About Smart Villagers Follow Emeralds
From ModrinthMakes villagers follow emeralds. Properly.
Smart Villagers Follow Emeralds
A simple Fabric mod that makes villagers follow players holding emerald-related items including Emeralds, Emerald Blocks, Emerald Ore, and Emerald Deepslate Ore.
Doesn't this already exist?
This mod is indeed functionally similar to Villagers-Follow-Emeralds-Fabric, but distinct in a few important ways.
Internally, the comparable Villagers-Follow-Emeralds-Fabric adds an AI goal to villagers to modify their behaviour, which creates a conflict with the brain tasks villagers make use of since 1.14, resulting in often inconsistent emerald following. This mod instead makes use of a proper brain task to add following behaviour, which is much more reliable and future-proof. This is also where the "Smart" in the name comes from.
Another difference is that this mod uses a tag to determine which items tempt villagers, which means that it is possible for server owners and modpack creators to add custom items to this list if they so desire.
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 6 Minecraft versions, the newest being 1.20.4.
Loaders
Runs on Fabric.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogCreatures & NPCs
Adds or changes creatures, NPCs and how they behave.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Smart Villagers Follow Emeralds as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- Fabric
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 1.20.4 and 5 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓Authorenjarai, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseMITFree
