Village Doctor
by NothingItIs
Village Doctor gives players a stethoscope and a set of owner tools for villagers, so a player can check why a villager will not breed or restock.
What it does
Right-clicking a villager with the Stethoscope opens a full checkup that gives a plain diagnosis, such as why a villager will not breed or restock. The same tool can claim a bed or workstation for a villager, and shift-right-clicking a bed, workstation or bell shows whose villager it belongs to, with the owner's villager flashing for a few seconds so it is simple to find.
The mod targets villagers that fail without any message: a bed or workstation can be claimed by the wrong villager, food can be short at the wrong time of day, or an item pickup can be switched off, and the game does not say which. Village Doctor reports these causes through the checkup. Operations are configurable through the villagedoctor stethoscope options.
The mod runs on the server, and vanilla clients receive everything, including the checkup, with no client install. Village Doctor is open source under the MIT License and requires Fabric API on every loader. Files target game versions 1.21.11 – 26.2 for Fabric, NeoForge and Quilt; on Quilt, the Fabric jar is loaded only by a sufficiently recent Quilt Loader, and Quilt offers no older loader for 1.21.11.
Key features
Stethoscope checkup
Right-clicking a villager shows a full checkup with a plain diagnosis of what is blocking breeding or restocking.
Bed and workstation claims
The Stethoscope claims a bed or workstation for a specific villager, and shift-right-click shows which villager owns each block.
Owner lookup
Shift-right-clicking a bed, workstation or bell highlights the owning villager for a few seconds.
Standard villager coverage
Vanilla-style villager mods are covered, while custom trader mods with their own entity classes and wandering traders are not.
Crafting recipe
The Stethoscope is crafted shapeless from a spyglass, string and a copper ingot.
Optional client outlines
With the optional client module installed, wireframe outlines trace the real shape of a block.
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
Village Lens is client and server and not open source under the MIT License; it is published for 1.21 – 26.2 on Fabric and NeoForge only. Village and Pillage Tweaks is server required with client optional, open source under the MIT License, and covers 1.21.11 – 26.2 on Fabric, NeoForge and Quilt. Dibs! is server required with client optional, open source under the CC0 1.0 Universal license, and published for Fabric only.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Village Doctor | Fabric, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.11 – 26.2 | Server required, client optional | 2026-07-20 |
| Village Lens | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21 – 26.2 | Client and server | 2026-07-19 |
| Village and Pillage Tweaks | Fabric, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.11 – 26.2 | Server required, client optional | 2026-06-18 |
| Dibs! | Fabric | 1.21 – 26.2 | Server required, client optional | 2026-07-19 |
Questions
Does Village Doctor need Fabric API?
Do players need the mod to use the checkup?
Which loader should a server use?
In the catalog
Village Doctor is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,189 Mobs mods for Fabric. 13,894 mods support Minecraft 26.2.
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What the author says
Right-click a villager with a Stethoscope for a full checkup — and a plain diagnosis of why it won't breed, restock, or claim a bed or workstation. Villagers fail silently: no bed claimed, workstation stolen, not enough food, wrong time of day, item pickup switched off by a stray command. The game never tells you…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/village-doctor
- Owner
- NothingItIs
- Published
- 2026-07-16
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-07-20
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15