Villager Awakening

Villager Awakening enhances the vanilla villagers. Each villager receives a culture, a personality and a name that reflects that culture, and a shared culture gives villagers of the same group common speech. Wandering traders spawn with one of six unique personalities, which shape how the villager responds to the player. Villagers also adapt to the player, recognizing them and adjusting how they address them, including a preferred gender.

Speech is drawn from a bank of more than 1000 dynamic lines. Villagers comment on their own personality and culture, as well as on the player and conditions in the world, using over 30 custom triggers. Speech appears in custom speech bubbles, in chat, or in both, and the server owner can configure the mod to fit a particular playstyle.

The mod is built for NeoForge and is published for 1.21 – 1.21.4 across three release versions, with files for 1.21, 1.21.1 and 1.21.4. It must be installed on the client and the server, since both sides run its features. The mod is released under All rights reserved, so its code is not open source. An issue tracker is available for bug reports.