Realistic Villagers

📖 The Vision

Forget the days of "Hmmmm" and blank stares. Realistic Villagers is the ultimate overhaul for Minecraft villagers. By replacing standard entities with dynamic, skin-aware NPCs, we bring a level of depth and immersion previously unseen — from genealogy and marriage to region-aware personalities and a brand-new hologram-based interface. Whether it's building a family legacy, managing complex trades, or defending your home, every villager has a story.

🌐 Visual Config Website

⚠️ Heads up: The config editor is only guaranteed to work with the latest plugin version — configs generated for older releases may be missing options or out of sync with newly added settings.

✨ Features

🧬 The Human Factor

• Dynamic Identity: Every NPC is uniquely gendered (Male/Female) with a personality-driven skin via MineSkin.
• Professional Names: No more "Villager #432". Meet John the Farmer or Raquel the Cleric.
• Family Legacies: A deep genealogy system. NPCs remember their parents, children, and spouses across generations.
• Marriage & Procreation: Use Wedding Rings to form bonds and watch families grow over time. Child variants grow into adults.
• Gender Freedom: Disable the gender system entirely, or assign a custom gender to each player individually.

🌍 Regionality System

• Villagers are shaped by where they live. A desert biome breeds villagers with darker skin tones, Arabic names, and conversations typical of desert dwellers.
• Snowy biomes dress villagers in warm robes, give them Nordic names, an accent, and a habit of complaining about the cold.
• Every part of this system — skins, names, dialogue — is fully customizable or can be disabled if you prefer vanilla-style consistency.

🧠 Advanced Artificial Intelligence

• Strategic Combat: Villagers weigh the odds before engaging — outnumbered NPCs retreat instead of dying pointlessly, and unarmed villagers panic and flee.
• Armed & Dangerous: NPCs can wield maces and spears, with custom melee weapons configurable per profession.
• Calls for Backup: Villagers call family members for help when threatened.
• Social Interaction: Talk, joke, flirt, or insult — your reputation changes based on every word.
• Interactive Needs: Hunger, inventory management, and daily activities like looting and fishing.
• Atmospheric Revive Ritual: Lose a beloved villager? A lightning bolt striking within 2 blocks of the head begins the sacred revival ritual.

🐫 Life on the Move

• Villagers can now ride camels and llamas, wandering and traveling the world instead of standing still.

🏠 Villager Housing

• Turn any chest or barrel into a villager's personal storage by placing a sign with [Villager] on it.
• Assign specific items the villager is allowed to take from it — no more raiding the wrong chest.

🎨 Visual & Technical Excellence

• All-New Hologram Menu: A completely redesigned interactive villager menu built on holograms — prefer the classic look? Switch back to the old chest GUI with a single config toggle.
• Real-Time Nametags: Live updates as your villagers level up their trades.
• Modular Configuration: The configuration file has been split into focused parts, making it far easier to navigate and customize.
• Optional Recipes: Disable the plugin's custom trade recipes entirely if you only want the NPC/behavior systems.
• Optimized Performance: Built on PacketEvents for minimal server impact and high stability.

🚀 Installation

1. Dependencies: Ensure you have PacketEvents installed.
2. Plugin: Drop RealisticVillagers.jar into your /plugins/ folder.
3. Setup: Restart the server to generate the default configuration and skin cache.
4. Go! Witness the transformation of every village in your world.

⚙️ Configuration

The plugin is highly customizable, and the config has been split into multiple files (config.yml, gui.yml, holograms.yml, loot.yml, variable-text.yml, and more) so each system is easy to find and tweak. Prefer a visual approach? Check out the Visual Config Website above.

# procreation settings
procreation-cooldown: 6000
baby-grow-cooldown: 12000

# Social settings
villager-farm:
  allow-procreation-between-family-members: false
  ignore-sex-when-procreating: false

💻 Commands

🤝 Compatibility

We play nice with others:

• PacketEvents: ✅ Required.
• ViaVersion / ViaBackwards / ViaRewind: ✅ Full support from 1.18 to 1.21.11.
• Geyser-Spigot: ✅ Bedrock players supported.
• EliteMobs: ✅ NPCs recognize and react to elite threats.
• ItemsAdder: ✅ Seamless custom item integration.
• ProtocolLib / ProtocolSupport: ✅ Enhanced packet handling for smooth skin transitions.