So, WatchingTheAnime recently got jailed for my Villagers having their own crops. I'm told this is because it counts as an Auto-farm
Personally, I don't agree with this. Now, I'm not just spitballing and going "this isn't fair!!1!", I do not believe it counts as an automatic farm.
Had I hoppers or something to snatch the crops as the villagers harvested, I would say yes, I'm profiting from an automatic process.
But the crops were not there for my direct profit or use. They enabled the villagers to be constantly be fed and Keep their stamina up
And after they all have their inventories full, they don't even touch it.
I would also understand if I had made a truly automatic villager-producing machine, using a variety of tricks and block/border technicalities to make endless villagers. But I don't. First of all, villagers can only bring the population up to 33% of working doors in the area. My villagers were stationary, and I have a grand total of 3 that they would accept. Meaning that no matter what, they wouldn't breed at all unless I made more, but only ever up to 7 (though I hear that if the timing is just right you can go over the limit, so a possible 9, assuming there's 6 villagers all breeding at the exact same moment), which would be effort, and therefore not automatic. Say I made 21 doors, to support 7 villagers, they would only ever be able to make 7 total. I could kill some off, and they would make more, but because I would have to take action to make the change, I still would not consider it automatic.
The purpose of the area was to contain, protect, and make sure the villagers were available resources to me and mine.
I'm not trying to justify the area I had set up, that I should be able to get it back. The new one works fine. I'm not saying that it's wrong to try to nip auto-farms in the bud, but I don't understand how my setup was worthy of jail time.
I would appreciate any and all thoughts on this matter, and hopefully we can save someone else the time for this "Crime"
