Abandoned village

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

Abandoned village

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

• 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, 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

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	1	5.26%	5.26%

Chests

Village houses have no loot-table chests. The pack still overrides the vanilla village chest loot tables (chests/village/*); they are listed on 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. It has no suspicious gravel floor. 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. That skin texture exists in neither the pack nor vanilla. 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 scene is run by functions that check every tick:

• Entering any village structure grants the hidden advancement matcha:mechanics/enter_village, which sets the player's eerie score to 1. Leaving the village resets the score and the advancement.
• While a player's eerie score is 1, all background music is stopped for that player.
• The mannequin turns to face the nearest player.
• When a survival player in the village comes within 30 blocks of the mannequin, the redstone block is removed. The hopper unlocks and pushes Dry Hands into the jukebox, which starts playing. Two ticks later the hopper disappears. This happens only once per mannequin.
• The mannequin vanishes (it is teleported 1000 blocks down) when a survival player comes within 5 blocks of it, within 2 blocks of the jukebox, or opens an oak door while within 11 blocks of it.

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_*).

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