Visiting Villagers – Bring Your Villages to Life!

Mod

by redstone3game

Turn your villages into vibrant, dynamic communities with visitors, new trades, and endless interaction!

Type

Mod

CurseForge Downloads

160,854

CurseForge ID

1392050

Modrinth Downloads

37,083

Modrinth ID

HsBaNslF

Last Updated

Oct 3, 2026

Description

🌍 Visiting Villagers – Bring Your Village to Life!

Visiting Villagers

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.