Villagers Reborn
Replaces villagers and illagers with custom human models while keeping all vanilla trades and behavior. Inspired by the amazing work done in Minecraft…
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Villagers Reborn
You can find the wiki and see all the changes in the new Mod Compatibility Update here 📝
And if you'd like to support the project, you can grab us a Ko-fi ☕
Villagers Reborn replaces vanilla villagers with human models while keeping their usual jobs, trades, and behavior.
You can build relationships with villagers, start dating, get married, and start a family!
Also includes villager names, personalities, custom equipment, and a dialogue system.
Works in any existing world and is compatible with most mods that add custom trades or professions.
It also replaces other mobs such as illagers, witches, and the wandering trader with human models.
Mod Collection ⚔️
Dialogue Screen

New features 📌
- Custom villager human models
- Family system
- Dating and marriage system
- New villager sounds
- New illagers models and sounds
- New wandering merchant models and sounds
- New witches models
- Functional vanilla trades
- Compatible with modded trades
- Villager personality system
- Villager dialogue system (press R to talk)
- Villager inventory and equipment
- Villager orders (follow, stay, set home)
- Villager management
- Receive gifts from villagers based on relationship level (item pool)
- Resurrect villagers
- Works with modded villages and towns
- Villagers have their own name tags
- Villagers keep their original vanilla behavior
- Compatible with existing worlds
- New villager spawn eggs
- Villager models support any skin (change skin tutorial)
- Skin selection screen (modern or medieval)
Start a Family

Gallery 📸
To do list 🛠️
Add kings and queens
Expand dialogue and relationship options
Update the dialogue GUI
Add marriage system ✔️
Village management
Receive gifts from villagers ✔️
Quests system
Add villager orders: follow, stay, equip, and set home ✔️
Add an in-game option to change any villager’s skin ✔️
Add advancements
Custom model for the wandering trader ✔️
Custom models for zombie villagers ✔️
Add config options and key binds to adjust settings in-game ✔️
Improve general villager behavior
Use villager custom models for players?
Add human versions of pillagers and witches ✔️
Full multiplayer and LAN compatibility ✔️
Fabric compatibility
Forge 1.20.1 ✔️
Translation 📄
Portuguese by Felipe Campos
Spanish (Spain and Latin America)
Issues ⚠️
Sometimes a villager gender changes after curing them from zombification if you cure more than one villager at the same time
Already existing villagers disappear if the mod is removed
Here you can report bugs or issues and leave a comment.
This mod includes skins from Skindex. All rights belong to their original creators, who were contacted when possible with permissions confirmed where available. You can find the talented authors in the Skin Credits.
This mod is now fully compatible with single player, local multiplayer (LAN), and multiplayer/dedicated servers.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.20.1, 1.21.1, 1.21.11
- 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 CurseForge — 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 villagersreborn-1.0.9b.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 8.8 MB
- Download link checked 22 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.


