Initial villager spawning
On the initial generation (before any player interactions, and not repopulation) of a village, what determines where the villagers will spawn? Will they spawn inside houses within a radius of the center? Or outside on the gravel paths/farms?.
Best Answer
The Wiki says,
"Villagers spawn along with naturally-generated villages, inside various buildings."
So we can assume that they are in fact spawned inside the surrounding buildings of the village, and then exit.
Again hitting up the Wiki it says that,
"There is evidence that villagers are prone to overcrowding certain areas of a village while leaving other areas completely empty. When moving inside, the AI prefers doors within 16 blocks (Euclidean distance). It also attempts to prefer doors with fewer villagers nearby, however "nearby" in this case is only 1.5 blocks and, when moving inside, villagers prefer to move 2.5 blocks inside when the inside is to the south or east and therefore will be out of range of this check. During the day, it has been observed that villagers will tend to cluster near a trapped villager or any existing large cluster of villagers, likely due to the "socialize" AI routine overriding their inclination to wander".
Seeing as the AI clump together within a shorter radius, they likely spawn as a group, and then spread out initially during the day, moving to different areas as they travel throughout the day, and return to their various homes come nightfall.
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How do you make a villager start spawning?
Yes, you need to return them. Villagers do not randomly spawn, but only come into existence in one of these ways: When the part of the world containing the village is generated. By two existing villagers breeding.Do villagers spawn automatically?
Villagers will breed autonomously, but need doors and need to be willing in order to spawn baby villagers. After exactly 20 minutes during which the baby villager is within render distance, the baby villager will grow up to an adult.How long does it take villagers to spawn?
The first villagers are the hardest ones to obtain because it all comes down to luck. This is because there are only two ways to get your own villagers. You can either do it by curing zombie villagers that spawn near your base or by kidnapping villagers that already live in a village.How To Get Villagers Without Villages! | Minecraft Guide - Minecraft 1.17 Tutorial Lets Play (155)
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