Village Builder
by GrizzleNL
Village Builder lets players place finished structures in one action by right-clicking the ground with a building contract, using a new Builder villager profession.
What it does
A Builder villager joins villages as a new profession and sells building contracts for emeralds. Using a contract on the ground summons a complete structure at that spot instantly, so a settlement can be laid out in minutes without placing each block by hand. Contracts can be crafted, combined into a larger house, or upgraded into specialised workshops, and the mod includes a custom Fort game alongside the profession.
The mod is built for Minecraft 1.20.1 and runs on Forge or NeoForge, with the client and the server both needing it. Players who use it on a server should install it on every client, since the environment is client and server. The license is All rights reserved, so the code is not open source.
Key features
Builder profession
A new villager profession that offers building contracts for sale in village trading posts.
Instant structures
Right-clicking the ground with a contract places the whole structure at that spot at once.
Contract upgrades
Crafting recipes transform contracts, and emeralds can convert a contract into a specialised workshop.
Combined houses
Two standard house contracts can be joined into one large house for growing villages.
Custom Fort game
A Fort game is added alongside the Builder profession, with room for more custom buildings.
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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.
Use cases
Settlement layout
Players lay out a whole village or town square in one session instead of building block by block.
Emerald economy
Emeralds buy contracts, so trading becomes a way to earn new buildings in a world.
Who it’s for: Players who want to set up villages and towns quickly, and server owners who want a trade-based building economy alongside the Builder villager.
How it compares
Better Villager Trades is a server-side only option with a different purpose, trading changes rather than building; it is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 and covers 1.20.1 – 26.2 across Fabric, Forge and NeoForge. More Villager Trades is a client and server mod for Forge under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 license for 1.20.1. Village Builder is limited to Forge and NeoForge for 1.20.1 and is not open source.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Village Builder | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-06-23 |
| Better Villager Trades | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 26.2 | Server-side only | 2026-08-17 |
| More Villager Trades | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-02-01 |
Questions
Does Village Builder need to be installed on both sides?
Which loaders does Village Builder support?
How does a player get building contracts?
In the catalog
Village Builder is one of 8,515 World generation mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,058 World generation mods for Forge. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
Tired of spending hours hauling blocks just to flesh out a half-decent village? What if you could commission a professional to handle the heavy lifting—and pay for it all with emeralds? Village Builder introduces a brand-new villager profession, the Builder, along with a game-changing system of building contracts…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/village-builder
- Owner
- GrizzleNL
- Published
- 2026-05-13
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-06-23
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15