So does this mean they are removing or remodeling the villages and castle?
"We decided that it would be good to have the tutorial world showing the new terrain features of 1.8.2 (Strongholds, Villages, Abandoned Mineshafts and Ravines), so we have a new world with the previous tutorial training area transplanted in it," Burns said when asked about the new Minecraft tutorial mode.
Hmm - may have to start the tut world and save it so as to have a preserved copy of it. It was a pretty fun place to play and I never really did anything with it.
That to me sounds like everything outside the initial small spawn area with the broken house and what not is going to be different.