Without Honor: NPCs
Friendly shopkeepers. Quest givers with branching stories. Town guards, bosses, wandering travelers with their own daily routines. Without Honor: NPCs lets you build all of them.
Everything happens in-game. Grab the Memorion Feather, right-click an NPC, and a full editor opens up: dialogue trees, shops, reputation, combat, poses, schedules - all through a clean (almost :D) GUI.
💬 Branching dialogues
- Branching dialogue trees with Text, Input, Check and Random nodes.
- Choices gated by conditions (reputation, flags, items, permissions, scores, variables and more) and firing actions when picked.
- A glossary: highlight words in your text and players get a hover tooltip explaining them.
- Attach images to a node, show a tall 9:16 portrait, or bring a second character on screen as a live model.
- Per-node music - vanilla discs or online streaming via Etched.
- A per-line sound cue - play any in-game sound when a line appears, at a pitch you choose.
- A typewriter "monologue" bar - a portrait and text that types itself out along the bottom of the screen.
🌍 A living world
- Daily schedules - NPCs go about their routine by time of day.
- A full pose library with per-limb control and animation freeze: sitting, sleeping, working, posing.
- Emotes through Emotecraft, synced for every player who sees them.
- Reactions: run actions when an NPC is hurt, dies, is interacted with, or when a player approaches.
- Random ambient lines for idle, combat, interaction, death and kills.
🎲 RPG systems
- Reputation & factions, with per-player flags that remember who gave what and when - your quest state, built in.
- Trading like villagers, but deeper: per-player and server-wide limits, exclusive offers, offers gated by reputation/flags/items, XP and restock timers.
⚔️ Combat & creature nature
- Combat styles (melee / ranged / potion / shield / mage), tunable speeds, ranges and a leap-at-target attack.
- Seven damage resistances and an optional boss health bar with a color of your choice.
- A "potion belt" AI that drinks for itself, throws at enemies, or heals allies.
- Disguise an NPC as any mob, give it undead behavior, sun-burning, immunities (fall, web, drowning, poison) and a custom aggro range.
- Persistent NPCs with a death & respawn system (timer, at the death spot or a home point).
🛠️ Tools & sharing
- Items for everything: the editor pen, a mover wand, a clone book (spawn saved presets), an NPC spawner block, and hidden triggers that fire actions when a player walks in.
- Export / import profiles and dialogues as files, between client and server.
🌌 And much more!
🧩 Compatibility
All integrations are optional - the mod runs fine without any of them:
- Emotecraft - animated emotes on NPCs.
- Curios - NPCs wear and render trinkets.
- Etched - stream online music from dialogue discs.
- Epic Fight - NPCs fight with Epic Fight's animations and movesets. (WH: NPCs v0.9.1+)
- Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks - NPCs cast ISS spells, with loadouts and school attributes. Addons are supported out of the box. (WH: NPCs v0.9.4+)
Plus: if Carry On is installed, players can't pick your NPCs up and carry them off (configurable).
📋 Requirements
- Minecraft 1.20.1, Forge.
- Install on both client and server (custom NPC rendering and the editor need the mod client-side).
- Languages: English, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Japanese, French, Polish and Korean.
Note: NPCs can use skins and music loaded from web URLs that you provide. When such an NPC is shown, the mod fetches that file from the address you set - nothing is collected or sent anywhere else.
🗺️ Roadmap
Right now this is an early beta for Minecraft 1.20.1, and that's where all my attention goes: polishing rough edges and making sure nothing breaks. Once it's solid and I'm confident in it, a 1.21.1 (NeoForge & Fabric) version is planned next.
Being a beta, expect updates along the way. Bug reports and feedback are very welcome and genuinely help shape what comes next.
📖 Where the name comes from
For years, a few of us have played together on one private server, and over time it grew into something bigger: a fantasy universe with its own history, factions and lore. We called that world Without Honor. Eventually I wanted NPCs that truly belonged in it - characters I could shape, write and bring to life exactly the way I imagined - and nothing out there did quite what I needed. So I built my own. This is that tool, cleaned up and shared with you.
Tagging along is Alessia, the mod's mascot, who ships as a built-in NPC skin - a small piece of our world you can drop straight into yours.
Built for RPG and story servers, adventure-map makers, and anyone who wants their world to feel a little more alive.
