Village Standing

Villagers remember how you treat them, and they act on it.

Village Standing gives every player a standing score with the villagers of their world. Trade fairly, protect villages and take on their jobs, and you become a Friend, then Respected, then a Hero: cheaper trades, greetings, gifts and iron golems at your side. Hurt villagers and you slide to Suspect and then Outlaw: higher prices, head shakes, alarm bells, no trading at all, and the village golems come after you.

It is built to stay out of your way. Nothing shows up until you first deal with a villager, the screens are mostly pictures and numbers, and messages stay on the action bar.

Ranks

Standing runs from -100 to +100 by default. It is one score per player for the whole world, not per village.

• Price changes stack with vanilla discounts from curing villagers and Hero of the Village.
• Your rank shows before your name in chat and in the player list. This is done on the server, so players without the mod see it too.
• Reaching Friend, Respected or Hero: nearby villagers turn and cheer, and a toast shows your new crest.
• Dropping to Suspect or Outlaw: the same toast warns you, so it is never a surprise at the next trade.

What changes your standing

Raise it

• Trading with villagers: +1 per trade (up to 5 per villager and 20 a day, fewer points for repeat trades)
• Killing a monster that is attacking villagers: +2 (up to 20 a day)
• Curing a zombie villager: +15
• Winning a raid after killing at least 2 raiders: +15
• Ringing a village bell during a raid: +2
• Bounty board jobs and the full board bonus: +2 to +12

Lower it

• Hurting a villager: -3, killing one: -15
• Hurting an iron golem: -5, killing one: -15
• Hurting another player's pet, or a name-tagged animal, near villagers: -10
• Breaking a bell near villagers: -8

Recover

• A negative standing heals by 1 point every 5 minutes while you stay out of trouble.
• The Fruit of Absolution sets a negative standing back to Neutral.
• Outlaws get a penance at the bounty board (see below).

Every number here is a server setting, and the standing screen always shows your server's real numbers.

Bounty board

Craft a Bounty Board (3 paper on top, an emerald in the middle, 4 planks around it) and place it near villagers.

• Daily jobs: 3 jobs a day, just for you. Bring 16 bread, 8 pumpkins or 10 leather, keep watch against zombies at night, clear monsters near the board, breed animals for the pens, have a busy market day, cure a zombie villager or help win a raid.
• Pinned notices: each job is a notice with an item icon, a count, the reward and one button. Accept it, do it, hand it in or claim it.
• Job tracker: jobs you have taken show in a small strip under your standing plaque, with your progress or a tick when they are ready.
• Swap: once a day, swap one job you don't want for another.
• Full board bonus: finish every job in a day for +2 standing. Each day in a row adds 1, up to +5.
• Weekly contract: one bigger gold notice a week (24 iron for the smithy, a 30 monster patrol, two cures…) for 8 to 12 standing and 4 to 8 emeralds.
• New jobs clock: the board shows how long until the next set of jobs.
• Emerald rewards are always below what the items would cost from villagers, so there is nothing to farm.

Penance for Outlaws

Being an Outlaw is not a dead end. You get 5 penance steps at the bounty board: an offering of bread, standing guard against monsters, paying reparations in emeralds, curing a zombie villager and bringing iron for the village guard. Each step gives back 12 to 15 standing, up to Neutral.

Iron golems

• Respected players are sometimes escorted by a nearby golem for a short while.
• At Respected, golems attack monsters that are fighting you.
• Heroes can sneak and ring a village bell to call a golem that follows them for 3 minutes (10 minute cooldown).
• Outlaws are hunted by village golems. Golems that players build stay out of it, as in vanilla.

Fruit of Absolution

A quick way back for Outlaws. Eating it sets a negative standing to Neutral (0) and calls off angry golems nearby.

• Master Clerics and Librarians sell it for an emerald and an apple.
• Or craft it: a golden apple with an emerald on each side.

Standing screen and HUD

• Press R (rebindable) for the Village Charter:
  • Overview: your rank crest, the standing bar, your price change as one big number, your perks (locked ones greyed out), what to do next and the Bounty Board recipe.
  • Guide: every rank and everything that changes your standing, as icons with your server's numbers. Hover for details.
  • History: your recent changes. Scroll with the mouse wheel.
  • Ranking: the most respected players (on servers).
• A small wooden plaque with your crest and bar appears for a few seconds when your standing changes. Set it to always show or hide it, and pick one of six spots, under More.
• Looking at a villager shows your rank and price change ("30% off") under the crosshair.
• Your inventory key closes the mod's screens, like Esc.

Multiplayer

• Everything is per player: your standing, jobs, penance and history are your own.
• /reputation top and the Ranking tab show the most respected players. Hide yourself with /reputation privacy hide.
• Outlaw bounties (only when the pvp game rule is on): Outlaws show a bounty in the player list, and the player who brings one down gets +10 standing. Team mates, other Outlaws and repeat kills don't count.

Commands

• /reputation: your score and rank
• /reputation history: your recent changes
• /reputation charter: open the standing screen
• /reputation top: the leaderboard
• /reputation outlaws: players with a bounty on them
• /reputation privacy hide|show: leave or join the leaderboard
• Operators: /reputation check <player>, /reputation history <player>, /reputation admin set|add|reset <players>, /reputation admin bounties reroll <players>, /reputation reload

Configuration

All rewards, penalties, limits and feature switches are in config/village_standing.json. Every value is checked and kept in a sane range. Reload with /reputation reload. Your own HUD choices are saved in config/village_standing_client.json.

For mod and pack makers, VillageStandingApi lets other mods read, add or set standing and listen for changes.

Requirements and install

• Minecraft 26.3 (Java 25, like the game)
• Fabric: Fabric Loader 0.19.5 or newer and Fabric API
• NeoForge: 26.3.0.83 or newer
• Install it on both the server and every client.
• Worlds and configs from earlier versions keep their standings.

FAQ

Does it use vanilla villager reputation? No. It keeps its own score per player. Its prices stack on top of vanilla gossip discounts, such as the one for curing a villager.

Is it per village? No. One standing per player for the whole world.

Does it work with mods that add villagers? Villagers from mods that extend the vanilla villager count as villagers. With Minecraft Comes Alive (MCA) installed, trading opened from the MCA menu is also closed for Outlaws (not yet tested with MCA itself).

Can I turn parts of it off? Yes. Prices, golem behaviour, villager reactions, the bounty board, weekly contracts, penance, rank tags, outlaw bounties and the rank toasts each have their own switch.

Feedback and bugs

Found a bug, a crash or something that looks wrong? Leave a comment on this page with the version you play and what happened. A crash log or screenshot helps a lot. Ideas and feedback are welcome too.

Permissions

• You can use Village Standing in any free modpack, as long as the pack downloads it from this page.
• Resource packs that restyle it (textures, sounds, text) are welcome.
• Videos, streams and reviews are welcome.
• Please don't re-upload it, modify or reuse its code, or make money from it without asking first.

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