Minecraft wiki entry for Speedrun, associated text: For a village run, loot the village as normal, looting the blacksmith and the hotel (four bed house) buildings first and focusing on the other houses later. You can choose whether to gather beds early in the run, but you don't need to because you will rely on a strategy to get more beds later in the run. If you don't have a blacksmith, you can rely on cod strats. Get seven hay bales, turn them into wheat, and trade it with a farmer that has the wheat trade. Then, find a fisherman and see if he has a bucket of cod trade, and if he does, buy it. This means that when you kill the iron golem, you are guaranteeing yourself an iron pickaxe, which will be super useful later in the run, and you don't have to hope for more iron later. Once you've gotten the necessary items (7 iron for a pickaxe, bucket, and flint and steel; 7 hay bales for food; and a few beds), find a lava pool and create your portal.