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Discussion forum => Legacy => Archives => Suggestions => Topic started by: ViperZeroOne on August 03, 2012, 05:00:45 pm

Title: Villager Overpopulation? Make a Suicide Booth!
Post by: ViperZeroOne on August 03, 2012, 05:00:45 pm
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!

(https://www.opticraft.net/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lorehound.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2008%2F12%2Fsuicide-booth.jpg&hash=ba555732261b736f8791b5a51370cba8)

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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.
Title: Re: Villager Overpopulation? Make a Suicide Booth!
Post by: Selkon_Hunter on August 03, 2012, 05:11:50 pm
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.
Title: Re: Villager Overpopulation? Make a Suicide Booth!
Post by: Boshiwarrior on August 03, 2012, 05:13:01 pm
Awusome idea! I don't want a visit from Opticalza and Nick...
Title: Re: Villager Overpopulation? Make a Suicide Booth!
Post by: DiamondKnight629 on August 03, 2012, 05:16:28 pm
Yeah thats a good solution to any problem
Title: Re: Villager Overpopulation? Make a Suicide Booth!
Post by: illiwill on August 03, 2012, 05:21:01 pm
Why can't I shoot them with my bow? Lol, jk, this is a really good idea viper!
Title: Re: Villager Overpopulation? Make a Suicide Booth!
Post by: ViperZeroOne on August 03, 2012, 05:24:05 pm
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...  :P
Title: Re: Villager Overpopulation? Make a Suicide Booth!
Post by: ViperZeroOne on August 03, 2012, 05:32:31 pm
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!
Title: Re: Villager Overpopulation? Make a Suicide Booth!
Post by: Nick3306 on August 03, 2012, 05:39:46 pm
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.
Title: Re: Villager Overpopulation? Make a Suicide Booth!
Post by: ViperZeroOne on August 03, 2012, 05:45:05 pm
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.
Title: Re: Villager Overpopulation? Make a Suicide Booth!
Post by: Selkon_Hunter on August 03, 2012, 06:52:39 pm
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.
Title: Re: Villager Overpopulation? Make a Suicide Booth!
Post by: ViperZeroOne on August 03, 2012, 07:43:17 pm
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.
Title: Re: Villager Overpopulation? Make a Suicide Booth!
Post by: raul7legend on August 03, 2012, 07:56:23 pm
We should give them a choice between quick and painless or slow and horrible :p
Title: Re: Villager Overpopulation? Make a Suicide Booth!
Post by: Nick3306 on August 03, 2012, 08:09:25 pm
We should give them a choice between quick and painless or slow and horrible :p
Ya I would like to place a collect call.
Title: Re: Villager Overpopulation? Make a Suicide Booth!
Post by: ViperZeroOne on August 04, 2012, 03:57:10 pm
*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*
Title: Re: Villager Overpopulation? Make a Suicide Booth!
Post by: Chipaton on August 04, 2012, 04:16:12 pm
There's a mod for that :D
Title: Re: Villager Overpopulation? Make a Suicide Booth!
Post by: ViperZeroOne on August 04, 2012, 04:18:17 pm
There's a mod for that :D

You sure?   I need a plugin that will not only allow the music player to play Justin Beiber... It must also adjust the player's skin so blood comes out of the ears, and their health must lower 1 heart every 20 seconds do to them flailing their arms around and uncontrollably punching themselves in the face over and over again.   *LOL*

If that plugin exists, I need Opti to install it post haste!   *LMAO*
Title: Re: Villager Overpopulation? Make a Suicide Booth!
Post by: Nick3306 on August 04, 2012, 08:29:29 pm
I see why you did this, but i would like it if you didnt unlock the topics I locked.
Title: Re: Villager Overpopulation? Make a Suicide Booth!
Post by: ViperZeroOne on August 04, 2012, 09:10:58 pm
Sorry, I thought since my thread had been hijacked with an argument, and I removed the argument to put the thread back on-topic, it would be ok to unlock it and allow the original thread to continue.

I'll relock it and keep a better eye on my threads in the future to stop people from hijacking them.