Give your NPCs a voice

Nostalgic Dialog brings classic RPG-style conversations to Minecraft. Text types out letter by letter with a talking blip, characters have portraits that change with their mood, and players answer with choices that shape what happens next.

Try the built-in demo: /dialog start @s nostalgicdialog:demo

Everything is written in simple JSON files in a datapack or KubeJS.

✨ Features

💬 Conversations that feel alive

• Typewriter text with a voice blip for every character, and natural pauses after punctuation
• Each speaker has their own name, color, voice and pitch
• Portraits for every mood (happy, sad, thinking, or whatever you need), even switching mid-sentence
• Text effects: shaking letters, wavy letters, colors, pauses, slow-downs and sound effects

🔀 Choices that matter

• Branching conversations with as many paths as you like
• Hide choices until the player has earned them, or show them greyed out with a hint like "(needs 3 apples)" so players know what to come back for
• NPCs remember: flags, relationship points and past conversations change what they say next time

🎁 Things happen when you talk

• Give or take items, run commands, raise or lower relationship points

📜 A taste of the format

"menu": {
  "lines": "What can an old man do for you?",
  "choices": [
    { "text": "Tell me about this place.", "goto": "village" },
    {
      "text": "Teach me to make fire.",
      "requires": [ { "type": "relationship", "npc": "elder", "min": 5 } ],
      "locked_hint": "(he doesn't trust you yet)",
      "goto": "fire"
    }
  ]
}

🗣️ Starting a conversation

• Right-click any mob: /dialog bind <entity> <dialog> turns any villager, mob or NPC into someone to talk to. They turn to face you while you chat.
• Commands: /dialog start <player> <dialog>
• Quests and NPC mods: anything that can run a command can start a dialog, including FTB Quests rewards and Easy NPC actions.

Try the built-in demo: /dialog start @s nostalgicdialog:demo

🎨 Make it yours

• Add your own portraits as any square image in a resource pack
• Swap the voice and menu sounds, or give each character any sound in the game
• Replace the font with your own pixel font for a fully custom look
• Players can adjust text speed, voice volume and text size in the client config

🧩 Works with

All optional. Nostalgic Dialog works on its own.

📖 Documentation

Full guides for every field, condition, action and text tag are on the wiki.