How do I create villages?

Question

I would like to create a village. Apparently this is possible as of Minecraft 1.4.2, so how do I do it?

Answer 1

There are two ways I know of to create a new village:

1. Transplant villagers from an existing village: It's possible to transport villagers from an existing village, such as by placing them in a minecart, but two criteria must be met for them to stay where you unload them:

   • They must be at least 32 blocks from the "center" of the existing village, or else they will simply return to the village.

   • There must be homes at the new village, or else they will simply wander.

   The wiki discusses what constitutes a "house" and also suggests a number of designs you can use.

2. Cure some zombies: As the answer to this question indicates, zombies that spawn either in the wild or from spawners have a chance (10%) of being a zombie villager, which can then be cured using a splash potion of weakness and a golden apple. If you build a village according to the links I gave above, you can then populate it with nearby randomly-spawned zombie villagers that you have cured of their zombie status.

Answer 2

If you want to make a new village and you've found one, use minecarts. Push a villager in and make sure the tracks lead to where you want your new village. If you haven't found one, cure zombie villagers. When you build the village, doors are all that matter. The number of doors = the number of vilagers. If you have two villagers and enough doors for more, they will breed (just like animals) and a baby villager will be born.

Answer 3

According to this from the Minecraft Wiki, there are a few ways of doing this. I am pretty sure that if you make some of these structures, villagers might spawn. A village always needs houses, which leads to the following (edited a bit to make it less 'chunky'):

Wood huts are made of oak wood and oak wooden planks, with a rounded roof, dirt floor, and glass panes for windows.... They may or may not be inhabited upon the village spawning, and if there are villagers present in these huts, there is only one.

Small houses, similar in size to wood huts, but made with more planks, fewer wood blocks, and a cobblestone floor. Their roof is flat, and may have fenced off balcony with access provided by ladders. As with wood huts, they generate with no more than one villager. These have no door.

Large houses are composed of the same materials as small houses. However, they are much larger in size and are L-shaped. Two farmers always spawn in these houses.

If you want a librarian or a priest to spawn, you should build the following:

Libraries are longer and narrower than other buildings, and have a row of wooden stairs as a bench in front of two pressure plate-on-fence tables, with a row of bookshelves above. A crafting table is located in the corner.

Churches are pure cobblestone buildings made of cobblestone and cobblestone stairs, with a small 3 floor tower equipped with ladders and glass panes to a balcony on the top.

Don't forget to light the village up so that monsters do not spawn

Lamp posts can be found throughout villages, made of stacked fences topped with black wool, to which four torches are affixed, with one on each side.

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If you think that this is too hard, you could try finding one. If you have already found a village, but would like to improve upon it, you might want to try this.

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The wiki also states that for a house to actually be considered a house, you need to make a door. If you do not want zombies to spawn and infect villagers, it is recommended that you light up some of the houses.

I believe that this is all of the information, but if I have missed something, I will put it in later.