Minecraft’s Overworld is beautiful, but without the people living in it, it would be a little dull. In fact, that’s how it was in the game’s earliest days – a near-endless Overworld with only trees and the occasional chicken for company. Some say it was better then. But not me – I love the diversity and life brought to the landscape by the occasional bustling village.
Villages first popped up in Java Edition Beta 1.8 in September 2011, and they originally only generated in plains and desert biomes. When first added, villages were empty – and they were originally going to be populated by pigmen. But the pigmen got moved to the Nether, and instead villagers moved in in version 1.0, the Adventure Update. They’ve been upgraded many times since, most notably in the Village & Pillage update in April 2019.
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