Desert Village

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A desert village is a variant of Village that generate naturally in the Overworld. A plains village is inhabited by villagers, cats, iron golems, livestock mobs and wandering traders with their trader llamas.

Villages as a whole have no defined "center", "size", or "radius"; they are defined only based on proximity to any "village center" subchunk.

A subchunk is a "village center" if it contains at least one claimed bed, bell, or job site block. The 26 subchunks in a 3×3×3 cube around such a subchunk are also considered part of a village.

A village always consists of at least one acceptable bed and one villager. Rarely, a village structure can generate without beds, thus not qualifying as a village. Upon creation, a village center is defined as a POI claimed by the first villager, and the village's size is the greater of 32 blocks or the distance to the furthest bed from the center. Any villager, village golem, or raid-spawned illagers can pathfind back into the village if they find themselves farther than that many blocks from the center.

Villages are established by the number of valid beds in the village.

The maximum population of a village is the number of valid beds. If the population drops below that point (due to death or removal), but there are at least two villagers left who can reach each other, the villagers mate and breed until the population is at the maximum.

A village is created when at least one villager links to one bed. The village continues to exist as long as one of its villagers remains linked to one of its beds. If all beds are unlinked (by being destroyed, by players sleeping in them, or by villagers failing to pathfind to them), then the village ceases to exist. When this happens, the villagers lose all links to job site blocks and bells and cannot use them.

When the first villager links to a bed, a village of size 65×25×65 blocks is created, centered on the pillow of that bed. The boundaries, and consequently the center (which is important because it defines where cats and iron golems can spawn), may change as other villagers link or unlink from point of interest (POI) blocks. When the boundaries change, the center usually shifts to the location of the POI block near the midpoint between the farthest out POI in each direction. In naturally generated villages, there is usually a bell near the village center, but aside from that, bells have no special role distinct from other POI in how the game defines and manages the village center and boundaries.

Villages have gathering sites where villagers may mingle. A gathering site is defined as a bell located within the village boundary. A wandering trader may spawn at a gathering site, accompanied by trader llamas. A villager also rings the bell when a raid starts.

Job site blocks are blocks such as grindstones, smithing tables, and lecterns, which are used by villagers. Villagers with the corresponding professions spend their time in front of their job site block, except for nitwits, baby villagers, and unemployed villagers (villagers without profession overlays). Upon claiming a job site block, green particles appear above both the villager and the job site block, and the villager takes up the profession of the job site block if unemployed. Villagers who have already been traded with can claim only job site blocks related to their profession. Employed villagers who are not linked to a job site block are unable to restock their trades. Villagers cannot link to a job site block that has already been claimed by another villager. There are thirteen job site blocks in the game, each linking to its respective villager profession.

These events are not tied to generated village structures, but these structures (except for abandoned villages) typically satisfy the game's definition in the context of village mechanics. Specifically, these events consider any chunk section (aka. "subchunk") within a 3×3×3 cube of sections centered on a section containing a bed, bell, or job site as part of a village.

A player who drinks an ominous bottle (dropped by raid captains) receives the Bad Omen effect for 100 minutes. Like other status effects, Bad Omen can also be cleared by dying or drinking milk. Entering a village boundary while the effect is active turns it into Raid Omen, which starts a raid after the effect runs out. The raid spawns groups of illagers in waves, which attack the village. The higher the level, the higher the chance for the raiding mobs to wield enchanted weapons.

Zombie sieges are in-game events where many zombies spawn in a village, regardless of how well-lit or walled off a village is. They have a 10% chance of occurring at midnight every night or during thunderstorms when a village has at least 20 valid beds. There is no indication of a zombie siege happening except for an unusually high number of zombies.

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