LivingVillages | Self-Building NPC Villages [FREE]

Construction and village life
Residents work, craft tools, build homes and workplaces, eat and rest. Local guards protect the village.



Economy and trade

Physical coins, a village treasury and trading based on local demand. Complete delivery tasks, supply materials and earn residents' trust.





Maps and information boards

Check population, food supplies, treasury and construction needs.

Free version

• One culture.
• Village levels 1–3.
• Up to 12 residents per village.
• Up to 5 villages per world.

Installation

1. Download the plugin.
2. Place the JAR in your server's plugins folder.
3. Restart the server.

Player commands

• /lv — Open command help.
• /lv help [page] — Open a help page.
• /lv menu — Open discovered villages and their menus.
• /lv status — Show population, food, treasury and construction status in the current village.
• /lv claims — Collect available rewards and returned items in the current village.
• /lv edition — Show edition information and features.
• /lv bypass — Show your village block protection bypass status.

Administrator commands
Requires livingvillages.admin.

• /lv admin — Open the village administration panel.
• /lv create — Create a settlement near the player with automatic culture selection and site checks.
• /lv coins <amount> [player] — Give coins in bronze units. A named recipient must be online.
• /lv pause — Pause or resume simulation in the current village.
• /lv npc [status] [UUID] — Show NPC status for the nearby village or the specified village UUID.
• /lv npc repair [UUID] — Check NPC links and restore eligible living residents.
• /lv generation — Show village generation settings and the last placement rejection.
• /lv reload — Validate and reload supported settings.
• /lv diagnostics — Show village, NPC and work queue diagnostics.
• /lv operations — List operations requiring manual reconciliation.
• /lv resolve <UUID> commit|cancel — Commit or cancel an unresolved operation after manual reconciliation.

Block protection bypass
/lv bypass on|off — enable or disable editing through LivingVillages village block protection. Requires livingvillages.bypass.

Permissions

• livingvillages.admin — administration panel, settlement creation, coin grants, simulation pause, NPC tools, settings reload, diagnostics and operation recovery.
• livingvillages.bypass — editing through the plugin's village block protection; toggle with /lv bypass on|off.

Both permissions default to server operators. Player commands require no additional permission nodes.
Use /lv status, /lv claims and /lv pause inside the village.

Creating a village
/lv create works without arguments.
Optional: /lv create [culture|auto] [layout].
In Free, available cultures are auto and polevichi.

Requirements: Paper 26.3, Java 25.
Languages: English and Russian.

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