How To Build A Minecraft Village House

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Learn how to create a village in "Minecraft" and find villagers to inhabit it! — Learn how to create a village in "Minecraft" and discover villagers to inhabit it!

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What Is a Hamlet?

In Minecraft, a village is a group of buildings inhabited past villagers. Villages spawn into plains, savannah, taiga, snowy taiga, snowy tundra, and desert biomes. The type of village depends on the location of the village center, known as the meeting point. As of Hamlet and Pillage i.14, the number of villagers that spawn depends on the number of houses with beds.

Villages spawn with at least one house and villager, which players can trade with for items. The more villagers there are, the greater the choice of items and improve the take chances that they volition be valuable. Villagers will accept or offer emeralds for various items. There are now fifteen villager professions, each with their ain outfit:

Villager Professions and Outfits


Villager Profession	Villager Outfit
Armorer	Welding mask
Butcher	Red headband, white apron
Cartographer	Golden monocle
Cleric	Purple frock, creeper cloak
Farmer	Straw hat
Fisherman	Fisher hat
Fletcher	Chapeau with feather, quiver on back
Leatherworker	Brown apron, chocolate-brown gloves
Librarian	Glasses, book hat
Mason	Blackness apron, black gloves
Nitwit	Green glaze
Shepherd	Brown hat, white apron
Toolsmith	Blackness apron
Unemployed	Biome outfit, no extras
Weaponsmith	Eyepatch, black frock

Breeding Villagers

Once you take found a village, you can breed villagers to increase the population. A village'south population is based on the number of beds in the village. Villagers volition simply breed if the current population is less than 100% of the available beds. Since villagers sleep in beds at night, they must have unobstructed access to bed blocks. The structure of the houses yous build for new villagers does non thing, as long as they include beds.

This adorable small house is located in a desert biome village.

This adorable minor house is located in a desert biome village.

i. Create Houses for Villagers

In villages, the amount and type of structures spawn randomly when the world is created. The but buildings that spawn with beds are houses. Small houses are buildings with one bed, and medium houses are buildings with two beds. They often have different layouts, decorations, and unlike colored beds. You lot tin can mimic these houses when expanding your village, or come with your ain designs!

Buildings without beds represent to villager professions. Each i contains a job site cake that belongs to a spawned villager. Unemployed villagers will search for unclaimed job site blocks, so be sure to build those, besides! When unemployed, villagers have no profession and cannot trade with players.

Village Buildings and Chore Sites


Village Edifice	Job Site Block
Armorer	Nail furnace
Butcher Shop	Smoker
Cartographer Firm	Cartography table
Fletcher House	Fletching table
Library	Lectern
Mason	Stonecutter
Shepherd House	Loom
Tannery	Cauldron
Temple	Brewing stand up
Tool Smith	Smithing table
Weaponsmith	Grindstone

A small farm grows around a stream of water in a village.

A pocket-sized farm grows around a stream of h2o in a village.

Villages may also spawn with animal pens, farms, wells, and lamps. Most villages too have a meeting point with a bell that produces sound when you lot click on it. Ringing a bell warns villagers to flee to the prophylactic of their homes. The bell also reveals mobs within 64 blocks by making them glow! A bell is a useful tool, but it has no crafting recipe; some villagers may sell a bell for 36 emeralds.

A larger house allows for more beds and more villagers.

A larger house allows for more beds and more than villagers.

2. Maximize the Number of Beds

When expanding your village, you exercise not accept to conform to the default layout of structures. To maximize the size of your buildings, all y'all need are safe structures with walls, a roof, beds, and a door. You tin can even build an apartment to suit many villagers to brand room for breeding!

Remember that zombies spawn at night and can plough your villagers into zombie villagers. Zombies, skeletons, spiders, and creepers volition attack your villagers if they are exterior. Low-cal up the inside of your houses with torches to foreclose mobs from spawning indoors. While villagers can slumber in beds outside, don't look them to survive the dark!

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3. Notice a Zombie Villager

Only five percent of zombies spawned at night are zombie villagers. Like normal zombies, zombie villagers will set on the thespian and other villagers. Zombie villagers likewise burn in direct sunlight. Normal zombies are too capable of turning villagers into zombie villagers. There is a 100% chance that a villager will be turned in hard difficulty and a l% chance in normal style. In easy and peaceful difficulty, at that place is a 0% gamble.

Villages too accept a ii% hazard of generating as a zombie village. Zombie villages are full of zombie villagers, and all the houses are missing doors. There are no light sources, but zombie villagers can all the same fire in the sunlight. Glass panes are chocolate-brown-stained instead of clear, and there may also be cobwebs and mossy cobblestone. If you detect a zombie village, be sure to bring splash potions of weakness and gilded apples with you!

A fermented spider eye brews into a potion of weakness in a brewing stand up.

four. Cure a Zombie Villager

To cure a zombie villager, you need to weaken them with a splash potion of weakness and feed them a golden apple. Trapping zombie villagers in a prison house jail cell of iron bars increases the charge per unit at which they are cured. Under normal conditions, a zombie villager will be cured in around three minutes fourth dimension. Trapping zombie villagers also helps keep track of them while they are being cured! Brewing a potion of weakness requires the post-obit ingredients:

Mushroom
Sugar
Spider center
Water bottle
Gunpowder
Blaze powder

Combine the mushroom, carbohydrate and spider center in a crafting table to create fermented spider eye. Then place the fermented spider eye in the brewing stand over a h2o canteen to brew a potion of weakness. You will need to activate the brewing stand with bonfire powder! To turn your potion into a splash potion, combine it with gunpowder in the brewing stand. To craft a aureate apple, surround an apple with eight gilt ingots in a crafting table. Exist careful—when the cure takes effect, other mobs will try to hurt your villager!

A villager sleeps in a bed outdoors during transport to another village.

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5. Transport Villagers at Night

Y'all can build a rail organization to ship villagers from some other village in minecarts. But this process takes a while and uses a lot of materials, especially if the village is far away. Luring villagers to your own with beds at night is a cheaper alternative:

Wait for the villager to enter their home at night
Destroy the bed the villager is sleeping in
Identify the bed downwardly a curt distance away
Wait for the villager to walk over and sleep in the bed
Destroy the bed the villager is sleeping in again
Place the bed a brusk distance abroad
Repeat the process until you reach your ain hamlet

This is more cost constructive than building a rail system to transport villagers. But remember that transporting villagers at dark can be dangerous! Doing this process at night is required because villagers will only sleep at night. Lighting the manner to your village with torches will help make the trip safer. Transporting villagers this way tin can help you raise your village's population!

Design Your Village However You Want

There is no correct or wrong way to brand your own village as long every bit your houses have beds to suit villagers. You can employ any materials to build your houses, decorate every bit yous wish, and make every bit many structures as you lot similar. You lot can fifty-fifty build apartment buildings or condos for your villagers. Building your hamlet on artistic style tin speed up the procedure and give you admission to more materials. Any y'all decide, have fun creating your very own Minecraft hamlet!

Questions & Answers

Question: How do I command a hamlet to appear?

Answer: I don't know of any piece of cake ways to do this. I've seen server plugins for information technology, but not a control that you can type into a command cake.

Question: Can y'all build a village surreptitious?

Answer: Yous tin can if you build underground structures and lure existing villagers down. I've never tried it myself, but I'll check it out!

Question: While playing Minecraft, I've spawned near a new gen village on my Nintendo Switch game and I was wondering if I have to build specific houses to get villagers with sure jobs, or if any house design would practise? For example, my village has no library so I haven't seen a librarian.

Answer: The type of building shouldn't affair. In the PC version at to the lowest degree, it is at present more based on the number of beds bachelor and by breeding the villagers when willing.

Question: How can I spawn fishermen in Minecraft?

Answer: Equally far as I know, you can't spawn specific villager types. You would accept to get into artistic mode and employ villager eggs until a fisherman appeared.

Question: How many fence posts are needed to make a lamp post?

Respond: It'southward a cosmetic pick that is up to yous, but in generic villages, the lamp posts tend to have ii fence posts.

Question: How big tin a village go far Minecraft?

Respond: As big as you lot brand information technology!

Question: In Minecraft, what mobs will kill villagers?

Answer: Zombies are the simply mobs that actively try to kill villagers - other mobs like skeletons and spiders specifically attack the thespian.

Question: How do you build a hut in Minecraft?

Reply: In villages, huts are tiny buildings made of wood logs, planks, cobblestone, and dirt (with glass panes for windows). Y'all tin follow that blueprint, or make up your ain!

Question: In Minecraft, can I call those village churches "mini castles"?

Reply: Sure! They definitely look like miniature castles, so the proper noun fits.

Question: Can you take a crop harvested by a villager?

Answer: I believe that in one case the villager has harvested crops, y'all cannot take them from them.

Question: Can I play Minecraft equally a guest?

Answer: If you are playing on the computer, y'all demand an account to play Minecraft. If you are playing on an Xbox with someone who already has an account, you can play multiplayer with them, though!

Question: How practice you color beds in Minecraft?

Answer: It's the aforementioned every bit the basic recipe for a bed - a row of wool blocks over a row of wood planks - except you employ dissimilar colors of wool! The wool colors have to friction match - so if you lot want a pink bed, you demand three pink wool. To go different colored wool, you lot need the corresponding dyes, which you can utilize directly on a sheep earlier shearing it.

Question: Tin there be too many villagers in a village? In my village I congenital, a few of the villagers reject to take professions. Is in that location a limit to how many employed villagers be in a certain range?

Answer: Do you have plenty beds for every villager in your village? This includes children - they need to slumber in beds too.

Question: In Minecraft, tin can y'all simply spawn villagers in your village and information technology will be fine equally long equally you lot have houses and beds?

Answer: Yes, if you lot spawn them in with Villager eggs, they will sleep in your existing beds. They will demand unclaimed task sites to take on a profession, though!

Question: If I build village structures with beds and all, is there a take chances that villagers will only spawn in the village? I'g in Minecraft Pocket Edition and I've been searching for a village for days!

Answer: Information technology'south unlikely that they will spawn on their own. That mechanic seems to have changed in the newer updates.

Question: In Minecraft, do the villagers have to exist in the biome that they were from to stay?

Answer: No, that shouldn't matter equally long as they accept a edifice with beds inside.

Question: I've noted that the traveling trader shows up anywhere I stick around if I get but ane other villager will he breed?

Answer: Equally far as I know, you cannot breed other villagers with the wandering trader.

Question: Can I use spawn eggs for my villagers when playing Minecraft?

Answer: Yes. It tin can exist hard to move villagers over with the contempo updates, and convenance does non work the way information technology used to.

Question: Should I make walls to defend it?

Answer: If you like! But think to put torches along the meridian of the wall to foreclose mobs from spawning up there.

Question: Do villages spawn on islands when playing Minecraft?

Answer: It'due south possible, as far as I know!

Question: How tin can I live like a villager in Minecraft?

Answer: In the latest update, villagers tin all have different jobs. So y'all tin choice one job - like farming, or angling, etc - and practice that every day. Then you would go to sleep in your bed at night, wake up, and repeat!

Question: How exercise I assign a villager to a home in Minecraft?

Answer: You cannot assign a villager to a house - they will seek out a bed when night falls.

Question: I've establish deserted Minecraft village and I was wondering if I can revive the village and bring the villagers dorsum?

Answer: If yous try to bring villagers from some other village over, you may be able to revive information technology.

Question: Can you atomic number 82 villagers with a lead while playing Minecraft?

Answer: Not equally far equally I know, no.

Bacon on Feb 12, 2020:

In the new update pillager patrols deceit spawn in villages does that count for these cocky fabricated ones

Muffin on January 29, 2020:

You can spawn and Iron Golem

with 4 iron blocks and a pumpkin head

mehr on December 30, 2019:

Tin you lure an Iron Golem to protect your own village?

Jessica Peri (author) from United States on August 20, 2019:

@Billie Thanks for reading, I'm glad y'all enjoyed it!

Billie Ellish on August 18, 2019:

When i was starting time starting off with music videos, I actually liked minecraft, Thanks for the tutorial.

Logan Giesting on August 06, 2019:

I demand help for the command of /locate new hamlet'' in Minecraft Pocket Edition, can you please.

Jessica Peri (author) from United States on January 16, 2018:

@Savanna Cheers for reading it!

Savanna Murphy on January 06, 2018:

I really like this guide and thank you

Wade Wheaton on November 19, 2017:

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Dan on July 03, 2017:

Very expert commodity! Cheers! I found a village that has been completely killed by zombies. All the doors are gone and the place is empty. I put in new doors, only I guess y'all are proverb that won't help anymore? Maybe I tin can steal some villagers from another village that isn't as well far, but I don't want to destroy that hamlet to do it. For the runway method, how do y'all load and unload villagers in the carts?

Jessica Peri (author) from United states on August 21, 2016:

@JoeMama I found a mushroom biome, spawned in a couple villagers, merely have had no luck breeding them. I'm guessing that they cannot actually spawn in this biome. Permit me know if you have better results, though!

Jessica Peri (writer) from United States on August 21, 2016:

@JoeMama The last I knew, Mooshrooms were the only mob that spawned in mushroom biomes in vanilla Minecraft. I have withal to try breeding villagers on a mushroom island, so I don't know if it works. I'll come back and update if I discover more.

Joe Mama on Baronial 21, 2016:

Can villagers spawn in mushroom biomes? I'g edifice an artificial hamlet in one. I know that monsters don't spawn in mushroom biomes, so that'south why I'm request.

Jessica Peri (writer) from United States on June xiv, 2016:

@ChasChas I know there is a mod called Morph that enables yous to morph into any mob you kill. So if you killed a villager, you could morph into one.

ChasChas on June xi, 2016:

This is dandy! I have a question- do you know how to get a villager on minecraft? I'd actually like to know.

Jessica Peri (author) from U.s.a. on February 24, 2015:

@Pantaleimona: I don't actually believe building according to village blueprints volition help a villager identify a structure every bit a library, butcher, etc. At least, null has come upward in research. I am sure if you breed enough times, you have a chance of getting specific villagers, but they might non recognize the hamlet buildings. I will requite it go, though, and let y'all know what I find!

Also, villager breeding has changed a bit since recently: "every bit of Minecraft 1.8, villagers will at present simply breed when willing. Villagers become willing when they are traded with; normal trading awards 3-6 experience, while making a villagers willing yields eight-xi feel. In one case a baby villager is born, the parents lose their willingness, and trading must be started all over again."

Pantaleimona on Feb 23, 2015:

Thank you lot and so much for this really helpful article. I am building an NPC hamlet on a Realms server atm. Tin can you please tell me, volition the NPCs "recognize" the structures I accept built (Butcher, Library, etc.) only if I follow the traditional village blueprints? Or are there other identifiers that can exist used past fashion of interior decorations?

jjggg on October 12, 2014:

thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jessica Peri (author) from The states on October 11, 2014:

Thanks! Already congenital villages are absurd too, less piece of work involved. And as far equally I know, this method still works and kicks in pretty quick.

Kurt Covaine on October xi, 2014:

Overnice Piece of work :D

i always go in creative way just to find already built hamlet, considering i don't know how to make so :/

now i can :D

i want to play with NPC, so that i don't experience a little lone haha

Jessica Peri (author) from United States on October 10, 2014:

Give thanks you for reading, and glad y'all think then!

Aaron Burton from US on Oct 10, 2014:

Very cool!

Jessica Peri (author) from Us on August 24, 2014:

@SimilarSam: Thank you! I had to make my own village in a few Minecraft worlds because I couldn't observe whatever for the life of me.

Samuel Franklin on August 23, 2014:

Peachy overview of villages in Minecraft, I'one thousand a fan of e'er doing the best to defend them in the first place but unfortunately zombies always sneak in somehow.

Jessica Peri (author) from U.s. on June 17, 2014:

Thanks for reading!

Rodric Anthony Johnson from Surprise, Arizona on June 17, 2014:

thanks for the tips

Jessica Peri (author) from The states on November 13, 2013:

Glad I could help!

JASSEN ASH on November 12, 2013:

Very helpful

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Jessica Peri (author) from United states on June 07, 2013:

Thank you and so much! I was playing with my boyfriend on a world where our abode wasn't almost a hamlet. I found out you could brand your own, and information technology is incredibly easy to do. I'm glad you loved my hub so much!

John Roberts from South Yorkshire, England on June 07, 2013:

I must say this is a fantastic guide! I tend to go along Creative Mode and have villages already fabricated for me, but I think past playing the game how it should be, this will add so much more fun! Voted up, useful, interesting, crawly and funny! Keep upward the expert work, and I might consider subscribing!

Jessica Peri (author) from United States on May 18, 2013:

Thanks for the feedback! Information technology can be very addicting, though too much of it at a time usually wears me out until I demand a interruption anyway.

Alison Graham from United kingdom on May 18, 2013:

Your guide is fascinating and definitely makes me want to play the game - I just know though that if I ever got started, I would be playing Minecraft instead of working! Voted up equally a great read though!

Jessica Peri (author) from United states of america on May 17, 2013:

Thanks! I'm glad yous think so.

summerberrie on May 17, 2013:

This is soooo cool. A actually neat guide.

Jessica Peri (author) from United states of america on May xvi, 2013:

Thank you for reading!

johnbwilkins from Sweden on May 16, 2013:

Odd, but nice guide!