Villager
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The Villager is a passive mob in Minecraft, which means it will never attack a player and simply goes about its own behaviour.
Unlike most creatures, the Villager does not spawn naturally in the world. Comes with a village rather than with a biome, and a cured zombie villager becomes one too.
What sets it apart is its behaviour: works a job site block, restocks its trades twice a day, sleeps in a bed at night and runs indoors when a raid starts.
Stat-wise it sits at 20 health (10 hearts), dropping no experience on death.
The Villager has been part of the game since version Beta 1.9.
Even without combat or loot to speak of, the Villager adds character to the worlds it lives in and often plays a quiet supporting role in the wider ecosystem.
Spawning
Comes with a village rather than with a biome, and a cured zombie villager becomes one too.
As a result, the Villager never shows up during ordinary world generation or the normal mob-spawning cycle.
Because it is harmless, the Villager is mostly useful as a renewable source of its drops, and you can let a small population breed up over time.
Another mob's spawn rule points back at it: the iron golem, which spawns naturally in villages with 10+ villagers and 21+ beds and the zombie villager, which spawns in the dark like a zombie, and appears when a zombie kills a villager.
Drops
The Villager drops neither items nor experience, which is unusual: it exists purely as an ambient or utility creature rather than a resource.
The value of the Villager is in what it does while alive, its behaviour and the role it plays in the world, rather than anything you collect by killing it, so there is little reason to hunt one for materials.
If you are after specific items, the Villager is not your source for them; look to mobs with populated drop tables or to mining and trading instead.
Since there is nothing to pick up, you do not need to worry about a hopper or collection system for villagers; they leave the ground exactly as they found it.
Because the Villager is harmless and breeds, the efficient long-term approach is a small enclosed pen where a breeding pair keeps replacing what you harvest, rather than hunting wild ones down one by one.
The game rolls nothing for it when it dies, so it leaves nothing behind at all.
Villager attributes
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
 Size | 0.6 x 1.95 blocks |
 Eye height | 1.62 blocks |
 Tracking range | 10 chunks |
 Experience | 0 |
 Movement speed | 0.5 |
| Follow range | 16 blocks |
 Health | 20 points |
The Villager shares this stretch of the scale: the evoker on the same 0.5 movement speed.
Villager: 3 values straight out of Minecraft Java 26.2
Nothing in the biome spawn lists and nothing in the rolls on death names the villager, so the numbers on this page come from one place only: the game's own entry for it in Minecraft Java 26.2sets 20 health, 0.5 movement speed and 16 blocks follow range.
| Weapon | Attack damage | Full swings |
|---|---|---|
 golden sword, wooden sword | 4 | 5 |
 stone sword | 5 | 4 |
 iron sword | 6 | 4 |
 diamond sword, golden axe, wooden axe | 7 | 3 |
 netherite sword | 8 | 3 |
 diamond axe, iron axe, stone axe | 9 | 3 |
 netherite axe | 10 | 2 |
The happy ghast matches every number above, health, attack and yield alike, so the experience they drop is the honest way to tell a villager apart: 0 here against 1 to 3 for the happy ghast, both counted in the entity code.
Behavior & Combat
In the field, works a job site block, restocks its trades twice a day, sleeps in a bed at night and runs indoors when a raid starts. A villager that loses its bed or its workstation looks for another one.
At 0.5 it is 9th of 72 for speed, just above the creaking at 0.4.
It is completely harmless and deals no damage, so the only risk it poses is wandering into lava, cacti or a long fall.
To breed them, hand Bread to a pair of adults; they enter love mode and a baby Villager appears, maturing in roughly twenty minutes.
All told, the Villager is a low-risk part of the world that rewards patience more than aggression.
Villager commands
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
| /summon minecraft:villager | Puts a villager on the block you are standing on. |
| /give @p minecraft:villager_spawn_egg | Hands you the villager spawn egg, so you can place villagers where you want them. |
| /kill @e[type=minecraft:villager] | Removes every villager that is loaded around you. |
Entity id minecraft:villager, spawn egg minecraft:villager_spawn_egg.
Villager farm
The villager does not roll onto a platform, so a farm is a pen: two adults and enough bread keeps it going, and the pen has to grow with the herd rather than the spawning space.
0 experience per killVillager version history
The villager goes back to Beta 1.9, from before the game had numbered releases, which makes the villager one of the 8 oldest mobs on this site.
No other mob on this site arrived in Beta 1.9, so the villager is the only page here that carries that version. That puts the villager behind 0 of the 88 mobs here and ahead of 80.
The villager numbers here come from Java 26.2, the version running now, and not from the one that introduced it.
What Villager sounds like
Turn subtitles on and every villager sound names itself in the corner of the screen. These are the 20 lines a villager can put there, and you can play any of them yourself with /playsound minecraft:entity.villager.ambient master @p.
| Sound | What you hear |
|---|---|
| entity.villager.ambient |  Villager mumbles |
| entity.villager.hurt | Villager hurts |
| entity.villager.death | Villager dies |
| entity.villager.celebrate | Villager cheers |
| entity.villager.no | Villager disagrees |
| entity.villager.trade | Villager trades |
| entity.villager.work_armorer | Armorer works |
| entity.villager.work_butcher | Butcher works |
| entity.villager.work_cartographer | Cartographer works |
| entity.villager.work_cleric | Cleric works |
| entity.villager.work_farmer | Farmer works |
| entity.villager.work_fisherman | Fisherman works |
| entity.villager.work_fletcher | Fletcher works |
| entity.villager.work_leatherworker | Leatherworker works |
| entity.villager.work_librarian | Librarian works |
| entity.villager.work_mason | Mason works |
| entity.villager.work_shepherd | Shepherd works |
| entity.villager.work_toolsmith | Toolsmith works |
| entity.villager.work_weaponsmith | Weaponsmith works |
| entity.villager.yes | Villager agrees |
Advancements that need Villager
2 advancements ask for villager by name, and every one of them is about the villager alone.
Surge ProtectorProtect a Villager from an undesired shock without starting a fire
Very Very FrighteningStrike a Villager with lightning
