Village Workers Plus
by nivthefox
Village Workers Plus, a Forge expansion for 1.20.1, adds new worker professions that gather and deliver items for villagers.
What it does
The mod extends the Village Workers system with additional villager professions and infrastructure, so villages feel more interconnected. Workers must be assigned to a chest before they begin working. Scans find nearby workers, and a player can remember up to 16 workers, with capacity increasing as equipment is upgraded. Once a worker is acquainted, it can be visited regularly to check its needs, and items are delivered from the assigned chest to the worker's own chest.
Level 2 and higher Cartographer villagers can be hired through the Porter Workstation, which the mod adds. Required dependency: Villager Workers must be installed alongside it. Just Enough Items (JEI) is optional. The mod is published for Forge only, with files for 1.20.1. Environment: client and server, so the server and every player need it. It is released under the BSD 3-Clause License and is open source, with public source code and an issue tracker. Development has moved to a project that carries its own ideas, and the author notes that VillageWorkersPlus is no longer maintained.
Key features
New worker professions
Additional villager professions are added, each with a role in the village's work systems.
Chest assignment
Workers are tied to a chest, and they only start working once that chest has been assigned.
Nearby worker scanning
Scans locate workers near the player, and up to 16 can be remembered, with capacity rising as equipment improves.
Item delivery
Items move from a worker's assigned chest into the worker's own chest, keeping supply routes in place.
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
Optional 1
How it compares
TFC Recruits is a Forge mod for 1.20.1 – 1.20.5 with a client and server environment, released under All rights reserved, and it is not open source. Settler Villager is also Forge, for 1.20.1 – 1.20.6, client and server, under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later, and not open source. Inventory Expansion Plus is Forge for 1.20.1, client and server, under the MIT License, and open source. Usefulvillagers is Forge for 1.20.1 and runs server-side only, under the MIT License, and is not open source.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Village Workers Plus | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2025-09-05 |
| TFC Recruits | Forge | 1.20.1 – 1.20.5 | Client and server | 2026-08-14 |
| Settler Villager | Forge | 1.20.1 – 1.20.6 | Client and server | 2026-08-13 |
| Inventory Expansion Plus | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-06-14 |
| Usefulvillagers | Forge | 1.20.1 | Server-side only | 2026-05-04 |
Questions
Does Village Workers Plus need Village Workers installed?
Does the server need Village Workers Plus?
Is Village Workers Plus still maintained?
In the catalog
Village Workers Plus is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 6,527 Mobs mods for Forge. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
Development has moved to which contains my own ideas for a village mod. If you're looking for villager work systems, please use VillageTale instead.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/workersplus
- Owner
- nivthefox
- Published
- 2025-08-13
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-09-05
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15