

🌿 VillagerGender — Realistic Villager Breeding with Genders
📝 Description
VillagerGender introduces a realistic gender and breeding system for villagers in Minecraft. Each villager is assigned a random gender (male or female) upon spawning, and reproduction follows biological rules: only females can give birth, and each mother has a limited number of children she can bear.
Breeding occurs naturally when a male and female villager are nearby, beds are available, and cooldown periods are respected. The system uses NBT data to persistently store gender, birth count, and breeding timers.
Perfect for roleplay, survival realism, or immersive world-building servers.
🔧 Features
- ✅ Gender System: Every villager gets a gender —
♂ Maleor♀ Female. - 👶 Motherhood Limits: Females can have up to
max_children_per_mother(configurable). - ⏳ Breeding Cooldown: Time-based cooldown between births (configurable in minutes).
- 🛏️ Bed Requirement: Requires one free bed (head part) per villager + one extra for the newborn.
- 🔍 Chunk & World Scan: Applies gender to existing villagers on load.
- 📊 Stats Command:
/villagerstatsshows villagers, beds, and their coordinates. - 🎨 Gender-Based Names: Uses separate name lists for males and females.
- 🪪 Name Display: Gender icon (
♂/♀) shown before the custom name. - 🐞 Debug Mode: Optional console logging for troubleshooting.
⚙️ Configuration (config.yml)
debug: false
max_children_per_mother: 3
breeding_cooldown_minutes: 5
partner_search_radius: 5
🛠 Commands
/villagerstats— View village statistics (requiresVilagerGender.stats.adminpermission).
💾 Compatibility
- Works on Spigot/Paper 1.18+
- No external dependencies
- Uses
PersistentDataContainer(NBT) for data storage
🚀 Bringing realism and life to your villagers, one baby at a time.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.18, 1.18.1, 1.18.2
- 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 VilagerGender-1.5.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 20 KB
- Download link checked 21 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.