Visiting Villagers – Bring Your Villages to Life!

# 🌍 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_!**