Village

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A village is a group or complex of buildings and other above ground structures that generate naturally in the Overworld. A village is inhabited by villagers, cats, iron golems and livestock mobs. Wandering traders with their trader llamas can occasionally spawn there.

Villages are a source of resources for the player, obtained through trading, loot chests, and other materials found within the village. They are also targeted by illager raids, which are triggered when a player with the Bad Omen effect enters a village.

Villages generate naturally in plains, savanna, taiga, meadows, snowy plains, and desert biomes. In Bedrock Edition, they also generate in snowy taiga, sunflower plains and any vanilla or custom biome through the behavior pack that has the minecraft:village_type component, which defines the village type and allows it to be generated in that biome. In Java Edition, villages can generate in superflat worlds. The type of the village, and therefore the style of all structures within it, is determined by the biome at the village center or meeting point. The buildings and wood depend on the biome the village is in. If the meeting point does not generate in one of the above biomes, the village defaults to plains style. Villages will always have their respective village type in their respective biome(s).

The following table shows the village styles corresponding to different biomes.

The number of villagers spawned depends on the number of beds in the village. Villagers spawn only in houses that have beds, while job site buildings (with no beds) always generate without villagers.

If a building or pathway is constructed over open-air, circular or square platforms of grass or sand (depending on the terrain) generates below the structure, which can cause surface oddities. These platforms do not generate beside cliffs or over the void; rather, they generate on the lowest blocks. Platforms can be clearly seen when a village building is generated over an ocean. Farms generate a few blocks of open space above them if they happen to generate inside a hill. Village buildings can also be suddenly on the top of a mountain while the other buildings are at the bottom of the mountain. This happens often in savanna villages.

Some villages are generated as abandoned; see § Abandoned villages below.

Villages are slightly more common in Bedrock Edition than in Java Edition. There is a roughly ¹⁄₂ chance that at least one village is present within 500 blocks of the world spawn point in Java Edition, while this chance is about ²⁄₃ in Bedrock Edition. This is because villages can generate in more biomes in Bedrock Edition, as well as being closer to each other within an eligible biome.

Despite the existence of jungle and swamp villagers, village structures do not generate in these biomes. Jungle and swamp villagers can only spawn naturally in rare cases where a village overlaps a swamp or jungle. They can also be spawned by breeding villagers in a jungle or swamp, or by curing a jungle or swamp zombie villager.

Upon generation

• Villagers spawn in regular villages only.
• Iron golems spawn in regular villages only; one spawns near a village meeting point.
• Zombie villagers spawn in abandoned villages only.
• Horses, pigs, cows, and sheep spawn in regular villages and abandoned villages.
• Camels spawn in regular desert villages and abandoned desert villages.
• Two armor stands are part of the taiga village with pieces of armor.
• In Java Edition, baby zombie villagers that spawn in abandoned villages have a 5% chance to spawn as a chicken jockey.

Periodically

• Cats spawn naturally inside villages, one for every four beds for a maximum of five.
• One wandering trader spawns periodically at a village meeting point.
• Two trader llamas spawn periodically at a village meeting point alongside a wandering trader.
• In Bedrock Edition, iron golems spawn periodically around the village center if there are at least 10 villagers and 20 beds in a village. In Java Edition, they are summoned by a villager if the villager spawning them has slept.

During events

• Zombies spawn during zombie sieges.‌^{[Java Edition only]} Chickens can spawn rarely during zombie sieges as chicken jockeys.
  • Naturally spawned zombie horses, zombie villagers, husks, camel husks, and drowned will also join zombie sieges.
• Pillagers, vindicators, evokers, vexes, ravagers, and witches spawn during raids.
  • Illusioners also join raids when spawned by players.
  • Evoker fangs spawn when summoned by evokers.
  • Witches also spawn when a villager is struck by lightning within four blocks of the bolt.

A village has a 2% chance of generating as an abandoned village^[1] (also known as zombie village).

In an abandoned village, all generated villagers are instead zombie villagers, and all doors and torches are missing. The zombie villagers do not despawn, but have no resistance to sunlight. In abandoned villages, most cobblestone blocks are replaced by mossy cobblestone, random blocks (particularly wood) are replaced by cobwebs, and all glass panes are replaced by brown stained glass panes to represent dirty glass. Abandoned villages also spawn stray cats, as well as the usual village livestock, but they do not spawn iron golems naturally. The number of buildings in an abandoned village can be slightly more than in a normal village.

A preview of village generation is shown below:^{[info 1]}

The number of buildings making up a village can vary, and not every village consists of all building types at once. Apart from the meeting point, which is unique and systematic, the number of buildings of each type is randomly generated and increased in superflat‌^{[Java Edition only]} worlds. More than one meeting point can be generated in superflat worlds. The number of lamp posts and decorative structures (hay bales, melon patch, pumpkin patch, farms, snow and ice patches) has no restriction, as they are generated where no other buildings can be placed. These structures could have functions and could be of great use to the player. Paths are found between the buildings of the village and often extend beyond them.

Structures are chosen randomly from a pool of possible buildings.

The full list of the village house blueprints can be accessed by going here.

Architectural style and blocks making up the village structures vary according to village type. Not every building can be generated in a single village, although some blocks can be found in any village, such as job site blocks and food items.

In Java Edition, buildings have different probabilities of generating, depending on village type; for example, a weaponsmith shop is more likely to appear in a Taiga village than in other villages.

In Bedrock Edition, villages don't generate with expected structures; for example, a fletcher house doesn't appear in a plains village, and a mason house doesn't appear in a savanna village.^[2]

Villages generate paths between the buildings and extend outside of the village. Village paths generate at the level of existing terrain, potentially going up steep hills or down ravines without regard for whether an entity could actually traverse the path. Paths do not go below sea level and replace only grass blocks (with air above), water, lava, sand, sandstone, and red sandstone; all other blocks are ignored and the blocks underneath are considered for replacement instead.^[verify] Villagers use these paths to travel across the village.

In plains, savanna, taiga, and snowy villages, paths are comprised of dirt paths and grass. Savanna villages also generate farmland and crops in some areas. Dirt paths that generate over water are replaced by the village style's plank type. Desert villages are generated with smooth sandstone paths.

Trees, lamp posts, and other decorative structures can generate in the middle of paths as obstructions.^[3]

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.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Issues relating to "Village" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• According to Jeb, originally they wanted a system for a village to expand in population if the player improves it. But they found that it was computationally expensive to evaluate what constituted a house, so to make it simple, they decided that a door with an inside and outside counts as a house; however, the house was later changed to beds.^[9]
• Because feature placement is done after structure, clay disks may generate under water in village farms, even in biomes where clay is rare.
• Occasionally, surface canyons and noise caves generate through villages, causing missing pathways or even entire buildings sunken into the ravine.
• In rare cases, players can find a tiny village consisting of one house, or even just one job site-building (a building with job site blocks) without any houses (building with beds), causing the village to not spawn any villagers.

• 👁 An igloo structure that generated in a snowy plains village
  
  An igloo structure that generated in a snowy plains village
• 👁 A cartography table at a cartographer house in village
  
  A cartography table at a cartographer house in village
• 👁 A bee nest generated in a superflat village
  
  A bee nest generated in a superflat village
• 👁 Interior of a plains church
  
  Interior of a plains church
• 👁 A village reaching into a swamp, causing swamp villagers to spawn naturally
  
  A village reaching into a swamp, causing swamp villagers to spawn naturally
• 👁 A village with the most buildings generated in a lukewarm ocean biome. Note the ocean ruins in the center.
  
  A village with the most buildings generated in a lukewarm ocean biome. Note the ocean ruins in the center.
• 👁 A village on a desert island
  
  A village on a desert island
• 👁 View of the architecture of an abandoned village from the plains biome
  
  View of the architecture of an abandoned village from the plains biome
• 👁 Savanna village generated with no buildings or gathering sites
  
  Savanna village generated with no buildings or gathering sites
• 👁 A plains village generating on top of a massive cave opening
  
  A plains village generating on top of a massive cave opening
• 👁 A desert temple in an abandoned village
  
  A desert temple in an abandoned village
• 👁 A village near a pale garden
  
  A village near a pale garden

• 👁 A triple village formed the trial seed on Bedrock Edition, in a dark forest clearing
  
  A triple village formed the trial seed on Bedrock Edition, in a dark forest clearing
• 👁 A plains village before Village & Pillage
  
  A plains village before Village & Pillage
• 👁 An extremely small village
  
  An extremely small village
• 👁 A savanna abandoned village
  
  A savanna abandoned village
• 👁 Interior of a library
  
  Interior of a library
• 👁 Desert village as it looked like before 1.14 update
  
  Desert village as it looked like before 1.14 update
• 👁 An old desert village generated in a mesa biome
  
  An old desert village generated in a mesa biome
• 👁 A village near the ice spikes biome
  
  A village near the ice spikes biome
• 👁 A village generated too close to a cold biome, causing the water in the farm to freeze and the crops to dry out
  
  A village generated too close to a cold biome, causing the water in the farm to freeze and the crops to dry out
• 👁 A village generated without buildings
  
  A village generated without buildings
• 👁 All 3 path types generated in close proximity
  
  All 3 path types generated in close proximity
• 👁 A village generated at the edge of the world in New Nintendo 3DS Edition
  
  A village generated at the edge of the world in New Nintendo 3DS Edition

• 👁 First image of a village
  
  First image of a village
• 👁 Second image. A player near three village houses.
  
  Second image. A player near three village houses.
• 👁 Teaser image of a village church
  
  Teaser image of a village church
• 👁 An extremely large village
  
  An extremely large village
• 👁 The 13w22a banner, containing a village
  
  The 13w22a banner, containing a village
• 👁 A desert village
  
  A desert village
• 👁 First image of a village in Pocket Edition
  
  First image of a village in Pocket Edition
• 👁 Second image of a village in Pocket Edition
  
  Second image of a village in Pocket Edition
• 👁 A bugged village in a Pocket Edition development version, shared by Tommaso Checchi
  
  A bugged village in a Pocket Edition development version, shared by Tommaso Checchi
• 👁 First image of a taiga village
  
  First image of a taiga village
• 👁 Some bats in a village house
  
  Some bats in a village house
• 👁 A taiga house image tweeted by LadyAgnes
  
  A taiga house image tweeted by LadyAgnes
• 👁 A taiga farm image tweeted by LadyAgnes
  
  A taiga farm image tweeted by LadyAgnes
• 👁 Another image of a village tweeted by LadyAgnes[10]
  
  Another image of a village tweeted by LadyAgnes^[10]
• 👁 A mountaintop village overlooking a valley
  
  A mountaintop village overlooking a valley
• 👁 A savanna village on top of a plateau
  
  A savanna village on top of a plateau
• 👁 Desert village at night
  
  Desert village at night
• 👁 Desert and plains villages near each other
  
  Desert and plains villages near each other
• 👁 Plains village near sunflower plains and flower forest
  
  Plains village near sunflower plains and flower forest
• 👁 A taiga village in an ocean inlet near mountains
  
  A taiga village in an ocean inlet near mountains
• 👁 A village in a mountain river valley
  
  A village in a mountain river valley
• 👁 A village on a spit of land surrounded by water surrounded by mountains
  
  A village on a spit of land surrounded by water surrounded by mountains
• 👁 A village on a landbridge connecting two sides of a river valley
  
  A village on a landbridge connecting two sides of a river valley
• 👁 A village on an island
  
  A village on an island
• 👁 A taiga village on top of a hill
  
  A taiga village on top of a hill
• 👁 Two desert villages separated by water
  
  Two desert villages separated by water
• 👁 A village island and forest island
  
  A village island and forest island
• 👁 The outskirts of a plains village
  
  The outskirts of a plains village
• 👁 A savana village between the mountains and sea
  
  A savana village between the mountains and sea
• 👁 A taiga village generated in a bamboo jungle
  
  A taiga village generated in a bamboo jungle
• 👁 A house with lava in the floor
  
  A house with lava in the floor
• 👁 A desert village overhaul shown in MINECON Earth 2018.
  
  A desert village overhaul shown in MINECON Earth 2018.
• 👁 A shepherd's house in a desert village overhaul shown in MINECON Earth 2018
  
  A shepherd's house in a desert village overhaul shown in MINECON Earth 2018
• 👁 New house architecture in a desert village overhaul shown in MINECON Earth 2018
  
  New house architecture in a desert village overhaul shown in MINECON Earth 2018
• 👁 A plains village overhaul shown in MINECON Earth 2018
  
  A plains village overhaul shown in MINECON Earth 2018
• 👁 A plains village overhaul shown more detailed inside, shown in MINECON Earth 2018
  
  A plains village overhaul shown more detailed inside, shown in MINECON Earth 2018
• 👁 A screenshot of an abandoned house with a burning zombie in front of it.
  
  An abandoned house with a burning zombie villager in front of it

• 👁 Artwork of a festival in a snowy village
  
  Artwork of a festival in a snowy village
• 👁 A village as it appears in Village & Pillage: Official Trailer
  
  A village as it appears in Village & Pillage: Official Trailer
• 👁 Ari in a desert village
  
  Ari in a desert village
• 👁 Noor at a village forge
  
  Noor at a village forge
• 👁 Midport Village as seen in A Minecraft Movie
  
  Midport Village as seen in A Minecraft Movie
• 👁 A Lego Minecraft village.
  
  A Lego Minecraft village.

• "Building Blocks: Village" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, August 1, 2024.
• "Building Blocks: Abandoned Village" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, May 10, 2025.