Visiting Villagers

Visiting Villagers

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

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About this Mod

🌍 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.

🌐 Localizations

🌐 Russian & Ukrainian localizations contributed by Wookius
🌐 Portuguese (BR) localization added

❤️ Thanks to contributors! More languages coming soon.


👉 Download Now!

Download Now – Give your villagers the neighbors they deserve!


Feel free to add it to any Modpack!

Available Versions

Visiting Villagers 1.0.2-mc1.21.11release
MC 1.21.11neoforge
April 14, 2026
Visiting Villagers 1.0.2-mc1.21.11release
MC 1.21.11fabric
April 14, 2026
Visiting Villagers 1.0.2-mc1.21.1release
MC 1.21.1neoforge
April 14, 2026
Visiting Villagers 1.0.2-mc1.21.1release
MC 1.21.1fabric
April 14, 2026
Visiting Villagers 1.0.2-mc1.20.1release
MC 1.20.1fabric
April 14, 2026

How to Install Visiting Villagers on Your Server

1

Order Server

Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 4 GB RAM (6 GB recommended).

2

Set fabric Loader

In the panel under "Egg", select the fabric loader and matching Minecraft version (1.21.11).

3

Install Mod

Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Visiting Villagers". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

fabricforgeneoforge

Minecraft Versions

1.21.11, 1.21.1, 1.21 (+1 more)

Server-side

Required

Recommended RAM

6 GB(min. 4 GB)

Frequently Asked Questions

Visiting Villagers server crashes on startup – what to do?

Most common cause: wrong fabric 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 (1.21.11). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.

Is Visiting Villagers compatible with fabric and forge and neoforge?

Visiting Villagers officially supports fabric, forge, neoforge for Minecraft 1.21.11, 1.21.1, 1.21. Note: Forge and Fabric mods are NOT cross-compatible – pick one loader and stick with it. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.

Server lagging with Visiting Villagers – how to optimize performance?

Recommended RAM: 6 GB (per 5 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Visiting Villagers 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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Details

License
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Server-side
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Supported Versions

1.21.111.21.11.211.20.1