Villager Wrangler

Moving villagers shouldn't be harder than fighting the Ender Dragon!

Tired of pushing villagers into boats, building complicated minecart systems, or waiting for villagers to wander where you want them?

Villager Wrangler makes transporting and managing villagers easier while keeping the familiar Minecraft experience.

Lead villagers, attract them with emeralds, guide them into minecarts, and control where they stay—all without replacing their normal behavior.

Features

Lead Your Villagers

• Attach a Lead to adult or baby villagers.

• Walk them to a new village, trading hall, farm, or anywhere else you need them.

• Uses familiar Minecraft leash mechanics.

• Supports optional Wandering Trader leading.

Emerald Attraction

• Hold an Emerald to encourage nearby villagers to follow you.

• Adjust attraction distance and movement speed.

• Customize attraction items using datapacks.

• Optional visual particles help indicate when villagers begin following.

NEW — Assisted Minecart Boarding

No more endlessly pushing villagers toward minecarts!

• Lead a villager next to an empty minecart.

• Sneak-right-click the minecart to help the villager board.

• Uses normal Minecraft minecarts and passenger behavior.

• No teleporting or special equipment required.

NEW — Group Following

Moving an entire village? Bring everyone along!

• Hold an Emerald Block to attract multiple villagers.

• Move groups of villagers together.

• Configure the maximum number of followers.

• Villagers continue using normal Minecraft pathfinding.

NEW — Temporary Stay

Keep villagers near the places you choose.

• Sneak-right-click a villager with empty hands to assign or remove a stay location.

• Villagers remain near their assigned area during ordinary wandering.

• They can still work, sleep, trade, and react to danger.

• Stay locations persist when you save and reload your world.

NEW — Precision Attraction

Sometimes you only want one villager—not the entire village!

• Sneak-right-click a villager with an Emerald to select it.

• Attract your selected villager without drawing in other nearby villagers.

• Change or clear your selection whenever needed.

• Great for organizing trading halls and moving specific villagers.

Fully Configurable

Make Villager Wrangler work the way you want.

Customize attraction range, movement speed, group size, stay radius, Wandering Trader support, and optional visual effects.

All four new 1.5.0 features are disabled by default. Enable the ones you want through the mod's configuration. Existing leading and Emerald attraction functionality remains available.

Designed to Feel Like Vanilla Minecraft

Villager Wrangler is designed to improve villager transportation without turning villagers into entirely different creatures.

Villagers retain their normal professions, trading, schedules, sleeping, and survival instincts. There's no complicated machinery, special crafting system, or unnecessary interface.

Compatibility

• Minecraft: 26.3

• Mod Loader: NeoForge

• Java: 25

• Multiplayer: Supported

Install the appropriate Villager Wrangler version for your Minecraft version and mod loader.

Spend less time fighting villager pathfinding and more time building your world.

Villager Wrangler — because sometimes villagers just need a little direction.