Minecraft – Can Villagers use fence gates

You will need to return at least 2 villagers. Then they will start repopulating the village. As of 1.2, villagers will mate and repopulate based on the number of available houses. See this post (especially the "your village died out" section) for more information.

As of the 1.8 snapshots, though, the villagers need to be "willing" to breed in order to breed. It seems that you can make a villager "willing" by trading with them. Willingness is granted on the first new trade offer, and at a 1 in 5 chance per subsequent trade. Once a villager is willing, they will immediately seek another willing mate, if the village can sustain more villagers (based on the number of houses).

The wiki has an excellent guide to configuring your first server.

Configuring the Minecraft Server

1. Configure the server by editing the server.properties file, the format for which is explained here. Be certain to edit the file with a text editor that does not add formatting (e.g., for italics). Additional configuration may not be necessary as many servers run fine from the default values.

2. Add your username to the admin.txt and/or ops.txt (newer Minecraft versions may not have an admin.txt file).

   • Ops.txt and admin.txt determine who may execute server commands. In other words, operator ("op") privileges allow you to control certain aspects of the game (e.g., teleporting players).

   • Op privileges may also be granted from the server GUI: type "op " and it will automatically add to the ops.txt file. Being an op will not let you fly and/or have a creative inventory