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Cracked Bell, Ruined Village Center in Swamps/Jungles

Rather than infringing on player creativity with pre-generated Swamp and Jungle villages, what if there was a prompt within the game to encourage players to build their own? I don't mean a meta prompt that only people who read the wiki and the patch notes would know (e.g. "this is how you get Mending"), but an organic interaction with something that generates in the world.

The Ruined Village Center would be a small structure with a new block entity called a Cracked Bell. It looks like a regular bell with a large crack through it, and makes a dull noise when interacted with. The Player can turn the Cracked Bell into a normal Bell at a Crafting Table using Gold Nuggets. The repairable Cracked Bell is a further hint to the player that the game does indeed want them to do something restorative here, but it could also be used as a decoration in the player's own builds.

Ruined Village Centers might also have a hidden loot chest that can contain a Fermented Spider Eye and/or Glass Bottles, to be discovered if the player decides to clean up "fallen" bits of the structure. This might encourage the player to wrangle some local Zombie Villagers to be their first new citizens instead of abducting villagers from another biome and transporting them hundreds of blocks.

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    Maybe the cracked bell could also increase the Zombie Villager/regular Zombie ratio within a radius around it. It wouldn't spawn zombies on its own, just give naturally-spawned Zombies a higher chance to be Zombie Villagers. This would make the Cracked Bell a useful item instead of a purely aesthetic one. Players could take a Cracked Bell with them to wherever they want to build a new village, place it down, and have a consistent method for populating that village locally in a reasonable timeframe. This would reward exploration, encourage creativity, and make villager abduction a less attractive gameplay option.