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Minecraft is the ultimate sandbox experience. With no real end goal in the game, whatever you do is completely up to your discretion. Seeing as there’s a 50 to 66.7 percent chance for a village to generate within 500 blocks of the spawn point depending on the version you’re playing, the first thing many players do is locate a village.
Over time, these players tend to expand the village and increase their popularity amongst its villagers in the process. But before you start your new Minecraft life in a small village, there are a few things you need to know.
10 Villages Can Range In Size
The villages in Minecraft can vary in size significantly. Some could be as small as one building while others could have a dozen. The size of the village is completely random, but it is determined by the biome and the terrain among other factors.
The bigger the village, the better because that means more villagers to trade with and upgrade. You’re going to want to improve your reputation in the village and that’s so much easier when there’s more villagers to mingle with. It also means you’ll likely have more iron golems that will keep the villagers safe.
9 There Are Five Different Village Styles
Depending on the biome the village is located in, it can have a certain style. This style affects the materials used to build the structures in the village as they are typically made using blocks from that specific biome.
In total, there are five different village styles: desert, plains, savanna, taiga, and snowy. Desert villages are typically made of sand and sandstone. As for the rest of the biomes, those usually use wood and stone for their structures with a few exceptions, such as snow blocks for igloos.
8 Sole Villagers
It’s rare, but it’s possible for a village to only have one house, one job site, and one villager. Village size is all RNG and some get the short end of the stick. Minecraft is a really lonely world out there for some people.
This villager has no one to talk to; they just work all day and sleep all night. It’s actually quite sad. If you’re looking for the best villagers to trade with, you’re going to be out of luck in a village this small.
7 Villages Could Spawn On Biome Borders
It’s possible for villages to spawn on the border between two biomes. Sadly, this doesn’t create any cool hybrid villages because the village will only keep the style of one particular biome. If you want, you could alter the village yourself, but the game won’t do it for you.
That being said, it’s still very useful to have a village close to a different biome as it gives you a lot of options when it comes to building a house or a farm. You’ll be able to craft the most unique house on the block.
6 The Gathering Spot
A bell is essential for any Minecraft village because it serves as the centerpoint of the village. Villagers will gather around the bell to mingle with each other, allowing for iron golems to spawn. It’s best to place the bell right in the middle of the town and make sure the space around it is loaded with job sites and houses.
Your village’s downtown area should be located around the bell. It’ll make it easier for everyone that way. Just note that you can’t craft a bell, but you can move it to a different location.
5 Houses Are Easy To Build
It’s very easy to build a house for your villagers. All you need is a door, an inside, an outside and a bed to build a house. It’s important that every villager has their own bed because it’s a necessary step to expand the village.
It’s not a bad idea to build a large watchtower so you could see it at a distance and make sure you never get lost. The last thing you want is to work so hard on a village only to lose everything because you can’t find your way back home.
4 Village Expansion
One of the best parts of living in a village in Minecraft is expanding it. You could expand a village by building more houses and making the villagers breed. To make the villagers breed, you have to ensure each one has either three loaves of bread, 12 carrots, 12 potatoes or 12 beetroots.
It’s important to know that the villagers will only breed if they have a spare bed available for their baby. They want their kid well taken care of so it’s a good idea to help the villagers with that.
3 Ravines Could Alter Villages
Ravines are some of the coolest structures in Minecraft, but they can wreak havoc if a village is generated on top of them. If a village is right above a ravine, it could cause missing pathways and sometimes put structures all the way down at the bottom of the ravine.
While it could make for a really unique village, you don’t want to be the villagers trapped down in the ravine. It’s very likely that they won’t be able to survive against the hostile mobs unless an iron golem is present.
2 Villages Can Be Moved
It can be a big challenge, but you could move an entire village. You don’t necessarily need to tear down a village to move it, but you will need to move all of the villagers, which could be really time consuming.
The fastest way to move villagers is by placing them in boats. Boats can be used on both land and sea, making them the ideal way to move villagers around. As long as there is a free job site and a bed, the villagers will stay in the new village. Just make sure you don’t forget to bring a bell too.
1 The Original Design
According to Jeb, one of the game designers at Mojang Studios, villages were originally designed to expand in population as the player improves it. The idea was later scrapped because it was difficult to program such a thing in Minecraft.
It would’ve been an interesting feature in the game, but it’s fine to leave it up to the player to improve their village. It actually makes things more rewarding since it doesn’t happen automatically. When you look back on the amazing village you created, you could smile knowing you did it all yourself.