Minecraft wiki entry for Villager_(old), associated text: The villagers were inspired by the shop keepers in Dungeon Master 2.[3]
Originally, the mobs populating villages were to be pigmen.[4]
Villagers tend to often cram into houses that are in the southern-eastern area of their village.
Name tags used on villagers will always name the villager instead of opening the trading interface.
Villagers can see invisible players.
After a zombie villager is cured, the villager gets Nausea for 10 seconds (indicated by the purple status effect particles).
When a villager is in love mode, it walks very slowly. However, when a villager runs indoors as the night falls, it runs extremely fast, even faster than the player's sprinting speed.
The 1.6 release poster showed a blue-robed villager in the background. Such a villager has never been seen in-game.
The Priest, Librarian and Nitwit villagers have an unused hood in their textures.
Originally, villagers used rubies as their currency, but they were later replaced with emeralds.