Talk:Village/Archive 1

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For your consideration
I made some structures in Mine Craft that are built to be replicas of the structures that appear in the NPC village screenshot. If you want pictures of them for additional data, let me know. One of the structures is 8x10x9 on the inside (not including the walls, floor, or roof). This enormous interior suggests that a second floor could easily fit inside with 3 blocks of head room. (I can show you how big that really is on the inside.)

I also have the schematics of each building taken with MC Editor. 16:56, 22 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Ya I was thinking about how big some of those buildings really are and they must be massive inside. If you want you can post the picture of the interior of the replicas.  It would be good to show to people the true scope of those buildings.  We don't need a picture of the outside because we already have an official picture of that.  Also the schematics wouldn't be good to show on here because there to technical and aren't official.  Maybe when they actually come out and we see exactly how they work someone could put the real schematics up.  17:16, 22 July 2011 (UTC)


 * I should inform you that the buildings I made contain only cobble stone (some of the official ones contain mossy stone) and that since I can only see one side, I had to guess about window placement on up to 3 sides of the building. If you are okay with that, I can go ahead and place screenshots of them. If not, I will need to add mossy cobblestone. 21:09, 22 July 2011 (UTC)


 * They don't have to be realistic, the pictures would just be to give example of how big the structures are. We don't have much info to go on so prefect replica would be impossible to produce anyway.  00:38, 23 July 2011 (UTC)


 * I got the images uploaded, I just need to know how to post them here and to articles. If you want more, it's certainly available. 23:38, 23 July 2011 (UTC)


 * I got the images on the article. Hey could you design an Icon for the article?  It still needs one of those.  I'll figure out how to add once your done.  06:15, 24 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Are there any standards I need to follow? Are there any guidelines? Are there any requirements/requests regarding it that you have (other than that I make it)?


 * I'm new here, so I will see what I can do, but those images and this talk page are the extent of my wiki-ing history. 22:13, 29 July 2011 (UTC)


 * You don't have to do it if you don't know how too. What I want is a picture for that little image that appears by the article's names on the template.  I honestly don't know how to add it if you where to make one, so it's not a high priority.  I've been seraching through the source code of many articles and I can't find the any coding that seems to be the tags for the icons.  It's ok.  I'm sure as soon as NPC's villages are added someone will make one.  03:37, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

Is it worth mentioning in the article that "Village Barely Visible" has a very different appearance from what we've seen heretofor? 00:45, 14 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Ya, I would say that. I don't think that the normal buildings have changed much though.  There are rumors that they added more types of buildings to NPC villages then just normal houses. 05:31, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Just a note to people, hat films said that there would be no npcs in the village, at the moment. I don't post often but I did not see this fact anywhere.Newby_5719 –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  19:27, 6 September 2011. Please sign your posts with
 * Yeah the update was getting to big so they had to split it into two updates the second one will come later along with the NPC's placed in- –The preceding undated comment was added on 22:41, 8 September 2011. Please sign your posts with

Reasoning for Article's Existence
I know that articles about NPC villages have been deleted berfore on the grounds that there isn't enough info about them to create one. I feel that there is enough info to warrent the creation of a NPC village article now. We have several statments form Notch saying that he will add NPC Villages in the adventure update, and he has released an official in game picture of NPC villages. I don't know what other details you need? People may be against any speculation that may appear in the article, but you have to agree that there should be an article in the first place. 08:44, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

Old Interview of Notch
The section about an interview with Notch needs a source. Could someone please provide one? 23:10, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

This Article needs an icon picture. How do you even add those? It's the one thing I can't figure out. 20:51, 3 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Same here.I need help on just regular everything, like how to get stuff on templates and like the stats, like blast resistance, and stuff like that. 12:12, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

New mobs?
Wow i just thought about something! this may be a little off topic but if they add more mobs ma maybe we could see a herobrine in this and it would do what people have rumored it to do except it's actually a mob! and he'd only have a 15% chance of spawning! you like the idea? -- 13:23, 11 July 2011 (UTC)


 * 1%, like Spider Jockeys. Herobrine is a legend, he should at least spawn like one. -- 04:09, 12 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Well, in the Millenaire mod, there are NPC villages that build their own buildings, gather thier own resources, and similar player-like stuff. So, I think something like Herobrine is entirely possible for Notch (or a modder) to pull off. 21:13, 22 July 2011 (UTC)


 * To add to that, enderman seems to be sort of like herobrine. 12:13, 30 July 2011 (UTC)


 * I would think Herobrine would only spawn on the sunset and the sunrise and only 5% of the time to be fair and he would drop 3 golden apples and he would still appear on peaceful

- –The preceding undated comment was added on 22:43, 8 September 2011. Please sign your posts with


 * i think thathe could spawn on any diffculy but would behave diffrently on each like on peaceful he might act like an enderman mabye? heshould deffently be able to build though mabye he spawn's in the nether? mabye you need to build a nether portal before he can come to your world and i agree with the way hw would spawn --Thatssss a very nice ssssignauture you have there SSSSSSSssssss, Signed  23:49, 15 September 2011 (UTC)


 * How about if Herobrine spawns in an abandoned village? –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  00:15, 9 July 2012. Please sign your posts with


 * Guys this is meant to be on a forum, as the discussion page is meant to DISCUSS about the article, and if there's something not on the article they would discuss it. So I think its best if you do so. Whatever. Herobrine is not a legend, it's just the fact that he is deleted. We all have information that Notch no longer wants to create Herobrine. As of the other update news, Notch often mentions he has deleted him. So please drop the subject, unless you want to discuss it on the Herobrine page. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  09:28, 17 September 2012 (UTC). Please sign your posts with


 * You can't delete something that doesn't exist. The "Herobrine was removed" notes in, I think, two updates so far were jokes. -- 02:23, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

Pics with Enderman
How are we sure that is a NPC village? It's cobble stone and moss stone like in the official picture but it could also be something that was built. I mean I use moss for building all the time. I think we need more clarification before we state that it's a NPC. 04:53, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
 * That's you.Plus, why would Notch take a pic outside his house when he knows we want pics of an inside of a building in a NPC Village. We got close to that. We can see(not very much) of an inside to the building. So, he has spoiled again. 15:33, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
 * The buildup is exactly the same. Glass blocks (windows) are placed at least 2 blocks apart, Moss stone generates randomly up to 1 block above the glass blocks, wooden blocks used as the roof and is constructed in that exact manner -- 06:21, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Town Borders
What about these town borders which have been mentioned in several tweets by notch and jeb? Not definite enough yet? -- 20:39, 5 August 2011 (UTC)


 * What Notch is talking about is that he wants the NPC villages to have some sort of fence or wall around them so they look more like a town. Though form what he says on twitter it sounds like he can't get them to work right.  00:06, 13 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Of course, you can make a fence around the town yourself, to make it creeper-free. I'm sure Jeb will get this fixed. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by (&#124;) 04:06, 6 December 2011. Please sign your posts with

Multiple NPCS?
is it possible that jeb is planning different types of villages with different mobs/npcs? i think it would be neat if some were human, some pigmen, and maybe even some hostile endermen –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  05:04, 21 August 2011. Please sign your posts with


 * That would be amazing, but form what we've been hearing it looks like theirs only going to be one kind for now. O' just you know endermen are hostile NPC's normally. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  (&#124;) 22:54, 21 August 2011. Please sign your posts with
 * That explains why they would carry blocks. 23:25, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

trading and chatting
maybe the npcs in the second 1.8 relaese will be able to comminicate with the player via images and texts and you could trade with them or do jobs...just a thought-- 23:26, 2 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Fact - Notch stated during the PAX livestream that Jeb wanted to be able to communicate with the NPC's, but Notch didn't really like that idea. He prefers if we couldn't. -- 03:33, 3 September 2011 (UTC)


 * We can't because Notch wants us to feel completely alone in a cold world with monsters surrounding us and only a sword to keep us company... 21:59, 29 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Do you mind if your idea is used for a mod called "Village Advance" RAVEN MODS. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  19:35, 10 June 2012. Please sign your posts with

Citation 6
is incorrect, as the smithy (NOT SMITH, SMITHY IS A BUILDING) itself lit the villages on fire, not a smith NPC. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  18:19, 10 September 2011. Please sign your posts with


 * Not sure who wrote the above, but I also noticed this, and corrected the page 23:21, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

No NPCs
I was so excited for NPCs to spawn but it looks like they aren't there yet :( –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  19:02, 10 September 2011. Please sign your posts with
 * They will be added in 1.9. 19:04, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

something strange happened
i was playing minecraft 1.8 with a newly geretaed map and set up a base in a ncp village after a while i realised that one of the house's had spawned IN THE GROUND WITH NO DOOR'S the seed i used was =p. No joke i'll upload pic's if you dont belive me there were also some other strange things in that town like 4 block's of grass inside a house? and a cave that spawned right under the path so the gravel fell into it --Thatssss a very nice ssssignauture you have there SSSSSSSssssss, Signed  23:56, 15 September 2011 (UTC)


 * -different player post-
 * I destroyed a part of a village and used the materials that I found to make a bigger house in the village, all this being on a private multi-player server. There was an abyss that also spawned in the village so we decided to take a look at it and go through it and try to find materials we could use. When i had returned, the house had been obstructed and the materials were unrecoverable. What had been missing: most of the walls (wood planks and wood), all of the ceiling (wood), 3 fences, 6 bookshelves. What remained: bed, floor (cobblestone), stone stairs, very few walls (wood planks), chest, crafting table, furnace, glass panes (airborne). My original thought was endermen came and destroyed the house but too many parts were missing for endermen to accomplish that.


 * ... just something strange –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  01:49, 10 November 2011. Please sign your posts with


 * Different post--


 * I went to that seed, and noticed tons of not right things, like massive floating trees, 1X2 holes straight thru mmountains, destroyed blocks with the drops on the ground everywhere. strange seed... –Preceding unsigned comment was added by (&#124;) 03:36, 10 March 2012. Please sign your posts with
 * HudsonEathon, you are lying that was a stronghold
 * Tested seed '=p' in 1.2.3, world is unremarkable, nothing out of the ordinary. -- 07:42, 10 March 2012 (UTC)


 * HudsonEthan: I checked it out and near the spawn was a perfect half circle in the ground made from rock with iron too this seed is very strange... (3:37 PM)


 * HudsonEthan: i dug down in the hole and two blocks down was a perfect cave that looked man made it went almost straight and not to long walking it suddenly stoped in this dirt ending... (3:39 PM)


 * HudsonEthan: i dug Forward and Down and it was all rock going straight leading to bedrock... (3:42 PM)


 * HudsonEthan: i started to explore there are a desert plain dessert biome connected in a circle and all water is connected underground and above i also found in a forest an ancient ruin or something with an oasis that was beautiful. inside the ruins there was a bedrock jail containing blazes... i thought it was a glitch because those spawn in the nether... and so do ruins.... So i thought the nether and overworld glitch... so i supposed i should explore in the ruin was a tunnel going miles and miles under over right left you name it i eventually got lost. i tried to dig up but the tunnels were surrounded with lava... so i tried to get to the end or an exit. it was dark and i had ran out of torches exploring the tunnel... i was about to give up and save and exit. but then i saw a light about 2 minutes later... i went in and there it was. the tunnel suddenly ended and hung over an end portal... and a chest with endereyes so i activated it and jumped.and the ender dragon almost pushed me off the edge... but with my bow and 263 arrows i defeated him and got an achievement. Weirdest seed i have ever freaking seen... –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  20:01, 7 April 2012. Please sign your posts with

Question: Building Descriptions
Sorry, I haven't yet created an account here but I figured I could help a bit. . . I have been checking out different seeded NPC Villages and compiling a list of rough descriptions for each building I've seen thus far. Would it be of interest to anyone who can flesh out the data properly to be added to the wiki? (I am terrible at this sort of thing, mind.)

If someone else is already working on this, I apologize for this comment. 02:28, 19 September 2011 (UTC)


 * How many types of buildings have you found? I reckon it would be useful in the future when npcs are created... -- 23:53, 18 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Replying to above: I am not sure I've found them ALL yet, considering my samplying is only five villages large and some structures only appeared ONCE for me. Here's the small list.


 * Small House
 * Small "Cube" House
 * Well
 * Store/Tavern
 * Crafting Shop
 * Blacksmith
 * Large House
 * Wooden Guard Tower
 * Stone Guard Tower (Also called "Church" by some)


 * Beyond those there are "Farms" which are very variable in form, and the torch-posts which aren't guaranteed to even be present. When a village spawns, it seems to generate at last 6 buildings, and other features (such as ravines) can intersect and totally ruin buildings. If they generate on the edge of a biome . . . weird stuff can happen; this is magnified if you are importing from a 1.7.3 map. (Biomes newly generated don't seem to have their Y values meet up smoothly, and sometimes just cut through an old biome completely like a knife edge. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  02:32, 19 September 2011. Please sign your posts with


 * Edit: Would people like me to add in more detailed descriptions of the specific buildings? 22:24, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Just screenshots. No descriptions are required. (Since we don't know anything about the buildings anyway, what their purpose truly is etc.) -- 03:53, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

Trivia
What does this mean?
 * NPC villages are optional.

How can an automatically generated feature be "optional"? Is there some word that there will be an option to disable them? If so, why? A little more information please.


 * Using the seed "Enderman", "gimmeabreak", "666", "cold", or "Lol" will spawn you near a village

Is this really necessary? Any number of random seeds could spawn you near a village. They don't seem to be that rare.

-- 04:55, 19 September 2011 (UTC)


 * I believe some seeds to use as references are a good thing, but perhaps placed elsewhere. I'm currently trying to find a 1.9 village seed to check out the new NPCs and haven't found one. -- 00:03, 23 September 2011 (UTC)


 * THERE IS A "GENERATE STRUCTURES: ON/OFF" BUTTON UNDER THE "MORE WORLD OPTIONS..." BUTTON UNDER THE "CREATE NEW WORLD" BUTTON.


 * Seriously? The seeds are there to help frustrated minecrafters out... -- 05:17, 19 September 2011 (UTC)


 * My mistake, I just found the Generate Structures option myself. As for the seeds, listing one should be enough, right? -- 05:55, 19 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Better include a small list few so we can compare and look around different types without spending a whole day trying out seeds.


 * Also: the concept of the NPC villages is a bit weird. Why would any sane NPC start a town next to a plain that gets swarmed by horrible creatures every night, some of which can destroy a house in one blast and other just pull the stones out of the roads? Try living in one, after some time they'll look like a warzone. Also code '666' generates a village that's RIGHT ON TOP of a cave that spawns zombies all day long. No wonder everybody is dead. -- 17:17, 19 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Can you think of anywhere in minecraft where monster's dont spawn? no i thought not the only place that monster's wont spawn is where it is lit up it dosnt matter where you are they will still spawn so its not really that crazy that an ncp would chose that place as a home --Thatssss a very nice ssssignauture you have there SSSSSSSssssss, Signed  22:44, 19 September 2011 (UTC)


 * In the latest Snapshots you can use the seed 'gimmeavillage'. -- 23:27, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Found a Ravine Village
https://web.archive.org/web/20190713023632/http://i.imgur.com/7qFqK.jpg

Seed: 658251448 Location: 238 81 315

This town has a Blacksmith shop, nearby is a desert sided mountain, and you spawn with tons of pigs and brown mushrooms for a pretty long distance. Those pigs must go crazy on the truffles. 05:32, 21 September 2011 (UTC)


 * i get a 403 error,can't view it  05:35, 21 September 2011 (UTC)


 * https://web.archive.org/web/20190713023712/http://imgur.com/7qFqK Don't know why it's forbidden. There. 06:05, 21 September 2011 (UTC)


 * ingur doesn't allow hotlinking, thats why — undefined 06:11, 21 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Just reload the page after you get the forbidden error and you should be able to see it. -- 22:52, 24 September 2011 (UTC)


 * https://web.archive.org/web/20190713023632/http://i.imgur.com/7qFqK.jpg <-- Putting ./ like that in the link is a simple way to see the image anyway. 03:37, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Patch 1.8 and your old Saves.
I Wonder if your old saves will also contain Villages... –The preceding unsigned comment was added by ( 13:26, 2011 September 24 (UTC). Please sign your posts with


 * I tried a NPC Village from 1.8.1 on 1.9 Pre, and no NPCs spawned. They're part of the generation. 19:43, 24 September 2011 (UTC)


 * I had a 1.8.1 world and found an empty village. When i updated I wanted to find some villagers so (on the same world) I went a looooong way away past the 1.8.1 generation area into the 1.9 generation area (the sheer cliff) and found another village with villagers. So yeah they're part of the 1.9 generation and won't appear in 1.8.1 villages. 20:05, 26 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Yeah, all of mine are empty as well... Is there any hope of them being 'fixed' to populate with peoples?-- 16:08, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Biome spawn restrictions
Are there some biomes where NPC villages will spawn much more often than others or won't spawn at all? For instance, I see NPC villages most often in deserts, but I never see them in forest biomes or tundra. Maybe they spawn in deserts more because of the abundance of flat, unobstructed land, although they should spawn in tundra as well by that logic. Anyone have some harder data on this?-- 22:59, 24 September 2011 (UTC)


 * They might not spawn in Snowy Biome because of how snow cover works, and how it might apply incorrectly or kill crops. 03:37, 25 September 2011 (UTC)


 * I've explored my map 3500 blocks in each direction and found a total of 17 villages, all of which where either in a desert or a grassland biome. So I guess they might be restricted to those two biomes. -- 13:08, 2 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Agreed, I've only ever seen villages in plains and deserts. Coincidentally, I guess, the villages are almost always surrounded by mountains of some form. -- 22:56, 27 February 2012 (UTC)


 * "They only occur in the plains or desert biomes."  02:05, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

"Church" Buildings
Am I the only one that noticed the resemblance in shape between the big cobble tower buildings and the villager heads? Interesting... 20:05, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

save/seed?
can somethe seeds or a save with the village thats underwater? 21:56, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Libraries and Taverns
I have split the large homes on the main page into three. Since there are a librarian and a butcher listed as NPC villagers, there are probably also related buildings. However the building with the fenced off backyard may be called butchery, but to me it looks more like a tavern. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by (&#124;) 13:35, 2 October 2011. Please sign your posts with

A note about wells
Not all villages have had a well with my experiences so far in 1.8.1; it may be possible there was a tweak to it in the 1.9 Pre-Releases. (I have not yet found one generated on a new seed.) 22:24, 7 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Not only this, but in 1.0.0 I generated a new world and immediately cam across a village, but this one literally only had one small hut and a guard building (with the ladders leading up to a fenced-off roof). This means either that villages can actually just be lone huts, or it was a bug. -- 22:51, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Seed for Picture?
Can anyone post the seed for either of these two images with these captions: (This is the one at the top) "An overhead view of an NPC village" and to the right of the dungeon below the tavern "A picture of an NPC Village taken from above."

I have been looking for a village with every structure available but have had no luck. If someone could post the seeds and coords for one or both of them I would be grateful. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by (&#124;) 19:20, 12 October 2011. Please sign your posts with

Two Story Wooden Building?!
When I spawned in the 1.0.0 gimmeabreak seed, I ended up INSIDE a small trap. After breaking my way out of the cobblestone, I found some wooden planks and broke them. Outside, the building was a TWO STORY WOODEN BUILDING! I had TooManyItems, and the save was called "Testificates". Seed? 1867169. 16:22, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Did the building spawned on a hill? Villages spawned on hills can some times have unusual results. 21:07, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Nether Villages?
Someone once claimed that villages made of Nether Brick can generate in the Nether. Is this true? (p.s. I doubt it) 21:39, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Unless they were referring to Nether Fortresses (which are quite different), no. - 03:20, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

I know a seed.
If you use the seed "Butterscotch", you spawn on a tree right next to a npc village. The next update is probally going to ruin this though. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by (&#124;) 23:57, 9 January 2012. Please sign your posts with
 * Works in 1.1 . - 03:20, 19 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Added: I know a seed that works in 1.2.4: 6103612204037817587 –Preceding unsigned comment was added by   22:07, 27 March 2012. Please sign your posts with


 * My favorite seed so far is "eager'. While you don't spawn in or next to a town, there is a small village on an island to the west of spawn. This island contains not only an small NPC village, but an easy to find mine shaft, pumpkins, reeds, plenty of trees, and some wild life - sheep, cows, pigs, and chicken. There are also two very easy to find strongholds nearby as well. -  –The preceding undated comment was added on 21:21, 8 April 2012. Please sign your posts with


 * Found the word "bamarang" works as a seed in v1.2.5, I spawned on a path in a village that is fairly large (my spawn co-ordinates were x:-175, z: 252, at elevation y: 73. Tested it 3 times, same co-ordinates each time). The village is generated on very rough terrain so the paths are uneven, some doors aren't level with the ground and one large house had a wall of dirt inside separating the short section of the 'L' shape from the longer section. There were 8 farms, two of which were beneath the overhang of the hill I spawned on, suggesting the farms had replaced the dirt and stone the hill was made up of. Also: in the shallow water that's actually a flooded 'Desert' biome adjacent to the 'Plains' biome that the village spawned in, there is a large sinkhole caused by a dungeon spawning close to the surface, and in the same cave network there is another dungeon very close to the surface. Both of them had skeleton spawners in them each time I tested the map seed. 11:43, 14 April 2012 (UTC)MCplayerVitalani


 * Found the seed is "87 94 26 96 42 45 62 31 168", you will spaw in vilage (tested 2 times). X: -293 and Y: 28 –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  01:13, 9 July 2012. Please sign your posts with

I found a seed: Realtest. Or it could be realtest or RealTest, but anyway goodluck with finding out with those choices. The seed, I should think, spawns you in a desert with a NPC village in it. And, if you explore the caves a little, you may find a mineshaft. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  13:50, 18 July 2012. Please sign your posts with

SSP Commands for npc villlage
I have SSP Commands (Single player commands) And i wanted to know if anybody knew how to spawn them, "Spawnlist" Wont show 04:39, 25 January 2012 (UTC)


 * You can't spawn a village, because it is not an entity. -- 01:19, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Move to NPC Village
I propose that this page be moved to. Firstly, from what I can tell, no pages are pluralized:, not Endermen, , not Stronholds, , not Cacti/Cactuses, , not Abandoned Mine Shafts. This in turn affected the second reason: Easier linking. One can easily pluralize NPC Village without having to link to a redirect, (Just put s after the markup:  → s) and without the link looking incomplete. Conversely, it is hard to singularize NPC Villages using a simple link: You must do  if you wish to avoid a redirect. PS, I have a personal prejudice against redirects =). Please put Move or Agree; or Don't move or Oppose (in bold) before your response/signature for a clear consensus. 16:57, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
 * -- 16:59, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm not so concerned about links, but it's more consistent and logical to have page names in the singular. -- 18:00, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Page moved as per this 2+ day consensus, which was a unanimous, 3 versus 0 agreement. 21:35, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

"Some nights in villages will be worse than others."
what does it mean? 20:52, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * So far, in the newest snapshot, 12w07b, it would appear that on hard difficulty, zombies break down doors, as is mentioned in the changelog for this update. In normal difficulty, they stand at the entryway, making the "Breaking down a door" sound, but never getting through.  I did a one-night experiment, and found that, on hard difficutly, it is nearly impossible to save the village.  I did this in a large village, and by the end of the night, I was left with only 4 doors.  In specific, zombies normally spawn, and target the nearest wooden door to them.  They walk up to it, break it down, and are then able to target the NPC's inside.  As far as the worse nights, there are occasionally "zombie waves".  The game picks a place, for me, the wave started in a farm, and it then begins to spawn around 10-15 zombies in a few seconds.  22:36, 22 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Found a great, simple way to save your villagers from those door bashing zombies in Hard mode. Villagers will return home at night. Once inside drop a block in front of the door (tuck them into bed!). Zombies will not bash the door down as they cannot get to it. -- 23:53, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Way too many pictures
The gallery section is a mess. I'm going to start clearing it out. -- 20:14, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Unfair NPC Villages
It seems to me that if you come across an NPC Village in survival, the game is set for you. With the Villages having Farms, Chests, and Protective Iron Golems, you can live there without a worry. I understand that they aren't the easiest thing to come across, but I feel like if someone found them and they were new to Minecraft, the expirience would get taken away. Without them, you have to do everything for yourself: Make a house, find resources, make a farm, fight mobs, and actually play Minecraft. I love NPC Villages as much as the next guy and enjoy their recent update in 12w08a. What I'm trying to say here is that there needs to be some sort of restrictions to make it harder to be able to live in the Village. Anyone else agree or disagree? Feel free to say your ideas and tell me your opinion. 04:10, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree. Iron Golems are the main concern here as wheat farms are extremely easy to set up. They definitely need a nerf; their health should be lowered to 50 (25 hearts), and their attack power about the same as an iron sword (they're made out of iron). -- 04:14, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Good point, but I'm not one for nerfing (I hated the nerf on Golden Apples). Just a restriction or something else to effect the player more than the Villagers is what i was looking for. 22:14, 24 February 2012 (UTC)


 * I disagree. I think NPC villages are perfectly fair. Unless you just scum random seeds until you find a village, they're rather hard to come by, and by that point you probably have a far better shelter than a wooden building in a desert. 11:03, 27 February 2012 (UTC)


 * First of all, save your whining for the forums please. MinecraftWiki is made for quick access to Minecraft info. Second of all, you need to keep building crap houses so there's enough villagers for golems to spawn in the first place... 23:36, 7 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Excuse me, but the discussion page in the MinecraftWiki is to discuss. There are a lot of other people on different pages who are talking about different subjects and aren't exactly giving 'quick access to Minecraft info.'. If your going to tell us that our discussion is whining, then you should go tell that to everyone who uses the discussion page. We have a valid point and would like to keep discussing it in peace and harmony, as that is what this page is for. I wish you and your incoherent responce a good day. 05:09, 1 April 2012 (UTC)


 * The discussion page in this article is to discuss THE ARTICLE. What you are discussing about is not about the article, not pertinent to it, and it is why it should be in the forums. You would also get much more "discussion" going on in the forums. The goal of article discussion pages are to improve the quality of said article. 18:23, 29 June 2012 (UTC)


 * I agree. And plus, we're not helping people if we start arguing or something, and also, I think Notch should remove NPC's on and . –Preceding unsigned comment was added by   13:45, 18 July 2012. Please sign your posts with

Regarding Village Creation
Jeb can you make it so misplacsed buildings (generated in a ravin eicsthar) look like ruins

I know that if i found a village and extended it, more villagers would appear. But what would happen if I built a village from scratch? Would villagers (and by extension, Iron Golems) spawn and act as normal?

I always thought villages as being an overlaid biome, like the slime layer, that produces only that specific mob in that place. Any thoughts? –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  23:12, 6 March 2012. Please sign your posts with


 * Are you talking on Creative mode, because if you're talking about Survival mode, you would need some way to create the villagers.-- –The preceding undated comment was added on 23:29, 6 March 2012. Please sign your posts with


 * Yes, I am talking about Survival mode. I'm using the TMI mod as well though and it seems to give you the option of Villager 'eggs'. I suppose that would help? On the other hand, on the Iron Golem page, it says that Iron Golems will not protect player generated villagers. I should probably do some testing to see what happens. (it says player generated villagers, but maybe it doesn't include player generated villager babies?) –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  11:33, 7 March 2012. Please sign your posts with

I'm new to Minecraft and am playing with No Mods, Single Player Survival. I just found out about NPC Villages through this Wiki. Wanted to know the same thing. I've already started a massive project on a Castle out in a Swamp Biome directly connected to a Plains Biome. I wanted to possibly branch out and make my own village outside of the castle, but will Villagers appear if I create enough houses for them with now actual NPC Village nearby? Or can I find a NPC Village and build houses in a line back to my area, letting them Spawn along the way? Will that work? - Ixindor –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  18:13, 14 March 2012. Please sign your posts with


 * Villagers will breed when there are enough rooms in the village area. At nightfall they will walk towards the next Room and try to enter, wich can be used to lead them whereever you want, although getting them to go upwards may be difficult.

for a house a door, surrounded by walls and a roof will definitely suffice (2x1x2 room), while simply placing a door in front of a wall apparently will not. the roof does not have to de opaque. on a side note: i had a zombie wave spawn in my iron golem farm-village recently, although it was well lit with torches can anybody check this? (80-something room village, about 20 blocks above ground, with some 30 villagers i'd say, blueprints can be provided if requested. none of the blocks where zombies spawned fulfilled the light level requirement.) [version 1.2.5]-- 19:16, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Are mines really a NPC Village structure?
On the page, it mentions mines. I cannot find any evidence that this exists. Should it be deleted?-- 23:41, 6 March 2012 (UTC)Flames5123


 * I would wait a while to see if someone can post a picture of one. I've seen maybe 10 villages but I haven't seen anything resembling a mine... 23:38, 7 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I have several worlds with NPC mines. They have lots of iron and coal and spider webs are everywhere. There are some areas lighted by torches and there are chests containing things like iron bars and diamonds. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by (&#124;) 06:56, 12 March 2012. Please sign your posts with


 * Sounds like an . They shouldn't be connected to villages, though, unless structure generation changed in 1.2 . -- 07:55, 12 March 2012 (UTC)


 * NPC mines are going to be put in a mod called Village advances" –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  19:40, 10 June 2012. Please sign your posts with

Structure Naming
Why are the names of all the structures stated as fact (i.e. the page on "Churches" stating "they are often 'mistaken' for watch towers and fortresses") when they have no standing as such? Can someone please get a link to someone from a MC developer stating this? 23:41, 7 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Answer:
 * When you first enter a village, certain villagers are inside buildings that are considered their "occupation". Librarians are inside libraries, blacksmiths are inside a smithy, butchers are inside taverns, and priests are inside churches. There are currently no "soldier" class villagers, although that would be cool. You can see all the information on villagers on the villagers page. Hope this helped! :D –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  . Please sign your posts with 15:50, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Villager Breeding
In the actual Village page, it says that for villagers to breed, a house is required; a solid roof (does not let light through), a door, and walls. Can there be windows? Will villagers still reproduce/ mate? –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  21:47, 9 March 2012. Please sign your posts with


 * Yes you can have windows but you can't have skylights 00:22, 18 March 2012 (UTC) TTT2114


 * that's not correct as of 1.2.5: my entire village has glass block ceilings, and they still reproduce. [they do however not fill the entire village, and stop breeding about halfway through, amassing in one part of the village] -- 19:05, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

The article mentions specific villagers spawning in specific types of buildings (i.e. a "priest" if there is a "church", etc.). Does this mean that (subject to the door requirement) if we build specific buildings we have better odds of specific villager types spawning, and if so, what are the minimum requirements for each building type? -- 16:50, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

It says that there must be a square that can see sky within 5 spaces of the door. Does that mean within 5 spaces in front of the door? or can it be behind or to the side of the door? Also, does that 5 spaces mean 5 open spaces or can it be through a wall? Does it go up and down? For example will a house in a cave that is only 5 spaces high work? 04:32, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

"Stretched" Houses
On 1.2.3, I generated a world. I spawned right inside a jungle, directly next to an NPC Village. The thing is, one of the houses was built a lot higher than the others. As in, the door was 9 blocks off the ground and the little fenced-off yard out back was just fences floating in the air... -- 00:37, 17 March 2012 (UTC)


 * That happened to me once.. User:Unknown--Minecraft Builder –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  03:03, 8 May 2012. Please sign your posts with

Why so many doors in the Scrooge house?
A door takes 3 planks per space, whereas two planks would fill that space. So why does the Scrooge house design have 8 doors? Also the key says "Wood" and "Logs", whereas there is now no item called "Logs", there's just "Wood" and "Wooden Planks". "Wood" used to be called "Logs" so this is very confusing. 18:49, 18 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Answer 1: Logs as in the wood that comes from trees. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  16:49, 21 March 2012. Please sign your posts with


 * The materials are arbitrary, you don't need to follow the design recipe exactly when it comes to the blocks that make up the house. You could make the Scrooge design with 12 doors and get 4 villagers out of it.  I've made the 8 door house scrooge house out of sandstone and it worked just fine.  As long as it follows or exceeds the bare minimum formula for expanding NPC villages, any design will work.  Also each door that is counted as a house also counts as 35% of a villager.  More doors registered as houses means more villagers.-- 01:41, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

Evacuating Villagers
I built a huge house above an ocean biome and i'm planning to move all ten villagers from a nearby npc village into it. I would like to ask, once i do finish dragging a villager into my house, which is at least a 1000 blocks away, will they try to walk back to their village or would they actually accept my house and live there? –Preceding unsigned comment was added by (&#124;) 09:33, 22 March 2012. Please sign your posts with


 * Answer: Since Villagers can detect houses, yes, they would, but they would still wander about. They won't go near their village though, and you might want to fence off your house if they wander a bit too far and find their village. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  03:08, 8 May 2012. Please sign your posts with



Village boundary and alternative transfer method.
I'd like to know how a village's "boundary" is defined. Is it just however far the farthest buildings are? I assume that wells are the "starting point" in a village's generation. Would the boundary be a certain distance from the well?

As for an alternative village transfer method without minecarts: -Make a chain of houses towards your destination. -Break the doors of the houses one by one such that the villagers will flee into the next house towards the destination. -- 02:37, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Just did some very short tests in Minecraft 1.2.4, no mods, superflat. Had two NPC villages and tried to transfer a villager between the two using a chain of houses.
 * Some guesses based on the various things it says in this wiki:


 * Whenever I broke a door, it would take the villager a few seconds to detect the change and move out. He would walk towards his original village for about 5-10 blocks then try to detect another house which, according to the wiki, they search for in a 16 block radius.
 * The villager continued this pattern until he was at a house which seems to be about 40 blocks from the nearest house&door at the edge of his original village. After that, I assume he was 'detached' from his original village as he walked in no particular directions in the following houses of the chain.
 * I further assume that Minecraft keeps a list of 'villages': an entity that has boundaries, keeps track of houses/doors, village population, golem pop, etc. After the 40th block, the villager was no longer part of his original village so whenever he entered a new house, it would add another 'village' to the list with his new house as center. That is, until I break the door and force him down the chain to the next house. Which would then cause that house to be the center of a new 'village', and so on until I stopped breaking doors.-- 05:13, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

cobblestone
wouldn't cobblestone be a naturally occurring block since sometimes it can be found in the wild –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  03:11, 31 March 2012. Please sign your posts with
 * "In the wild", you can find stone, not cobblestone. Cobblestone is only generated with structures (like dungeons), that aren't considered natural anyway. 19:34, 4 April 2012 (UTC)


 * It's nitpicky but chasms sometimes have lava and water flowing, and the water sometimes creates cobblestone against the lava naturally. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  23:50, 29 May 2012. Please sign your posts with
 * Actually, that doesn't make cobblestone anymore. Since when, IDK, but it's just stone now. So the only natural cobble is in Villages and Duengeons. 00:02, 30 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Actuly i still have cobblestone appear instead of stone. Truewolf12:minecrafter –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  22:03, 30 May 2012. Please sign your posts with

Building Materials
What constitutes an unnaturally spawning block? Can someone get me a list, please? –Preceding unsigned comment was added by (&#124;) 00:35, 5 April 2012. Please sign your posts with


 * Blocks you cant use are:air, stone, grass, dirt, bedrock, water, lava, sand, gravel, any ores, logs, leaves, sandstone, tall grass, dead bush, flowers, mushrooms, snow tiles, ice, cactus, clay, sugarcane, pumpkin, huge mushrooms, vines, mycelium, lily pad, end portal frame. –The preceding undated comment was added on 20:22, 8 April 2012. Please sign your posts with
 * What about the logs for example in naturaly generated npc-buildungs? is it ok if only a part is made of logs or sandstone? -- 19:45, 21 April 2012 (UTC)


 * I'm really bad at this wiki stuff so pardon the (probably) bad formatting, but I wanted to make a note that sandstone is okay as a building material. I made a series of apartments using nothing but sandstone, glass blocks (not panes) for windows, and some cobblestone stairs for roofs combined with glass blocks.  My sandstone buildings are doing great compared to my purely cobblestone apartment blocks.   03:04, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

2 villager on same spot
I don't know how to put image in gallery, so here is an image of two villages spawning on top of each other. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  22:38, 6 April 2012. Please sign your posts with

Village Seeds
Why do we have this section? Villages aren't rare and this section just invites people to add their "super awesome seed everyone should see". -- 19:40, 12 April 2012 (UTC)


 * I'm starting to agree with you on this. -- 18:22, 17 April 2012 (UTC)


 * I've found the discussions to answer a lot of questions the main page about NPC villages didn't. But, yeah, a lot of it is just whining or asking questions there are obvious answers for.   03:06, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

Natural blocks work fine in SMP for making new houses
I've expanded quite a few existing villages by simply building caves into cliffs and sticking a door on them. The villagers will use the cave as a 'house', and with enough of them to raise the villager limit, they'll start to breed with nothing but 'cave' houses added to the existing village - Xavori –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  17:37, 21 April 2012. Please sign your posts with

Hardcore spawning certain village occupations
Is it possible to build a forge, church, etc, as seen on the wiki to spawn certain occupations. e.g. I found a village on hardcore yet it has no church, therefore no priest. Can I build a church to spawn some priests? –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  04:24, 25 April 2012. Please sign your posts with


 * Did you look in the other houses?? Because of an update, Villagers can now open doors, so I expect the priest would maybe be in a different house. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  02:53, 9 May 2012. Please sign your posts with

Transplanted villager despawns
I've tried to make a new village, it's not remotely near any other villages. I used the trick with the minecarts to ship a villager from one village and into mine. It found a house, which it retreated to at night. It's walled off, solid roof and has a door, and is even lit up with torches.

While it seemed that the villager had found a house, it would soon despawn.

I've tried with 3 villagers now, and it all pans out the same. I've tried waiting in the village for about 3 days, and the villager will still be there, wandering about, but no new villagers will spawn.

Has anyone successfully started a new village this way? Anything special I need to consider?

-- 13:29, 28 April 2012 (UTC)


 * It happened to me too. I built a village on peaceful mode on a snow biome and transplanted many villagers through minecarts. They find the houses, spend the night, sometimes even have childen, but soon after they just disapear. I looked all over the 40 blocks area for caves, holes or any other dangers that may be killing my villagers, but I couldn't figure what is happening.

I'm thinking about building a wall around the village to keep them from wandering, so I'll be able to say if they are dying or despawning. Ziguirayou –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  00:45, 6 June 2012. Please sign your posts with
 * Update on that: I figured it out. There was actually a hole which was hidden by the angle I was looking at that area before. The hole had a small cave which trapped a lot of people inside. Why all villagers kept wandering inside this hole beats me, but that fact is that the transplantation worked. Ziguirayou -- 19:09, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
 * So you actually have to dig out the entirety of the chunks you want to make your village on and make sure they contain no caves? Or are you just talking about caves that are in vicinity of the actual village, reachable by walking no less than 40 blocks from any door? 19:11, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Sounds like he's just talking about an accessible cave that the villagers wandered into and couldn't get out of. I see similar things with other passive mobs all the time -- some formations act as "roach motels", channeling passive mobs into a dead-end or deathtrap.  -- 11:38, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Spawning NPC's in user created village.
Does anyone know if using the spawn villager egg in creative mode on a town that the player has created will constitute as a "village" and the NPC will act normally, and mate? –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  14:45, 30 April 2012. Please sign your posts with

Yup 13:33, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

player made nether villages
Is it possible to start a Npc village in the nether? Please tell me. I'm working on a Nether survival map that requires you to make a Npc village with two spawn eggs. Is this possible? Please respond A.S.A.P 01:41, 2 May 2012 (UTC)Nanu365 (a somewhat new player)


 * Don't think so. Villagers often spawn in the Overworld :) –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  04:44, 10 May 2012. Please sign your posts with


 * No, houses need the roof to be open to the sky, which is impossible in the nether –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  04:23, 6 June 2012. Please sign your posts with


 * Also the villagers also only breed if they natruly ocur in the bondries of the NPC village they spawn in. This is because they only breed to fill houses within their border, not out of it. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by (&#124;) 05:43, 22 June 2012. Please sign your posts with


 * I've tested it in creative mode, and it works. I have build 3 houses, without a door, spawned 2 villagers through eggs, made 3 doors, waited some time, and then there were 2 villagers and a baby villager. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  02:47, 11 July 2012. Please sign your posts with


 * I question the truth of the above statement. Especially since you'd need nine doors, not three, to produce a third villager. Since villager houses are defined by sunlight, breeding them in the Nether or the End wouldn't work as, according to the debug screen, the sunlight level is constantly 0.-- 22:17, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Decent Seeds for Villages in 1.2.5
Typing "inb4villagers" or "inb4villages" both create villages near the spawn point, the first one being to the north east and second to the south south west of the spawn (Harder to find ans you have to battle some jungle). Both have some flaws but are average sized and have resources around. Hope it helps guys –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  05:43, 5 May 2012. Please sign your posts with


 * tested the inb4villagers and there is a village to the east thanks. 07:19, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Villagers not mating
Whenever I add a house, villagers don't mate. Before then they used to mate and have children but now it seems as if they don't anymore.. I put in a solid roof, door, and windows, but still no children.. Missygirl16 (soon to have account on MC) –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  03:34, 8 May 2012. Please sign your posts with


 * Answer (StargateSG): You have to have made the house in a village for mating to occur. Anywhere else, and it won't work. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  01:55, 21 May 2012. Please sign your posts with


 * Sorry if I don't sign my comment, because every time I try to create an account, it says Missing or Incorrect code, and I cannot find the code.

I also have a similar problem here. When I spawned into a NPC village, there were no NPC children. Am I doing anything wrong? PS: Idk why this writing is small, as to my preview page. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  09:07, 19 July 2012‎. Please sign your posts with

I concluded that doors need to be placed from the inside of a house, not outside, to get NPC villagers to spawn. I'm not sure how that works but I did a little experiment. I have a large village, and theres about 15 houses. The doors were on the outside of the house on about 4 houses, and there were 9 villagers. Now, with all the doors placed from the inside, my village has a massive 15 villagers, and still climbing. -NoMoreTears1 :3

Villager children only appear as a result of repopulating  18:39, 18 August 2012 (UTC) Anoymonous

Doors need to be placed from inside? That's unfortunate, as IIRC, that's the position where zombies can attack through them! -- 13:02, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Village Boundaries
I am currently expanding an NPC village using natural buildings and seek eventually to expand it to a city with my own skyscrapers. Is it possible for a village to supersede its own boundary (make Testificates move outside)? Or, as was said above, does it just create a new village?

Thank you,

01:43, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Assuming boundaries are defined by doors/houses, you'll need to place houses on the outskirts of the village for it to expand its boundaries. If you want to connect it to your city (with the village and city as one), that would mean at least a chain of houses.-- 00:09, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Better Villager/Door Ratio
Ever had that when you built five hundred houses and only three Villager Babies? The 3 Doors = 1 Baby ratio sucks. Make it 1 Door (Maybe 2) = 1 Villager. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  08:32, 28 May 2012. Please sign your posts with

Village Suggestion
Since there's already a blacksmith, maybe there should be a potion brewer too. There should be a small hut-like house that has a bookshelf and a cauldron on the right, and a brewing stand in the middle. It's just a idea, so villages would be complete for life. I also think there should be a chest on the right with most of the potion ingredients. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by (&#124;) 16:29, 1 June 2012. Please sign your posts with


 * I like that idea do you mind if it is used in a mod from RAVEN MODS in the Minecraftia Mod. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  19:27, 10 June 2012. Please sign your posts with


 * Only if you give me credit! –Preceding unsigned comment was added by (&#124;) 19:31, 18 June 2012. Please sign your posts with

First of all, do you mind posting this in the 'Minecraft forum? This is so we can keep the discussion tidy. Other than that, I like the idea. I know it should be in the forums, but maybe there could be an enchantery as well. Just a thought. By the way, I apologize if I don't sign, as there is a glitch with my sign-up or whatever, it will not let me create the account since I did not put a valid code in it. But I don't see it anywhere.. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  10:45, 15 September 2012 (UTC). Please sign your posts with


 * An account is not required to type on your keyboard. You are also correct in that suggestions for the game do not belong ANYWHERE on the wiki. --  11:04, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

village suggestion
What would be great to be added along with the future villager trading system, is a Market place. It should be a large T shaped building with a front and back door. The back door will lead to a counter 8 blocks in length, 2 blocks in width. behind the counter a merchant villager should spawn with a red robe. The left side should have 2 large chests and the right side should have 1 large chest and a small chest. When you open the chests it should hold either food, blocks, tools, or weapons. The trading system should come up when you open the chest so you can trade with emralds for an item. Items you can buy should be lit and items you can't buy should be faded. 22:26, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
 * First, this is not a forum. Take your ideas elsewhere. Second, the 'currency' is s, not iron or gold. Third, why make a new villager model when there's an unused one? Fourth, You 'use' the Villager to trade, not chests, and there's tons of holes I could point out but I don't have enough time to point them out right now, so I will later as an edit to this post. 01:26, 5 June 2012 (UTC)


 * sorry, but thanks for telling me what i did wronge –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  13:06, 6 June 2012. Please sign your posts with


 * do you mind if your idea is used for a mod called "village advances" from RAVEN MODS. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  19:45, 10 June 2012. Please sign your posts with

Building Materials
The article says new houses must have a roof made of solid blocks. Do slabs count for this purpose? Glowstone? -- 19:18, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, Slabs, stairs and glowstone are solid. Villagers accept houses with roofs completely made of stairs. (The three named blocks are transparent, but that's a different attribute and does not count here). -- 19:47, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Space requirement inside house?
The article states that 3x3 space inside is required for a house to be registered. My testing on version 1.2.5 shows that no such thing is needed, a minimal house is simply a door and one block of solid roof. Please anyone confirm if I am right, then this statement should be removed. 19:41, 14 June 2012 (UTC)


 * I can confirm that. The rules as stated on the Wiki are wrong. 17:36, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

The cake (chest) is a lie!!!
There is some rumors on the wiki about Ender chests spawning in the blacksmith houses instead of regular chests. I think it's NOT true, because i haven't heard from any other place that ender chests spawn naturally. If that was the case, the loot would only be in the chest one time for the houses that have ender chests in them. Is there proof? (my english sucks because i'm from sweden 10:06, 19 June 2012 (UTC)--hurpDurp

Belive it or not I found a chest with ender chest particles!!! No joke. Is it a bug or glich? Plz explain 05:07, 22 December 2012 (UTC) AKA ppaxson
 * Please provide the seed and coordinates, and whether it was large biomes or normal. We will gladly investigate. -- 07:01, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

Sweet 12w25a seed
Hey hit new world turn generated structures on, world type large biomes (dont wory about wood the desert the village is in is on is on a desert biome-forest biome border) and enter bumbumbum into the seed slot. After it create the world turn right and walk into a desert temple a short distance away from a NPC village (you should be able to see the village with normal render distance). –Preceding unsigned comment was added by (&#124;) 06:43, 22 June 2012. Please sign your posts with
 * tested for 1.3 and it works. 07:49, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

Weird bug
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/7884/20120621165314.png This occured twice now. Any1 know how to fix it? 15:19, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

It may be the seed. I'd like to see it, if that is possible. -- 09:51, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

2 or more Forges, 1 town?
I read that it will soon be possible to find 2 forges in 1 town but i was playing survival on super-flat today and found 2 forges in one town??? please explain. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by (&#124;) 07:43, 25 June 2012 (UTC). Please sign your posts with


 * The article says that although extremely rare, it currently is possible to have over one forge in a village. It doesn't say anything about soon being possible. 08:08, 25 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Villages can be (and usually are) larger in superflat worlds; the code explicitly increases the maximum number of buildings of each type. I'll update the article with my findings soon. Also, the easiest way to add a new section is with the 'Add topic' button at the top of the page. -- 09:18, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

In 1.4.6 I ppaxson found 4 forges on a superflat overworld. There is only supposed to be 2 that I read on the wiki. How is this possible???

Finding villages method in article not working
Edit by another player: I tried and it fully failed. Once I got to the coordinates, I was fully surrounded by ocean. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  13:13, 27 June 2012 (UTC). Please sign your posts with


 * Edit by yet another player: I would second that, I've unsuccessfully tried three times... –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  17:11, 27 June 2012 (UTC). Please sign your posts with


 * Edit by another player: have tried several times and have failed to find a village in all of them. On top of that was unable to fly in creative mode when using a specific seed. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  23:29, 27 June 2012‎ (UTC). Please sign your posts with

Bonus chest and villages
I am wondering if turning on/off bonus chest will effect village placement and/or forge chests? –Preceding unsigned comment was added by (&#124;) 06:08, 3 July 2012. Please sign your posts with

No anoymonous 01:39, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Wrong Math?
I wonder, why 21 doors give 8 villagers. If I calculate 0.35 * 21 I get 7.35, not 8 villagers yet. To get 8 villagers from 21 doors, the factor needs to be at least 0.381 (8 / 21), which is an odd figure. If I cross check with 0.4 as factor, I get 8 villagers already from 20 doors.

So, what are the correct numbers here?

07:33, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

For every 20 doors your village reproduces till ADULT village population equals the equation of doors. This can give a plus one or two to a village or a small percentage of larger villages-- 00:33, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Watchtower?
I was playing in my Superflat world when I came across an NPC village with this thing:



It looks like a watchtower to me. Inside, there's a 1x1 shaft that goes up to the top with a ladder on the right. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by  15:10, 12 July 2012‎ (UTC). Please sign your posts with
 * This looks false. There are some buildings cut in half(possibly some generation error) and a building made of fences. Also, the tower doesn't seem to go with the look that villages have. So, If it's real, may I have the seed and coordinates? 00:35, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Seed is -6282532783029778389

Coords are -248 for x, and 42 for z. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by (&#124;) 13:56, 13 July 2012‎. Please sign your posts with


 * Village at those coordinates generates normally in 1.2.5 . Yet another player-made hoax. -- 18:17, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

It's not a hoax. It may be a mod that I have. I don't know, but it was there when I spawned. It was also in another village on a different seed (which I forget) 16:42, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Villagers died out... is recovery possible?
I found a village, made some improvements (like stairs allowing the villagers to reach their doors), then started adventuring elsewhere, mostly nearby caves and the Nether. Just now, I came back from a Nether visit to find that all the villagers were gone. I'm guessing that they got caught in various caves and drops nearby, but haven't been able to find any of them. (There are a couple of underwater drops in nearby ponds, that might well have drowned them.) Is there any hope for recovery from this, aside from possibly finding another village and importing villagers? -- 18:10, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
 * So... seems there now is a way to recover villages, by curing Zombie Villagers. Too bad that requires a Potion of Weakness, which you don't have until you've "beaten" the Nether.  :-(  -- 22:26, 16 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Well you could kinda "cheat" a bit... Just use TMI or something to obtain a few of the potions if you really want to have a new village. Then delete the modded jar and the mod download and replace it with the default one without invediting in anything else. -- 05:59, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

Jobs
Would creating certain types of buildings spawn villagers of the profession that the building is designated to? Like if I build a Blacksmith building, would it eventually spawn a blacksmith? -- 21:35, 28 July 2012 (UTC)


 * As far as I can tell, villagers are only spawned when NPC village buildings are generated. They don't spawn randomly, either in original village buildings or in player reproductions. -- 05:33, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

village creation using spawn eggs?
i have heard that if you create a village(so lots of houses not a copy of a npc village)and use spawn eggs the villagers will treat it like a npc village so can anyone confirm this is it just false info 14:57, 17 August 2012 (UTC)


 * I haven't really tested spawn eggs, because I'm playing in Survival, but I have train-transported two NPC Villagers to bunch of houses built near my Stronghold Excavation Site. After several minutes, they "recognized" the houses and started to populate it. Took some time before both of their "mating periods" overlapped and they produced the first offspring, but nowadays they are everywhere. Mostly in the Northwestern corner of the village, sadly... With villager spawn egg, it should not be different.

the thing is this world was generated on the xbox 360 edition(4J have announced that you can toggle between both game types when loading a world)and i'm planning ahead since there are no villages since its 1.7 will it still work.if you need a way to test this just make a few huts in creative away from a village,throw down spawn eggs and see at night if they go into the houses. 12:56, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

NPC Village Problem
https://web.archive.org/web/20190713023636/http://i.imgur.com/bX7dI.jpg i created this hoping i would get a bunch of villagers (i created a similar one on the surface which spawns 64 villagers, this one has 20 that i transported but there are no more spawning and no golem either... Can someone please advise me how to remedy this please. (RebzO1 -- Not registered yet)
 * Read the requirements for a village door -- to be counted, one side needs to be open to the sky, and assuming those are "apartments", yours have a ceiling "outside". Torches don't matter in this context.  -- 21:53, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Zombie siege
I think that the statement that zombie sieges happen at any light level might be wrong. I have a village that's entirely lit up (above level 7) as is the surrounding area. I haven't had a zombie siege in months. --RogerWilco2
 * This should have been signed with the 4 tildes to know the date. However, at least in 1.4.7 (and possibly some earlier versions, too), the real siege mechanism is (was?) broken and thus real sieges can not start. Normally spawned zombies near the village will of course still behave just as aggressively. 14:13, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Reputation loss if Golem is slain by 3rd party?
How does reputation work with slain Iron Golems? Looking at the NBT structure of my data/villages.dat file I seem to be at -1 reputation. This was at 10 before, but I accidentally struck a villager (-1) and two Iron Golems were killed off during an Enderman attack (-5 each?).

Now here's the thing; an Enderman wiped out one Golem and I laid the finishing blow on the other by mistake. It seems both of these kills were attributed to me and thus I lost reputation - can anyone else confirm this? Could villager and golem deaths now be penalised against nearby players? 22:38, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

What does the bit about golems being hostile from millions of blocks away mean?
Where it says "The only limit to this aggression is a distance of approximately 13 quinquagintillion (10^153) blocks, which is many times larger than the size of the Minecraft world: therefore, if an iron golem is in a loaded chunk, it may become aggressive to a player at any possible distance in-game." What the [bleep] does that even mean? Is it just a trying-to-be-funny-but-failing-real-hard way of saying that if the chunk remains loaded for whatever reason, your reputation will not be reset to zero like it normally would when you take a far walk from the village and return? Otherwise, I don't understand this statement at all. What does it matter if they're hostile to you while they're a million blocks away, they're a million blocks away! It's not like they're going to leave the village (and trek through a million blocks of UN-loaded chunks) just to come hunt you down... 18:52, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

12:27, 12 December 2012 (UTC)Zombie villager spawn
Hey guys,

Are there any requirements that zombie villager will spawn?

NPC village improvements
Arrgh I (ppaxson) lost so many stuff beacuse of connection. I made a major update and some new rank suggestions and I lost it because of connetction. 06:08, 22 December 2012 (UTC) AKA ppaxson

Prevent? Or Allow?
"Any contact between villages' boundaries will prevent the centers of each village to travel towards the center of the other."

I think that should be 'allow'.

Structure images
I'll go about replacing those screenshots because a few of them turned out to be replicas with inaccurate scaling, and the FOV of the buildings are unnecessarily wide. The replacements may be smaller in image size, but quality of a picture in depicting the subject matters is more important than just the raw image size. - 22:26, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Destruction?
So in SMP my friend (in his infinite drunken wisdom) dynamited a village we had found. If I rebuild houses, will the villagers come back, or is it just ordinary land now? 21:07, 17 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Villagers spawn just like passive mobs. They are only found in new chunks and the only way to "replenish" them is breeding, of course for them you have to wait for it to happen. You can rebuild the village, but you need to find another village and migrate two villagers over. See and  for more info.   23:00, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Suggestions to this article
Hi guys, I would like to make some suggestions to this article and maybe some fellow experienced minecrafters could help me - I personally am a minecraft newbie and don't have enough time for playing, that however makes my love for minecraft even bigger. Here are some suggestions:
 * There are nice descriptions and pictures of all of the houses, however, it only desribes villages found in plains biome. It would be nice to add the same information+pictures for the desert villages.
 * Butcher house should be renamed into tavern, it just looks more like it - just my opinion though.
 * Most of this talk page should be deleted/archived, because now its too messy, full and chaotic.
 * Structure of the article should be reorganised (into let's say "wikipedia standard" - especially bottom parts of the article), and more information about the villagers and villager mating should be added from the respective articles - maybe these articles should be merged into this one.
 * Bugs should be only in the "Bugs" section of the article, and not in the rest of it - it only confuses the reader who wants to know more about large houses for example.

That's it, thanks for reading and for your time. -- 15:18, 3 February 2013 (UTC)