MoreThenSquids

Give villagers a trade of their own. Turn an adult villager into a Basic Villager with Up Bread, then use a profession item to unlock a specialized workshop, market, or mining post. Upgrade gear, commission enchanted books, set up a village market, and uncover rituals that take place in the world.

Minecraft 1.21.1 · NeoForge · Java 21

Getting started

1. Craft Up Bread by surrounding an emerald with eight wheat in a crafting table.
2. Use it on an adult villager to create a Basic Villager.
3. Give the Basic Villager one of the profession items below. Right-click the villager again to open its interface.

Crafting recipes

Shaped recipes

Use a crafting table and arrange the ingredients as shown. A dash means an empty slot.

Iron means an iron ingot. The Armorer's Mold uses two rows, so the third row stays empty when you use the top two rows.

Shapeless recipes

Put one of each listed ingredient into the crafting grid in any order.

Mining Devices are obtained through the Miner. Drop three diamonds nearby to receive a device whose tier depends on the Miner's level.

Blacksmith and Armorer

Use the Upgrade tab to submit an item and the required material. Jobs take time, and an indicator above the villager shows progress and tells you when the result is ready to collect.

• The Blacksmith handles tools and weapons. For example, the default iron pickaxe upgrade costs two gold ingots and produces a golden pickaxe.
• The Armorer upgrades helmets, chestplates, leggings, and boots through chainmail → iron → gold → diamond → netherite.
• The first specialist to upgrade a piece signs it. Returning to that same specialist can yield two compatible bonuses when the bonus roll succeeds. Emeralds can increase the chance of a bonus.
• The Repair tab restores durability while preserving the item's enchantments, attributes, and signature. The original specialist waives the emerald fee.
• An anvil within 50 blocks cuts preparation time by 30%. When the villager can reach it, it walks over and works beside it.

Enchanter

The Enchanter shows five distinct offers. Insert a regular book and emeralds, select the enchantments you want, and pay the sum of their individual prices. Spend emeralds to reroll the offers.

Lectern ritual. Place a bookshelf against each side of an accessible lectern. Hand the Enchanter a Book and Quill. The villager places it on the lectern and starts a ritual with orbiting particles and levitating bookshelves. The two bookshelves are consumed in a harmless burst, and the Enchanter drops a book with one randomly selected, eligible enchantment at its maximum level.

Merchant

Put a lectern near the Merchant and leave room for it to stand in front. Place vanilla profession workstations in a 5 × 5 square centered on the lectern, on the same level.

Each supported workstation unlocks a profession tab. A smoker unlocks the Butcher, a composter the Farmer, and a second lectern the Librarian. Duplicate workstations share a tab. Green particle trails show which stations are connected, and each tab lists its available offers together.

Miner

• Minerals. Buy coal and raw copper at the start. As the Miner gains XP, it unlocks iron, gold, diamonds, ancient debris, and more.
• Excavation. Trade bulk cobblestone, gravel, and other excavation materials for emeralds. Higher levels reduce the size of the required lot.
• Mine Finds. At level 10, unlock one direct material-for-mineral trade per Minecraft day. One example is 64 cobblestone for 3 diamonds.
• Mining devices. Drop three diamonds near the Miner to receive a device. Attach it to the side of a block and right-click it. The device opens a 5 × 5 tunnel in stages and places torches where the floor can support them. The three tiers reach 5, 10, or 20 blocks deep. The device excavates listed terrain blocks and leaves ores, containers, and other unlisted blocks in place.

Glow Squid ritual

Stack two emerald blocks, place an upward-facing lightning rod on top, and use Up Bread on the structure. An emerald shockwave pushes nearby entities away, the column rises, and a visual lightning strike summons a glow squid and scatters 36 emeralds around the center. The ritual consumes the structure.

Configuration

The mod generates JSON files in config/morethensquids/ when a world or server starts. Edit the files, then reopen the world or restart the server.

Installation

Install NeoForge for Minecraft 1.21.1 and place the MoreThenSquids JAR in the instance's mods folder. For multiplayer, install the mod on both the server and the clients that join it.