About Villager Recruits
From ModrinthRecruit and command villagers, manage armies through custom GUIs, enjoy PvP with diplomacy and team compatibility, and fully configurable features.
Villager Recruits: Claim and Siege Update!
Villager Recruits is an exciting Minecraft modification that allows you to hire and command your own army of villagers. Enhance your gameplay with strategic faction battles, claim and siege mechanics and intelligent NPC features.
Key Features:
- Hire Villagers: Use emeralds to recruit villagers for your personal army.
- Command and Manage: Utilize screens to effectively command and manage your recruits.
- PvP and Faction Gameplay: Engage in player vs. player or faction vs. faction battles.
- Claim and Siege: Launch an attack to conquer enemy territory or support allies with defending.
- Vanilla Teams Support: Integrates with Minecraft Vanilla Teams, featuring a custom GUI.
- Smart Eating/Healing: Villagers use food and potions intelligently.
- Smart Shield Blocking: Villagers block attacks efficiently using shields.
- Group Commands: Command large armies by organizing your recruits into groups.
- Group management: Recruit villagers from villages or noble villagers and manage your custom groups.
- Mod Compatibility: Works seamlessly with Small ships-Mod, Epic-Knights-Mod, and Corpse-Mod.
- Highly Configurable: Customize almost every aspect to fit your gameplay style.
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More Information on the Wiki
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Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 4 Minecraft versions, the newest being 1.20.1.
Loaders
Runs on Forge.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Villager Recruits 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
- 1.15.2, released 2026-06-29
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Forge | 1.20.1 | 1.20.1 |
From 5 recorded builds of Villager Recruits.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.15.2 | 2026-06-29 | 1.20.1 | Forge |
| 1.15.1 | 2026-06-15 | 1.20.1 | Forge |
| 1.15.0 | 2026-04-10 | 1.20.1 | Forge |
| 1.14.2.3 | 2026-01-29 | 1.20.1 | Forge |
| 1.14.2.2 | 2026-01-27 | 1.20.1 | Forge |
Run Villager Recruits 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 catalogCreatures & NPCs
Adds or changes creatures, NPCs and how they behave.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Villager Recruits 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
- 1.20.1 and 3 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓Authortalhanation, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseLicenseRef-All-Rights-ReservedFree
