About Villagers Reborn
From ModrinthReplaces villagers and illagers with custom human models while keeping vanilla features. Inspired by the amazing work done in Minecraft Comes Alive (MCA).
Villagers Reborn
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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)
- Villager management
- Receive gifts from villagers based on relationship level (item pool)
- Resurrect villagers
- 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
- Character creation
- 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
- Items rework
- 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
- Forge 1.20.1
Translations 📄
- Russian by Max Snegir
- Portuguese by Felipe Campos
- Spanish (Spain and Latin America)
Support 🤜🤛
- Lead Art (icons, models etc) by Elin R. (Modge)
- Animations by Astrid
Issues ⚠️
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 3 Minecraft versions, the newest being 1.21.11.
Loaders
Runs on Forge and NeoForge.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Villagers Reborn 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, NeoForge
- 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
- 1.0.9b, released 2026-08-11
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Forge | 1.20.1 | 1.20.1 |
| NeoForge | 1.21.1 | 1.21.1 |
From 5 recorded builds of Villagers Reborn.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.9b | 2026-08-11 | 1.20.1 | Forge |
| 1.0.9b | 2026-08-05 | 1.21.1 | NeoForge |
| 1.0.9 | 2026-07-10 | 1.20.1 | Forge |
| 1.0.9 | 2026-07-10 | 1.21.1 | NeoForge |
| 1.0.8 | 2026-06-20 | 1.20.1 | Forge |
Run Villagers Reborn 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 Villagers Reborn as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- ForgeNeoForge
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 1.21.11 and 2 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-02Open ↗
- ✓AuthorJavieljefe, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseMITFree













