Neighborly Visit

0.1.0-beta.2 (2026-11-10) — English

For Minecraft 1.21.1 + NeoForge 21.1.230 or newer. Back up your world before updating. The network protocol changed: server and clients must both update to this version.

New

• Cashier Counter (white and black): place it in your reception area and manage the whole area from one spot.
  • Trade: a guest register of visitors who are here; click one to trade without chasing them around. Followed visitors come first.
  • Crates: goods, payment and stored XP of every trade crate in the area; open a crate remotely, collect its payment and XP, or take everything at once.
  • Gifts: the gifts in every gift box in the area (a double box counts as one); open a box remotely, take one box, or take everything at once.
  • The crate and gift panels refresh live — when someone else takes something or a visitor drops off a gift, you see it right away.
• Mailbox: place it in your reception area; the owner and whitelisted players can use it.
  • Send invitations to visitors who have stayed before (5 emeralds postage). Attaching something they like makes them more likely to say yes. Those who accept arrive within a few days, and everyone writes back.
  • Visitors who like you write on their own: arrival notices and gift letters, some with attachments.
  • Every letter comes with a postcard (villagers by home biome, one for each special visitor); postcards you have received go into a stamp album.
  • Blacklist, a master switch for incoming mail, mark all read, delete all.
• New hobby: reading. Visitors take a book from a bookshelf, sit down if there is a free seat nearby, and read an open book for 10 seconds to a minute.
• Trade crates store XP from visitor trades; collect it at the cashier counter.
• Notices page in the Welcome Center: toggle meal, arrival, departure and other visitor messages separately.
• Guestbook: in the current-visit list, hungry visitors show an empty drumstick and visitors without a bed show a crossed-out bed.

Changes

• Purchases are capped: each visitor buys at most 3 lots per visit, more with higher affinity, up to 5 (configurable).
• Visitors who like farming bonemeal unripe crops.
• Fishing only happens at water at least 3×3.
• Cats and dogs sleep more quietly.
• New recipes: Mailbox (8 copper blocks, redstone, chest); White Cashier Counter (6 quartz blocks, eye of ender, iron block, emerald block); Black Cashier Counter (black terracotta instead of quartz).

Fixes

• Visitors no longer stay seated forever after loading a world.
• Visitors no longer wait one block short of a hobby spot.
• Gifts now fill a double gift box from the first slot.
• Mail attachments that only partly fit no longer lose the rest (it drops at your feet).

Upgrading from beta.1

• beta.1 worlds work as they are: visitors, affinity, blocks and containers are kept.
• The new reading hobby and its two favorites only appear on newly met visitors; visitors you already know keep their hobbies.
• Behavior changes to existing hobbies (fishing needs water at least 3×3) apply to existing visitors right away.
• New config options (purchase caps etc.) are added to the config file with their defaults.
• Do not downgrade to beta.1 afterwards: cashier counters and mailboxes would disappear, and letters would be lost.