Villager Farm
A Fabric mod for Minecraft 1.21.11 that overhauls villager farming behavior.
Features
- Decoupled from
mob_griefing— villager harvest, replant, and pickup now ignore the global mob_griefing gamerule (toggle in config). Setmob_griefing=falseto stop creepers/endermen damaging the world while villagers keep farming. - Atomic harvest + replant — when a farmer breaks a mature crop, the seedling goes back in the same tick. Yields are vanilla loot minus one seed-equivalent.
- Five extended crops — sugar cane, nether wart, pumpkin, melon, and cocoa. Pumpkins and melons are only harvested when stem-grown (verified via blockorigin) so player-placed decorations are left alone. Sugar cane harvest leaves the bottom stalk so the column regrows. Each crop is independently toggleable.
- Food sharing + breeding integration — pumpkin (food=4 by default), melon slice / sugar cane / cocoa beans (food=1) all count toward villager breeding readiness. Custom share path lets farmers throw any of these to neighbors as soon as they have ≥2 in a slot, so the new crops actually circulate.
- Pickup status effects — picking up sugar cane gives Speed (configurable duration + amplifier per cane). Cocoa beans give Regeneration. A cleric picking up nether wart rolls one of the configured positive effects.
- Farmer anti-trample — farmer-profession villagers stop wrecking their own farmland by jumping. Other entities still trample normally.
- Wider AI scan — vanilla's farmer brain only scans ±1 around the villager. The mod adds a configurable wider scan for extended crops (default ±2). Includes a fallback that populates
SECONDARY_JOB_SITEfor soul-sand and jungle-log farms; without it, the brain framework would refuse to even consider the farming task. - WTHIT + Jade tooltip integration — hovering a villager shows their current activity (Working / Resting / Meeting / Idle / etc.) plus their inventory contents. Optional; works with either tooltip mod, or none.
Every feature has a config toggle, and every magic number is editable.
Installation
- Install Fabric Loader ≥ 0.19.2 and Fabric API for Minecraft 1.21.11.
- Download
blockorigin(required runtime dep — provides the cause-tracking that makes the stem-grown pumpkin/melon detection work). - Download
villagerfarm-x.y.z.jarfrom the releases page and drop it into yourmods/folder alongsideblockorigin. - Optional: install WTHIT or Jade to get the villager tooltip overlay.
Configuration
On first launch the mod creates config/villagerfarm.json with sensible defaults. Edit the file and restart the game/server to apply changes. There's no hot-reload command.
The schema is a single JSON object with two top-level sections:
features — toggles
| Key | Default | Effect |
|---|---|---|
gamerule_split |
true |
When true, villager farming + pickup ignore vanilla's mob_griefing gamerule. Set false to revert to vanilla coupling. |
atomic_harvest_replant |
true |
Vanilla wheat/beetroot/potato/carrot harvested + replanted in the same tick. Disable for vanilla two-step behavior. |
anti_trample |
true |
Farmer-profession villagers don't trample farmland by jumping. |
secondary_job_site_patcher |
true |
Forces farmers near soul-sand / jungle-log / etc. to consider the FarmerVillagerTask. Without this, vanilla brain refuses to run the task for non-farmland farms. |
tooltip_integration |
true |
WTHIT/Jade villager tooltip displays activity + inventory. |
extended_crops.enabled |
true |
Master switch for the five extra crops. |
extended_crops.sugar_cane / nether_wart / cocoa / pumpkin / melon |
true |
Per-crop toggles, layered under the master switch. |
food_sharing.enabled |
true |
Master switch for the custom low-threshold share path. |
food_sharing.share_pumpkin / share_melon_slice / share_sugar_cane / share_cocoa_beans / share_nether_wart_to_cleric |
true |
Per-item share toggles. Wart is farmer→cleric only when its toggle is on. |
pickup_effects.sugar_cane.enabled |
true |
Effect on sugar-cane pickup. |
pickup_effects.sugar_cane.effect |
"minecraft:speed" |
Status effect identifier rolled. Any vanilla/modded effect id works. |
pickup_effects.sugar_cane.ticks_per_item |
200 |
Ticks added per cane (20t/s, so 200 = 10s). |
pickup_effects.sugar_cane.amplifier |
0 |
0 = level I, 1 = level II, etc. |
pickup_effects.cocoa_beans.* |
true / "minecraft:regeneration" / 100 / 0 |
Same shape as sugar cane, 5s/bean of Regen by default. |
pickup_effects.nether_wart.enabled |
true |
Random positive effect on nether-wart pickup. |
pickup_effects.nether_wart.cleric_only |
true |
Only fires for cleric villagers. |
pickup_effects.nether_wart.duration_ticks |
600 |
30 seconds at 20 t/s. |
pickup_effects.nether_wart.amplifier |
0 |
Effect level. |
pickup_effects.nether_wart.allowed_effects |
11 entries | Identifier list rolled from. Bad ids are silently dropped. |
values — numeric knobs
| Key | Default | Effect |
|---|---|---|
food_values |
pumpkin=4, melon_slice=1, sugar_cane=1, cocoa_beans=1 | Map of minecraft:item_id → food points. Items not in this map are not villager food. |
search.extended_radius_xyz |
2 |
The outer search shell for extended crops (vanilla is 1). |
search.extended_harvest_distance_squared |
16.0 |
Max squared distance the villager will harvest an extended crop from. |
search.unstuck_min/max_distance_squared |
1.0 / 6.25 |
Vanilla CropBlock targets in this squared-distance window get an unstuck-harvest so the brain doesn't lock onto unreachable wheat. |
search.secondary_job_site_radius_xz / radius_y / tick_interval |
4 / 2 / 40 |
Patcher scan dimensions and refresh interval (ticks). |
sharing.min_stack_size_to_toss |
2 |
Farmer needs at least this count in a slot to toss it to a neighbor. |
sharing.max_share_distance_squared |
5.0 |
Max squared distance between farmer and target villager for the custom share path. |
The config does not validate its inputs. If you set ticks_per_item: -50 or rename enabled to enabled_lol, you get whatever fallback Gson decides — usually defaults for missing fields, weird behavior for nonsense values. Edit responsibly.
yes its made by claude
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.11
- 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.
Verified by MCModsHub
- Ships as villagerfarm-0.7.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 48 KB
- Download link checked 21 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.