Tips for training your Iron Golem

I prefer to call these guys iron giants due to their friendly relationship with the villagers, and I came across some information this morning that you might want to consider, if you are going to generate them for village defence.

1. A Golem can be spawned by placing hte blocks on the ground, or in the air. (fouriron blocks in a T shape, pumpkin on top) They will naturally spawn in a village with 15 villagers.
2. Golems cannot cross a 2 block wide river - so you can effectively give them an area to guard by building a river around the patrol area.
3. Golems do not like the rain, and will seek shelter - they will not move from shelter until rain has stopped
4. A Golem will attack you if you attack a villager (does not even require line of sight) - however it will return to neutral if you flee the village, and return later.
5. And best of all, if you created teh Golem yourself, it will never attack you

Hmmm....so if you'd like an iron giant or two to protect your doorways, you would need to make an overhang in case of rain.

As for the pumpkin head, do you know if a jack-o-lantern would work? I suppose it doesn't really matter other than it would look a little cooler, lol.

I would assume it has to be a pumpkin, only on account of i've not read jack-o-lantern block being used - would have been nice if you could have used that to make a Golem that looked slightly different, but was in effect the same creature

That's a shame, lol. Ah well, I'm still looking forward to having some! But yeah, it would be kind of nice if at some point they let you customize it a bit!

Actually I think it's 4 iron blocks.

quite so, typo x)