Building Blocks: Village

Villages first popped up in Java Edition Beta 1.8 in September 2021, 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.