Villages Seeds

Java Edition has five village styles. Plains villages start in plains or meadows, desert villages in deserts, savanna villages in savannas, taiga villages in taiga and snowy villages in snowy plains. Bedrock also starts plains villages in sunflower plains and taiga villages in snowy taiga. A village can spread into the biome next to it, which is how desert houses end up in badlands, but none start in a jungle, a swamp or an old growth taiga. About half of all Java worlds have a village within 500 blocks of spawn, and in Bedrock it is about two in three.

In Java the game makes one attempt at a village in every square of 34 by 34 chunks, at a spot within the first 26 chunks of that square in each direction, and the attempt only works when that spot lies in a village biome. A square never holds two villages, so two villages close together always belong to neighboring squares. Two percent of villages generate abandoned, with cobwebs, brown stained glass panes and zombie villagers instead of villagers.

Villagers never despawn. A villager is willing to breed once it holds 12 food points, which is 3 bread or 12 carrots, potatoes or beetroots, and farmers throw their spare crops to the others. A baby only appears when there is an unclaimed bed with two free blocks above it, and in Java that bed has to be reachable within 48 blocks. A village with a working farm and spare beds grows on its own.

In Java a villager calls an iron golem while gossiping with at least four other villagers, or while panicking with at least two others nearby. It only does that if it has slept in the last 20 minutes and has not seen a golem within 16 blocks for 30 seconds, so villagers without beds, or with a golem close by, never add another one.

Java still has zombie sieges; Bedrock dropped them in 1.11.0. At midnight there is a 10% chance of a siege that night. It starts 32 blocks from a player standing inside a village, which here means close to a claimed bed, bell or job site block, and up to 20 zombies then spawn over three seconds. They ignore the mob cap and how far away the player is, but they still need darkness. Mushroom fields are the one biome where a siege never starts.

Current villages have no blacksmith house. The chests with gear belong to the weaponsmith, toolsmith and armorer houses. A weaponsmith chest in Java 26.2 rolls three to eight times on a list with diamonds, iron gear, obsidian, horse armor and spears, which comes to at least one diamond in about one chest out of seven. A toolsmith chest gets there about one time in ten, and an armorer chest never holds a diamond.