About Village Names
From ModrinthBackports modern village structures and villager designs, and generates names for villages and villagers, and other entities and structures.
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:
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 6 Minecraft versions, the newest being 1.12.2.
Loaders
Runs on Forge.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Village Names on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Minecraft servers. We download it from Modrinth, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Required on the server
- Server type needed
- Forge
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Minecraft — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 4.4.13-1.12, released 2024-11-09
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Forge | 1.8.9 to 1.12.2 (5 versions) | 1.12.2 |
From 5 recorded builds of Village Names.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.4.13-1.12 | 2024-11-09 | 1.12.2 | Forge |
| 4.4.13-1.11 | 2024-11-09 | 1.11.2 | Forge |
| 4.4.13-1.10 | 2024-11-09 | 1.10.2 | Forge |
| 4.4.13-1.9 | 2024-11-09 | 1.9.4 | Forge |
| 4.4.13-1.8 | 2024-11-09 | 1.8.9 | Forge |
Run Village Names on a Minecraft server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogWorld generation
Changes or adds to how new terrain, biomes and structures are created.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Village Names as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- Forge
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 1.12.2 and 5 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓AuthorAstroTibs, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseLGPL-3.0-onlyFree
