Helpful Villagers Port

Helpful Villagers (1.12.2)

Put your lazy villagers to work. Lumberjacks, farmers, miners, soldiers, archers, ranchers, fishermen and more - with village halls, a craft queue and a village economy.

This is NOT a fork

The idea comes from the original Helpful Villagers by WeaselNinja (1.7.10). All code here is written from scratch. This mod works almost like a layer on top of the original: it contains no code and no assets of the original. For the game to run and for the textures to show, you must download the original mod yourself and put it in a special folder.

Required: the original mod

1. Download Helpful Villagers 1.7.10 (file helpfulvillagers-1.7.10-1.3.1.jar) from the original CurseForge page.
2. Put the jar into .minecraft/archaic_originals/ (create the folder). Not into mods - a 1.7.10 jar cannot be loaded as a mod in 1.12.2.
3. Start the game. Textures are read straight from that jar; nothing is copied or extracted.

If the jar is missing, a window on the main menu shows the link and the exact folder.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.12.2 with Cleanroom Loader (Java 21+)
• ArchaicLib 1.4.0+
• The original Helpful Villagers 1.7.10 jar in archaic_originals

Features

• One villager entity with a synced profession; halls are marked by an item frame with the job symbol near a wooden door of a closed room.
• Craft queue - order an item and the right profession crafts and smelts it (recursive planner, village fuel) and delivers it.
• Economy - villager accounts, barter buy and sell, tick-sliced world survey without lag spikes.
• Soldiers fight and patrol, ranchers herd animals into pastures, fishermen catch loot, farmers harvest and replant, lumberjacks fell trees.
• Admin command /hvdebug.

Support and source

Discord | GitHub | Comments are open - bug reports welcome.

License: HardEvolution Restricted Source-Available License (HE-RSAL) 1.1. The original Helpful Villagers belongs to WeaselNinja. Made by electrifiedded / HardEvolution.