I've been playing in my Minecraft world (XBox One edition) for a couple of weeks now, and I've not found a village, stronghold, or abandoned mineshaft yet.
Yesterday, I explored (above ground, anyway) an entire map's worth of the world, and still couldn't find a village.
I'm now concerned that (somehow) I didn't enable structures when I initially generated the world, and that there aren't any villages, etc.. Is there any way to check?
Best Answer
It doesn't appear to be possible to examine the properties of an existing console saved game, so you'll have to do something like this:
Start the game in Creative mode and fly around until you find a generated structure. Make a note of the coordinates. Try to find a few different structures.
Enabling Creative mode disables achievements, so you can either make a copy of the game file first, or use the same seed to generate a new world.
You might have to travel a long way before you find any villages. On my world, the only village I could find was about 4 "maps" away.
Then reload your Survival game and travel to those coordinates. The structure should be there.
(Of course, when I started heading to the coordinates of the village that I discovered, I stumbled across an Ocean monument in the sea just a short distance from my home...)