distance away for going to go up into the hills at where the sugarcane farm is and that’s mainly because I’ve been working on it our I want to show you guys the progress I’m working on making this a more kind of medieval looking

Build a little bit more organized a little bit more refined and and straightforward it’s got a lot of wooden beams in it it’s got some nice wool it’s gonna look nice and bright and it’s gonna stand out up here on the hilltop but I haven’t quite finished working on

That yet I’ve been doing a little bit of that off-camera and I will introduce that to you once we’ve done a little bit more work now the work we have to do tonight is finding a zombie villager and that is easier said than done because zombie villagers don’t make up a very

Large portion of zombies you will often find a lot more zombies than you will find at zombie villages sometimes you’ll find zombie villagers in caves like other mobs they will spawn at night or anywhere that it is dark enough but oh there’s one now look at that oh hello and this here’s

Another zombie in my face oh maybe jump there get away from me now this guy looks like a likely candidate now the cool thing about trapping zombie villagers is that it’s quite easy to do all you need to have is some blocks on your bar and you need to get a decent

Distance away from the zombie but far enough away that it is still tracking you and hopefully far enough away from any other mobs that might potentially try and knock you off this pillar that we’re going to make we’re gonna make a two-block high pillar and now look if

I’m standing on this zombie can’t get me it’s pretty easy so all we need to do is add a couple of blocks around him like so and uh and hopefully if we can do that like that yes perfect there we go zombie is now trapped and zombie cannot

Move anywhere zombie will still be able to hit you through corner but zombie is all hello turns out the other zombies have taken an interest well we can get rid of these guys with our bow here and oh there’s another guy behind me as well hi the good thing about standing up on

These two tall pillars of course is that the other zombies won’t be able to get you either but as I have cautioned you guys before make sure that you don’t swipe too close to this guy with your sweep attack with your sort because chances are you might end up hitting the

Zombie villager and if he’s one that you want to save that could be a problem now the next test is to see whether or not this zombie can hold items and this is quite an interesting one because it actually means that we wouldn’t need to use the nametag on him at all because

Entities which are holding items do not de-spawn either and this is one such zombie example now zombies of all kinds can hold items it isn’t just zombie villagers but entities holding items will not de-spawn and that actually proves very useful in the event you are teeth at for example you die and a

Zombie picks up your sword it would be very unfair of the game to have that zombie despawn with your really nice diamond swords so the game makes sure that anything that picks up an item does not de-spawn and does not leave it the world if you even if you get 128 blocks

Away from it it will not disappear so we don’t even need to use our nametag on this guy the next thing we need to do is cover him up and make it daytime because daytime is safer than nighttime and I prefer to do my curing during the day

Now the fun thing about this is that he’s Cait he still counts as a monster even though he is trapped so we’ve actually been told to sleep somewhere a little bit further away there we go and I’ll try and make sure that this area is

Free of creepers as well once we get to daytime because even though the zombies and skeletons will burn the creepers will not and it is better to work in an area free of potential explosions in fact just as a quick example I might do a quick journey out to the plains by I’m

Over here using my light tray let’s go as far as the swamp actually and my goal here is to go 128 blocks away from the area we were just in so that all of the monsters that were there automatically despawn and this will not only prove to

You that the zombie holding a wooden plank will not be spawn but it’s also going to clear the area of creepers and stuff for me so I think that’s probably been about 128 blocks or near enough it’s certainly a good distance away from where we were so let’s take a quick fly

Back over the farm doesn’t this place look great from the air so far and you can get a better look at this building now that it’s not nighttime I think that’s looking pretty good so far right let’s try and sweep up here oh we hit our heads on the gravel mountain but we

Are 100% fine and as you can see not so many creepers around here now which is pretty good the cool thing about this little catchment thing here this little box that we put him in is that we can take out the site here and because he’s

Got a block over his head he doesn’t burn now sometimes zombies can also wear armor you can actually give armor to them zombie villagers I don’t know if it’s possible to give them armor and then have the armor show up on them like they’re not wearing the armor I’m not

Certain if you can do that or not if they spawn with helmets and so forth but helmets will actually stop a zombie from burning in the Sun as well which is why you may have noticed occasionally a zombie or a skeleton wearing armor showing up around here and it hasn’t

Actually D spawned during the the day the armor they’re wearing will eventually break and they will start to take fire damage but that takes a little bit longer anyway we have ourselves our patient zero we haven’t even had to name tag patient zero and one of the reasons

I want to show you curing a zombie villager is because of the episode where we brought the two villagers over to our house and while that wasn’t super difficult to do it can be a very difficult process especially if the village that you’re going to is a long

Distance away from the place where you want to have everything set up so it’s quite nice to be able to cure a zombie villager nice and close to home and so this is a quite a valuable skill when it comes to making custom villages maybe even setting up a villager breeder or an

Iron farm later both of which are subjects that we will get into in future episodes but this is the start of potentially getting a larger population of villagers over here and it can be something that you can do you know on the off chance that a zombie villager

Appears and you have the materials with which to kill him now let’s talk about those materials let’s talk about the materials you need to cure a zombie villager you will need a potion of weakness a splash potion of weakness actually oh and I’ve got a spider iron

Here so I don’t even need to worry about grabbing one out of this chest you’ll need a splash potion of weakness and you will need a golden apple now golden apples sound like they’re quite quite expensive and they are quite expensive really you can occasionally find them in

Dungeon chests or you can make one using 8 gold ingots and a regular Apple which I can grab out of whichever chest I’ve left the apples in there’s one now so I don’t have to use up the one that’s in my ender chest and I can keep that there

The golden apple is quite easily too can carob as long as you’ve harvested a few oak trees and gotten yourself some gold which is relatively easy it comes out of the ground the next thing is a splash potion of weakness and those are interesting they are kind of unique

Among potions in that they are the only thing that you can brew without the need for nether wart all you will need is a fermented spider eye not a regular one but a fermented one and let me show you how you get a hold of one of those first

You will need some sugar and then you will need a brown mushroom which I do not currently have so I might have to go on a bit of a hunt for brown mushrooms I think they are probably most easily found in locations around here in the

Swamp over there so let me quickly fly over there and see if we can spot a brown mushroom there we go there was one sat under this tree perfect and there are a few others around here so in the event that we will need any more Brown

Mushrooms I can always come back to this swamp and find them the combination of a spider eye a brown mushroom and some sugar in a crafting interface will get you a fermented spider I do not ask me why because I have absolutely no idea what any of this recipe means but anyway

Like I said a fermented spider is something you can pop in a brewing stand notice these are water bottles and not awkward potions I haven’t applied nether wart to them at all pop that in there it will start to brew a splash potion of weakness or rather a potion of weakness

Sorry we need to add the splash effect as we normally do by using gunpowder on it after it is finished brewing there we go we have at three potions of weakness lasting 1 minute 30 and if we add the splash to that as well we will get 3

Splash potions and that is really all you need with the splash potion with the golden apple but there are a couple of other things we can use to speed up the process of curing this zombie now let me grab some iron ingots out of here in

Fact we already have some iron bars in here we turning the rest of those iron ingots into iron bars as well and let’s grab our splash potion of weakness now we should only need one of those and at one at Golden Apple and the iron bars are kind of an interesting thing that

Gets overlooked when it comes to a zombie village of curing because it’s not wholly necessary it’s just a way for you to save a little bit of time on returning to your zombie villager you take your splash potion of weakness in hand get a reasonable distance away and

Lob it straight at his face you might take a little bit of the weakness affect yourself but you’ll notice these particles coming off him which means he has been affected by the weakness potion you then get the goal an apple and a right-click on him with

It and he will start to sizzle and shake and he will start the curing process at this point you can surround him with a bunch of materials and iron bars are actually useful for this because the game kind of encourages you to imprison these zombie villages and keep them in

Some sort of like cage like this so the presence of iron bars nearby them will actually speed up the healing process now I don’t recommend completely surrounding your zombie villager with iron bars because a removing some of these blocks might cause him to escape and B if he steps out into the sunlight

He will start to take fire damage in this process while he is converting from a zombie villager into a regular villager he can still burn in the sunlight while he is still curing other zombies might decide to attack him as well it’s he starts to count as a

Villager or at least not as a regular zombie and hostile zombies will actually try and attack him so be very careful to protect your villager if you can and having the iron bars around him like this will also be an aid to that process having taken a quick look at the

Minecraft Wiki apparently putting a bed nearby will also help this process maybe because it kind of acts like a a block in a jail cell for example like he’s curing he needs some rest but he needs to be contained that kind of thing so having beds and iron bars

Nearby apparently speeds up the process by about 4% so it’s really not that quick normally a villager will take between two and five minutes to cure so you’re looking at a decent chunk of your minecraft day and you may want to use the bed yourself if the Sun starts to go

Down because you don’t necessarily want other monsters to come out while you are undertaking this process and with that sound and the zombie doctor goal that comes up on the screen we have ourselves a completely cured villager and he is a cleric who will trade us rotten flesh for emeralds amazingly seems to

Forgotten all about his previous life as a zombie and he has now got a few trades that we can unlock right here at our base and that’s how you cure a zombie villager it is that simple and the most important thing really is to keep other mobs away from your villager during this

Process and make sure that you can provide a safe shelter for the villager when he is ready to be rien grated into society now I do want to make sure that we get him back to a reasonable location around our base so I might pop down a boat and row him back

Over to the farm having a cleric around is actually going to be pretty useful because I have been in need of a decent rotten flesh trade for a little while we’ve been able to gather a decent amount of it having bought a whole bunch of zombies in our time and I feel like

This guy would be a great addition to the little crew of villagers I seem to be integrating into my house so if you’d like to get into the boat at any point that would be really good of you maybe I should take the boat up for a second

Wait for him to run out of this little impromptu you sell that we created and put them in the boat or maybe I can just do this what yes okay we got him cool step into the boat and I will take you on a grand adventure it’s always fun

Going down mountains and boat sploosh there we go we’ve made it to the river fantastic and the back door of our house is just over here so it’s really a not that long a trip see this is a this is a whole lot easier than it was taking him

Back from the village and oh wow okay he flew a little bit there for a second did you guys see that that was hilarious oh that was just a weird teleportation glitch sometimes it doesn’t have a great time registering the position of boats in the world but

There we go and there was a weird chunk error kind of thing around here again probably just a rendering bug nothing too much to worry about let’s take this guy out of the boat if I can score a decent hit on the hitbox of

The boat there we go and get him up onto the shore fantastic now hopefully it shouldn’t take long for him to register that doorway over there and decide to climb up alternatively we could probably just nudge him towards the grass over here pop the boat down there ish there

We go and we can roll him over to the door brilliant stuff and you come in you come join the family there we go you can probably have tea with the librarian over here in fact I plan on trading with this guy a little bit today because I

Have a decent amount of sugarcane up in that farm now well they’re already getting social I don’t know if he’s going to step into this minecart or not chances are he might not because it’s just place down on a powered rail and we don’t have any power going to it maybe

We could trap him in here a little bit and do I have any kind of quick redstone source I can put down power that rail let me see if I got a lever in here yep gotta leave it there let’s see if we can get that minecart

Moving but either way while he’s in here we can at least try and trade some rotten flesh with him can’t we let’s grab of this out of here and we’ve got a few stacks that should probably do let’s leave a couple of those in here so I’ve

Got a placeholder for oh you’re in that corner now are you fair enough have some rotten flesh here we go we can trade a few emeralds at this guy unlock some of his early trades maybe there we go what have you got Oh one emerald for one lapis one emerald for one redstone

These aren’t the greatest trades in the world but he’s a pretty decent emerald farm if we just give him a decent amount of rotten flesh that’s not too much of a problem one emerald for three glowstone is not bad either that’s a fun trade especially when you start running out of

It in close proximity in the nether always worth having a good glowstone trade around let’s see if he’ll give us a decent price on some of the later stuff and six emeralds for a bottle of enchanting isn’t the best trade but it’s still decent and it’s fun to have a

Source of bottles of enchanting as well there a knight a nice little source of experience if you want a quick splash of the stuff there we go put the glowstone in there put the emeralds away in here and let’s go and get some paper I better

Keep an eye on this guy though he’s a wanderer for feeling he will be roaming around this place before long so let’s check on the stock out the sugarcane farm and I’ve already got three and a half stacks in there that’s lovely another three and a half in here it’s

Probably going to be roughly the same across the board yet pretty good so all in all we got ourselves a decent amount of sugarcane there I have been AFK at this for a couple of hours today but really not that long and it’s only six modules like I said we could build this

Further up if we wanted to but I think for the long term we’re probably gonna have this sugarcane farm running a whole bunch while we’re around here and I’m not going to need a huge amount of it we might make a bigger more industrial one somewhere else if we decide to in future

If we really want to go the whole hog with this stuff but I think for now this will be good enough if you’re building a sugarcane farm on a server or you want to have a more paper than you know what to do with then you can go bigger if you

Want to all you need to do is repeat that process a few times so let’s trade with this guy we’ve got a 27 paper trade 24 is the best paper trade we can get but this is pretty good considering he’s a guy we could just bring over here

Let’s trade with him a couple more times and see if there’s anything else we still need to unlock for him actually there is not so he’s got a sharpness 5 trade towards the end here which is actually really great and a fortune 1 trade which is not the best and I have

Enough fortune right now but it’s still pretty good one emerald for five glass though is an absolute steal so I am absolutely fine trading with that and that we can get ourselves more emeralds this way all of these emeralds of course are going to be traded with my man upstairs who’s going

To give us infinity and mending books this guy is seems to be very keen on getting all of the Cubbies he’s definitely finding all the little nooks and crannies of this house isn’t he maybe you’ll have to block him into one of those sooner or later if he stays

Still for long enough I might be able to get them in the minecart this time go on go on in you go over here over here yes ok we got him fantastic right now let’s push him over there let’s actually disable the powered rails let’s push him

Onto this one very carefully take out the powered rail from below him perfect there he is having tea with his mate fantastic I like that I like the fact that these two are kind of wedged here in the corner now if I can maybe push him a little bit further over that way

Well it looks like he’s basically staying there now doesn’t it hey I got it I got I got the chair in there fantastic I did actually wonder if it’s gonna be possible to push the stairs over the minecart there using a piston let’s try that for a second I’m curious

Here place the piston down facing that way pull the lever and oh yeah okay I mean it’s it looks a little bit glitchy it’s not the most aesthetically pleasing thing in the world but I don’t know that that kind of works for me it’s okay if

He’s just kind of sat there maybe he’s got like a cushion or something I don’t know it looks a little bit ugly but I’m sort of I’m sort of okay with it as long as he stays there all right and while we’re up here we could always trade some

Wallpaper to this librarian who’s only got a 33 paper trade but it means we don’t have to worry about unlocking this paper trade again for a little while once we’ve got all of this paper in our inventory we may as well trade it away to somebody and we are getting sugar

Cane for free at this point so it is very very easy to trade away as much paper as we’ve got to this guy in exchange for emeralds especially when his trades keep unlocking for me unlike the other he’s so we can just trade away basically the last of our reserves of paper here

We still got enough that we can make some fireworks with if we wanted to and from this guy I’m going to grab two new books one of which is going to be another mending books it’s still amazingly here how’s this trade for 10 emeralds and the other one is going to

Be an infinity book that I can put on my bow so I never have to worry about arrows again that’s two fantastic trades thank you so much and you know what I think we’re gonna give this guy a name today we are not going to name him

Patient zero we’re gonna keep that name tag for if I want to cure another zombie villager but you guys have left a whole bunch of fantastic name suggestions and if I can find where enough I put the name tags I keep losing track of the hoes apparently we are going to and name

This guy now this name came from a kena that David Murdoch in the comments Thank You Kenneth for this fantastic name he suggested naming the villager Mendelson and I think that’s fantastic I actually studied the music of Mendelssohn in one of my exams for college so that’s

Actually a really great name close to my heart and boy shifter right clicking on the villager with the name tag it doesn’t opening it doesn’t open up the the trading GUI it will actually let you at name tag here it’s funny that didn’t used to be possible it used to be

That you would have to have two players in a world and one of you would have to open up the trading GUI so that the other player could name it because right-clicking on a villager no matter what you did always opened up the trade interface but thankfully that is no

Longer the case we can shift right-click on the guy with a nametag and named him Mendel Cerner welcome to the family that’s really great and now obviously we’ve got these two other villages down here who aren’t it quite as valuable as Mendelssohn but I think they still deserve names I might still

Call this guy patient zero actually it’s quite a funny name for a guy he trades rotten flesh but maybe the other guy will need a name as well we’ll see as that goes on but now this mending book I’m going to apply to my silk touch shovel because the silk touch shovel is

Perhaps one of the most important things in my life aside from having a decent set of a lighter er so we’re going to apply mending to that and I’m also going to apply infinity to this bow which really doesn’t cost a huge amount so that’s pretty fantastic it’s only going

To cost me four levels to do that now while I think about it I’m actually going to try and apply another unbreaking a book to my alight row because I managed to get an unbreaking two-inch arm while I was working on getting this silk touch shovel in the first place so I

Thought we’ll add that to the unbreaking – on my alight trail make that unbreaking 3 and that is my Electra all done in dusty oh and the anvil broke Wow is that the first time we’ve had an anvil break in this series it probably

Is so there you go folks if you use an anvil too much they will eventually break and you’ll have to make another one hopefully we still have enough iron blocks in here that we can make another one looks like we do and we’ll pop that back in place but boy oh boy I’m

Probably going to need an iron farm one of these days I expect but before we go I wanted to have a bit of a chat about me putting mending on my Electra in the first place because somebody in the comments of a recent episode which I

Think the comment is actually gone now I think they may have deleted it I’m not sure but they did think that it was a little bit of a stupid move for me to put my only mending book at the time on my alight row now this didn’t really

Take into account the fact that I already had a mending pickaxe that I’d got from an end City so I was gonna combine that with a silk touch for a fortune pickaxe already but they seem to think that pudding mending on my electro as a bad move now I took a poll on

Twitter which amazingly reached a lot more people than I thought it would and in the end we got 1500 people voting on whether they should have mending on if you had one mending book if you would put it on tools Armour or a light row

And in the end more than 50% of people said a light trait was 37% said tools 7% said armor and 56% finally said Elektra and I have to say I agree now the thing about Elektra for my money is that you will never find them enchanted in the

World in the same way that you will find other pickaxes like like I said I’d already got myself a mending diamond pickaxe from the N City loot and occasionally it is possible to find enchanted pickaxes like that out there when you’re raiding n cities whereas you will never find an enchanted alight

Trousseau if you’re going to use a mending book on something maybe use it on something that can’t naturally be found with that enchantment the argument I saw in the comments was that alight TRO are a lot cheaper to repair considering you don’t have to spend diamonds to repair them you have to

Spend phantom membrane and while that is true the thing about repairing stuff in an anvil is that eventually it becomes too expensive if you end up taking some durability off of a tool and then you try and mend it in an anvil the repair cost will increase

Every time you have to make a repair to it it’s usually dictated by where it says 3m BT tags as well I think there is a higher price for something that has got multiple kind of tags on it usually multiple enchantments or something like that but even with unbreaking 3 we would

Eventually wear this Elektra down have to repair it with phantom membrane and each time the cost doubles so it would take one level to repair your Elektra with phantom membrane the first time which doesn’t seem like much but then the next time it would take two levels

The next time it would take four levels after that it would take eight levels after that sixteen to probably thirty two levels after that and once something needs more than 39 levels to repair it minecraft won’t actually let you repair it it will actually come up here and say

Too expensive instead of any kind of enchantment cost and I’m amazed quite frankly that I couldn’t combine those two pickaxes for a higher value even 36 but there we go that’s that’s the problem with mending stuff repeatedly in an anvil as opposed to applying a mending in Sharman the problem with

Repairing it is that eventually it becomes too expensive to repair at which point you would have to go and find another a light rake you wouldn’t have any other option and Elektra are way more risky to obtain than diamonds are i know people who don’t like to go to the

End because the void scares them and so they only have one pair of a light troll or they’ve never had a light tree at all it’s kind of a risk assessment really like going mining for diamonds all you have to do is go down to Diamond level

And strip mine for a little bit it really doesn’t take all that long it I mean it’s time consuming short but it’s mostly a very safe practice the worst thing you’re gonna run into is maybe a couple of underground mobs if you didn’t like the area up properly or a lava lake

Which is very easy to take care of if you’ve watched my episode on how to get diamonds the other thing is you can’t enchant in a light trip naturally in the enchantment table if you put this in there it’s not gonna show up any results and obviously it wouldn’t if you put an

Enchanted item in there anyway but even a completely unenchanted Electra will not get you any enchantment in the table so you’re gonna have to put at least unbreaking on it if you want it to last a little while whereas I have a whole bunch of diamonds in here now I have

Over two stacks of diamonds that I could turn into tools and I’d be pretty much guaranteed to get decent enchants like efficiency on braking and fortune on them all the time in fact it took me long enough to get a silk touch shovel because it kept coming up

Fortune every time and so far I haven’t even mentioned the fact that if you trade a couple of times with Atul Smith or a weaponsmith any kind of blacksmith villager they will end up selling you enchanted diamond weapons and tools so it’s actually super easy to get those

Once you’ve got a decent source of emeralds you can have as many diamond tools as you want there are armored Smith’s who will also sell you enchanted diamond armor if they’ve got low-level enchantments you combine them if they don’t have the enchantments you want you end up combining them in your inventory

Which removes the enchantments or in a grindstone if you’re already playing in the 1.14 snapshots and then you enchant them in the table yourself for just a few lapis and some levels now my buddies loi also pointed out that if you enchant a fishing rod with mending you would be

Able to fish up more mending books and the rod would constantly repair itself because of the experience you get from fishing which i think is probably the best point I saw made during this whole argument however it is still also possible for you to fish up a fishing

Rod with mending on it already which you could just combine with an existing fishing rod and save that mending book for your alight truck so anyway that’s my argument that’s why I think it’s a smart move to put your mending book on an electro but frankly if you have a guy

Who can trade you mending books you don’t need to worry too much about that and ultimately it’s up to you it’s minecraft the game is entirely your own and I think whatever choice you make it’s probably going to be a smart one unless you put mending on a hoe in which

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