Recruits: Village Expansion is an addon for Recruits that introduces a fully autonomous village system. Each settlement has its own center, faction, and internal logic, allowing villages to function as living communities capable of organizing themselves, growing, and defending their territory without player involvement.

Villages created by this addon are not static structures: they are active entities that manage recruits, assign roles, maintain their identity, and react to world events. Each village can expand, build functional structures, establish territory, and maintain internal balance between civilians, soldiers, and resources.

The goal is to turn villages into autonomous factions, consistent and believable, interacting dynamically with the world and the player. The result is a more alive, emergent, and strategic experience that integrates seamlessly with Recruits.

NEW UPDATE:Basic diplomacy and war. Villages will now automatically go in war and become ally with other villages and attack them if they are close enough the next update will be automatic expansion and then i will improve them by making you able to partecipate in these attacks and making diplomacy and the decision to attack more complet if you dont wanna wait use /village_force_attack to make the closest village to you attack the closest enemy village to it that is in a faction they are at war with.

Also please tell me if you see villages automatically attack others because i've only tested the command and i didn't have time to test because of a problem in making the recruits attack.

Coming next update:

diplomacy and war,automatic expansion and attacks/battles and hirable promoted entities(i found a way to do it)

Compatible mods

ewewukek's Musket Mod gives muskets to crossbowman that will spawn more frequently than normal when added

Upcoming Updates

These features are planned and will arrive in future releases:

- Diplomacy and War:villages will be able to attack nearby villages
- Factions automatic expansion:factions will create new villages
- More advanced structure building:improve the current one
- Balancing improvements

Recommended optimization mods

These mods are highly recommended to improve performance and reduce lag(the game will lag a bit at the start but it will stabilize):

Recommended optimization mods:
- Let Me Despawn (by frikinjay)
- Radium Reforged (by Asek3)
- Almanac Lib (by frikinjay)
- Embeddium (by FiniteReality)
- ServerCore (by Wesley8081)
- ModernFix (by embeddedt)
- Entity Culling Fabric/Forge (by tr7zw)
- FerriteCore (NeoForge) (by malte0811)