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Underground Villages

So imagine this: You're exploring a vast cave system. You're lost and don't know your way back up. You're low on torches and food, and all of your weapons and tools are inching closer and closer towards their breaking points. You have no choice but to keep moving forward. Just when you think it's over, you see something. An opening at the end of the long hall of stone you seemed to be trapped within. But it isn't the surface. You step through, and to your surprise, it's a massive cavern, and within it is a fully formed village.

 

Now obviously, cave villages would be EXTREMELY rare so as to keep the core mining experience intact. Maybe not "stronghold in a superflat world" rare, but pretty rare all the same. The buildings would probably be built using a combination of various types of stone as well as possibly the materials available in the surface biome the village is in. Most things would probably be the same as surface vilages, although maybe with a few tweaks (more torches to better light the caverns in which the sun never reaches, a higher likelihood of iron golems due to the fact that caves are more dangerous alongside the fact that iron is more readily available underground, stuff like that). 

 

That's pretty much all I've got. I hope y'all like the idea!

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    my dad mines. so i like the idea of villeges underground

     

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    all the villagers should be miners (with helpful supplies and food)

    and these miners should be neutral (they have hands and pickaxes)

    if they hate yo they will attack then get away (even in spectator) then go away (they are very speedy miners)

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    Since the next update is likely to look at caves, this could be an interesting feature in it. Caves desperately need more life.

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    The only problem with this is that Villagers require spaces exposed to sunlight as part of their AI that determines whether a door is counted as part of a house. Other than that small detail, I don't see any potential problems with this suggestion.

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    @Zsigmond Pölcz

    Strongolds, dungeons, and abandoned mineshafts are underground, not to mention caves.

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    lol i never run out of tools as long as i have stone in a cave and lots of wood

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    Have we finally found the Dwarves/Goblins/Whatever that have dug out the abandoned mineshafts? Because I enjoy the idea of an underground village-like cave system occupied by some kind of traditional fantasy creature.

    Or at least something similar.

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    Maybe the villagers can mine, creating a (not abandoned) mineshaft, right next to it. With an excavator!

     

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    They should be animated!

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    Cool boy, I think that instead of The Villagers put The Zombie villagers or Miners.

     

    Wow, This's a good idea.

    Please vote

     

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    I agree with this post and all of it's comments. I think they are all awsome. 

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    This would also serve to put another type of golem.

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    so basically an abandoned mine shaft that isn't abandoned?

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    This could be very interesting.

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    I actually saw a glitch were this happened and the village was underground.It was the coolest thing I'd ever seen.

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    @FadedBear486644 @Dinorauria Practically dwarven villagers, drwarfs in fantasy are known for their mining and blacksmithing capabilities, this structure could have naturally spawning smithing tables as well as grindstones, these special villagers could also sell much higher quality weapons.

     

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    I'd love to see a Molemen village underground. Everything from Johnny Bravo cartoons to Sam & Max games have made reference to the Molemen.

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    (EDIT: MORE DETAIL)

    These villages should also have underground lakes/overground lakes close, to make the fishing profession make sense, and farmers could focus on farming mushrooms in little dirt mushroom rooms as putting farming plots above ground could give them away to pillagers. I would say these professions are necessary for the underground villages due to the fact they wouldn’t have farms as their main form of sustenance, which would then add to the rarity of the villages spawning as they would HAVE to spawn near a body of water. 

    There could be giveaways from the surface too, like little trap doors with ladders leading down to the village in a clearing with not many trees around (suggesting they have used wood in the village to make doors). I would suggest for them to be found in cave systems or on the sides of ravines just like abandoned mineshafts, with lanterns and torches all around to make sure the light level is high enough for mobs to never spawn in the village directly. Mobs can still walk into the village however, as of course it won’t have defences and it would be inside a cave system already. Buildings could either be built into the walls or they could have the ceiling high enough to build structures in the caves themselves, depending on what’s easiest. Iron bars instead of windows, mainly stone buildings, furnaces in most, if not all houses, maybe even little glass casings with pet silverfish in them, etc. To be totally honest I just think baby cave dwellers with little miner helmets on would be the cutest thing ever. Lore-wise they could have moved underground after deciding it would be safer after being attacked by pillagers, but little do they know they can also be raided underground by the evil mob that appeared in the minecraft dungeons trailer!! Spooky right?

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    and a great idea, would give one more incentive to just go to the mining cave

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    I imagine this every time I go down into the deep. It would be so amazing to find dwarven villages deep in the depths, or villager miners with a sprawling encampment and tons of food and supplies for trade, as well as precious ores

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    Would love it if instead of villagers, there's pigmen. 

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    Es una gran idea!!!!

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    I think this is a fantastic idea! This would really add some depth to the game. 10/10 I support this :) 

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    While reading this I thought about abandoned mineshafts and how this could put a very interesting spin on to them. All the vilagers could be miner themed and have a working rail system that circles into or around the village from the working mineshafts. Just an idea, I really hope the central idea comes to light.

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    If we got a update to caves this would be the thing I most want.

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    How about adding vines, make them in a large cavern, and even with holes in the ceiling, so it looks like it fell from the surface?

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    I like it.

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    Put dwarves

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    greaaaaat idea, it would be so nice to add such a structure in the game for a cave update

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    imagin this with the village and pillage update underground pilagers