Abandoned village

This is the Matcha Flavoured version of Village, renamed or changed from vanilla Minecraft.

Abandoned village

The most common house, extra_large_2

Type	Jigsaw structure
Biomes	Plains, Sunflower Plains, Desert, Savanna, Snowy Plains, Taiga, Old Growth Pine Taiga, Old Growth Spruce Taiga
Generates in	Overworld surface
Consists of	Oak planks, cobblestone, mossy cobblestone, glass, gravel, suspicious gravel
Added in	0.6-alpha
Resource location	minecraft:village_plains, village_desert, village_savanna, village_snowy, village_taiga

An abandoned village is the pack's replacement for the vanilla village. Every village generates as a small cluster of empty, overgrown houses around a well, with no villagers, no job site blocks and no loot chests. The houses' gravel floors contain suspicious gravel that can be brushed for loot.

The developer's intent is that "the minecraft world should feel abandoned until YOU come along": villagers belong at the player's base, which should feel alive, but the rest of the world should not. Villagers are obtained instead through Asylum Seeker applications (see Villager).

Generation

The five vanilla village structures are kept, but all of them now use the same abandoned "village_beta" pieces, whatever the biome.

Structure	Biomes
village_plains	Plains, Sunflower Plains
village_desert	Desert
village_savanna	Savanna
village_snowy	Snowy Plains
village_taiga	Taiga, Old Growth Pine Taiga, Old Growth Spruce Taiga

Each structure lists its biomes directly instead of using the vanilla has_structure biome tags. Compared with vanilla, villages no longer generate in Meadows, and taiga villages can also generate in Old Growth Pine and Old Growth Spruce Taigas and plains villages in Sunflower Plains.

The minecraft:villages structure set uses a random spread with a spacing of 80 chunks and a separation of 50 chunks, compared with 34 and 8 in vanilla, making villages much rarer. Abbeys cannot generate within 16 chunks of a village.

Each village is a jigsaw structure with a maximum depth of 5 pieces and a maximum distance of 116 blocks from its center, using beard_box terrain adaptation.

Structure

One possible abandoned village, assembled from the pack's template pools with the game's jigsaw rules and shown on flat grass: the well (sunk into the ground) and four houses. The road pieces leave only the single coarse dirt blocks. Real villages vary with the world seed and follow the terrain.

• Well (6 × 9 × 6): the start piece, built from cobblestone and mossy cobblestone around water. A gravity processor sinks it 8 blocks relative to the surface. Roads branch out from its four sides.
• Roads: invisible connector pieces with no blocks of their own, except that some of their connectors turn into a single coarse dirt block. They are chosen from end (weight 3), straight (2), T-junction (1) and L-junction (1). Straight and end pieces have a connector for a house.
• Houses, chosen from the village_beta/buildings pool:

House	Weight	Size	Suspicious gravel	Notes
small_1	1	12 × 8 × 8	3
medium_1	2	14 × 8 × 10	4
medium_2	3	14 × 8 × 10	3
large_1	2	12 × 9 × 10	6
extra_large_1	4	15 × 10 × 14	8	A chest containing one Cyan Rose.
extra_large_2	5	15 × 10 × 14	8
extra_large_3	2	15 × 10 × 14	8
extra_large_4	1	15 × 11 × 13	1	The inhabited house.
extra_large_5	4	18 × 10 × 13	8

• 
  well
• 
  small_1
• 
  medium_1
• 
  medium_2
• 
  large_1
• 
  extra_large_1
• 
  extra_large_2
• 
  extra_large_3
• 
  extra_large_4
• 
  extra_large_5

All houses are built from oak planks, cobblestone and mossy cobblestone with glass windows and an oak door, and are decorated with cobwebs and pale hanging moss. Two unused templates, indev_normal and indev_mossy, are in the pack but are not in any pool.

Loot

Archaeology

Suspicious gravel in village houses uses archaeology/village_plains: Loot table minecraft:archaeology/village_plains (source); pools roll 1 time(s).

Item	Stack size	Chance per roll	Chance per table	Notes
Obol	1	15.8%	15.8%
Iron Ingot	1	15.8%	15.8%
Poppy	1	15.8%	15.8%
Straw	1	15.8%	15.8%
Heart Pottery Sherd	1	10.5%	10.5%
Howl Pottery Sherd	1	10.5%	10.5%
Friend Pottery Sherd	1	10.5%	10.5%
Clay Fetish (Rejoice)	1	2.63%	2.63%
Clay Fetish (Lament)	1	2.63%	2.63%

Chests

Village houses have no loot-table chests, so the pack's versions of the vanilla village chest loot tables (chests/village/*) are not used. Since 1.12.6-alpha those tables are empty anyway; see Chest loot#Village.

Maps

The Wandering Trader sells maps to abandoned villages, named "Abandoned Plains Village Map", "Abandoned Desert Village Map" and so on. See Explorer maps.

The inhabited house

Spoiler warning: this section reveals a secret in abandoned villages.

One house, extra_large_4, is different. Its floor has only one block of suspicious gravel. Inside are torches, a crafting table, two chests, a jukebox, a hopper, a redstone block, and a mannequin tagged haunted that uses the skin entity/player/wide/him. The resource pack draws that skin as an all-black silhouette. The house has a weight of 1 out of 24 in the house pool.

The chests contain:

• 3 Diamonds, 6 Hematite, 11 Coal, 14 cobblestone and a damaged wooden pickaxe.
• 3 old-style porkchops, 6 dirt, 3 Roses, an oak door, 3 oak planks and 1 mossy cobblestone. These porkchops are unstackable, restore no hunger, can always be eaten, are eaten in 0.1 seconds and give Regeneration III for 1.8 seconds, like food in old versions of Minecraft.

The hopper holds a music disc of Dry Hands by C418, locked by the redstone block beside it.

Behavior

The haunted house seen from above, drawn to scale and centred on the jukebox marker: the distance from the marker that starts the music, and the distances that make the mannequin vanish.

The scene runs every tick for each player who is inside any village structure (the #minecraft:village structure tag); outside a village, nothing in the house happens.

• All background music is stopped for a player inside a village, whatever their game mode.
• The nearest haunted mannequin turns to face the nearest player.
• A marker entity tagged jukebox stands at the redstone block, about 2 blocks from the jukebox. When a survival player comes within 30 blocks of this marker, the redstone block is removed. The hopper unlocks and pushes Dry Hands into the jukebox, which starts playing. The marker then counts down a Lifetime score of 2 and, a few ticks later, removes the hopper and itself, so the music plays only once per house.
• The mannequin vanishes (it is teleported 1000 blocks down) when a survival player comes within 5 blocks of it or within 2 blocks of the jukebox marker, or opens an oak door while within 11 blocks of it. The oak door check uses the hidden advancement matcha:mechanics/opened_oak_door, which works in any village or outside one.

Eerie sounds

Players in a village also hear sounds that seem to come from nowhere. A 150-second stopwatch restarts continuously; shortly after each restart, and again 100 seconds in, a player hears a sound that depends on the block they are standing on:

Standing on	Sounds
Coarse dirt	Four wooden footsteps passing overhead, 4 blocks above the player.
Oak planks	Grass breaking 5 blocks to the side (twice), and a cave ambience sound.
Gravel	Gravel breaking 3 blocks below, then later a stone block being placed.
Suspicious gravel	A wooden door opening 3 blocks behind the player.
Grass block	Grass breaking 4 blocks below, followed by four stone blocks being placed beneath the player.

Because the stopwatch only matches for a fraction of a second, whether a player hears the sound depends on tick timing; the code notes that this "makes it kinda random".

History

0.6-alpha July 17, 2026	Villages replaced with abandoned villages ("Villages! But not what you would expect"). Added the Dry Hands music disc. Added "a new secret recipe found in a chest somewhere".
1.10 August 10, 2026	Removed the old village predicates (in_village_on_oak_*).
1.12.8-beta October 23, 2026	Changed what triggers the inhabited house's secret: its scripts now run only while a player is inside a village, and one distance is now measured from a different point. Removed the hidden advancement matcha:mechanics/enter_village and the eerie score.

Trivia

• The pieces are named "village_beta", and the inhabited house's porkchops, roses and cyan rose use "classic" models, a reference to early versions of Minecraft.
• The developer wants "all structures given the villager treatment", including redone pillager towers; see Papal Outpost.
• Players often reported the missing villages as a bug. The developer explained that villages encourage players to move into a base built for them instead of building their own, and make the world feel smaller because they exist to be traded with and raided. The developer's first village, found before trading existed, made the world feel bigger because its inhabitants lived apart from the player. Villages were at first removed entirely, and brought back as abandoned villages as a last-minute change meant to recall the horror of old versions of Minecraft.

See also

• Villager
• Archaeology
• Music Disc