Villager Guard Gunners

Turn your village guards into an armed defense force. Villager Guard Gunners connects Guard Villagers with Timeless and Classics Zero (TaCZ) so you can equip guards with guns, organize squads, set patrols, supply a Quartermaster, and send medics to help wounded allies.

Start with a guard, a gun, and compatible ammo. From there, build up a village with stocked Armories, defensive positions, medical supplies, and guards ready to protect it.

TLDR: My initial intention for developing this mod was to deal with the issue of powerful mobs from my modpack wiping out all of the villages. This it my attempt at finding a way to balance this without making it too overpowered.

Features

• TaCZ guns and combat. Guards can use pistols, SMGs, rifles, shotguns, sniper rifles, machine guns, and launchers. They aim, fire, reload, and adjust their movement to the gun they carry. Gun attachments, sounds, and effects remain part of the experience. Guards avoid firing through protected allies, and their explosions preserve blocks by default.
• Ammo and backup sidearms. Each guard has three dedicated ammo slots for loose ammo and ammo boxes. Equip a backup pistol for situations where the primary gun is empty, restricted by orders, or unsafe to use. Guards can also collect nearby dropped ammo and share spare loose ammo when supplies run dry.
• Guard Orders and squads. Choose rules of engagement, tactics, movement, firing range, and explosive permission for individual guards. Copy behavior with an Orders Ledger, or use a Squad Command Ledger to organize squads, create saved patrol routes, and issue Rally, Defend, Hold, Focus Target, Fall Back, and Resume Orders commands.
• Village Armories and Quartermasters. Store ammo in craftable Village Armories with hopper, pipe, comparator, and squad-access support. Stock a Quartermaster station and let an adult unemployed villager claim it. Guards you enroll can visit during work hours to restock supplies or maintain a selected equipment loadout. Existing gear stays protected unless you allow replacement, and linked Armories provide additional ammo.
• Medic guards and casualty recovery. Give a guard medical supplies and enable Medic Duty to treat nearby injured allies. Medical Retreat lets wounded guards seek help. With optional downed guards enabled, one dose stabilizes a casualty and another revives them. Enable cot care to let medics carry casualties to Recovery Cots for faster treatment and rest. Emergency treatment away from a cot takes longer under the default settings.
• Village staffing and automatic patrols. Optional initial guard counts scale with village size. Automatic patrols rotate guards through village areas and resume after interruptions such as combat. Both features support ordinary villages without Village Defense Buildings. Initial staffing affects newly generated villages; deaths don't trigger replacement guards.
• Natural gun loadouts. Newly generated guards can receive guns and matching ammo based on difficulty. Server settings and datapacks control the available loadouts, their chances, and nearby automatic-gunner limits. Guard counts and automatic gun loadouts have separate settings.
• Village Watchtowers and Defense Buildings. Discover standalone Village Watchtowers with guard squads and stocked Armories, or enable Barracks, Village Armories, Sentry Posts, integrated Watchtowers, and Training Yards in newly generated villages. Bells, threats, and raids change village readiness, while guards can take sentry, drill, overwatch, and muster duties.
• Useful status and settings. The guard inventory explains conditions such as empty ammo, reloading, blocked shots, and medical or supply shortages. Fzzy Config provides server settings with tooltips, timing units, cot/field care previews, and restart notices for building layout changes.

Getting Started

1. Install the mod and its required dependencies on both client and server.
2. Create a guard through normal Guard Villagers gameplay.
3. Open its inventory, equip a TaCZ gun, and add compatible ammo.
4. Adjust Guard Orders or add a sidearm, squad, or Village Armory.
5. For medical care, stock a guard's medical pouch and enable Medic Duty. For Quartermaster service, stock a staffed station and opt the guard into Restock or Loadout service.

Servers and Modpacks

Downed guards, cot care and transport, size-based initial staffing, automatic village patrols, and Village Defense Building generation start disabled by default. Enable the features you want through Fzzy Config. Cot care requires Medical Treatment and Downed Guards; carrying also requires a supplied medic and a reachable Recovery Cot. Individual guards start with Medic Duty and Medical Retreat off.

Building layout changes require reopening the world or restarting the server and affect newly generated villages. Completed buildings don't replace guards, repair themselves, or refill supplies that players remove.

Datapacks can customize gun loadouts, guard roles, treatment supplies, Quartermaster equipment profiles, ally protection, village buildings, and starting stock. Operators can use /vgg commands to inspect guards and review village, squad, medical, and supply systems.

Requirements

• Minecraft: 1.20.1
• Forge: 47.4.10 or newer 47.x
• Java: 17
• Guard Villagers: 1.20.1-1.6.19
• Timeless and Classics Zero (TaCZ): 1.1.8-hotfix
• Fzzy Config: 0.7.6 for Minecraft 1.20.1
• Kotlin for Forge: 4.12.0

Install Villager Guard Gunners and all four required dependencies on both client and server.

Support

When reporting a problem, include your mod versions, relevant latest.log, TaCZ gun-pack list, and steps to reproduce it.

Villager Guard Gunners is an unofficial add-on for Guard Villagers and Timeless and Classics Zero. It isn't affiliated with or endorsed by either development team.