🌍 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
New Visitors
Adults with 14 specialized professions and 7 unemployed visitors, ready to trade and interact..
Unique Merchants
Specialized Wandering Traders from different biomes with exclusive local trades.
Baby Visitors
Add charm and authenticity, running around the village.
Dynamic System
Visitors appear in the morning (Dynamic Spawning) and leave at night.
Simple & Direct
No beds or workstations required – they’re just passing through to trade.
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
⚙️ In-Game Configuration Mod Menu (Fabric)
Easily customize spawn rates, baby behavior, and trader frequencies directly inside the game using Mod Menu (Fabric).
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
30%
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.
🎨 Models & Fresh Animations Compatibility
Vanilla Native Models: Visitors now directly utilize base game models, making the mod fully compatible out-of-the-box with resource packs like Fresh Animations and Fresh Animations Details.
🔍 New Items: Visitor Checker
Track your village population without commands! Two new items are available in the mod's Creative Tab:
Visitor Checker (Chat): Right-click to display a quick chat report of all visitors, babies, wandering traders, villagers, and golems within 128 blocks.
Visitor Checker (Book): Opens a dynamic report in an enchanted book that refreshes its stats every time you open it.
👉 Download Now!
Download Now – Give your villagers the neighbors they deserve!Feel free to add it to any Modpack!
Visiting Villagers – Bring Your Villages to Life! Team