Visiting Villagers
Turn your villages into vibrant, dynamic communities with visitors, new trades, and endless interaction!
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Visiting Villagers
🌍 Visiting Villagers – Bring Your Village to Life!

Stop living in ghost towns! Vanilla Plus QoL mod 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.
* Performance Friendly: Visitors arrive at dawn and leave at sunset. * Performance Friendly: No extra beds or workstations required. * Performance Friendly: Extremely lightweight.
🎯 Key Features
| | Feature | Description | | :------- | :----------------------- | :--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 🧑🤝🧑 | Iron Golem | Adults with 14 specialized professions and 7 unemployed visitors, ready to trade and interact. | | 🗺️ | Iron Golem | Specialized Wandering Traders from different biomes. | | 👶 | Iron Golem | Add charm and authenticity, running around the village. | | 🔄 | Iron Golem | Visitors appear in the morning (*Dynamic Spawning*) and leave at night. | | 🚧 | Iron Golem | No beds or workstations required – they’re just passing through to trade. | | 🛡️ | Iron Golem | Needs Iron Golem 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. | Requires OP | | `/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 | | :------------ | :-------------------------- | :------ | :----------------------------------------------- | | Wandering | `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. | | Wandering | `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. | | Wandering | `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.
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