There are always chores that need to be done in a village, regardless of profession. One of which is morning duty.
Members of a village are rotated on morning patrols, where they scare off night creatures lingering in the fields, usually disorientated spiders and phantoms, or creepers trying to hunker down in the crops. More info below.
They also have the unpleasant job of cleaning up the smoldering remains of zombies and skeletons. It’s a crucial time for reporting any damage to houses, fences or golems, and any strange activity, such as missing livestock and crops. The culprits are usually benign: wild animals or misbehaving teenagers, but occasionally stranger things occur. Items and materials nonsensically relocated by Endermen, or even rarer, animals picked clean until they are merely a pile of bones and inedible parts.
This phenomenon is attributed to a vast array of folkloric monsters from village to village, but the real root are typically starving and injured players desperate enough to risk the ire of an iron golem. They need to consume large amounts of protein to regenerate severe wounds, and will enter a lethargic, trance-like state in order to conserve energy while they seek out food, impairing their judgement. They may otherwise attempt to eat inedible materials, like flour, dirt and hay, particularly if they have only spawned recently and are still in their infantile stage.
Villagers on patrol often wear brightly coloured clothing so they’re easy to spot in the fields.
hey check out my first ever fanfic!! wrote it for @illwilledomen ‘s minecraft worldbuilding project, Minecraft Abiogenesis! read it if you like pale people and you think illagers should be more like The Drow
I made this blog to share my writings with other people! Specifically writings involved with "Brawn and Feathers", a story I've been mentally drafting since I was but a child.
Heavily inspired by:
Minecraft
@illwilledomen 's Minecraft Abiogenesis
@brightgoat 's whole Minecraft writing
Music
Media I've engaged with in general (books, video games, the like five movies I've watched, ao3, etc)
But I've put a twist on the characters and concepts, creating a whole new species rather different to humans (and one with mainly cultural changes) and have a million and one mini stories for the characters.
I plan to post things on here (although chances are I'll change direction and they'll just be old ideas that get thrown back into the wood chipper of writing and sprinkled elsewhere).
I pride myself on not using generative AI for any of my work, so please don't use mine to train an AI!!