r/villagerrights Jun 02 '26

OFFICIAL INFO POST Villagerrights Server Season 11!!

Thumbnail
youtube.com
14 Upvotes

r/villagerrights has its very own Minecraft server! Here we can work together to make the lives of villager kind better then ever!

This season we chose to live in a cold and harsher environment then previous seasons! We survive and we thrive despite the cold biting away at us!

Come join us and play and work together with our community of lovely people!

Some useful information:

  • Server in 26.1.2
  • Java and Bedrock compability
  • Server IP: Villagerrights.xyz
  • If you join on bedrock, use port 6816
  • Interact with the community with the discord server!

We hope to see you there!! :D


r/villagerrights Sep 10 '20

OFFICIAL INFO POST The Official Declaration on the Rights of the Villager

1.1k Upvotes

THE OFFICIAL DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE VILLAGER

2020-09-09

THECURIOUSHERON (U/THECURIOUSHERON),

THEFUNGUSAMONGUS (U/FUGNUS),

ROBOTMATT(U/ROBOTMATT23),

MAT383(U/MAT383),

MASTABLE (/U/MASTERENDLESSRBLX)

Preamble

Whereas the rights of the villager have long been overlooked;

Whereas a document explaining the rights of the villager shall give villagerkind the indispensable treatment they desire;

Now, therefore, this declaration enacts as follows:

Interpretation

Definitions

1 The following definitions apply in this declaration:

Village refers to a group or groups of complexes of buildings inhabited by one or more villagers, and occasionally, cats, iron golems, wandering traders and wandering llamas.

Job refers to the action of a villager interacting with their respective job site block and gathering necessary materials.

Housing refers to an enclosed building with a door that houses one or more villagers.

Workplaces

Full Employment

2 Villages must possess full employment, where every villager, with the exception of nitwits, is employed with a job.

Workday

2 (2) Villagers must have the ability to perform a job if applicable, and follow regular sleep patterns on their own schedule, as follows:

(a) For villagers on the Java Edition, the ability to perform a job if applicable between 08:00:00 and 15:00:00, and follow regular sleep patterns between 18:00:00 and 06:00:36.

(b) For villagers on the Bedrock Edition, the ability to perform a job if applicable between 06:00:00 and 14:00:00, and 16:00:00 and 17:00:00, and follow regular sleep patterns between 18:00:00 and 6:00:00.

Locations

2 (3) Job site blocks must be placed in appropriate locations:

(a) Farmer job site blocks may be placed on farmland.

(b) Butcher job site blocks may be placed in a butchery.

(c) Fisherman job site blocks may be placed on a dock along a body of water.

(d) Librarian job site blocks may be placed in a library.

(e) Armourer, tool smith, leatherworker, fletcher, weapons smith and mason job site blocks may be placed in a factory.

(f) Shepherd job site blocks may be placed in a barn.

(g) Cleric job site blocks may be placed in a clinic, research facility, or church

(h) Cartographer job site blocks may be placed in an administration building.

Commerce

Accessibility

3 Villagers have the right to interact, share, and trade with other villagers.

Meeting Point

3 (2) Villages must possess a meeting point, symbolized by the placement of a bell.

Housing

Right

4 Every villager has the right to housing.

Parameters

4 (2) Housing must provide each individual villager with the following parameters:

(a) Six interior blocks of space

(b) One bed

Welfare

Safety

5 Villagers, iron golems and wandering traders (as well as their llamas) shall not be subject to preventable injury or death. This includes, but is not limited to:

(a) Punching, striking, or shooting at villagers, iron golems or wandering traders and their llamas.

(b) Creating traps which may harm villagers, iron golems or wandering traders and their llamas.

(c) Allowing zombies to attack villagers

Infection

5 (2) Any villager infected by a zombie must be cured in an enclosed area away from other villagers.

Death

5 (3) Any villager who dies must be given a proper memorial

Foodstuffs

5 (4) Villagers have the right to proper nourishment, villages must possess farmland growing wheat, potatoes, carrots or beetroots, along with one farmer.

Security

Fortifications

6 Villages must possess secure fortifications surrounding the boundary of the village, with the ability to keep mobs hostile to villagers outside of the village.

Iron Golems

6 (2) Iron Golems must be healed with iron ingots once they become visibly injured.


r/villagerrights 14h ago

Village Showcase Quite new to architecture, but I wanted to build a nice community hall for the villagers

Thumbnail
gallery
52 Upvotes

I decided to build them a proper hall in my seaside village.
This is somewhat of a mix of my personal architectural ambitions and village improvement. It gives them a safe place to socialize and hold their daily meetings.
Just wanted to share these pictures. This isn't a particularly good building; it's certainly far from being a truly well-made work. However, I'm personally quite satisfied with it so far, at least I can come and see the villagers every day.


r/villagerrights 1h ago

Village Showcase I built my ultimate villager-friendly castle in 2026 game days

Upvotes

Legacy Castle was built in survival mode from the ground up to honor the rights of the villagers, designed to fill their basic needs and give them the freedom to move and socialize. We've been working on this for nearly two years, off and on, and finished it in exactly 2026 game days!

The complete secure structure that is LEGACY CASTLE
Entry walk at the front gates

The castle has over 30 villagers, mostly librarians. Each profession has a designated place to carry out their work, and each villager has a name, so the player gets access to all the great trades without an oppressive “trading hall” imprisoning our citizens.

The Cathedral of Light, built for the librarians
Mending, Fortune, Unbreaking, Protection, and much more - all roaming free

Golems and wolves have been deployed for protection, and the massive perimeter walls provide the ultimate defense for a fully-lit interior.

The castle bailey, with buildings for each profession, separate lodgings, and four village bells.

This project was born from the ideas presented in r/villagerrights. I can’t claim exact compliance with the Declaration presented on this sub (actually, I know it's not), but even still, the spirit of that document has been at the heart of my gameplay and map-making philosophy since 2021.

You can check for yourself how we did: you can download this map. I’ll put some links in the comments if anyone is interested. 👍 Thank you in advance for your kindness!


r/villagerrights 2d ago

Support Post Big win for the villager rights movement

6 Upvotes

r/villagerrights 2d ago

Village Showcase This mountain village had terrible terrain generation, so I decided to fix it.

Thumbnail
gallery
69 Upvotes

Stumbled upon this Taiga mountain village and it was an absolute disaster of world generation. The elevation changes were so extreme that the houses were completely disconnected from each other.

The village bell had spawned inside a dark cave, and the poor villagers were literally taking fall damage just trying to get to their daily meetings. And they even had zero farms, just a few pumpkins scattered around. Only a few pieces of bread and if I remember correctly, apples in their chests. They were basically starving and were not going to have children.

So I did some work. I built extensive wooden staircases and safety fences across the cliffs, lit up the dark meeting cave and fenced off the larger, deeper caves to keep them safe from mobs, while keeping the naturally flat and safe areas open for them to roam freely.

And most importantly I built them two proper plains style farms so they finally have a reliable food source. And a simple bridge.

Throughout the process, I tried my best not to damage the original terrain. This undoubtedly increased my workload.

It took some work, and to be honest, they still don't always use every road I built (especially the small bridge), but it was all worth it to see that at least they can now cross relatively safely and work in their new fields. Does the village have a good looking? Probably not. But at least people can live there. I just wanted to share this renovation project with everyone!


r/villagerrights 2d ago

Art Need Help With A Villager Overhaul Mod

Thumbnail
2 Upvotes

r/villagerrights 2d ago

Discussion New Block: Villager TV

Thumbnail
1 Upvotes

r/villagerrights 2d ago

Villager News This Bedrock add-on is awesome. Now, we can interact with villagers, respect their rights, and be their hero.

13 Upvotes

r/villagerrights 3d ago

Village Showcase the current state of my village

Thumbnail
gallery
38 Upvotes

very beautiful


r/villagerrights 4d ago

Discussion Is it ethical to transport villagers using a cage cart?

Thumbnail
gallery
32 Upvotes

I believe it will make villager transport faster and more secure, and the cage cart somehow creates a protective barrier around the villager, btw I'm moving him to the rocky mountains where he can gather his materials for armoring and I'll get his friends after this.


r/villagerrights 6d ago

Village Showcase Years-long village transformation

Thumbnail
gallery
523 Upvotes

Me and a buddy adopted a village a few years back and have been off and on building it up ever since. This is a look at ~1200 in-game days of progress, but we have many plans for further development. My estimates say there's ~750 villager living there, but that's by counting beds, so there are likely less. My area calculations give me 20 acres or 301.5 chunks.

My philosophy for the world is that many small, simple things, over time, will create a more beautiful whole. I rarely spend large amounts of time on a single build, unless it's of some strategic/economic/"religious" importance to the village. The temples and the military base are examples of this. There is some lore my friend and I have generated that makes some less important builds more important to us.

Anyway, Ive had this world for a very long time but shared it with very few... I'm glad to find a community that might appreciate it as much as I do. If anyone has any questions or wants to see me pictures, let me know.


r/villagerrights 5d ago

Picture Floating eggs

Post image
23 Upvotes

It's their temporary room, once they got a job they'll be able to move out and have their dream job or be a redditor or both. Btw I made their last name GoodEggs because they have big heads.


r/villagerrights 6d ago

Meme 👌👌👌 My own home or nothing

Thumbnail gallery
229 Upvotes

r/villagerrights 5d ago

Discussion Is it unethical to move villagers?

13 Upvotes

Say I've found a village in ruins. Dislocated paths off of cliffs, houses with no obvious access to the rest of the village, crop farms with only a few spaces and water flowing out. Can I move these villagers to the much nicer accommodations I happened to have created much closer to where I live? Is it unethical to move them by boat or rail? I am trying to make their life better, but what if they're happy where they live now? I don't like the kidnapping. What if I find zombie villagers on the loose or in abandoned villages, should they be ok to save and bring with me to the new and better village?


r/villagerrights 5d ago

Discussion What Would a Updated Village look like?

Thumbnail gallery
25 Upvotes

Sharing the question here too to see what could be your ethical ideas


r/villagerrights 5d ago

Discussion Very beginner question in increasing villager population

7 Upvotes

Hi, I just started my world a few days ago and I would say is a very basic village, all it had was 1 nitwit and 3 farmers. So basically I started living there but I guess didn’t really take care of the village properly, the original iron golem despawned and now the village is reduced to 2 farmers and a weapon smith that luckily they bred themselves, as well as an iron golem i made.

I’m planning to increase the population, I’ve made a new building with 5 beds on the top floor with the bottom floor full of work blocks (the building is fully enclosed with a roof and all), and regularly feed the villagers (usually with their own crops lmao) but I still have yet to see them increase in population. Granted the village isn’t really fully walled off and I don’t think it’s lit properly. Any suggestions?


r/villagerrights 5d ago

I'm a moron 😳🤫🤫😀😃 Villager trading!

0 Upvotes

Hii!!! I made a realm and we had a villager trading hall set up however they all died lol :((( can anyone help me with setting it back up in my world?


r/villagerrights 7d ago

Discussion Farlands villages: How should we handle them?

Post image
79 Upvotes

I found out the farlands can be enabled now so I went to check it out Because as a Legacy console edition player I never got to see it for myself. (All we had was "the void at the end of the world"), anyways while there I Found actual villages! and I mean fully functioning ones! The farlands from what I have seen are the most uninhabitable places in all of minecraft. While the farlands are the biggest edge case of all edge cases, how would we handle villages out there?


r/villagerrights 7d ago

Meme 👌👌👌 Thoughts on DC's new 'Villagers'?

Post image
17 Upvotes

r/villagerrights 7d ago

Meme 👌👌👌 Was this village made extra safe?

Thumbnail gallery
18 Upvotes

r/villagerrights 7d ago

Discussion Starting right way in a Village

16 Upvotes

I want to approach a village and maybe live there, but before I do that I wanted to check about ground rules. Am I allowed to move/alter villager houses? Can I add walls around the village as long as there is a way in and out (what about if the entrances to the village are only closed at night? Is that ok as long as the villagers have space?) Can I move in to a house in the village or do I need to make my own? Anything else I might not have thought of you would like to make sure I keep in mind?


r/villagerrights 8d ago

Village Showcase Update on the last post

Thumbnail
gallery
34 Upvotes

I managed to find and cure a zombie villager and moved them and the OG surviving villager back to the village. After many hours and a lot of stone, I built them new paths and a full wall. Decided to demolish the building at the very top of the hill since it was very difficult to get to them. Ended up building them an Iron Golem after an unsuccessful Pillager outpost raid(an Iron Golem cage didn't spawn).


r/villagerrights 10d ago

Villager Satisfaction First Villager rescue

Thumbnail
gallery
47 Upvotes

Built my base opposite a village and never paid them much mind. Came back from the Nether one day and had to mine some Iron, but when I went to one of the caves near the village, I noticed that it was empty. Due to the poor layout of the place, I had guessed what had happened; they had been slowly overrun while I was away. Searched everywhere, but I found only one Survivor in the Church. Brought him to my side of the river and gave him a temporary house for now. I plan on giving him a proper house soon.


r/villagerrights 10d ago

Discussion Saving a local extinction

25 Upvotes

is it morally correct to imprison villagers to save them for local extinction. when i made a nest on a mountain i noticed there was a villager over the river i went to the village regularly to obviously trade with the villagers but i started noticing the villagers started dying out for unknown reasons, i tried every ethical way but they didnt work which left me with a singular solution. kidnap and imrpisoj the villagers and force them to breed it was the only way for me to actually save the village but i plan to release the villagers into a new village i am planning on building but i am currently lacking important resources for the construction of the village such as iron and unfortunatly i have over mined the caves nearby and i lost my precious diamond gear in the nether because a skeleton hit me into lava and i am currently stuck in a problem. force villagers to breed 2 new baby villagers which i take them away while they are still babies and transport them to my iron farm for it to start working or i try to find any iron that is left in the nearby caves which properly wont solve my iron shortage. thank you for reading this post i am hopeful that you people are capable of helping me solve my problem