Villager Artifacts
by Lothrazar
Villager Artifacts gives villagers, illagers and wandering traders a set of crafted items and abilities, all used through the player's inventory and the world's villager systems.
What it does
Villager Artifacts adds items that change how villagers behave. A Scroll of Hubris can erase a villager's profession, including its level and trades, while work blocks nearby are left alone. A Grimoire of the Lost Merchants Guild can instantly raise a profession's level without any trades being made. Other items convert pillagers and wandering traders, corrupt villagers and traders into illagers with greater strength, or heal zombified villagers without needing potions. An Amulet can turn pillagers into town guards that fight against raids.
Some items target iron golems and villagers in other ways. An Oblivion Stone upgrades iron golems, and a Llama Key frees wandering traders' llamas from captivity and converts them to normal llamas. A bribe reduces a player's crimes in a village by raising reputation. Villagers can also be made to follow the player and hold long lures, and the mod spawns two new mobs from villager-related activity.
The mod depends on FLIB, which must be installed on both the server and the client. Villager Artifacts runs on Forge and NeoForge, is built for Minecraft 1.16.5 – 26.1.2 across seven release versions and is released under the MIT License. The source code and wiki are public.
Key features
Profession erasure
A scroll removes a villager's profession, levels and trades while leaving nearby work blocks in place.
Instant level-up
A grimoire raises a villager's profession level directly, without the player trading with it first.
Town guards from pillagers
An amulet converts pillagers into town guards that defend villages during raids.
Wandering trader conversion
Items convert wandering traders into villagers and free their llamas from captivity.
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
No Villager Trades is a Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt mod for 1.13 – 1.21.10, with the server required and the client optional, under All rights reserved and not open source. Villager Trades is a NeoForge server-side mod for 1.21.1 – 1.21.11 that is not open source. Resettleable Traders is a Fabric and Forge server-side mod for 1.20.1 and is open source under The Unlicense. Villager Artifacts is open source under the MIT License and runs with client and server on Forge and NeoForge.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Villager Artifacts | Forge and NeoForge | 1.16.5 – 26.1.2 | Client and server | 2026-08-23 |
| No Villager Trades | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.13 – 1.21.10 | Server required, client optional | 2025-10-29 |
| Villager Trades | NeoForge | 1.21.1 – 1.21.11 | Server-side only | 2026-06-28 |
| Resettleable Traders | Fabric and Forge | 1.20.1 | Server-side only | 2024-10-11 |
Questions
Does Villager Artifacts need FLIB?
Which loaders can run Villager Artifacts?
Does the mod need to be on the client and the server?
More from Lothrazar
What the author says
Modify villagers, get them to follow you, spawn a town guard and an upgraded reinforced golem Unlock trades when a villager has them blocked (red X). Also used as crafting material in many items
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/villager-tools
- Owner
- Lothrazar
- Published
- 2022-06-19
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-08-23
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15