Find a Village in Minecraft
Villages in Minecraft are home to Villagers, which are important for trading. It can be tough to find villages, because they only appear in certain environments, or "biomes," in the world. You can search for villages on foot, or you can use third-party tools to analyze your world and tell you where villages can be found. Flying around in creative mode is also a quick way to find villages in your Minecraft world.
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Exploring for Villages
- Use a seed that starts you close to a village. The quickest way to find a village is to start a new game with a seed that guarantees a nearby village. "Seeds" are bits of text that are used to generate a Minecraft world. Entering a specific seed will always generate the same world. This means that you can use seeds that are known to have villages near the starting point. Seeds are different for Minecraft for PC, the console editions, and Minecraft PE, but they work under the same principles for all versions.
- Find your version of Minecraft on the main menu screen in the lower-left corner. Seeds change depending on the version, so you'll need to know your version before searching for seeds.
- Search online for "Version number village seed." This should return a lot of results with different seeds that start near villages. You may find seeds in forum posts, YouTube videos, blogs, and other Minecraft fan sites. Seeds are different for computer, pocket, and console editions.
- You can enter a seed by opening the "More Options" or "Advanced" menu when creating a new world.
- Enable "Large Biomes" when creating a world. If you're creating a new survival or creative world, enabling "Large Biomes" will give villages more space to appear in supported biomes. You'll also want to ensure that "Generate Structures" is enabled in the options for the new world, or else villages will not appear at all.
- Explore the plains, savanna, and desert biomes. These are the only three areas of the world that villages will spawn in. In version 1.10, you'll be able to find villages in taigas as well.
- Plains biomes are mainly flat and grassy. These are the most common biomes for villages.
- Savanna biomes can be identified by the dry grass and acacia trees.
- Desert biomes are sandy and have cacti growing throughout.
- Taiga biomes have spruce trees and ferns. You may find wolves here.
- Explore the Oak Forest biome in Minecraft PE. The Oak Forest biome in Minecraft PE may rarely have a village in it. These villages are not common, so you may have better luck trying the other biomes.
- Keep exploring. Villages are random, and there is no sure-fire way to find one in the game without using third-party tools. For the best chance at finding a village, take the time to explore each compatible biome you come across.
- You can make the exploration process a bit quicker by using a different mode of transportation, such as a saddled horse or pig.
Using a Village Finder Tool
- Visit a village finder tool in your web browser. Minecraft fans have created tools that analyze your seed or save game and locate the villages for you. You can then take these coordinates and use them to find the village in your game. Note that these finder tools are usually about 66% accurate, as one-third of villages do not spawn as they should.
- One of the most popular village finders is Chunkbase's. You can access it at chunkbase.com/apps/village-finder. Use an up-to-date browser like Chrome to access all of the features of the finder.
- There is currently no village finder tool that works for Minecraft PE.
- Enter your seed or load your save file. The quickest way to load your world is to enter your current seed. If you're playing on PC, you can load your level.dat file from %appdata%\.minecraft\saves.
- To find the seed for your current game, type /seed into the chat window. If you're playing a multiplayer game, you'll need to ask one of the admins for the seed.
- Zoom out on the map. After loading the seed, the grid below will be populated by brown dots representing villages. If you're too zoomed in, you may not see any dots at first. Zoom out by scrolling the mouse wheel down until you see some dots.
- Make note of several villages to check out. As you move your mouse cursor over the map, you'll see the coordinates change at the bottom. Move your cursor over one of the dots to see the coordinates of the village in the game. Because the map shows all possible villages, you'll want to make note of several in case a few didn't get generated properly.
- Find your coordinates in-game. Once you're playing, you can look up your coordinates to help you find the village. You can also use the teleport command to move directly to them without having to explore.
- On PC, press F3 to find your coordinates. If you're playing Minecraft PE, you'll need to use a third-party tool to find your coordinates. On the console versions, you can see your coordinates when you use a map. See Find Your Coordinates in Minecraft for more details.
- To teleport to a specific location, type /tp Template:Var Template:Var when cheats are enabled. For Minecraft PE you'll need to use an inventory editor app to teleport. In the console versions, you can only teleport to other players. See Teleport in Minecraft for more details.
- Check out another village if the first one isn't there. The village finder will display all possible villages, but the game will only generate about 2/3 of them. This means you have a good chance of coming across a non-existent village at the location you picked. If this happens, just move on to the next coordinates you noted.
- The console editions of Minecraft exhibit odd behavior for villages, and you may come across many that are only a well with no buildings. The village finder tool can also miss villages for the console versions. This can make finding a valid village more difficult in the console versions.
Using Creative Mode
- Open your survival map in creative mode. One of the easiest ways to find villages in your existing game is to switch over to creative mode so that you can fly around until you find one. The process for switching modes varies depending on your version:
- PC - Type /gamemode 1 in the chat window to switch your world to creative mode. You'll need to have cheats enabled in order to do this.
- Pocket - You'll need to load your level into an inventory editor app and use the tools to switch modes.
- Console - It is not possible to switch between survival and creative modes on the console editions of Minecraft.
- Start flying. Once you're in creative mode, you can start flying by pressing Jump twice. On your keyboard, press Space twice to start flying. On Pocket, double-tap the jump button.
- Hold the jump button while flying to go up, and the crouch button to go down.
- Double-tap jump again to stop flying.
- Find some suitable biomes. While you're flying, you can move very quickly across the world. Use your new skill to find biomes that support villages: plains, savanna, desert, and taiga (1.10+ only).
- You can use this method in combination with the previous one to check multiple locations from the village finder utility much quicker than by exploring for each one on foot.
- Check the entire biome. Villages can spawn anywhere in the biome, so search the whole area before moving on to a new location.
- Switch back to survival mode. Once you've found a suitable village, you can switch your game back to survival mode and continue playing.
- PC - Type /gamemode 0 in the chat window to switch back to survival mode.
- Pocket - Use the inventory editor tool to switch your world back to survival mode.
Using 1.11+
- Start your world with "Generate Structures" on.
- Type /locate Village and it will tell you where the Village is located.
- Teleport to the location. This will lead you to the Village structures.
Tips
- Don't bother trying to create an Iron Golem, as it will just wander aimlessly after being created. It will not lead you directly to a village.
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