Village Names
Backports modern village structures and villager designs, and generates names for villages and villagers, and other entities and structures.
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About this Mod

The Village Names mod backports modern village structures and villager skins, and assigns randomized names to villages and villagers and other structures and entities. The mod offers a lot of customization village generation and entity naming.
Some features developed over the years:
- A new village generator, able to place down road blocks other than gravel, and will even use certain backported Grass Path blocks in 1.7.
- Backported and custom village components
- Highly configurable village size and components
- Highly configurable syllable pools for name generation
- Custom name signs, banners, and preferred colors for each village
- A custom item (Codex) used to generate names for supported non-village structures, obtained either from giving emeralds and iron/gold to Librarians/Cartographers, or found as chest loot
- Configurable list for entities that can receive automatic names when spawning, or names assigned when right-clicked
- Villagers with skin tones that are based on their spawn biome
- Support for a career-like profession subdivision in 1.7
- Modified villager trade pools, and added "treasure" trades for Librarians and Cartographers
- Modular biome-and-profession-based villager outfits
- Backported Cartographer villager to previous versions, and Nitwit where able
- Backported Concrete and Glazed Terracotta to previous versions
- Backported Guardian, Monuments, and Prismarine to 1.7
- Backported Igloos to 1.7 and 1.8
Here is are feature showcase videos:
Available Versions
How to Install Village Names on Your Server
Order Server
Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 4 GB RAM (6 GB recommended).
Set forge Loader
In the panel under "Egg", select the forge loader and matching Minecraft version (1.12.2).
Install Mod
Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Village Names". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.
Compatibility
Mod Loaders
Minecraft Versions
1.12.2, 1.11.2, 1.10.2 (+3 more)
Server-side
✓ RequiredRecommended RAM
6 GB(min. 4 GB)Frequently Asked Questions
Village Names server crashes on startup – what to do?
Most common cause: wrong forge version or insufficient RAM. Check the server log (latest.log) for "OutOfMemoryError" or "Mixin" errors. With Mado Hosting: ensure at least 4 GB RAM is allocated and the loader matches the mod version (1.12.2). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.
Is Village Names compatible with forge?
Village Names officially supports forge for Minecraft 1.12.2, 1.11.2, 1.10.2. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.
Server lagging with Village Names – how to optimize performance?
Recommended RAM: 6 GB (per 5 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Village Names consumes the most tick time. Common fixes: reduce server view-distance to 8-10, install "performant" or "starlight" as supplementary mods on Forge. With Mado Hosting, your server runs on NVMe SSDs with dedicated CPU cores for minimal latency.
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