Minecraft wiki entry for Villager, associated text: The villagers were inspired by the shopkeepers in Dungeon Master 2.[7]
Originally, the mobs populating villages were to be pigmen.[8]
When a villager is in love mode, it walks slowly. However, when a villager runs indoors as the night falls, it runs faster than the player's sprinting speed.
The villager skins added in the Village and Pillage update were inspired by 2018 fashion shows, such as Gucci's.[9]
Villagers occasionally sleep in odd ways during the night inside their beds, sometimes hanging halfway off the side of the bed or even glitching into walls.
Although the villages in snowy taiga biomes spawn the snowy villager variant in Bedrock Edition, they use the taiga village variant.
In Java Edition, when the Programmer Art resource pack is enabled, all villagers wear a green hood on their heads.[10] This is because the Programmer Art nitwit texture (which is directly copied from the pre-1.14 vanilla resource pack and had the hood in the texture since its addition) is called the same as the Village & Pillage base villager texture (...\entity\villager\villager.png).
In Bedrock Edition, when the Classic Textures pack from Marketplace is enabled, the villagers still use their default texture instead of the old texture.[11] This is because the old textures of villager are located in ...\entity\villager, while the textures for new villagers are in ...\entity\villager2.
In Java Edition, baby villagers are the only mobs that do not have a disproportionately large head compared to their adult counterparts. Rather, they are smaller versions of the adult villager.
Giving a villager any item (with commands) causes it to hold the item as if offering it, but it cannot be traded.
Fisherman villagers have been intentionally textured by Jasper Boerstra to display the long-since-removed raw fish texture.[12]
Villagers display their held items differently than most creatures do, using the "ground" parameter instead of the usual hand parameter in model display settings.
Villagers (and baby villagers) on boats that have claimed a bed can still sleep when the bed is near to them resulting in them sleeping in the boat instead.‌[Bedrock Edition only]
Although they are usually passive to villagers, when a firework set off by a villager damages an iron golem, it can actually anger it, causing the iron golem to attack the villager.‌[Java Edition only][13]
Some villagers uses trades that hints at the corresponding workstation.[14]