Village Evenings
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Villagers keep living after work: they ring the bell when monsters come at night, light campfires and candles at dusk, gather around the fire, sit on stairs and care for animals. Works with the mod on the server only.
Before bed, villagers gather around a lit campfire.
Description
Village Evenings fills the hours after work. In vanilla, villagers do little once the workday ends. With this mod they look after their village, gather in the evening and react to danger, using only vanilla blocks, sounds and animations.
No new blocks, items or mobs, so you can add it to an existing world and remove it again at any time.
What villagers do
๐ Night alarm bell
A villager who sees a zombie or an illager at night runs to the village bell and rings it. Everyone hides and raiders start to glow, exactly like the vanilla bell.
๐ฅ Lights at dusk
At sunset villagers light the campfires and candles in their village and put them out again in the morning. They only put out fires they lit themselves, so your own candles stay lit.
๐๏ธ Campfire evenings
Before bed, villagers gather around a lit campfire and look at the fire and at each other.
๐ช Sitting
Villagers sit on stairs and slabs, at the campfire or on a bench during their free time.
๐ Animal care
Farmers feed chickens and pigs, shepherds feed sheep, and the animals breed. There is a cap, so pens never fill up.
๐ Fishermen and cats
Fishermen give fish to the village cats.
โ๏ธ Snowball fights
Children in snowy villages throw snowballs at each other. Nobody gets hurt, and a child who is hit throws back.
๐งณ The wandering trader
When he comes to the village, a few villagers walk over to have a look.
๐บ Wolves howl at the full moon
One wolf lifts its head and howls, and the pack answers.
๐ Roosters
Some chickens are roosters and crow once at dawn.
Server-only or both sides
Install it on the server only and everything works for every player, even players without the mod.
Players who also install it on their client see two extras: the sitting pose and the rooster's crow. Everyone else sees the villager standing on the seat and does not hear the rooster.
Settings
Every feature can be turned off. Times, distances, cooldowns and chances are adjustable:
- in game: the mod list's config button (NeoForge) or Mod Menu (Fabric),
- or in
config/villageevenings.properties, which is read again each time a world or server starts.
Data pack tags decide which blocks villagers light (villageevenings:villager_lightable) and which animals farmers and shepherds look after (villageevenings:tended_by_farmers, villageevenings:tended_by_shepherds).
Requirements
- Minecraft 1.21.1
- NeoForge 21.1, or Fabric Loader 0.16.14+ with Fabric API
- Mod Menu is optional (Fabric only), for the in-game settings screen
Compatibility
- Tested together with Guard Villagers and Fresh Animations (with EMF and ETF): no errors, all features work.
- With Fresh Animations, villagers still sit down, but EMF draws its own villager animation, so they look as if they were standing on the seat.
- Players without the mod can join a server that has it.
- Mods that replace villagers with their own entities (for example MCA Reborn) simply do not get these behaviours.
Credits
Rooster crow: "Medium rooster crowing" by alys, Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Village Evenings Team
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