
Villager vocation_tome
Vocation Tome lets you extract a villager’s profession and trades into a special book, then transfer that profession to another villager — turning a fleeting trade hall into a permanent, portable library of professions.
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About this Mod
Summary
Vocation Tome lets you capture a villager’s entire trade knowledge in a single book, then imprint it onto any other villager. Manage dozens of professions through one villager, rescue irreplaceable trades, and build the ultimate portable library of professions.
Description
Vocation Tome isn’t just a tool — it’s a completely new way to manage villagers. Instead of building endless rows of job-site blocks and minecart prisons, you reduce your entire trading empire to a handful of books.
One Villager, Every Profession
Because the Tome fully overwrites a villager’s profession, level, and trades, you can cycle multiple professions through a single, easy-to-reach villager.
- Want mending books? Apply the Librarian tome.
- Need golden carrots? Swap to the Farmer tome.
One trading hall, one villager, zero hassle. No more cramming twenty villagers into a noisy chamber.
Trade Preservation & Transfer
Got a villager with a perfect, painstakingly unlocked trade? Store it in a Vocation Tome. The book saves everything — profession, level, experience, and every single trade with its exact pricing and usage limits.
Use it to:
- Move a valuable trade to a safer or more convenient location.
- Duplicate a perfect trade across multiple villagers (yes, one trapped source villager can arm an entire army of blank slates).
- Create a backup. If a creeper erases your master armorer, just apply the backup tome to a fresh unemployed villager.
Inventory‑Friendly Design
- The item name changes dynamically — you’ll see
Vocation Tome (Librarian‑2)at a glance, no NBT digging required. - Hold Shift to browse every stored trade, complete with quantities and items.
Sensible Restrictions & Feedback
- By default, the Tome refuses to overwrite a villager that already has a profession, preventing accidents. This can be toggled on for full freedom.
- Every blocked action explains itself in the action bar — no silent failures.
- In survival, extracting a profession consumes a regular Book. Applying a Tome returns a Book by default (configurable), keeping the loop clean.
Perfect for Multiplayer and Advanced Play
- Trade Tomes with other players on a server. Your friend just bred a perfect Librarian? Ask for a copy.
- Set up adventure‑map shops or custom trading stations using command‑spawned Tomes.
- Temporarily “borrow” a profession from a wild villager to transport it to your base.
Vocation Tome fits naturally into vanilla survival, adding no GUIs or complex machines — only a clever book and a deeper layer of villager strategy.
Item Details
· The item name dynamically shows the stored profession and level (e.g. “Vocation Tome (Librarian‑2)”).
· Hold Shift in the inventory to see every trade stored in the book.
Server‑only Logic
All interactions are handled entirely on the server, making the mod multiplayer‑safe and light on clients.
Vocation Tome is designed to feel like a natural, vanilla‑style utility — no GUIs, no machines, just a book that knows a villager’s craft.
Available Versions
How to Install Villager vocation_tome on Your Server
Order Server
Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).
Set forge Loader
In the panel under "Egg", select the forge loader and matching Minecraft version (1.20.1).
Install Mod
Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Villager vocation_tome". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.
Compatibility
Mod Loaders
Minecraft Versions
1.20.1
Server-side
✓ RequiredRecommended RAM
4 GB(min. 3 GB)Frequently Asked Questions
Villager vocation_tome 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 3 GB RAM is allocated and the loader matches the mod version (1.20.1). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.
Is Villager vocation_tome compatible with forge?
Villager vocation_tome officially supports forge for Minecraft 1.20.1. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.
Server lagging with Villager vocation_tome – how to optimize performance?
Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Villager vocation_tome 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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