Smart Trading
The best Fabric villager trading quality of life mod. Name villagers, favorite trades, search librarians by enchantment, and track zombie cures. No server…
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Smart Trading
Manage your villagers like never before with this powerful quality of life trading mod for Fabric! Perfect for organizing trading halls, finding librarians, and keeping track of your best trades across any world or server.
What This Mod Does
Smart Trading adds a clean side panel directly into the vanilla trading screen, giving you tools to name your villagers, mark favorite trades, search librarians by enchantment, and track zombie villager cures in real time. Everything works on any server without any server side installation required.
Features
- Custom Villager Nicknames - Assign a permanent name to any villager that shows above their head and in the trading screen
- Favorite Trades - Click the star next to any trade to highlight it in gold for quick access
- Librarian Enchantment Search - Type any enchantment name and every matching librarian gets highlighted across your trading hall
- Zombie Villager Cure Timer - A live countdown appears above zombie villagers being cured, adjusted for nearby iron bars and beds
- Locked Trade Overlay - Out of stock trades get a red tint so you know instantly what is unavailable
- Color Code Support - Use ampersand color codes in villager names for custom color coded trading halls
- Settings Panel - Toggle every feature on or off directly inside the trading screen
How to Use
Quick Start:
- Walk up to any villager and open the trading screen
- The Smart Trading panel appears automatically on the side
- Type a name in the name field and press Enter to nickname that villager
- Click the star next to any trade to mark it as a favorite
- Type in the search bar to find librarians by enchantment name
Perfect For
- Trading Hall Builders - Keep track of dozens of villagers with custom names and colors
- Librarian Hunters - Find that specific enchantment book in seconds across your entire hall
- Survival Players - Know exactly when your zombie villager cure is finished
- Multiplayer Servers - Works on any server without admin permission or server mods
Technical Details
- Client side only - works on any server
- Lightweight - no performance impact on normal gameplay
- Safe - makes no changes to server data or game mechanics
- All data saved locally - names and favorites persist across sessions and mod updates
Installation
Requirements:
- Minecraft 1.21.x to 26.1.x
- Fabric Loader
- Fabric API
Steps:
- Get Fabric Loader from https://fabricmc.net/use/installer
- Download Fabric API from https://modrinth.com/mod/fabric-api
- Download Smart Trading from this page
- Place both jar files into your mods folder
- Launch using the Fabric profile and enjoy!
Need Fabric API? Get it from the official Fabric project linked above. It is required for this mod to work properly!
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 26.2
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as smart-trading-1.0.15+26.2.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 249 KB
- Download link checked 6 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.