VillageHere
A simple pack that makes thoroughly tested, common-sense spawning adjustments to villages and other structures and adds new-ish village types.
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Did you know that plains villages can't spawn in the sunflower plains biome? That only Bedrock Edition has villages in the snowy taiga? I didn't either, let's fix that.
VillageHere is my first datapack that was initially created to provide a solution to a simple question... "Why is there no village here?" There are many biomes that an existing structure would fit perfectly into, but have not been set to spawn in. This pack serves as an expansion to the spawning parameters for vanilla villages, pillager outposts, jungle temples, igloos, and trail ruins, without making these structures seem out of their element or crowding them too densely with each other. This pack also adds palette-swapped villages to sparse jungles and birch forests, to give unpopular biomes an extra reason to be used by the player.
This pack is ideal for anyone who prefers a more consistent, sensical spread of structures in their world without adding any new ones, and is especially ideal for SMP servers with limited world borders, as there will be more structures to go around without making the map seem much different from a vanilla minecraft world.
Full list of biome changes for each structure:
| Structure | Vanilla Biomes | Added Biomes |
|---|---|---|
| Plains Village | Plains, Meadow | Sunflower Plains, Forest, Flower Forest |
| Taiga Village | Taiga | Old Growth Pine Taiga, Old Growth Spruce Taiga, Windswept Forest |
| Snowy Village | Snowy Plains | Snowy Taiga |
| Igloo | Snowy Taiga, Snowy Plains, Snowy Slopes | Grove, Ice Spikes, Snowy Beach |
| Pillager Outpost | Desert, Plains, Savanna, Snowy Plains, Taiga, Grove, & All Mountain Biomes | Savanna Plateau, All Windswept Biomes, All Taiga Variants, Swamp, Badlands, Wooded Badlands, Forest, All Birch Forests, Dark Forest, Pale Garden, Sparse Jungle |
| Jungle Temple | Jungle, Bamboo Jungle | Sparse Jungle |
| Trail Ruin | All Tiaga Variants, Old Growth Birch Forest, Jungle | Bamboo Jungle |
| Birch Village NEW! | N/A | Birch Forest, Old Growth Birch Forest |
| Jungle Village NEW! | N/A | Sparse Jungle |
Notes:
- Biomes with non-tree surface features (eroded badlands, ice spikes) cause generation issues that lead to suffocating villagers, golems, and allays. They have not been given outposts or villages for this reason.
- I may eventually be motivated to create custom architecture for the new village types, but for now they are simple palette swaps that seem fitting for their resprctive biomes.
- This pack edits worldgen tags in the default minecraft namespace which may cause incompatibilities with other structure or worldgen packs. Check for changes to these locations in your other packs and mods to see if this will be in issue:
\data\minecraft\tags\worldgen\biome\has_structure \data\minecraft\worldgen\structure_set
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21.4, 1.21.5, 1.21.6
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.
- Downloads as VillageHere 1.1.3.zip
- Download size: 422 KB
- Download link checked 6 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.