📖 Description
Nice Villager Names adds random names to Villagers and Wandering Traders. First and Last names as well as the color for Villager Names are different based on the type of the Villager. First and Last names also gets randomly assigned independently from each other.
🛠️ How to, Instructions & Commands
The datapack usually just needs to be installed. There is nothing else you have to do. It just works out of the box.
But if you are playing on a PaperMC Server (or a PaperMC Fork like Purpur) make sure to set allow-non-player-entities-on-scoreboards in your paper config files to true in order for everything to work properly.
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- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.5
- 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 — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.
- Downloads as nice_villager_names_v1-3.zip
- Download size: 267 KB
- Download link checked 29 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.