
Villagers Reborn
Replaces villagers and illagers with custom human models while keeping vanilla features. Inspired by the amazing work done in Minecraft Comes Alive (MCA).
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About this Mod
Villagers Reborn
You can find the wiki and see all the changes in the new Marriage & Family Update here 📝
And if you'd like to support the project, you can grab me a Ko-fi ☕
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)
- Receive gifts from villagers based on relationship level (item pool)
- 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
- 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
- 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
Issues ⚠️
If you get stuck on the birth screen you can use the keyboard arrows to select Confirm or adjust the GUI scale
Sometimes a villager gender changes after curing them from zombification if you cure more than one villager at the same time
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.
Available Versions
How to Install Villagers Reborn on Your Server
Order Server
Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).
Set neoforge Loader
In the panel under "Egg", select the neoforge loader and matching Minecraft version (1.21.11).
Install Mod
Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Villagers Reborn". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.
Compatibility
Mod Loaders
Minecraft Versions
1.21.11, 1.21.1
Server-side
✓ RequiredRecommended RAM
4 GB(min. 3 GB)Frequently Asked Questions
Villagers Reborn server crashes on startup – what to do?
Most common cause: wrong neoforge 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 (1.21.11). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.
Is Villagers Reborn compatible with neoforge?
Villagers Reborn officially supports neoforge for Minecraft 1.21.11, 1.21.1. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.
Server lagging with Villagers Reborn – how to optimize performance?
Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Villagers Reborn 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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