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Villagers Reborn

Replaces villagers and illagers with custom human models while keeping all vanilla trades and behavior. Inspired by the amazing work done in Minecraft Comes Alive (MCA).

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Which Villagers Reborn release should I use?

Updated last month
Latest stable file villagersreborn-1.0.9b.jar
Game version 1.20.1
Loader Forge

Villagers Reborn villagersreborn-1.0.9b.jar targets 1.20.1 with Forge. The project page does not say whether this file belongs on the client, dedicated server, or both. No extra mods listed for this file.

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Is Villagers Reborn required on the client, server, or both?

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What else does Villagers Reborn villagersreborn-1.0.9b.jar need?

villagersreborn-1.0.9b.jar. Change the file and its required mods may change too.

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About this project

What does Villagers Reborn add?

Villagers Reborn

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You can find the wiki and see all the changes in the new Mod Compatibility Update here 📝

Become part of Villagers Reborn and add your custom character to the game 🏡

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Villagers Reborn replaces vanilla villagers with human models while keeping their usual jobs, trades, and behavior.

You can build relationships with villagers, start dating, get married, and start a family!

Also includes villager names, personalities, custom equipment, and a dialogue system.

Works in any existing world and is compatible with most mods that add custom trades or professions.

It also replaces other mobs such as illagers, witches, and the wandering trader with human models.


Mod Collection ⚔️

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Dialogue Screen

Dialogue Screen

New features 📌

  • Custom villager human models
  • Family system
  • Dating and marriage system
  • New villager sounds
  • New illagers models and sounds
  • New wandering merchant models and sounds
  • New witches models
  • Functional vanilla trades
  • Compatible with modded trades
  • Villager personality system
  • Villager dialogue system (press R to talk)
  • Villager inventory and equipment
  • Villager orders (follow, stay, set home)
  • Villager management
  • Receive gifts from villagers based on relationship level (item pool)
  • Resurrect villagers
  • Works with modded villages and towns
  • Villagers have their own name tags
  • Villagers keep their original vanilla behavior
  • Compatible with existing worlds
  • New villager spawn eggs
  • Villager models support any skin (change skin tutorial)
  • Skin selection screen (modern or medieval)

Start a Family

Family

Gallery 📸

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To do list 🛠️

Add villager guards/police

Add kings and queens

Expand dialogue and relationship options

Update the dialogue GUI

Add marriage system ✔️

Village management

Receive gifts from villagers ✔️

Quests system

Add villager orders: follow, stay, equip, and set home ✔️

Add an in-game option to change any villager’s skin ✔️

Add advancements

Custom model for the wandering trader ✔️

Custom models for zombie villagers ✔️

Add config options and key binds to adjust settings in-game ✔️

Improve general villager behavior

Use villager custom models for players?

Add human versions of pillagers and witches ✔️

Full multiplayer and LAN compatibility ✔️

Fabric compatibility

Forge 1.20.1 ✔️


Translation 📄

Russian by Max Snegir
Portuguese by Felipe Campos
Spanish (Spain and Latin America)


Support 🤜🤛

Lead Art (icons, models etc) by Elin R. (Modge)
Animations by Astrid


Issues ⚠️

If you get stuck on the birth screen you can use the keyboard arrows to select Confirm or adjust the GUI scale

Sometimes a villager gender changes after curing them from zombification if you cure more than one villager at the same time

Already existing villagers disappear if the mod is removed


Here you can report bugs or issues and leave a comment.

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This mod includes skins from Skindex. All rights belong to their original creators, who were contacted when possible with permissions confirmed where available. You can find the talented authors in the Skin Credits.

This mod is now fully compatible with single player, local multiplayer (LAN), and multiplayer/dedicated servers.


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