Visiting Villagers
Turn your villages into vibrant, dynamic communities with visitors, new trades, and endless interaction!
🌍 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.
🏡 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.
🎯 Key Features
| Feature | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 🧑🤝🧑 | New Visitors | Adults with 14 specialized professions and 7 unemployed visitors, ready to trade and interact. |
| 🗺️ | Unique Merchants | Specialized Wandering Traders from different biomes. |
| 👶 | 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. |
| 🛡️ | Village Requirements | Needs 6 Villagers and 1 Iron Golem to start. |
⚙️ 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 |
🛠️ 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. |
🌐 Localizations
🌐 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!
