Guide-API-VP aka Village and Pillage
This is a fork of the original mod Guide-API by TehNut and Tombenpotter released under the MIT license for 1.14 (Village and Pillage) and above. It uses a different package and a different modid (guideapi-vp).
For modders:
About
Allows easy creation of a guide book for your mod.
Books are mostly maintained by Guide-API (it registers them, it puts them in it's own creative tab, etc).
The guide book is created mostly in code whereas e.g. Patchouli is mostly JSON based. This means:
- Add or change content based on the configuration of your mod.
- Wrap lines and pages based automatically, so localized strings don't overflow
- Refer to the set keybindings
- Refer to internal constants, balancing values etc so they are automatically changed in the book if you change them in the mod
- Add custom page types, recipe types, etc.
- Use helper methods to generate parts of the book automatically
What else?
- No hard dependency, if Guide-API is not present at runtime the book won't be there, but everything else works
- Use TextFormatting and manual \n
- Several ready-to-use page types like text, item/block focused text, recipe, and image pages
How to use for your own mod:
https://github.com/maxanier/Guide-API#developer-information
Credits
Original Mod: TehNut and Tombenpotter
Fork: Maxanier
Licence
MIT license, so if necessary you can create a fork. Also feel free to include it in your modpack.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 26.1.2
- 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 Guide-API-VP-26.1.2-3.0.0-beta.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 223 KB
- Download link checked 26 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.