Profession Locking
This is a port / rewrite of Profession Lock for Neoforge. It is a small mod that prevents players from resetting villager professions and trades by repeatedly breaking and placing their workstation.
In our opinion, this is a game-breaking mechanic that makes the game much easier and makes certain things (such as the Mending enchantment) much too easy to obtain.
With Profession Locking, the villager's profession and trades are locked, even if their workstation is broken.
Quick facts
- 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.
Verified by MCModsHub
- Ships as professionlock-1.21.1-1.0.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 3 KB
- Download link checked 6 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.