...would be possible for villager eggs to be buyable from a server shop, these villagers wouldnt be able to trade but would just be there for visual purposes. It would really bring some life to some builds and I would love to use them...
The reason that you can't keep the villagers around is because of the way we currently use them, I don't want to cause potential confusion with the static villagers we've got in a few random locations with what might be your decorative ones.
Similarly because we use them for the trades/shops and as part of the quests they're actually set to never despawn server wide, so unlike all other mobs/animals they'll hopefully never disappear, something which obviously isn't great long-term for lag if everyone has their own little hoard of them.
...it would be nice to be able to cure the villager zombies (at least in the wild) to add more life...
This relates to the answer I've given above. It's specifically been designed so that hopefully you'll not be able to get any.
If there really is enough of a desire for them then I'd potentially be willing to make some big changes to the mob/animal despawning mechanics but for now it would be a lot of work in the short-term for minimal gain. But as things are gradually changed over time anyway this might change in the future anyway.
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