Lightman's Currency Villager Tycoon Addon
by RealOGFuture
Lightman's Currency Villager Tycoon Addon adds villagers that randomly spawn around placed vending machines and come to buy from them, for a Forge shop on 1.20.1.
What it does
Villagers appear near vending machines that a player has placed, so a shop in a quiet spot can still draw customers. The spawn behaviour depends on how far the machines stand from each other, and the radius around each machine is set in the config file. The mod requires Lightman's Currency, which provides the vending machines and the currency system the villagers spend from.
A tier from 0 to 5 tracks the business progress of each shop. Higher tiers bring wealthier and more frequent customers, and each tier change is tied to milestones the server owner can define. The five tiers run from occasional visitors with small budgets at tier 0 to elite tycoon villagers at tier 5 with full wallets. A command lets an operator spawn traders by hand and set their wallet sizes.
The addon is published for Forge only, with a single game version, 1.20.1, and both client and server must run it. The code is released under the MIT License and is open source, and the latest file is 1.2, published on 2026-04-23.
Key features
Dynamic foot traffic
Villagers spawn at random around placed vending machines and gravitate toward them, so isolated kiosks receive visits too.
Five-tier progression
Each shop advances through tiers from 0 to 5, and reaching a new tier brings customers with larger budgets.
Custom milestones
Server owners set the requirements for each tier change, which decides when higher-tier customers begin to arrive.
Configurable spawning
Spawn rates, spawn radii and the wealth brackets of spawned villagers can all be adjusted in the config file.
Manual spawning command
The tycoon command spawns traders on demand and sets their wallet sizes, which helps when testing a shop.
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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
Vending Machine Economics also runs on Forge for 1.20.1 with client and server, but it is released under the MIT License and is not open source. Vending machines is open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only, but it targets 1.19.2 instead. Factory Tycoon is another 1.20.1 Forge option with both sides needed, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license, and it is not open source.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightman's Currency Villager Tycoon Addon | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-04-23 |
| Vending Machine Economics | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-09-01 |
| Vending machines | Forge | 1.19.2 | Client and server | 2022-11-18 |
| Factory Tycoon | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-02-03 |
Questions
Does the addon need Lightman's Currency?
Does the server need the addon as well as the players?
Can spawn rates and wallet sizes be changed?
In the catalog
Lightman's Currency Villager Tycoon Addon is one of 2,072 Economy mods on ModsFinder, and one of 1,010 Economy mods for Forge. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
👴 Lightmans Villager Tycoon Transform your static vending machines into a bustling economic hub! Lightmans Villager Tycoon bridges the gap between the player-driven economy of Lightman's Currency and the world around you, allowing villagers to actually browse and purchase from your shops. 🚀 Overview Why wait for…
Official listing
- Owner
- RealOGFuture
- Published
- 2026-03-18
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-04-23
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15