
Better Villager Pickup
A simple server-side mod that allows you to pick up villagers. Since this is a server-side mod, it works with vanilla clients.
This is a fork of Villager Pickup which implements a fix to prevent players from putting picked up villagers into mob spawners or spawning them inside other villagers (by default this would spawn a baby villager with no data). This fork also adds a few additions like showing the villager's profession, type, health, workstation and bed locations and trades in the item tooltip.
To pick up a villager, simply sneak and right click on them.
The villager spawn egg will retain all NBT data of the villager meaning it will stay the same way you picked it up. (keep xp, trades, etc)

Planned Features
- Add a config option to change which entities can be picked up
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.1
- 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 villagerpickup-1.1.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 11 KB
- Download link checked 30 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.