🌍 Visiting Villagers – Bring Your Village to Life!
Stop living in ghost towns! Visiting Villagers is a lightweight Vanilla Plus QoL mod that transforms quiet hamlets into bustling hubs of activity
🎯 Key Features
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New Visitors
Adults with 14 specialized professions and 7 unemployed visitors, ready to trade and interact..
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Unique Merchants
Specialized Wandering Traders from different biomes with exclusive local trades.
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Baby Visitors
Add charm and authenticity, running around the village.
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Dynamic System
Visitors appear in the morning (Dynamic Spawning) and leave at night.
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Simple & Direct
No beds or workstations required – they’re just passing through to trade.
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Requirements
At least 1 Iron Golem and 6 Villagers are needed to welcome visitors.
🏡 Why Install?
Visiting Villagers transforms standard Minecraft, villages can feel static. This mod injects immersion without the headache of managing complex NPC needs.
Authenticity: Visitors arrive at dawn and leave at sunset.
Zero Micro-management: No extra beds or workstations required.
Performance Friendly: Extremely lightweight.
⚙️ Commands
Manage your village in real-time with these advanced commands:
Command
Description
Notes / Requirements
/visitors check
Verifies the amount of villagers, visitors, and golems.
Available to all
/visitors reload
Instantly reloads the mod's configuration file.
Fabric Only
/visitors clear [radius]
Removes all visitors within a radius (up to 512 blocks).
Requires OP
/visitors population [qty] [radius]
Force-spawns a population for load testing.
Requires OP
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🛠️ Customization
Fine-tune the mod to your liking via the visitingvillagers.json file for Fabric and visiting-villagers-common.toml for Forge/Neoforge. You can adjust:
📋 Configuration Details
Category
Setting
Default
Description
General
spawnCheckIntervalSeconds
10
Time between spawn attempts (1-60s).
minVillagersForSpawn
6
Minimum villagers needed to start visits.
minGolemsForSpawn
1
Minimum iron golems needed to start visits.
Adults
visitorSpawnPercentage
100%
Chance of visitors based on local population.
maxSpawnsPerCycle
3
Max visitors spawned in a single cycle.
defaultVisitorTradeChance
40%
Chance for a generic visitor to have trades.
Babies
minAdultsForBaby
2
Adult visitors needed before babies spawn.
babySpawnPercentage
60%
Percentage of adult visitors that can be babies.
Wandering
maxWanderingVisitors
2
Limit of wandering visitors in a village area.
wanderingSpawnDelay
120
Delay between wandering visitor spawns.
🌐 Localization
🌐 Russian & Ukrainian localizations contributed by Wookius 🌐 Portuguese (BR) localization added ❤️ Thanks to contributors! More languages coming soon.
👉 Download Now!
Download Now – Give your villagers the neighbors they deserve!
Feel free to add it to any Modpack!
The Visiting Villagers – Bring Your Villages to Life! Team