
TavernBard
TavernBard allows you to apply the 'bard' trait to any of your Citizens NPCs. Turn your NPC into a medieval musician!
⬇ Download on ModrinthThis is my first plugin, if you have any suggestions or concerns join my Discord and I'd be more than happy to help!
REQUIRES:
- Citizens
- Custom Resourcepack (default is provided but you must make one to add your own songs!)
IMPORTANT - When converting files to OGG make sure the sound channel is mono!
TavernBard allows you to apply the 'bard' trait to any of your Citizens NPCs. Turn your NPC into a medieval musician!
With this trait, interacting with the NPC will open a menu where players can play or queue songs. All players within radius of the bard can hear the music, you can set your own radius in config. Players can also vote to skip songs, if the majority wants to skip the song the next one in queue will play.
Current Features:
Apply external resourcepacks
Minimessage codes accepted in config
Information about current song in GUI
Only person who started song can stop it
Otherwise players can vote to skip songs
Define a custom radius for audio
Noteblock particles above NPC head while music is playing
Supports custom model data for song items
Adjust maximum queue size to fit your needs
Planned Updates:
Self-hosted resource pack. Should allow you to manage the resourcepack from the plugin folder.
Economy hook, users can pay to request songs if configured
Users can pay items to request songs if configured
Option to loop a song within certain coordinates, useful for RPG servers
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.20, 1.20.1, 1.20.2
- 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 TavernBard-1.2.2.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 39 KB
- Download link checked 1 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.