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Villagers Reborn
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Villagers Reborn replaces vanilla villagers with human models while keeping their usual jobs, trades, and behavior.
You can build relationships with villagers, start dating, get married, and start a family!
Also includes villager names, personalities, custom equipment, and a dialogue system.
Works in any existing world and is compatible with most mods that add custom trades or professions.
It also replaces other mobs such as illagers, witches, and the wandering trader with human models.
Mod Collection ⚔️
Dialogue Screen
New features 📌
- Custom villager human models
- Family system
- Dating and marriage system
- New villager sounds
- New illagers models and sounds
- New wandering merchant models and sounds
- New witches models
- Functional vanilla trades
- Compatible with modded trades
- Villager personality system
- Villager dialogue system (press R to talk)
- Villager inventory and equipment
- Villager orders (follow, stay, set home)
- Villager management
- Receive gifts from villagers based on relationship level ([item pool](https://www.patreon.com/posts/villager-gifts-157952349))
- Resurrect villagers
- Works with modded villages and towns
- Villagers have their own name tags
- Villagers keep their original vanilla behavior
- Compatible with existing worlds
- New villager spawn eggs
- Villager models support any skin (change skin tutorial)
- Skin selection screen (modern or medieval)
Start a Family
To do list 🛠️
- Add villager guards / police
- Add kings and queens
- Expand dialogue and relationship options
- Update the dialogue GUI
- Add marriage system ✔️
- Village management
- Character creation
- Receive gifts from villagers ✔️
- Quests system
- Add villager orders: follow, stay, equip, and set home ✔️
- Add an in-game option to change any villager’s skin ✔️
- Add advancements
- Items rework
- Custom model for the wandering trader ✔️
- Custom models for zombie villagers ✔️
- Add config options and key binds to adjust settings in-game ✔️
- Improve general villager behavior
- Use villager custom models for players?
- Add human versions of pillagers and witches ✔️
- Full multiplayer and LAN compatibility ✔️
- Fabric compatibility
- Forge 1.20.1
Translations 📄
- Russian by Max Snegir
- Portuguese by Felipe Campos
- Spanish (Spain and Latin America)
Support 🤜🤛
- Lead Art (icons, models etc) by Elin R. (Modge)
- Animations by Astrid
Issues ⚠️
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If you get stuck on the birth screen you can use the keyboard arrows to select Confirm or adjust the GUI scale
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Sometimes a villager gender changes after curing them from zombification if you cure more than one villager at the same time
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Already existing villagers disappear if the mod is removed
Here you can report bugs or issues and leave a comment.
This mod includes skins from Skindex. All rights belong to their original creators, who were contacted when possible with permissions confirmed where available. You can find the talented authors in the Skin Credits.
This mod is now fully compatible with single player, local multiplayer (LAN), and multiplayer/dedicated servers.
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[1.0.9b] Villagers Reborn 1.0.9b
by Javieljefe on Aug 11, 2026
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## Forge Update 1.0.9b
- Fixed an issue that prevented relationship hearts from increasing in multiplayer
- Fixed a possible bug that could cause new villagers to spawn after chunks were unloaded
[1.0.9b] Villagers Reborn 1.0.9b
by Javieljefe on Aug 05, 2026
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## Update 1.0.9b
So far I haven't found any new bugs and the world freeze seems to be completely gone!
However, if you find any new bugs or the world freeze comes back, I'd really appreciate the feedback in the comments
- Fixed a possible world freeze when loading new chunks near villages
- Reworked the villager spawn and replacement system for 1.21.1
- Tested in singleplayer and multiplayer
So far I haven't found any new bugs and the world freeze seems to be completely gone!
However, if you find any new bugs or the world freeze comes back, I'd really appreciate the feedback in the comments
[1.0.9] Villagers Reborn 1.0.9
by Javieljefe on Jul 10, 2026
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### **Version 1.0.9**
/villagersreborn debug relationship set <value>
/villagersreborn debug golden set <value>
/villagersreborn debug family expecting ready
/villagersreborn debug family expecting set <ticksRemaining>
/villagersreborn debug family expecting clear
/villagersreborn debug family age ready
/villagersreborn debug family age set <lifestage>
- Changes / Additions**
- Wedding rings rework by @Modge
- New grave model by @Modge
- Skindex URL to change skin is working now
- Added custom skin to the birth screen
- Family Tree changes: descendants of villagers from different families keep an organized large family tree - ancestors don't show families they are not related to
- Same sex couples with Family Charm
- Skin Selection in the .toml or Config (you can disable the skin selection screen)
- Added command to change the skin type at any time: /villagersreborn skin_type modern and /villagersreborn skin_type fantasy
- Illager raids have been fixed - mounted illagers on ravagers are fixed too
- Illagers now use vanilla loot - totem of undying, ominous bottle, weapons, emeralds, etc
- Config option to disable families and children spawns (for multiplayer change in villagersreborn-server.toml)
- Config option to disable having children through dialogue or with Family Charm (for multiplayer change in villagersreborn-server.toml)
- Now you don't have to type .png to change a skin
- Removed Human Trader spawn - kept Human Merchant with vanilla despawn
- If a villager's grave can't be placed it moves to the player's inventory
- Fixed villagers getting unwanted marriages
- Villagers now return to their home if they stop following you and have a set home if they are in loaded chunks
- Set home has priority over a job block
- Added scrollbar to customize villager screen
- Added scrollbar to birth screen
- Reinforced TP system from the Ledger Book
- Updated witch skin
- Added spouse cooking
- Fixed grave info
- Fixed spawn eggs colors
- Added illagers custom sounds (ONLY 1.20.1)
- Dialogue buttons can now be translated
- Spanish translation (Spain and Latin America)
- Portuguese translation by @FelipeCampos
- Updated commands:
/villagersreborn debug relationship set <value>
/villagersreborn debug golden set <value>
/villagersreborn debug family expecting ready
/villagersreborn debug family expecting set <ticksRemaining>
/villagersreborn debug family expecting clear
/villagersreborn debug family age ready
/villagersreborn debug family age set <lifestage>
[1.0.9] Villagers Reborn 1.0.9
by Javieljefe on Jul 10, 2026
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### **Compatibility Update Part 1**
/villagersreborn debug relationship set <value>
/villagersreborn debug golden set <value>
/villagersreborn debug family expecting ready
/villagersreborn debug family expecting set <ticksRemaining>
/villagersreborn debug family expecting clear
/villagersreborn debug family age ready
/villagersreborn debug family age set <lifestage>
There will be a **Compatibility Update Part 2** with the rest of the mods.
I haven't had as much time for playtesting in this update, any feedback or issues are greatly appreciated.
- Changes / Additions**
- Wedding rings rework by @Modge
- New grave model by @Modge
- Crown and pipe items by @Modge (not in use yet)
- Family Tree changes: descendants of villagers from different families keep an organized large family tree - ancestors don't show families they are not related to
- Same sex couples with Family Charm
- Skin Selection in the .toml or Config (you can disable the skin selection screen)
- Added command to change the skin type at any time: /villagersreborn skin_type modern and /villagersreborn skin_type fantasy
- Illager raids have been fixed - mounted illagers on ravagers are fixed too
- Illagers now use vanilla loot - totem of undying, ominous bottle, weapons, emeralds, etc
- Config option to disable families and children spawns (for multiplayer change in villagersreborn-server.toml)
- Config option to disable having children through dialogue or with Family Charm (for multiplayer change in villagersreborn-server.toml)
- Now you don't have to type .png to change a skin
- Removed Human Trader spawn - kept Human Merchant with vanilla despawn
- If a villager's grave can't be placed it moves to the player's inventory
- Fixed villagers getting unwanted marriages
- Villagers now return to their home if they stop following you and have a set home if they are in loaded chunks
- Set home has priority over a job block
- Added scrollbar to customize villager screen
- Added scrollbar to birth screen
- Reinforced TP system from the Ledger Book
- Updated witch skin
- Dialogue buttons can now be translated
- Spanish translation (Spain and Latin America)
- Portuguese translation by @FelipeCampos
- Updated commands:
/villagersreborn debug relationship set <value>
/villagersreborn debug golden set <value>
/villagersreborn debug family expecting ready
/villagersreborn debug family expecting set <ticksRemaining>
/villagersreborn debug family expecting clear
/villagersreborn debug family age ready
/villagersreborn debug family age set <lifestage>
- Compatibility**
- Curios API
- Accessories (you can now equip villagers with backpacks, hats, new items, etc) - RPG series still not working properly - toddlers head/hat slot needs fixes
- MCA Reborn
- Farmer's Delight spouse cooking
- Guard Villagers - with config option
- More Villagers : Re-employed and Villager API
- Epic Fight (vindicator, pillager and witch)
- Partial compatibility with Easy Villagers
- New compatibility config options
There will be a **Compatibility Update Part 2** with the rest of the mods.
I haven't had as much time for playtesting in this update, any feedback or issues are greatly appreciated.
[1.0.8] Villagers Reborn 1.0.8
by Javieljefe on Jun 20, 2026
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## FORGE 1.20.1
Overall, I've been testing it for quite a while and I think it is a fully playable version, but I'm giving this warning just in case.
Please if you find any issue or bug, I would really appreciate it if you report it in the comments or on GitHub!
- Alpha version and may containtain experimental features**
- First port to Forge 1.20.1
- Contains almost all the features from 1.21.1
- You can change any villager skin if you download a skin, but automatic downloading from Skindex does not work yet
- Spouse cooking is not available yet
- Full multiplayer testing for 1.20.1 still needs to be done
- The villager replacement system had to be reworked, so there might be some issues but I haven't found any
Overall, I've been testing it for quite a while and I think it is a fully playable version, but I'm giving this warning just in case.
Please if you find any issue or bug, I would really appreciate it if you report it in the comments or on GitHub!
[1.0.8] Villagers Reborn 1.0.8
by Javieljefe on Jun 16, 2026
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Changelog before the next big update - this was meant to be a mini 1.0.7b update but I ended up adding more than expected, so here's 1.0.8
## New Features
## Resurrection
## Villager Management
## Fixes and Changes
## Translation
## New Features
- Added villager resurrection system
- Added villager management GUI
- New icons for the villager inventory and equipment GUI
- Added 80 new skins per gender and skin type (320 new skins in total)
- Added 30 new skins for toddlers (120 new toddler skins in total)
## Resurrection
- Added grave item
- Added Soul Gem item (craft: amethyst shard + diamond)
- Villagers create a grave when they die if you have more than 3 relationship hearts with them, if they are part of the player's family, or if they are set to follow or stay
- To resurrect a villager, you need to right-click the grave with the new item "Soul Gem"
## Villager Management
- Added Ledger Book item (craft: book + gold nugget)
- The Ledger Book is a small villager management system that lets you check a villager's coordinates, teleport yourself to a villager, teleport a villager to the player, and teleport them home
- IMPORTANT: There is a bug with teleporting when the villager or their home is in unloaded chunks. Sometimes the villager appears invisible after teleporting. It does not always happen and usually happens on the first teleport. If this happens, leaving and re-entering the world fixes it
- I will fix this bug in the next update, but for now I have not been able to solve it. I added an in-game visual warning just in case - sorry for the inconvenience
## Fixes and Changes
- Fixed GUI scale for the Birth Screen
- Added a cancel option in the Birth Screen if you press "esc"
- You can now rotate the 3D render in the Birth Screen
- Fixed pregnancy belly appearing on illagers
- Expanded Family Tree so it has no limit
- New colors for the Family Tree tooltips
- Fixed the bug where villagers' HP increased uncontrollably after eating golden carrots (already affected villagers will go back to the HP they should have)
- Increased how much HP villagers can gain with each golden carrot
- Increased the total HP cap of a villager to 120 HP
- Increased the growth time for all life stages and pregnancy time
- Fixed misaligned pixel in the villager inventory off hand
- Items are now 16x16px
- Removed alpha channel from items
- Fixed possible world freeze in worlds with high chunk render distance
## Translation
- Russian Translation by **Max Snegir** - thank you!
- Recommended deleting your current "villagersreborn.toml" file so the new config changes apply correctly**
[1.0.7] Villagers Reborn 1.0.7
by Javieljefe on May 29, 2026
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## Marriage & Family Update
You can read the **full changelog** and **wiki** here: **https://www.patreon.com/posts/villagers-reborn-159604973**
You can read the **full changelog** and **wiki** here: **https://www.patreon.com/posts/villagers-reborn-159604973**
- Marriage**
- Full romance system with dating and marriage stages
- New romance items: Romantic Bouquet, Wedding Rings, and Divorce Papers
- New dating and married dialogue
- Relationship labels and tooltips in the dialogue screen
- Spouse cooking
- Wedding and family cutscenes
- Family**
- New Family dialogue option
- Breeding system
- Pregnancy system
- Life stages for villagers
- Natural aging
- Family Tree
- New Family Charm, Sun Charm and Moon Charm items
- New skins
- New dialogues for every life stage
- Fixes / New Additions**
- New commands
- New creative tab for Villagers Reborn items
- New config options organized into Appearance, Gameplay, and Family categories
- Item pool and villager name .toml support
- Server config file renamed from slimpatch-common.toml to villagersreborn-server.toml.
- Fixed Traveling merchant
- Full translation support
[1.0.6b] Villagers Reborn 1.0.6b
by Javieljefe on May 24, 2026
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### Small Compatibility Update
- Added compatibility for my new mod **[**Fantasy Knights & Factions**](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/fantasy-knights-factions)**
- Removed loggers from latest.log
- Changed the default combat mode to aggressive
- Added partial translation support for all languages
- Added camera movement in third person on the dialogue screen
- Added new config options
- Added "Press R" (or keybind) to close the inventory GUI
- Added a hide armor button for villagers
- Added a mute idle sounds button for villagers
[1.0.6] Villagers Reborn 1.0.6 [1.21.11]
by Javieljefe on May 23, 2026
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## Update 1.21.11
- Alpha version (subject to change)
- NeoForge version: **21.11.42**
- Multiplayer and LAN have not been tested yet on 1.21.11
- If you find any issues, please report them in the comments!
[1.0.6] Villagers Reborn 1.0.6
by Javieljefe on May 15, 2026
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### Multiplayer & Combat Update
- Full changelog here**: https://www.patreon.com/posts/villagers-reborn-158327086
- MULTIPLAYER**
- Full multiplayer and LAN compatibility
- Added "Ownership" system in multiplayer
- Added new options to the server .toml
- Fixed the multiplayer bug that changed the global skin type
- Fixed and added individual relationship with each villager for each player
- Added ownership of "follow", "stay", and "set home" commands individually per player
- Fixed multiplayer crash bug when receiving experience or killing certain mobs
- The gift system also works individually for each player in multiplayer
- Individual dialogue cooldowns in multiplayer.
- ZOMBIE VILLAGER**
- Fully working zombie villager with different genders and discounts applied after being cured from zombification
- Female zombie villager custom sounds
- COMBAT**
- Villagers use bows and crossbows if they have arrows in their inventory
- Villagers use shields if they have one in their offhand
- Added three combat mode buttons in the inventory and equipment GUI
- Villagers do not attack creepers
- Health increase system for villagers with golden carrots
- Added two different villager follow modes
- BUG FIXES**
- Removed blurry effect on dialogue screen
- Fixed the "Press R to talk" display if you changed the keybind
- Added the missing text in Settings to change the Keybind
- Removed the vanilla attack display if you have a weapon equipped and look closely at a villager
- Added an option to force first person in the dialogue screen when talking to villagers
- Removed the blur effect from the dialogue screen
- Added options in "Mods - Config" and in the .toml to disable Illagers custom models individually
- Fixed dialogue cooldowns when reloading the world in singleplayer.
[1.0.5] Villagers Reborn 1.0.5
by Javieljefe on May 10, 2026
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## Equipment, Actions & Settings Update
You can read the extended changelog here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/157868171
- Follow, stay and set home villager orders
- Villagers' equipment (weapons, armor, etc)
- Villagers' inventory
- Config settings to change in game or .toml file
- First combat system for villagers
- Villagers regenerate HP out of combat
- Changes to dialogue screen GUI
- "Press R to talk" indicator when near a villager
- Fixed villagers moving in dialogue screen
- Fixed camera movement to make it smoother
- Fixed minor bugs
You can read the extended changelog here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/157868171
[1.0.4] Villagers Reborn 1.0.4
by Javieljefe on May 06, 2026
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- Villager Customization Update**
- Move camera in dialogue
- Change any villager's name
- Change any villager's skin in-game or manually
- Change any villager's height and width in-game (added villager sliders)
[1.0.3] Villagers Reborn 1.0.3
by Javieljefe on Oct 27, 2025
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- Gift Update**
- Added a simple system to receive gifts from villagers based on their **personality** and **relationship** level.
- You can check the [**item pool**](https://github.com/Javieljefe/Villagers-Reborn/blob/main/ITEM_POOL.md) for details about the possible rewards.
I also wanted to bring the **quests update**, but I’ve had little time and found a few issues, so quests are temporarily disabled for now.
[1.0.2] Villagers Reborn 1.0.2
by Javieljefe on Oct 19, 2025
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- Alpha Multiplayer Update**
First multiplayer revision – will be updated in future versions
- Added dedicated server compatibility
- Fixed villagers skin bug affecting existing villagers after the update (single player)
Dedicated server [**tutorial**](https://github.com/Javieljefe/Villagers-Reborn/blob/main/MULTIPLAYER_STEPS.md)
[1.0.1] Villagers Reborn 1.0.1
by Javieljefe on Oct 13, 2025
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- Added**:
- New models and sounds for Illagers
- New models and sounds for Wandering Merchant
- New models for Witches (vanilla sounds)
[1.0.0] Villagers Reborn 1.0.0
by Javieljefe on Oct 07, 2025
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Villagers Reborn - First Release
