Visiting Villagers

🌍 Visiting Villagers – Bring Your Village to Life!

Stop living in ghost towns! Visiting Villagers is a lightweight Vanilla Plus QoL mod that transforms quiet hamlets into bustling hubs of activity.

🏡 Why Install?

Visiting Villagers transforms standard Minecraft, villages can feel static. This mod injects immersion without the headache of managing complex NPC needs.

• Authenticity: Visitors arrive at dawn and leave at sunset.
• Zero Micro-management: No extra beds or workstations required.
• Performance Friendly: Extremely lightweight.

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🎯 Key Features

| | Feature | Description | | :------- | :----------------------- | :--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | New Visitors | Adults with 14 specialized professions and 7 unemployed visitors, ready to trade and interact. | | | Unique Merchants | Specialized Wandering Traders from different biomes. | | | Baby Visitors | Add charm and authenticity, running around the village. | | | Dynamic System | Visitors appear in the morning (Dynamic Spawning) and leave at night. | | | Simple & Direct | No beds or workstations required – they’re just passing through to trade. | | | Village Requirements | Needs 6 Villagers and 1 Iron Golem to start. |

⚙️ Commands

Manage your village in real-time with these advanced commands:

| Command | Description | Notes / Requirements | | :------------------------------------ | :------------------------------------------------------- | :------------------- | | /visitors check | Verifies the amount of villagers, visitors, and golems. | Available to all | | /visitors reload | Instantly reloads the mod's configuration file. | Fabric Only | | /visitors clear [radius] | Removes all visitors within a radius (up to 512 blocks). | Requires OP | | /visitors population [qty] [radius] | Force-spawns a population for load testing. | Requires OP |

🛠️ Customization

⚙️ In-Game Configuration Mod Menu (Fabric)

Easily customize spawn rates, baby behavior, and trader frequencies directly inside the game using Mod Menu (Fabric).

Fine-tune the mod to your liking via the visitingvillagers.json file for Fabric and visiting-villagers-common.toml for Forge/Neoforge. You can adjust:

📋 Configuration Details

| Category | Setting | Default | Description | | :------------ | :-------------------------- | :------ | :----------------------------------------------- | | General | spawnCheckIntervalSeconds | 10 | Time between spawn attempts (1-60s). | | | minVillagersForSpawn | 6 | Minimum villagers needed to start visits. | | | minGolemsForSpawn | 1 | Minimum iron golems needed to start visits. | | Adults | visitorSpawnPercentage | 100% | Chance of visitors based on local population. | | | maxSpawnsPerCycle | 3 | Max visitors spawned in a single cycle. | | | defaultVisitorTradeChance | 40% | Chance for a generic visitor to have trades. | | Babies | minAdultsForBaby | 2 | Adult visitors needed before babies spawn. | | | babySpawnPercentage | 60% | Percentage of adult visitors that can be babies. | | Wandering | maxWanderingVisitors | 2 | Limit of wandering visitors in a village area. | | | wanderingSpawnDelay | 120 | Delay between wandering visitor spawns. |

🌐 Localizations

🌐 Russian & Ukrainian localizations contributed by Wookius 🌐 Portuguese (BR) localization added

❤️ Thanks to contributors! More languages coming soon.

🎨 Models & Fresh Animations Compatibility

Vanilla Native Models: Visitors now directly utilize base game models, making the mod fully compatible out-of-the-box with resource packs like Fresh Animations and Fresh Animations Details.

🔍 New Items: Visitor Checker

Track your village population without commands! Two new items are available in the mod's Creative Tab:

• Visitor Checker (Chat): Right-click to display a quick chat report of all visitors, babies, wandering traders, villagers, and golems within 128 blocks.
• Visitor Checker (Book): Opens a dynamic report in an enchanted book that refreshes its stats every time you open it.

👉 Download Now!

Download Now – Give your villagers the neighbors they deserve!

Feel free to add it to any _Modpack_!