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I came up with the idea myself. So if someone else has already made this, I didn't steal it, but original creator deserves credit.
I plan on doing rows of these, but before I get started, I want to know other (better) designs before possibly wasting my time.

I insist. Go for it. I noticed a few people using the design Jeb had posted, but that doesn't really work for me. It's more compact, but what happens when you fall in one of the holes? Also, harder to see villager type. So I welcome anyone elses design here.

Right, I'm saying one villager per 1x2x1 hole.
Also, I was gonna organize the villagers by class (black smith, priest etc.), but getting to this point alone was a pain in the a**. So I dropped that idea lol.

On a side note, I was thinking of all villagers being in minecarts, and have all of them on one track right next to each other, but I'm sure they would pop out eventually due to logging or unload and reloading chunks.

Looks like a concentration camp

Maybe they need a camp, to learn some actual AI.

Also, they took the selling of rotten flesh out? I was saving up too :/

Reminds me of this:

So we pretty much confine them to a hole too small to sit down in for the rest of their lives so we can give them shiny stones for their useful resources?

Poor villagers trapped inside the glass pane.....
YOU CRUEL PERSON!!!!
BTW, how did you put them in glass pane? did you use piston?(then it would be so hard)

Nope, you just place the glass pane. Make sure the villager is in the middle of 2 blocks, the pane can fit in between.

Behold, dystopian Minecraftia, where the overlord herds you in cages of glass and wood to enforce a harsh trading regime...

lol, I'm just kidding OP, that's pretty cool.

I would feel bad doing this to the villagers, they are adorable.

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So we pretty much confine them to a hole too small to sit down in for the rest of their lives so we can give them shiny stones for their useful resources?

Exactly.

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Behold, dystopian Minecraftia, where the overlord herds you in cages of glass and wood to enforce a harsh trading regime...

lol, I'm just kidding OP, that's pretty cool.

Haha, thanks

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I would feel bad doing this to the villagers, they are adorable.

Are you kidding? Even Notch himself called them "caveman Squidwards"

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Hate to sound like a noob, but what's this for?

More organized trading methods. I can label villagers, even list what they are selling and buying. Keeps them from also wandering and getting killed by zombies.

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So we pretty much confine them to a hole too small to sit down in for the rest of their lives so we can give them shiny stones for their useful resources?

Remember, villagers don't eat, or grow old. So it's pretty much eternity, in a tiny glass box, forced to produce merchandise. Like America in 20 years.

Well, someone isn't very fond of the design.

That looks a little odd, but whatever suits you I guess. Also I am somewhat of a noob still here, is it possible to place a fence around them or their house so that they can't get out and just label the house as to what they sell?

i might use it to look at my avatar WOOT WOOT