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Originally posted by Faceplant8:

You should be able to see the flax/barley from outside the village. I would just just sneek up close enough to confirm if there's any flax there and move on if it's not.

I've really just been destroying the whole villages, blackmetal is required once i get linen anyways

That is true, but, 5 villages is quite a bit, since you don't really need that much BM. It is useful for recovering some iron from chests, though, and iron is required for the padded armor if you go that route.