Bounty Craft
by Tyler_
Bounty Craft adds contract bounties to villager trades on Forge 1.20.1, where players accept a task, track it, and claim emeralds, loot or rare books.
What it does
Bounties are offered through villager trades. A player opens the trade screen, uses the new accept button, and holds up to four contracts at once. Pressing J opens an overlay that shows the active contracts, lets the player select one compass with a distance guide, and claims rewards when a task is finished. Contracts refresh daily with balanced rewards in emeralds, vanilla loot and rare enchanted books.
The mod covers several contract types: kill contracts that hunt scaled mobs from a curated pool, boss hunts against bigger and tougher vanilla bosses with doubled health and size at fixed spots, and structure clears that point the player at the nearest structure, such as an Elder Guardian monument or a pillager outpost. Explore bounties are the default quest type and include modded structures. A Nether bounty type is also included. The lodestone compass gives precise tracking, and progress survives death because it is stored as player capability data.
Bounty Craft is client and server, so the server and every player need the mod. It is released for Forge only, for 1.20.1 alone, with 1.1.6 as the latest file from 2026-08-11. The mod depends on no other library, and its code is under the MIT License, which is not open source.
Key features
Accept and track contracts
Contracts are accepted from villager trades, held in a small list and followed with a compass and distance guide.
Daily rotation
New contracts appear each day with rewards scaled to match vanilla pacing, including emeralds, loot and rare books.
Boss and structure hunts
Boss contracts target larger vanilla bosses at fixed spots, and structure contracts send players to the nearest matching structure.
Death-safe progress
Progress is saved as player capability data, so it is kept after death, and kills are tagged in NBT so indirect kills count fairly.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Manhunter is server-side only, is released under All rights reserved, and is published for Forge 1.20.1, so players can join without installing it. bigfish: ripple is client and server, released under the Apache License 2.0 for the same version. Random Block Bounty covers 1.16.5 – 1.20.1 on Forge under the MIT License.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bounty Craft | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-08-11 |
| Manhunter | Forge | 1.20.1 | Server-side only | 2025-06-04 |
| bigfish: ripple | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-07-21 |
| Random Block Bounty | Forge | 1.16.5 – 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-07-02 |
Questions
Does Bounty Craft need to be installed on the server?
Which Minecraft version does Bounty Craft support?
Are bounties available in the Nether?
In the catalog
Bounty Craft is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 6,527 Mobs mods for Forge. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
Bounty Craft Vanilla+ bounties via villager trades—accept, track, and claim simple objectives that enhance exploration and combat without grind or power creep. Grab Contracts: Open any villager's trade screen and accept via a new button (hold up to 4). Track Progress: Press J to open the overlay—view all, select one…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/bountycraft
- Owner
- Tyler_
- Published
- 2025-11-19
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-08-11
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15
