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Thief

by mortuusars · for Minecraft

Stealing from villages has consequences

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GPL-3.0-onlyLicense
Fabric · Forge +2Loaders

About Thief

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Stealing from villages has consequences


Thief



Adds punishment for stealing from villages



Thief makes stealing from a Village a bit more involved and requires the player to think before doing it.

It utilizes vanilla Villager reputation system by adding several new actions that affect the reputation. As well as the Witness system.


Overview:

Crime:

There are three severities of a crime you can commit: Light, Medium and Heavy, each is lowering your reputation with all Villagers that saw the crime. Heavy crimes lower reputation to the level where Iron Golem will attack the player.

Iron Golem (and Guard, if Guard Villagers is installed) will attack the player for Medium and Heavy crimes, if they themselves saw the player doing it.

Player needs to be in a "protected" structure for the action to count as a crime. By default that's only villages.

_Note: Villagers are not that smart, and will think that the player is a thief, even if the player placed the block themselves before breaking it._

List of crimes:

Block breaking:

  • Light: Crops, Hay Bale, Lantern, Campfire.
  • Medium: Chests, Barrels, Job-site blocks, Beds.
  • Heavy: Bell.

Block interaction:

  • Medium: Chests, Barrels.

Killing:

  • Medium: Pig, Sheep, Cow, Chicken, Cat, Horse, Donkey, Mule, LLama.

Beds:

  • Light: kicking the Villager out of their bed.
  • Medium: sleeping in a bed that is claimed by a Villager.


Witness:

For a crime to be registered - witnesses must see the player commiting it.
Detection distance is influenced by player's stealthiness - sneaking, low light level and invisibility potion can help remain unnoticed.


Reputation:

For the crime mechanic, reputation is now split into levels:

  • Hated: Iron Golem protects the Villager and will attack the player.
  • Unwelcome: Villager will refuse to trade with the player.
  • Distrusted: Prices are higher (vanilla).
  • Neutral
  • Accepted: Light crimes are ignored.
  • Respected: Medium crimes are ignored.
  • Honored: Heavy crimes are ignored.

In addition to lowering reputation by commiting crimes, or hitting/killing Villagers (vanilla), players can also increase it by defeating a raid, giving gifts and vanilla ways such as trading or curing a Zombie Villager.

_When commiting a crime, average reputation will be calculated from all witnesses, to decide whether the crime could be ignored. Treat your Villagers well._

Gifts:

Using an Emerald while holding _Sneak_ will give it to the villager and improve their reputation with the player.
Looking at a Villager while holding an Emerald in hand will show a tooltip with current reputation level.

Reputation Tooltip



  • Mod also fixes a bug where player receives less reputation from trade when items are Shift+Clicked.
  • All aspects of the mod are configurable.


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Highlights

From source data

Game versions

Supports 12 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.3.

Loaders

Runs on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt.

Footprint

Rated a light load on a server.

What kind of mod it is

From the catalog
Listed on Modrinth as “Mods”

World generation

Changes or adds to how new terrain, biomes and structures are created.

Runs on your server

From source side support

Modrinth lists Thief as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Compatibility

Game
Minecraft
Loaders
FabricForgeNeoForgeQuilt
Runs on
Serverrequired on the server
Game versions
26.3 and 11 earlier

Verified at the source

  • ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
  • ✓Authormortuusars, as published on Modrinth
  • ✓LicenseGPL-3.0-onlyFree

Thief, answered

Generated from the mod’s own source data.

Do my players need to install Thief?

Modrinth lists Thief as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Which loaders does it support?

Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt.

Is it free?

Yes. Thief is free to download from Modrinth. Its license is GPL-3.0-only.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

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