About Visiting Villagers
From ModrinthTurn your villages into vibrant, dynamic communities with visitors, new trades, and endless interaction!
🌍 Visiting Villagers – Bring Your Village to Life!
Bring your villages to life! Visiting Villagers is a lightweight Vanilla+ mod that turns quiet hamlets into bustling, dynamic communities.
How It Works
Visitors arrive at dawn and leave at sunset. The mod is designed to be hassle-free: no extra beds or workstations required to work.
Requirements: The village needs at least 6 villagers and 1 Iron Golem for visitors to start spawning.
Key Features
👥 New Visitors: Adults with 14 specialized professions, 7 unemployed types, and baby visitors that bring extra life to the village.
🤝 Dynamic Trading: Specialized wandering traders coming from different biomes.
🛠️ Control Tools: Use the Visitor Checker items (via chat or book) to monitor population or quick commands like /visitors check.
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Compatibilities
✨ Fresh Animations: Natively compatible with base game models and Fresh Animations.
🏷️ Villager Names: Fully compatible with Villager Names to give unique names to your visitors!
⚙️ Platforms: Available for Fabric, Forge, and NeoForge (with in-game configuration support via Mod Menu on Fabric).
⚙️ 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
⚙️ In-Game Configuration Mod Menu (Fabric)
Easily customize spawn rates, baby behavior, and trader frequencies directly inside the game using Mod Menu (Fabric).
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. |
Feel free to add it to any _Modpack_!
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 5 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.2.
Loaders
Runs on Fabric, Forge and NeoForge.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Visiting Villagers 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
- Fabric, 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
- 1.0.31-nf-1.21.1, released 2026-10-18
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Fabric | 1.20.1 to 26.2 (4 versions) | 26.2 |
| NeoForge | 1.21.1 to 26.2 (3 versions) | 26.2 |
| Forge | 1.20.1 to 1.21.1 (2 versions) | 1.21.1 |
From 11 recorded builds of Visiting Villagers.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.31-nf-1.21.1 | 2026-10-18 | 1.21.1 | NeoForge |
| 1.0.3-fo-1.21.1 | 2026-10-18 | 1.21.1 | Forge |
| 1.0.3-fo-1.20.1 | 2026-10-18 | 1.20.1 | Forge |
| 1.0.3-fa-1.21.1 | 2026-10-18 | 1.21.1 | Fabric |
| 1.0.3-fa-1.20.1 | 2026-10-18 | 1.20.1 | Fabric |
| 1.0.3-nf-1.21.1 | 2026-10-02 | 1.21.1 | NeoForge |
Run Visiting Villagers 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 Visiting Villagers as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- FabricForgeNeoForge
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 26.2 and 4 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-19Open ↗
- ✓Authorredstonegamesb, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseLicenseRef-All-Rights-ReservedFree
