
Smart Villagers Follow Emeralds
A simple Fabric mod that makes villagers follow players holding emerald-related items including Emeralds, Emerald Blocks, Emerald Ore, and Emerald Deepslate Ore.
Doesn't this already exist?
This mod is indeed functionally similar to Villagers-Follow-Emeralds-Fabric, but distinct in a few important ways.
Internally, the comparable Villagers-Follow-Emeralds-Fabric adds an AI goal to villagers to modify their behaviour, which creates a conflict with the brain tasks villagers make use of since 1.14, resulting in often inconsistent emerald following. This mod instead makes use of a proper brain task to add following behaviour, which is much more reliable and future-proof. This is also where the "Smart" in the name comes from.
Another difference is that this mod uses a tag to determine which items tempt villagers, which means that it is possible for server owners and modpack creators to add custom items to this list if they so desire.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.19.4, 1.20, 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 smart-villagers-follow-emeralds-1.0.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 90 KB
- Download link checked 27 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.