Tutorial:Legacy village mechanics

This article describes the village mechanics before the Village & Pillage update, found on the Xbox 360 Edition, PlayStation 3 Edition, PlayStation Vita Edition, Xbox One Edition, Wii U Edition, Nintendo Switch Edition, New Nintendo 3DS Edition, and older releases of the Java and Bedrock editions.

See Trading/Before Village & Pillage, Villager/Before Village & Pillage, and Village/Structure (old) for information for these old versions. See village mechanics, Village and Villager for information on the current version.

Before reading on, you may like to watch the following videos which explain the mechanics of breeding villagers.