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VillageTale

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Build a village where every life matters. Villagers craft with real materials, develop relationships, start families, and create stories you never planned—from childhood games to final goodbyes.

VillageTale

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VillageTale

Build a village where every life matters. Villagers craft with real materials, develop relationships, start families, and create stories you never planned—from childhood games to final goodbyes.

Vision

Village Tale brings Minecraft villages to life with villagers who wake up hungry, work until their tools break, fall in love, grieve their losses, and raise children who learn through play. Inspired by TekTopia, this mod creates a living settlement where emergent stories unfold from the intersection of work, family, and community. Build a village and watch as its stories write themselves—no more lifeless NPCs standing at workstations!

Current Features

This mod is in early alpha. All features are subject to change and iteration.

Build a Town Hall, craft a Ledger, and start recruiting vanilla villagers into your settlement. Assign them to professions—farmers tend crops, cooks prepare meals, carpenters craft tools. They pull materials from shared storage and contribute what they produce back to the village.

Your villagers aren't machines. They wake up hungry, eat breakfast, work through the day, and take evening breaks to socialize before bed. Teach crafters new recipes and watch them produce what your village needs, as long as they have the materials and aren't too hungry to work.

Getting Started

  1. Craft a Mayor's Ledger to manage your village
  2. Build a Town Hall to establish your village
  3. Hire vanilla villagers by right-clicking them with the Ledger
  4. Create zones for work, homes, and storage
  5. Watch your village come to life!

Requirements

  • Minecraft: 1.20.1
  • NeoForge: 47.1.100 or higher

Development

Track what's coming in the roadmap, see what's changed in the changelog, or follow current work on our project board.

License

MIT—See LICENSE for details

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