
Lifebound is a mod that allows players to form close bonds with villagers, create a family and get benefits from their loved ones.
Mod Overview
This mod adds these traits, items and events listed below.
Items
Heartthrob💓
Via 50% chance, player can gain a heartthrob every time they sleep.
Bonding Extract🥛❤️
Bonding extract can be used to bond with villager. To bond, player can shift + right-click a villager, which will mark the villager as pregnant. After time count-down, player will have a child. Recipe of bonding extract: 2x Heartthrob + Milk Bucket
Care Dynamic✨
When bonded with a villager, player becomes responsible of giving their partner care.
Carepoints💖
To gain carepoints, player can give gifts to the villager. Heartthrob, flowers and food counts as gifts.
Bonded villager gives a food item every morning to the player. The quality of food depends on how high the caarepoints are. When carepoint is high, villager gives more fulfilling food, and when less, worse food or none at all.
Interactions✉️
Player can now interact with villager through chat. (Note that this part is still beta and open to suggestions)
Supper?= Villager gives food. Cuddles?= Villager emits heart particles/approaches player. When player is away from home= Villager: Return home safe!
Bond behaviour🔗
When bonded, the villager will try to return to the player's house (calculated with player's spawnpoint) If player bonds with a villager that is too far away from their home, the villager will try to run back to player's house. After bound, villager will stay close to player's house.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.20.1
- 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 lifebound-1.0.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 38 KB
- Download link checked 8 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.