Name Forging

Name Forging

A grammar-aware procedural name generator for Minecraft.

Instead of stitching random words together, Name Forging generates natural-sounding names with support for grammatical agreement, cases, localization, and multiple languages.

The mod adds a Generate Name button to the world creation screen, provides the /namegen command, and exposes an API for other mods.

✨ Features

• 🎲 Pattern-based generation

  • Templates like {adj} {noun} or {noun.gen} {noun}
  • Weighted word selection
  • Grammatical agreement
  • Case support

• 🌍 World creation integration

  • Generate a name with one click.
  • Configure whether names are generated:
    • automatically,
    • only when pressing the button,
    • or never.

• 💬 /namegen command

  • Generate names anywhere.
  • Generated names are clickable for easy copying.

• 🔌 Developer API

  • Generate names for towns, settlements, NPCs, waystones, dimensions, or anything else.

• 📦 Data Pack friendly

  • Generators and language files are completely separated.
  • Add new languages without writing any Java code.

• 🔄 Repeat protection

  • Recently generated names won't immediately appear again.

📚 Included Generators

More generators will be added in future updates.

🚀 Usage

World Creation

Click the 🎲 button next to the world name field.

Command

/namegen

or

/namegen name_forging:fantasy

Configuration

worldNameMode = ...
worldNameGenerator = ...

🛠 API

Optional<String> name = NameForgingApi.generate(
    ResourceLocation.fromNamespaceAndPath(
        "name_forging",
        "fantasy"
    )
);

Generation happens entirely on the client, just like any other player input. The generated name is then sent to the server as a regular string.