u/BendanPrinting

my chicken farm wasn't working very efficiently, and my friend realised that as the chicks spawn, they don't move, and are hit with the proceeding egg, receiving knockback, and burning too early, (i was going to fix it with more chickens in the first chamber lol), anyways i could rotate the dispenser but i decided to change the slab for a shulker box with a hopper minecart under it, that way i can choose when i make them half a block from the lava, and disable the eggs at this time, i know hopper minecarts can take things through a block, but i'm not sure if they can take things a block and a half away, and there's quite a few chickes there currently that i want the loot from, so i wanted to check before i did it and lost the stuff, it should do one of three things...

would it; have the loot stay on the top of the shulker - burn the loot - or absorb the loot through the open shulker?

i have obtained a few villagers with some trades i really like,

Mending, Fortune I, Silk Touch... and they are selling them for quite a few emeralds,

i know that when a villager is cured it makes their trades be only a book and an emerald or two,

could i allow them to be killed by a zombie and then cure them to get their prices as low as my relationship standards...

i will need this to be a guaranteed thing, I don't want to lose these villagers so i have two main questions

• on hard mode or other difficulty, what is the chance of them turning instead of dying... can i increase the chance of turning to 100%

• after being turned and cured would the villager keep it's trade (they have been traded with atleast once, so they aren't needed to stay near their workstation to keep their job)