Better Villager Pickup
by McMelonTV
Better Villager Pickup lets players lift villagers with a pickup action and carry them to a new spot, on Fabric for 1.21.1.
What it does
Picked-up villagers can be moved around the world without being reset. The mod is a fork of Villager Pickup that adds a fix preventing players from putting a picked-up villager into a mob, and it keeps trade and experience data intact. Spawners that create villagers give baby villagers with stored data, and a spawn egg keeps that data as well. Fabric API is required. Server owners install it, and players connect with no copy of their own. Released under the MIT License and open source, it targets 1.21.1 only, with the latest Fabric file 1.1.0 for 1.21.1 published on 2024-12-07.
Villagers picked up by a player can be relocated, and the mod can change which entities may be picked up through a config option. An additional display shows a villager's profession, health, workstation, bed, location and trades in its item tooltip.
Key features
Pick up villagers
Players can lift a villager and carry it to a different place, keeping it in the same state.
Keeps trades and XP
Picked-up villagers keep their trades and experience, and spawn eggs keep the stored villager data.
Villager info tooltip
An item tooltip shows the profession, health, workstation, bed, location and trades of a villager.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
How it compares
Quick Villagers is a server-side Fabric mod for 1.20.1 – 1.21.5 under the Apache License 2.0, and it is open source. Villagers follow you is a client and server Fabric mod for 1.21 – 1.21.1 under All rights reserved, and it is not open source.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Better Villager Pickup | Fabric | 1.21.1 | Server-side only | 2024-12-07 |
| Quick Villagers | Fabric | 1.20.1 – 1.21.5 | Server-side only | 2025-11-14 |
| Villagers follow you | Fabric | 1.21 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-02-06 |
Questions
Does Better Villager Pickup need Fabric API?
In the catalog
Better Villager Pickup is one of 36,990 Utility mods on ModsFinder, and one of 25,772 Utility mods for Fabric. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
This is a fork of Villager Pickup which implements a fix to prevent players from putting picked up villagers into mob spawners or spawning them inside other villagers (by default this would spawn a baby villager with no data). This fork also adds a few additions like showing the villager's profession, type, health…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/better-villager-pickup
- Owner
- McMelonTV
- Published
- 2024-12-06
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2024-12-07
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15