Liberty's Villagers
by gitsh01
Liberty's Villagers changes how villagers find beds, workstations and points of interest, and it runs on a server without any client install.
What it does
The mod adjusts villager logic on the server: the range villagers search for points of interest, how far a villager will travel to reach one, and how close it must get before using it. These settings help in tall or sprawling cities where default distances fall short.
Villagers can be limited to gathering only the items their profession needs, such as seeds for farmers. Optional features add healing when a villager wakes up, route villagers away from cactus, water, rails, trapdoors and powdered snow, fix pathfinding where villagers get stuck against walls or fences, and stop villagers from climbing ladders and vines. Architectury API and Fabric API are required, and the mod is published for Fabric and Forge across 8 release versions, 1.18.2 – 1.21.
Key features
Point of interest range
Set how far villagers search for beds and workstations, useful for vertical or large villages.
Travel distance limit
Control how long a villager will walk to reach a point of interest before giving up.
Interaction distance
Adjust how close a villager must get to use a point of interest.
Profession-based gathering
Villagers pick up only the food or items their profession uses, such as seeds for farmers.
Optional behavior fixes
Toggleable options cover waking healing, hazard avoidance, a pathfinding fix near walls and fences, and blocking ladder and vine climbing.
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
Use cases
Vertical villages
Builders of tall towers or multi-level settlements can extend the search range so villagers still reach their beds and workstations.
Multiplayer servers
Server owners can tune villager behavior for everyone on the server, since only the server runs the mod.
Who it’s for: Server owners and village builders who want villagers to find their beds, workstations and food more reliably in large or unusual layouts.
How it compares
Custom Villager Professions is a Fabric and Forge mod for client and server, under All rights reserved and not open source, with files for 1.19.2 – 1.20.1. Quick Villagers is server-side only, open source under the Apache License 2.0, and covers Fabric files for 1.20.1 – 1.21.5. Barium is server-side only on Fabric, is not open source, and targets 1.21 – 1.21.11, so it focuses on pathfinding rather than the full set of villager options.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty's Villagers | Fabric and Forge | 1.18.2 – 1.21 | Server-side only | 2024-08-23 |
| Custom Villager Professions | Fabric and Forge | 1.19.2 – 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2024-02-01 |
| Quick Villagers | Fabric | 1.20.1 – 1.21.5 | Server-side only | 2025-11-14 |
| Barium | Fabric | 1.21 – 1.21.11 | Server-side only | 2025-12-25 |
Questions
Does Liberty's Villagers need to be installed on the client?
Which loader should a server use?
In the catalog
Liberty's Villagers is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,189 Mobs mods for Fabric. 15,770 mods support Minecraft 1.21.
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What the author says
Are you the mayor of a village? Are you tired of your villagers failing to find their beds at nightfall, or forgetting their workstations in the morning? Have you seen one too many villager die from jumping off stairs and injuring themselves over and over? Well, Liberty's Villagers is here to help! Liberty's…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/libertyvillagers
- Owner
- gitsh01
- Published
- 2022-10-02
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2024-08-23
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15