Villagers Respawn
by Two Guys
Villagers Respawn changes what happens when a villager dies: a villager with a bed can come back at its bed after being killed.
What it does
When a villager dies, the mod can bring it back at its bed, so a village keeps its population instead of slowly emptying. Respawn odds follow a difficulty setting: respawn happens nearly every time on the lowest setting, most of the time on the middle one, and on the highest setting a villager killed by a zombie turns into a zombie rather than returning to its bed. A respawned villager returns with full health, 20 hit points, and loses some experience, though it never drops a whole level. Respawn can also be made erratic, with a chance set between 15% and 20% for a lucky miracle, or between 25% and 75% for less reliable results; 100% is fully reliable.
The mod runs on the server, so players join without installing anything and the server needs only Fabric or Forge with the mod in its mods folder. Its configuration file exposes the respawn percentage, the undead and weakened-villager options and the experience loss, with reasonable defaults for single players, mod pack authors and server operators. Debugging messages are off by default to keep the log free of spam. Files cover 1.20 – 1.21.1 on Fabric and Forge, and the code is released under the MIT License without being open source.
Key features
Bed-based respawn
A villager killed after it has a bed returns at that bed, with the choice of a difficulty level that sets how often this happens.
Difficulty levels
Three settings change respawn odds, and on the highest one only zombie kills turn villagers into zombies.
Respawn tuning
A respawn percentage option lets server operators decide how reliable respawn is, from erratic chances to full certainty.
Villager health and experience
Respawned villagers return with 20 hit points, lose some experience and never drop below their current level.
Configurable options
A saved configuration file offers several options for mod pack writers, including warnings about Iron Golems and debugging output.
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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.
How it compares
Limited Respawns is server-side too, but it runs on Fabric, Forge and NeoForge for 1.19.2 – 1.21.3 under a custom license and is not open source. Dynamic Villager Trades is also server-side only, with Fabric and Forge files for the same range as this mod, and is licensed CC0 1.0 Universal. Bad Respawn and Hardcore Respawn focus on player respawn rather than villagers, so they cover a different part of the game.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Villagers Respawn | Fabric and Forge | 1.20 – 1.21.1 | Server-side only | 2024-08-28 |
| Limited Respawns | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.19.2 – 1.21.3 | Server-side only | 2025-02-28 |
| Dynamic Villager Trades | Fabric and Forge | 1.20 – 1.21.1 | Server-side only | 2025-05-30 |
| Bad Respawn | Fabric | 1.20.6 – 1.21 | Client and server | 2024-08-03 |
| Hardcore Respawn | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.19.2 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-12-17 |
Questions
Does Villagers Respawn need to be installed on the client?
Which loader should a server use?
How can respawn be made less reliable?
In the catalog
Villagers Respawn is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,189 Mobs mods for Fabric. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
It was just a matter of time... Now that Villagers have beds, those with beds have begun to respawn next to their beds when they die. Villagers Respawn has reasonable basic default options. Single players may install this mod without needing to make any changes.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/villagers-respawn
- Owner
- Two Guys
- Published
- 2024-08-28
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2024-08-28
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15