So, am I to understand that villages will not generate on their own?
Also, do the other village "styles" work with this mod?

hiring a second farmer is overloading my game

tired other poeple but it only the farmer

Hotfix for a couple of issues released.

UPDATE 6: "Paths and Professions"

Welcome everyone to Update 6, the update I've been working on for about a month and a half now. You may have noticed that this is not a "Preview" build, but rather a full release. That is because we wanted to do things a little different with this update (more on that later). This update will have some exciting new stuff rolling out over the next while, so keep your eyes here and that feedback coming in!

Features:

Update 6 has a dual focus: The first is getting our pathfinding and activities system updated and working with more fluidity and immersive behaviors. Part of this has been reworking how Waypoints integrate into your villages, adjusting and tweaking values and area checks, and better expanding the base pathfinding routines. Coming along the way will be a complete reworking of the Villager's daily task arrangements, using broadly defined Morning, Day, and Evening tasks which will then have sub-tasks within them that are selected based on a randomizer. Some villagers will be at work like normal, some will go and take a day off, some will go shopping in the morning....some will host visitors to their homes in the evening, go to the village gathering spots, take a long walk, or maybe do some late work. Along with this their ambient behaviors will be set randomly too, so you'll notice more variety in how they respond and act. Currently, these features will be added as Version 6 is updated.

Release Method:

Update 6 will not work like previous updates which started with a preview version; instead, update 6 will be released in parts. One part that adds or refines a feature will be released no faster than 1-week intervals, to give us time to respond to feedback about any bugs people may find. No, these are not 'test' versions of these features....each released feature will have the normal focused Quality Assurance and Bug testing that goes into releases...but releasing this in part allows each feature to get the primary focus. New releases won't happen until we have one feature smoothed out and so on. Of course, hotfixes and critical bug-fixes can still happen when they are needed.

Current Features of 6.0.0:

What releases today is:

• Village Waypoint Update: Those 'mysteroius' waypoint items the Settlement Keeper's been selling, they have become much more useful. The waypoints help villagers find their way through larger or more complex villages much easier than without them. If you have a small, condensed village, you probably won't need these so much...but when your village gets larger, you'll want to add some of these in. Best practice is to place them around 20-30 blocks from one another and workstations or beds or gathering points. Each waypoint gives a connection to the things around it, and then conveys that information to the next waypoint over. Villages will use these waypoints when distances exceede their normal travel distance to be able to find their way AND keep performance impact low. I have been working on this feature for about 2 months now.
• Builder Villager: The Builder is a new hirable villager that can help you expand your village faster. They are the perfect help to people who want to build up their own villages but don't have the time to build every little house or building or buisiness themselves. The builder will sell "Building Markers" which, when placed, will let you select from a few prefabricated structures to have them construct. The cost for each is dynamically calculated according to what is contained in the Schematic and is paid in Rust Gears, like everything else. Currently, you can build the structures that were in the "Simple Village Addon". In the future, there will be a place where users can add their own schematics via a custom directory in the game data folder.
• Builder Overlay and Interface: The Building Markers have their own overlay which will show you the general maximum footprint of schematics you can build, and then when you select the one you want from the drop-down menu, you will see an overlay giving the very basic footprint (only one layer) with the doors highlighted so you can accurately find your best rotation setting. You will be informed if you can pay the cost or not (and how much it is), and how long the build will take.
• Builder Scaffolding: When construction begins, the area is covered by a scaffolding (its based on vanilla Rough-hewn fences for now) to protect it from damage and people getting in the way. Each day, you can see a bit of the progress (and check the % on the marker itself, as well as cancel for a partial refund) as it happens. When the construction is done, the scaffolding will be removed and you will have your new building, ready to add whatever features you wish.
• Recover Fixtures Button: Now in the Mayorstation interface you will find a button to "recover fixtures", if you ever need to destroy your village (to like rename it or something), you can now hit "recovery villagers" and "recover Fixtures" and that should return them all to the village registration. Makes relocating things much much easier.
• Combat Broadcast Clamp: Combat callouts are now kept only to those within the village radius.
• Various tweaks and fixes to timing and what-not.

This update is some of the stuff I've been working on for a while now. Things that have taken many hours of work, and a lot of testing and reading. I am proud to say that these features should be wonderful additions to your VSvillage experience.

Coming next time: The Angler, a villager who can provide food for your village via fishing.....and the start of the Task reworks!

As always, thank you for being a part of our Village!

-MiraLeaps

NOTICE:

Some users have reported issues with the mod "Synergy".

This mod makes alterations to the entity AI to help save on performance and can heavily affect the systems needed for proper function of the Villagers from VSvillage.

At this time, I would list the two mods as incompatible.

I have contacted the author to see if a solution can be found.

Notice:

Update 6 is likely to take a bit of a different form, as I am going to do an expansion and overhaul of the pathfinding to make that more solid and reintegrate the waypoints back into being helpful for all villages and essential for larger ones while maintaing good performance. I will probably release a little bit of the new content at a time in the form of the new villagers and what not so we can see how they are and get feedback and move the other structural stuff to Update 7.

Thank you!

Added this to the description stuff above:

BUG REPORT NOTICE:

If you are coming to report a bug or issue with the mod, it is REQUIRED that you provide your SERVER-MAIN.log from the game session in which you encoutered the issues. Without Logs, We can only take broad guesses based on your reports, and that usually isn't helpful. If you report an issue without including the log, the post will not be followed up on.

How to find your logs and post them:

You will first need to navigate over to your Vintage Story Data Folder (not the Install Folder).

Typically it is found (on windows): C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\VintagestoryData (replace C: with the drive letter the data folder is found)

This is where you had to install your Mods, but if you had them installed via server join you might not know where this is.

In this directory you will see a Folder named Logs, and within this folder you will see a few .log files.

The file that we need is the server-main file. If the observed issue was during a previous session, look in the Archive folder and find the date/time closest to when you remember the incident occuring.

From this point, you have two options: you can reach out on Discord in the VSvillage channel (linked above) and upload your log there -or- you can upload the log to a hosting site and link it in the comments below. If you use GitHub, you can post the issues there using the issue tracker, it has log upload options as well.

If you comment here, please tag MiraLeaps so that your report can be handled as fast as possible. Please add a description of the issue with as much detail as reasonable and that you can remember and describe. If you need to write it in another language so that you can capture the details naturally, I will use google translate and follow-up on things that were maybe lost in the translation.

Please leave any commentary or opinion out of this context, especially if you have a bad attitude about it.

I usually respond to reports with tags within half a day or so, but please be patient

Personal Note: Mod makers work pretty tirelessly to keep the mods you love working at a quality you expect, the least you can do is work with us by reading existing documentation such as what is presented here. I, MiraLeaps, am setting a boundary on this that is in respect for my time and energy. I am a mom with a family and a job. This is my spare time hobby. I love making mods, I love helping people out with those and other mods, and I love making sure the mods I work on are performing the best they can...but I also love spending time with my family, actually playing games, and doing other stuff besides bug hunting. Bug hunting can take hours of effort. It can be stressful. Please, if you like these mods, help the hardworking modders out by providing logs, accurate reports, and by searching around the existing comments to see if the issues were talked about already. This isn't an indictment of anyone, and its not written in anger: I just have to set a boundary here if I am going to keep up working on this and my other projects.

Thank you everyone for your bug reports and feedback, we're well on our way towards Update 6!
Thank you for being a part of our village! <3

Hey Y'all,

5.1.6 will be dropping soon. Just a few more minor tweaks and fixes to get everything nice and finalized before I start really getting into Update 6.

I finally got the archer's animation fixed. That was such a chore. Among other things. Keep an eye out :)

added to the above, but I wanted to put it here so people see it :)

How to build a proper Room for your Villagers:

Currently, in order for a space to pass a check for things like a Villager's Bed, the space must be closed in properly. This means solid walls, with a door and no open-spaces (chimney's need trapdoors to seal them). Windows qualify, but are optional. Chiseled blocks can cause issues (we'll come back to those). The check for this to work relies on the base-game 'Is-this-a-room' mechanic; if another mod is modifying this check, it could also cause issues (please keep that in mind when making reports). Usually, if you get the "indoors" status on your character sheet, the room should be good to go.

If you've got a bed placed in a room and it still says its not properly placed try the following:

1. Are there any Chiseled Blocks as walls? If so, remove them temporarily and replace them with other blocks for now. When the check is passed, you can replace them. Chiseled Block Retention mod -should- make these pass if you use it, but this is untested.
2. Are you using a Crude Door? These do not actually enclose the room and will fail the check.
3. Is the space larger than 7x7x7? This will also fail a check.
4. Try using the debug command /debug rooms hi. This will give you an overlay or a fail-state. If the overlay is green, the room passes. If red, the room is semi-recongnized but not passing the check. Otherwise you might get the message "no room detected" (or something like that). If green, the bed placement should work. To remove the overlay, use /debug rooms unhi
5. If the rooms check comes back green and the bed STILL is not placing, make sure you have no other beds placed down other than those already taken by villagers. The villagers grab the beds nearest their viable workstations, so if another bed is down, even in a temp position, it could be the culprit. Also, it could be the case of having 'ghost' structures from if there were things copied in or spawned in or things removed via world edit tools that leave lingering registrations. Check to see if your bed count on your mayor station is accurate. If not, pick up the unowned bed (or beds) you are trying to get working, then look for any remaining beds that have no villagers and you can hit the remove structure button. This should clear them from your village and let that function. This is a super rare case to happen.
6. If none of that is working, put in a bug-report! (make sure you tag MiraLeaps!

Update 5.1.5 coming soon! Loads of little fixes and tweaks and stuff.
Update 6 is sitll chugging along in pre-alpha, looking to put that up for preview in the next while :)

Remember folks: if you want a quick response to your issues/bug reports, please tag me in your post! I don't get notified otherwise!

Gerste, in a multiplayer world with two players colaborating on building a village, will the mayor only interract with the player that initially summoned them?

Coming Soon (or soonish. Time is relative anyway):

Update 5 (current):
Update 5.1.5 with some fixes and tweaks to make things more optimized and running right. 

Future 5.1.X update: I'm going to try and rework the villagegen system a bit to make those older mods work (as far as villager spawning goes) even when not updated. No promises, I feel like this is going to be a tough one.

Update 6:
Preview of Update 6 is coming soon too. I'm working on getting it ready to release for people to get a look at the features, for the village addon folks to get the new class names, and for people to catch any early bugs....AND put in feature tweaking requests.

Things that are going to be in the preview:

• Several new Villager types. Anglers provide a new food source for those near lakes, rivers, or the sea. Woodworkers, Potters, and Butchers will offer alternative ways to get processed materials. And a few more!
• A Builder Villager. This villager will sell you building permit contracts, which you can place down. The builder (or builders) will visit the location each day and work on the structure. After the required days are done, you'll have a new structure ready to use.
• A custom trade/dialgue UI that will integrate with the current base game stuff, but expand on it to allow for much more dynamic interactions.
• (maybe) Supply-chain framework. A feature that will be completed by the full update 6 release will be a working supply chain for the village. This means certain jobs will feed into other jobs allowing them to do more, sell more, provide more. Example: If you have a Forager working to get materials, this feeds into the woodworker who can then directly sell some things, which feeds into the Builder which can offer more structures to make.
• (maybe) Expanded Village statistics: instead of just food, the village will track the average Happiness of the Villagers, Security, Prosperity, Productivity. Some of the things that are currently hiring requirements will be reworked to provide boosts to these stats. Certain levels of stats will be required to bring in certain villagers. Like, for example, a village with high happiness, security, and prosperity will attract the interest of a Scholar who will ask to settle in the village.

Stay tuned for more updates!
Thank you for being a part of our growing Village!

Please do not report issues with the village addon mods here!! Report them on the pages for those addons!!

If you are having issues with those mods, make sure you are ONLY using the ones updated for 1.22!!!

This is stated in the description, and I'm stating it again!

Please do not report issues with the village addon mods here!! Report them on the pages for those addons!!

If you are having issues with those mods, make sure you are ONLY using the ones updated for 1.22!!!

This is stated in the description, and I'm stating it again!

Update coming later today. Found some more stuff that I wish I had found yesterday lol.

Including the herbalist transparency issue somehow returning.

Having an issue where no matter what i do i cannot hire anyone for my village, its a generated one and all have valid rooms etc, but cannot hire anything. farms dont register either even with 100+ tilled soild/farm blocks MiraLeaps

Am I doing something wrong? I have all the VS Village mods and i put them on my server and the villages are genertaing but every last village we have found have been completely empty. I saw that Simple VS Village is out of date for the current version should i remove this mod and will that fix the villager spawn.

Is it just me or are there issues with hiring villagers into buildings that use chiseled blocks, Im on 1.22 and the chiseled blocks ive used are vanilla. If there is an issue with chiseled blocks, are there any workarounds to it, like if you made a valid non chiseled building, hired the villager, and then replaced the walls, would that work

Unrelated note my shepherd just tamed an armor stand, I'm pretty sure thats not an intentional feature 

Malkolm2Billion Host not responding is a Base game error that is saying your server and client connection is not solid. This could be from too many mods, bad server settings, or machine specs. Its not directly related to VSvillage, the reason you're seeing it with that stuff is because the mod is trying to communicate what its doing to the server from the client and its failing. You'll need to seek deeper troubleshooting regarding the game itself. Sorry that I can't help you there.

when i try to hire a villager it does nothing then gives me a host not responding error

edit: I got a villager to spawn but it does the host not responding thing to almost all things like assigning villagers to work stations, beds ect.

Jadesy No problem!

I'm not personally updating VSquest, but I did do a test version of a 1.22 compatible thing that hopefully helps get it updated soon haha.

MiraLeaps Oh my goodness! Thank you for letting me know this. Of course, I will report this to the dev team. They might be tired of reading all my bug reports, however. Bless you for all your hard work and also for your patience with my inquiries and such. I will delete (or rather update) my original post here. And, then report to the dev team.

Thank you for updating the VS Quest mod, too!

Jadesy So, I did some looking at that, because I was like "Wait, that's not my debug print for teleporting, did I change that in my sleep?"

Those aren't my villagers. That's the story village. I don't have villagers named that, the coordinates are at the "hardcoded default" for the village, and the debug return is different than mine.

Please give this report over to the game devs.

Jadesy We're just getting VS Quest updated and it was tested and it does work with these villagers aside from the baker for now.

As far as the teleporting: I need to see more of those logs, the teleporting is not something they do unless their pathing absolutely cannot find a way for them to get where they are going. It is basically the third-line back up to ensure they don't get stuck somewhere. If ALL of the villagers are doign this, something has to be set up in such a way that they cannot otherwise pathfind. Either the workstations/beds/gathering points aren't centeral to the mayor station, or they are too far away (which usually just causes a fail state), or their pathing is being obstructed by impassable obstacles. I can't make a diagnosis right now, and that's absolutely not a 'fast easy way to fix pathing', because its not meant to fix pathing, its meant to be a last line back up. The lag is probably not the teleporting so much as it is the pathfinding for all those villagers hitting its full search depth and failing to find a viable spot. The villagers are also not usually prone to leaving their villages, I've not had this problem come up in...many hours of testing. The typical teleport case is when they are stuck on fences or if doors close in their faces, but that doesn't eat up any additional search depth because the block is already targeted.

It would be very helpful if I could get your logs and as much information about how things are set up in the village as you can give. A copy of the save would be very useful, but not required.

Are these your villagers? Are these villagers from a generated village? How big is the village radius set? Where are they at when they are getting teleported?

As much information as you can give will help me resolve this, but this seems to be a very unusual case state.

Do the villagers in this version work with VS Quest mod?

MiraLeaps Villager teleporting is causing lag on multiplayer 1.22.0 server. Surely there is some other way to make them stay in the village? https://imgur.com/a/L2vZG4t 
The teleporting is very, very frequent. I understand that this is a fast and easy way to fix pathing or set a village boundary, but it isn't performant in multiplayer. 

Another example https://imgur.com/a/yhYpvfX

P.S. A follow up to this message. The Villagers who are teleporting are the vanilla villagers and not the VS Village (this mod)'s villagers. Patiently, MiraLeaps tracked this down and made the determination. I will be reporting this to the main game devs shortly.

Should be button right under it on on the same station haha. There's also a sever command for it. galaxytraversal

yup it turns out it was the chiseled blocks lol. and yea the gather villagers is in the new update you dropped, but idk if theres like a cancel gather typa thing? 

galaxytraversal The "building" required is the same to qualify for a room in the base game (it uses the same room check). Basically, if you get the 'indoors' indicator on your character display, it should work as a room (the indicator can be a little buggy). If you're stil not sure and it seems to be having an issue, use the command /debug rooms hi (and then unhi when you're done) and you'll give a color overlay that will indicate if it is a room or not (green means room, red means not). Keep in mind that chiseled blocks can cause a break in a room.

As a special 'hint', once the bed is placed and the person is hired, you can pretty much modify the room as you wish. The initial check for the room is all that matters.

Thank you for the additional info about why this happened, that sounds exaclty like what's going on. I actually had the same thing in a tester room I've made. I spent about an hour staring at the code, even asked claude if it sees something wrong with it....and then it clicked to me to check the display and sure enough: 3 ghost beds.

I am going to try and figure out a fix for it, but its tricky. Right now, picking up the village and resetting it seems to be the way. I've got a 'recover villagers' button in that will make sure you reclaim any lost ones (Actually I need to check if I put that in the last update or if I'm misremembering that, if its not, it will be soon, but it should have been part of the fix to help compatibility with the worldgen stuff).

I wish you luck, if it keeps giving you issues, let me know.

also, what makes a building a building when it comes to hiring villagers? im assuming its walls roof door and windows, simple ik but thats what i feel it is.

MiraLeaps hello, Pooplover69 is my one of my server mates lol and im just typing in regards to what he said before. yea i installed the 1.22 update u dropped and everything was fine, just one of my other mods was causing crashes and in the mix of fixing that i had to redownload the vs villager mod since u recenntly updated it, and i launched the game ( i forgot lmao ) and didnt add back the new vs vil. mod. so everything was a questionmark block. but im gonna try what u said cuz its making more sense to me now. i think it is the ghost structures. i had to "remake" the village and i think thats what caused the initial issue. ill get back to ya with an update :) loving the mod btw i noticed lots of improvements with each update u have been putting out. i see great things coming with this mod 

Pooplover69 (wow what a name), You didn't need to replace the workstations or beds, they are using the same item classes and should work just fine.

Could you tell me how you removed the structures or how they were removed? Were you updating from Update 4 (the latest 1.21 version) or an older one?

What you're probably running into is ghost structures depending on how you removed stuff. Pick up all the beds and see if the mayor station is still registering the beds. If it is, then it sounds like its the ghost structures. I am currently working on a handler to deal with this error, but what -should- fix it for you is to pick up everything (workstations, beds, waypoints, brazier etc) except for the mayor station then 'destroy' the village and reload your save. This should clear any of the ghost-structures (the current things I had to flag them will only temporarily remove them, I'm working on getting this functioning better). Place the mayor station down, interact to name and establish the village, then see if it says you have any beds and such...you should be clear and you can start putting things down again.

Sorry about that, depending on how things were removed, the game can leave these lingering ghost structures that are invisible but will return as valid to the systems that run the village. I only recently ran into it when I started working on a different project that uses the base code from this one lol.

Thank you for your report, and may you be not judged for your name <3

(let me know if my work around fixes it for you, IDK when I'll be able to get some fall back on that set up. Those are pretty complicated systems)

im running into an issue, i updated the modd to the current one, from 1.21 to 1.22 for the game as well, and i have to replace all the villager workstations and beds (essentially start fresh, i saw this coming this isnt the issue). but now its saying i need walls and roofs around the beds, which i already have lol. i have a whole village built already basically lmao. im not sure if its not like registering the stuff i already have placed? idk im kinda lost. also sorry for the name of the acc, im not sure what made me name myself this 

Warlock161 the ones that were compatible with game version 1.21 -should- be compatible on this end. If you give them a try and something is up and there's no error in the logs, let the makers of those mods know on the pages for them.

From what I can see without personally testing them myself, everything is in place and double checked to make sure they are working from my side.

Are the other tile sets (Mods for this that add other pre built villages) compatible with the newest update of Vintage? Or ya'll workin on that? Or do ya not need to do anythin for it?

My pleasure Bl0ckparty, I love this mod and I'm happy I can apply my abilities towards making it the best it can be :)

Thank you so much for updating and improving the VS Villager mod!!!

MANEL190 People are going to think "Man, she just says 'that's actually something I thought about' every time someone suggests something" but I swear, a few months ago I was talking to my boyfriend about this exact thing. It is just a 'dreamlist' thing, haven't planned it out at all, but I do want to give some personality reworks to the Villagers and assign some with a 'main cast' kind of thing where you can follow their stories dynamically....and villagers will start their own families that stuff. Its not concrete at all and would be really tough haha, but I would love to add something fun like that in the distant future

Will in the future have some kind of marriage system? It gets lonely when you play only single player... 😭😭😭

MiraLeaps It's alright but thanks, I think I may have figured it out and I don't think it's related to this mod

Vyh06 if you can give me your logs I might be able to help no matter. And your mod list :)

Just to address your issue: I use both mods during testing and didn't get any freezing.

Actually it may not have been VS Village or Better Ruins, I think it's another mod, so nevermind

This and Better Ruins has caused my world to freeze at the end of loading the world when I updated to 1.22.0, is there anything you guys can do or is it only on my end?

Anquest Hey, the full release for update 5 was today haha. I'm glad you like the mod.
The world generation addons aren't my mods, so you'll need to make those requests on the mod pages for those mods :)

Happy you are happy :)

Stay tuned for future updates :D

I'm so happy I found this mod. I always hated playing singleplayer and this mod brings the life needed to do so. Thank you for the All the hard work you put into this and I cant wait to play the full release. Also look forword to the future. (Pls update village generation extenion)

MoiMoi I am flattered. You are very welcome. Thank you so much for your kindness <3

words cannot express how much I appreciate this mod thank you

Update 5, "Markets and Storms" full release

I am very proud to present the stable version of Vs Village Update 5. This was a TON of work, a TON of little adjustments, and a TON of time but, as someone who uses this mod too, I think it is well worth it.
I will be taking a little rest after this to gain my strenght for the next Update, which should be a lot easier. This Update was a lot of work because it represented the second half of what I consider making the mod 'whole', a project I started back in December prior to even joining the team. The previous 4.0.0 version was stable and functional, and this is the update that, to me, added a lot of more immersive features and rounded out the existing systems that I felt were missing. The mod was working, but the villagers could feel very stale. Now, I hope, they will feel a little more alive than they did.

Thank you for joining our Village,
-Miranda "miraleaps"

Welcome to the "Markets and Storms" update.

What's new?

• We have a new friend, The "Settlement Keeper" to get us started when you use the Summoning Horn.
  • The Horn now spawns a "Settlement Keeper", a Jonas device which handles the Materialization of Village Assets (Workstations, Braziers, etc), and can get you caught up on all the aspects of being the new Mayor of a Village.
  • The Keeper also has new original lore regarding "Project Regenesis". Check it out.
  • The Village Trader will keep selling the Village Assets for now, to protect legacy Villages. It is advisable to give yourself a new horn and spawn in the Keeper too, for all the information it has.
• Villagers have new requirements which must be met before they can be hired. This information can be found in the handbook or by talking to your Settlement Keeper.
  • Beds must be within a room. Multiple beds can be in a room, so shared spaces are okay. 
  • These requirements vary per Profession
    • Farmers now require 20 blocks of farmland near their workstations per farmer (the check adds 20 for each additional farmer, so the first needs 20, second 40 then so on)
    • Shepherds require their workstations to be near a fenced in area, no larger than 15x15 blocks, containing a trough, and at least 5 animals. Each additional shepherd needs at least 5 more animals and an additional trough. Make sure the area is completely fenced in or it won't pass their needs.
    • Traders and Herbalists need their own shop set up with a few essentials (see handbook)
    • Smiths need a properly equipped Smithy with an Anvil and a Forge, but will gladly share the space and tools with an additional smith later.
    • Soldiers and Archers require the construction of a Barracks, which must contain a tool rack holding a spear or bow per Soldier/Archer hired and be 7x7 blocks in size. The Barracks is a crucial part of your village's defense, so consider setting it up early!
• A new Villager, the Baker has joined the roster.
  • The Baker will need a proper Bakery with a Clay oven and other essentials to make thier job possible (see handbook for details).
  • The Baker will buy and sell bread related things and provide a small boost to the Village food (to allow for hiring more Villagers).
• The Market Stall and Travelling Traders!
  • Purchase a Market Stall and place it in an open area to attract Travelling Traders (and their armed escorts) to your Village.
  • The Travelling Traders will announce themselves, stand near the Market Stall and sell you goods, and then depart at the end of the day.
  • These are the same traders you run into at the Trader Outposts, selected randomly.
  • They will show up somewhat rarely, if the Stall is placed in an open space, they will come.
• The Villagers now respond to the Temporal Storms. They will seek safety in an established Barracks. If there is no Barracks, they will hide in their bedroom.
• Bears, Wolves, and Rust-monsters now seek out and attack Villagers. Soldiers will defend the village from these foes (and announce enemies they are engaging).
• Soldiers will now primarily patrol the night, Torches in hand. Archers will patrol the Day, since ranged is more effective with light. If a soldier or archer engages something, others will come running to help.
• Farmers will now water the fields and clear dead crops.
• Shepherds will now attempt to 'domesticate' a wild animal (generation 0 to generation 1). This is a rare thing, so give it time. They will announce it if it works.
• Farmer Workstations now display what crops are planted and how many in their work radius.
• Shepherd Workstations now display what animals and how many are in thier work radius.
• Added some new Villager Tasks
  • Shopping: Sometimes a villager will take some time to go visit the shops, bakeries, or smitys in the village to pick up what stuff they need.
  • Job related things: Bakers will bake bread in their ovens, Smiths will hammer on their anvils, Herbalists will plant flowers.
  • Farmers will now walk around the village 'helping out' when they have nothing else to do (like in Winter) and no crops are planted.
  • Villagers now socialize far more dynamically during their gathering time in the evening.

Fixes and Tweaks:

There were quite a lot, so I won't list them all. This was a massive amount of work, but will server as a great foundation moving forward.

• Pathing has been tweaked for better movement when on task, or going to and from different points.
• Removed debug spamming for things that weren't broken.
• Adjusted timing on a bunch of stuff.
• Adjusted priorities on a bunch of stuff.
• Adjusted Villager socializing. They should appear somewhat more lively while they work and gather and such.
• Adjusted sleep so they will stay in bed.
• Texture tweaks and fixes (I'm sure I missed some)
• So many little things.
• Tweaked the Orphaned Villager Clean up code to prevent the rare case where World-Gen spawned Villages might have their villagers wiped by this. (It shouldn't have been happening, but I wanted this to be safe)
• Added a button to the Mayor's Station that allows you to 'recover' villagers who might have not been assigned due to a bug. This button checks for any orphaned villagers within the radius of the village and assigns them if a free workstation is open.
• Broadened the Search Depth for pathfinding to allow for longer distances across more complex paths.
• Optimized pathfinding to include indexing so villagers will try paths they've already taken, thus saving the need to look up paths every time.
• Fixed a compatibility issue with 1.21 Village Addon mods.
• Added more names to the list of possible names for villagers.
• Fixed a lot of missing animations.
• Added a copy of the Vanilla Trader Shape that has been modded to 'slim down' some Travelling Trader's chests a bit, since Vanilla traders seem to have been...'buffed'.
• So many things that I would flood this page if I listed them all haha. Many things I myself broke.

Standing issues:

There's honestly not a lot of issues that I can think of that I haven't stamped out. Of course, I'm sure I missed something, if you catch any please report them.

• Creative menu: the villagers show up as ? blocks in the creative menu. I am unsure if I will fix this or not, as I had the thought to remove them from the creative menu but have not made that call yet.
• Villagers sometimes spawn with pure white skin. This is something with vanilla, as well as the weird textured 'front shirt flap' that's suddenly present.
• The Marketstall and the Trader Station need to be different. Its on the list, but the Market stall needed a load more testing for the final version I have in mind and I didn't want to delay this update further.

The State of 1.21 going forward:

When I started this update, I had intended to backport everything to 1.21. When I started doing that, it was apparent that the amount of work would essentially be the equivalent of me updating two mods at the same time. With the game releasing to 1.22 stable now, and loads of mods getting updates, I wanted to be clear that I will not be releasing any further updates to the 1.21 version of the mod. The source will be soon updated to Update 5, so if someone wants to back port it for themselves that's fine. This is not an authorization for people to host a fork of the mod without permissions, but personal use is fine. I am sorry if this is a disappointment to some folks, maintaining that build is not friendly to my time and energy going forward.

Roadmap:

The Roadmap for the future of the mod has been updated to relax the release estimates a bit. Getting this one up and functioning as it is took a lot more effort than expected, so I wanted to give some wiggle room.

Bertazz0 No, for removal the game will handle clean up of the entities. If you were using a addon to generate villages out in the world, you might get some ? blocks from missing workstations. You'll get the typical "missing blocks" thing in the debug for the stuff in the mod, like other mods that are removed.

Adding is 100% safe and I do my best to make sure every update maintains consistent compatibility with all previous updates, so you won't have missing entities or broken blocks in the future when the mod updates.

Hey, will i have any major issue if i add or remove this mod on an already existing world?

Ozyzzyl Thank you. I am aware of the creative intentory stuff. I'll probably be removing the villagers from there with the final update, because spawning them in that way has always had issues.

I don't handle the Addon mods, please report that on that mod's page as the creator will probably need to update the spawnblocks if the mod is from an older version.

I'm looking at the creative inventory menu. All of the various villagers have their texture missing and just show as a white block with the question mark on it. I'm using the viking village mod and it looks like the villagers didn't spawn in at all.

galaxytraversal Well, I'm working to make them as smart as they can be within reason haha. I think they're doing a pretty okay job for having started out with the same pathing as goats and chikens lol.

I'm excited to hear what you think of the changes coming in Update 5 (the one that's up for testing on the 1.22rcs right now). Its definitely where I'm adding a lot of polish to the mod. I hope that I can get it backported to 1.21 versions, but that's looking less and less likely because essentially I'd be building two mods at the same time, and as much as I'd like to have an actual team, its just me working on this right now. We'll see. I've got a lot of it working in the backport, but some things would take a full rebuild.

I should be dropping the next preview build for Update 5 today, I'm just getting the Smith, Baker, and Shepherd's working logic funtional and cleaning up some messes haha.

Glad you're enjoying stuff.

MiraLeaps awesome awesome. yea dont even worry, ive been blessed with a pretty beast-like machine to handle this game lol, so if theres a preformance drop its always minimal for me at least. and yea alot of what i do playing the game is adjusting pathways and what not and the current world i have is somewhat limit testing the iq of the villagers, can they make their way around my village is the test lmfao. but frfr thank u and your team for working on this mod, me and my crew are pretty invested in this mod lmfao. and hey no problem, honestly it wasnt intentional just with the size of my current village, i feel like i can never have too many villagers lmao, hence the limit testing.

galaxytraversal Hey, I did some checking and testing, and I'll be making some adjustments to the pathfinding very soon. I will give a warning, high VIllager counts are going to have a pretty hefty impact on performance and there's little to be done about that...but I am adding some wiggle room and optimizations for the pathfinding to be able to traverse larger areas without failing.

I am in the middle of a whole new system for a future big update (its a really really large addition to the pathfinding that will optimize by using the waypoints to connect a full network to help the pathing) but its really far off. The optimizations I am adding in now I never would have caught (or maybe I would have, but no time soon) if not for your report. Thank you for essentially stress-testing for me haha. I had missed a few really messy spots and weak points that looking into this pointed out.

galaxytraversal  Well, 4.0.0 version of the mod should work fine with 1.21.7. Check your server-debug log, if you're seeing it say something about the villagers not finding a place to sleep, then the beds might not be within the village radius (if that changed). If it says they can't find a path to the bed, you might need to move things around to keep things closer to the mayors station (that's the center of the Village), or Put the Brazier between where the workstations and the beds are. I've tested on moderate sized villages with a variety of terrain and adjusted the pathfinding with a lot of fail-safes, including a teleport if they are getting stuck....but it sounds like they aren't finding a clear enough path to bed or finding the beds at all. 29 villagers is also a lot depending on how spread out things are, the pathfinding might be failing just due to the server skipping ticks to keep from desyncing.

Check and make sure you're on version 4.0.0 (or another 1.21.6 compatible version)
Check the logs for any pathing or bed errors
Try picking up the beds and placing them down again.

not sure if its a bug or maybe i just have the wrong files installed, but my villagers refuse to sleep. i have 29 villagers atm, a workplace and bed for each, but i never see them sleep. they mostly hang around their workplace or group up at the braziers. maybe its a bug or maybe i have the wrong files installed but im pretty sure i have it all updated. im on version 1.21.7 btw

Jadesy

I looked into what's broken and what needs updating for that to work....its actually not much, but would be a little time consuming/tedious.

The village structures are all saved in the worldgen\vsvillage folder as world-edit exported files. What needs to be fixed is that those need to be imported in creative, you need to hit ctrl+f4 to see meta-blocks, then find the spawner meta block in each and right click with it (you may need to break a bunch of filler blocks, this is fine). It will open up a dialogue that will let you select an entity to spawn (Go by what workstations are present I guess). Make sure you set the spawn count or whatever to 1 (if it is at 0 it will spawn them in infinitely). You can even add in the new workstations and entities if you'd like.

I will double-check that my clean-up routines I added don't mess with world-spawned villagers (it didn't before), but these are legit broken in that addon as the class names changed during updates iirc.

If you see anything in your logs saying somthing about 'invalid' or 'ghost' villagers found and despawned, let me know....because that would be my clean-up/protection stuff being overzealous and killing off the villagers the world spawns...but that shouldnt happen since the generator assigns them a village, so long as they are assigned a village they shouldn't despawn.

Jadesy 

Why would that be intended haha? I think the issue is that the Simple Villages mod hasn't been updated since 1.19.8 and probably isn't current with any of the updates and changes since 1.21 had a lot of big changes. You're better off with a more recently updated Village pack, but I cannot promise those will work with 1.22 either. I don't manage or maintain those mods.

I am planning on trying to integrate something like thet Simple Villages addon into this mod since it is the base mod and have that able to be toggled in the configs, but yeah.

When looking for mods, it is advisable to try and stay within the middle-number's range because those leaps, like 1.21 to 1.22 can be pretty vast even internal to a mod "family".

MiraLeaps

I installed the Simple villages addon with the VS Villagers mod.
The Simple Villages spawned in the Worldgen; however, there were no villagers in village. Is this intended? Worldgen no longer spawns villages with villagers in it?

Again, I'm working with a dedicated server and 1.22.0-rc.10

galaxytraversal

That's actually planned for a future update! Right now, the temporal storm stuff is automatic, but I have a update planned down the road called "Raiders and Refugees", its in super early planning and my target for it is June or so depending on how things go with this Update and the one planned for May, but one of the things on the list is a bell, based on the Bell monster's lore but modified for the village that will be able to rally the Village soldiers and get people to take shealter.

Jadesy

I just now caught this myself and fixed it. Was a missing server side conversable. I thought things were working because the GUI would open, but it wasn't clickable.

If the GUI isn't opening try standing closer, the dialogue boxes can be tricky. On my end the GUI opens, the issue was that the items were able to be clicked.

It should be deletable with the 'magic wand' item. The issue regarding that is that vanilla has that working as a block not an entity. I plan on making a custom entity later.

so excited for the future of this mod, ive noticed alot of improvements with the last update. i do have a suggestion tho, maybe some type of alarm bell or something that can force the villagers to retreat to their home or something.

MiraLeaps
When I place a Settlement Keeper and then try to trade with it by clicking "I need items for the village" ... nothing happens.
In addition, the Settlement Keeper cannot be deleted or moved even in "creative" mode.

The mod is installed on a dedicated server v. 1.22.0-rc.10.

Version 5 Preview Build for Testers.

Welcome to the (test version) of the "Markets and Storms" update.


What's new?

• We have a new friend, The "Settlement Keeper" to get us started when you use the Summoning Horn.
  • The Horn now spawns a "Settlement Keeper", a Jonas device which handles the Materialization of Village Assets (Workstations, Braziers, etc), and can get you caught up on all the aspects of being the new Mayor of a Village.
  • The Keeper also has new original lore regarding "Project Regenesis". Check it out.
  • The Village Trader will keep selling the Village Assets for now, to protect legacy Villages. It is advisable to give yourself a new horn and spawn in the Keeper too, for all the information it has.
• Villagers have new requirements which must be met before they can be hired. This information can be found in the handbook or by talking to your Settlement Keeper.
  • Beds must be within a room. Multiple beds can be in a room, so shared spaces are okay. 
  • These requirements vary per Profession
    • Farmers now require 20 blocks of farmland near their workstations per farmer (the check adds 20 for each additional farmer, so the first needs 20, second 40 then so on)
    • Shepherds require their workstations to be near a fenced in area, no larger than 15x15 blocks, containing a trough, and at least 5 animals. Each additional shepherd needs at least 5 more animals and an additional trough.
    • Traders and Herbalists need their own shop set up with a few essentials (see handbook)
    • Smiths need a properly equipped Smithy with an Anvil and a Forge, but will gladly share the space and tools with an additional smith later.
    • Soldiers and Archers require the construction of a Barracks, which must contain a tool rack holding a spear or bow per Soldier/Archer hired and be 7x7 blocks in size. The Barracks is a crucial part of your village's defense, so consider setting it up early!
• A new Villager, the Baker has joined the roster.
  • The Baker will need a proper Bakery with a Clay oven and other essentials to make thier job possible (see handbook for details).
  • The Baker will buy and sell bread related things and provide a small boost to the Village food (to allow for hiring more Villagers).
• The Market Stall and Travelling Traders!
  • Purchase a Market Stall and place it in an open area to attract Travelling Traders (and their armed escorts) to your Village.
  • The Travelling Traders will announce themselves, stand near the Market Stall and sell you goods, and then depart at the end of the day.
  • These are the same traders you run into at the Trader Outposts, selected randomly.
  • They will show up somewhat rarely, if the Stall is placed in an open space, they will come.
• The Villagers now respond to the Temporal Storms. They will seek safety in an established Barracks. If there is no Barracks, they will hide in their bedroom.
• Bears, Wolves, and Rust-monsters now seek out and attack Villagers. Soldiers will defend the village from these foes (and announce enemies they are engaging).
• Soldiers will now primarily patrol the night, Torches in hand. Archers will patrol the Day, since ranged is more effective with light. If a soldier or archer engages something, others will come running to help.
• Farmers will now water the fields and clear dead crops.
• Shepherds will now attempt to 'domesticate' a wild animal (generation 0 to generation 1). This is a rare thing, so give it time. They will announce it if it works.
• Farmer Workstations now display what crops are planted and how many in their work radius.
• Shepherd Workstations now display what animals and how many are in thier work radius.
• Added some new Villager Tasks
  • Shopping: Sometimes a villager will take some time to go visit the shops, bakeries, or smitys in the village to pick up what stuff they need.
  • Water Drinking: Villagers will occasionally take a break to go grab some water during the day.
  • Job related things: Bakers will bake bread in their ovens, Smiths will hammer on their anvils, Herbalists will plant flowers.

Fixes and Tweaks:

There were quite a lot, so I won't list them all. This was a massive amount of work, but will server as a great foundation moving forward.

• Pathing has been tweaked for better movement when on task, or going to and from different points.
• Removed debug spamming for things that weren't broken.
• Adjusted timing on a bunch of stuff.
• Adjusted priorities on a bunch of stuff.
• Adjusted Villager socializing. They should appear somewhat more lively while they work and gather and such.
• Adjusted sleep so they will stay in bed.
• Texture tweaks and fixes (I'm sure I missed some)
• So many little things.

This has been a TON of work, and some pain lol. The Shepherd hiring requirements were driving me crazy, but it should be working now.

I hope people enjoy the update. A 1.21.7 version is coming. I had hoped to release both test versions today but backporting that (I was developing in 1.22) turned out to be a lot harder than I expected (go figure), so expect that sometime next week. Which will give some testing time anyway, so maybe its an advantage lol.

Any bugs or feedback on the tester version, just put them here and tag me please. Make sure you indicate that you are talking about this version of the mod.

Thanks for being a part of our Village,

-Mira

MiraLeaps  First playthrough with some mods and started on rc6 and some haven't updated so I'm just sticking with it for the moment.  However I really wanted to try your mod out so I decided to add it.  Thank you for the info on how to check and change the dependecies in the zip and for your quick fix.  

GreyMind Fixed! Sorry about that

GreyMind

   That's very odd, it must have nabbed the wrong modinfo when I did a build for it. I must have missed it because my tester version has the game version set to * and the modinfo it built with had an error. The quick fix is to open the zip and change the part where it says dependencies, game: "1.22.rc.8" or whatever and change the 1.22.rc.8 to *

I will get that fixed and uploaded very soon. Just a weird little oversight sorry about that <3

Though, I am confused why you aren't using the latest version? That one is behind in features and fixes.

MiraLeaps New Preview 4.1.0-pre.5 says on files page its for 1.22 rc1-8 but when you actually try to load a game with it it says unable to load required rc.8.

New preview for folks wanting to test coming soon! (I hope, I'm really just smashing bugs that were lingering, the new features are mostly good to go)

MiraLeaps Fantastic! :) 

Jadesy Right now with the current release the farmer will cultivate crops and the shepherds will feed the animals. The shepherds have been given a lesson regarding closing doors and gates behind themselves.

MiraLeaps I had a private server fork of this back in 1.19 where I had coded up the shepherd to feed animals and the farmers to plant (just planting). The game has changed alot since that version. But, perhaps this is still doable? I'm unsure. I haven't dug into the code since 1.19. I am responding to some player's earlier question (below).The problem I was working on with the shepherd back then was the shepherd leaving the gate open sometimes and letting the animals out :/

Rodericus I appreciate the sentiment, but this mod is a collaborative effort between folks, and even if it didn't have that complication....I am just in this for the love of the game and this mod. My 'pay' is from the happy feedback people give and knowing that folks have had thier VS experiences enhanced by this and other mods I'm working on.

You are all very welcome!

MiraLeaps Can one contribute financially through platforms like Patreon or similar ones?

Thank you for your work

Demon_Spawn These are some great ideas. personalized workstations are on the idea list for sure.
Outfit color would take a lot of work because it would need custom textures and that could bloat the filesize (I think there might be a way to manipulate hue dynamically but...I'd have to look into that)
I am hoping to have something scale with the guards at some point, and I'll look into giving them something to make them stand out more. Right now I'm trying to fix them equipping their spear like they should and that should help.
The voices....they should follow the same selection as the traders and vanilla villagers, but I'll check that and expand it to include a little more if possible. Its pretty random which voices they select, so that might just be up to RNG if its nice or not.

Thank you for the enthusiasm and kind words! I'm working hard on the new update that's going to make hiring requirments more than just food, and add in visitng traders and such. Should be out for testing very soon :)

Since you were talking about idea's I think more personalized workstations would be cool so that each villagers station isn't just a table with tools. Another idea I had would be having the ability to change the outfit colour on your citizens for example maybe the ability to change your towns colour and that would replace the blue of the nadiyan outfits with the corrosponding colour so that your village is more personalized to you. Aditionally maybe guards could have leather armor similarly to how some of the basegame traders do just so they stand out more as guards.

Just some thoughts I had other than that maybe the voices could be a little nicer to listen to like the traders voices. 🤷‍♂️

Anyway love what you guys do and i'm glad to hear that more progress is being made and that the mod is continuing to get the love it deserves.

Progress Update Post

Thanks to everyone for the support and welcoming me to this project, I hope I don't let anyone down. Your excitement and kind words lift me up so much and give me lots of energy to get to work. Thank you all so much, its very appreciated!

Right now, we're up to stable on 1.21.6 and the full 4.0.0 is out finally. This was a lot of work that I started back in late December when I thought I'd just be doing minor code tweaking for our personal LAN that me and my BF and son plan on....that balooned out and became more and more fixes and tweaks, then I reached out to Gerste and had planned on giving them what I had but a real life crisis struck and I had to put the work on hold until a few weeks ago. Its been a climb up a hill, but we're here and I plan on doing more work to add in the features and ideas y'all want to see (if possible). This is still my favorite mod, I love my silly villagers even when they bug out and get stuck somewhere and make me chase down what happened in code for a few hours, and its really lovely to hear how many other people love this mod as much as I do.

Keep that feedback and those ideas coming! I can't use them all, but you never know what might help shape the future of VSVillage!

Current Work:

Just to give folks an idea of what's coming soon I will regularly post what I'm actively working on.

New Features:

New Hire Conditions: hiring villagers will require appropriate set-up for them. Farmers will need farmland, Shepherds will need troughs and animals in a fenced area, Traders and Herbalists will need their own shops, Smiths will need a smithery to work in (alone or with another smith), and soldiers will require a barracks with weapons and armor. If something happens to these accomodations, the villager will inform the player and if its not corrected in a couple of days, they'll depart.

New Villager Type: Baker. The Baker will need a properly set up bakery with tables to work with dough, a barrel of water to mix the dough, and a clay oven to bake in. They'll work alone or with another baker. They will buy flour and stuff for pie and sell bread and pies.

Market Square: Place this new village Fixture to welcome travelling Traders to your village. Once this is placed in an open area, on random days and random vanilla trader will come and visit your village. You will be notified the morning they arrive and they will remain in your village until evening allowing you to buy and sell goods for the day before they head off to other locales.

Progress: Planning is done and I'm now working on implementation code starting tomorrow.

In Planning Phase

This is what I'm looking towards planning out next but haven't started development until the current work is done. Subject to change depending on viability checks.

New Features:

Player Shops: If you or the other players on your server want to have a little more involvement with the villagers, I am hoping to add in a system where a player can set up their own shop with a Kiosk workstation and a special storage area that will display the items and offer them to the villagers for sale. Right now I'm in the early planning stages for that, but I know I want a system of 'demands' to abstract and simulate the wants and needs of the villagers so some stuff will sell sometimes and then not sell as well if demand drops. It'll be very simple, just enough to get some engagement for players who want to have that extra immersion roleplaying as shopkeepers or tailors or whatever. The villagers will also take time during the day to come and browse the shops (player and other villagers) and the system will check everything if they make the purchase or not. Don't expect to see them using the items, that's probably more complicated than worth it, but yeah.


Anyway, hope you guys are enjoying the mod. I'm honorned to keep the fire burning and hopefully shape and refine this already awesome mod into something that brings y'all lots of joy and immersion!

Ah I see. Well that's alright, so long as there are people roaming around town then that can already bring up the liveliness of my world 😂.

But thank you for the info MiraLeaps and bringing this mod back alive from the cryo state 😁.

Villanor

In short: I don't know, but it should be okay to pop it and Vsvillage into a test save and see if it spits out any errors, which will most likely be missing blocks due to change paths in vanilla...

I will guess that at the very least there will be broken textures on the villages that spawn.

I will do my best to take a look at the simple village and see what happens and get it updated too.

Hopefully I'll be adding in some of the new features soon, at least the new villager types.

Are the extension mods likely to still work with 1.22? I could understand it going either way.

I'm thrilled to see this getting active development and I love the ideas for investing in the villages to get unlocks for them and do more.

Lixzanio Hey! Thank you for the kind words and the information about minecolonies! An army sounds...intense!

The Farmer can't actually harvest (and you wouldn't want them to haha) but they can water and perform an action called "Cultivation" where they will essentially advance a random crop by one growth stage on rare occasion.

I am looking into the possibility of an add-on station for them that allows you to drop off seeds and the farmers will seek out adjacent viable land and till and plant the seeds placed in that station, as well as on very very rare occasions improve the quality of the soil, but all of this future ideas that I'm only just now roadmapping. Harvesting is something that was on my mind, too and would probably make use of a similar addon workshop box the player could pick up the yield from. Having the NPCs dynamically interact with things in the world is on the tricky side and would probably need to use a lot of 'smoke and mirror tricks'. I want to tie all this to a Village rating metric that players can invest in and get more unlocks, but....again, that's a good way down the road haha. 

As far as documentation goes, One of my immediate to-dos is to get the handbook squared away with all the information. I updated the page here to tell more about what the villages do and give some tips, but having it in the handbook would be nice too.

I hope I don't disappoint! You're welcome!

Hiya MiraLeaps, I wanted to ask about the farmer, can they harvest a mature crop when its ready? I was just wondering as I did some testing for a bit and couldn't really get a pin on when they can harvest; I was also speeding up the time so I wasn't sure. But if its still a work-in-progress, its oki, this mod still makes my world a bit more lively :3. But a documentation about this mod could be very useful, I was so confused on how things work when I was testing😄 but that's alright. Seeing this mod getting updates again is a crazy miracle.

Also, just to give info about minecolonies, its basically the minecraft equivalent of this mod and it ranged from managing people to building an entire army! But no pressure, minecolonies is one of the really old minecraft mods thats been developed for decades.

Aside from all of that, I am glad this mod is active again. Thank you!

HeadspaceValley I have looked into it and the framework is hypothetically possible to make work between the models with a good bit of custom work....but for the time being that's way off the radar. Its a great idea though, I looked into it in the past wanting Elves and Goblins and such....so...maybe one day :)

Wondering if this mod would have playermodel thing? Would love to be able to see varied different species roam in my village like skeletons guarding the gate, Insectoid being a beekeeper, and a really large shopkeeper

Demon_Spawn Its my favorite too haha. I'm glad to provide. Right now, I'm hammering out the fixes from general stuff like pathing and them doing their jobs. That stuff is close to getting done. Next is working on immersion details like idle activities and them doing more expressive things when they gather in the evening.

I am also in the model-maker working on some new workstations for existing villagers like the smith, but also new villagers I have planned like, for one example of a few, a Baker. The next update should give the Smith and Herbalist trader-lists so you can buy and sell relevant things with them, and that model will carry on with the new villagers I'm adding.

In the distant future I hope to have some additional metrics in place like Village Happiness, Comfort, Security etc to act as pre-reqs for villager recruitment (not just any village can host those like the Scholar or Artist after all), but we'll see how things go.

First is getting baseline working and playing nice with all the update changes. I'm just super happy and honored I get to help maintain and shape the legacy of this wonderful mod! For me, it gives the game a bit more of a 'point' haha.

purple8cloud I had never heard of this, but on a first glance that could deffo be some inspiration material. I hadn't thought of having a bee-keeper before, but now that seems like a no-brainer.

i hope this mode will be vs minecolonies someday

I'm so happy to finally see a new update to my favourite mod and I can't wait to see where things go from here, I can only hope our favourite villager friends get more expressive and lively in time.

Keep up the awesome work

MacroAggressor They shouldn't break your world. I'm doing my best to keep everything in line with previous builds and legacy stuff. The most that's really changing is internal to the code and shouldn't cause any issues.

Plus there's a shiny new 1.21.6 update here today.

Demon_Spawn jots down notes because that's a really good idea oh yeah, of course that was part of the plan the whole time haha. No, seriously, that's a great idea....its not going to happen super soon, as there is a lot that we're working on to get everything up and running at a good baseline first...but I think at some point, if all's willing and the creek don't rise, we can maybe do that. We'll see haha.

Will there be a Musician villager added that can play music for your villages when the mod updates?

If I install the unstable v4, will future updates likely break my world, or should it update smoothly?

Czezary I am hoping to push what I have already to 1.21.6 for those who are still there (it won't be complete complete but it will be 'less broken') and then start building for 1.22.

galaxytraversal I'm going to try my best to get it rolling soon (life stuff is still being life stuff). 1.22 has a lot of changes to some stuff that will need things re-written, but it shouldn't be too hard to dig in and parse what's going on. Building houses for my village is 100% why I started working on this haha.

MiraLeaps im very excited! this is my favorite mod tbh, i love building houses for the people of my village lol.

Will the next update be for 1.21 or 1.22 version?

galaxytraversal Hey, Mira here, new to the VSVillage team, I've been working on getting a new update out (for a while now becuase of personal life trouble) and we'll hopefully be posting that soon :)

DarkThoughts Thanks for the note there, there should be a feature to get them to follow you. Its next on my 'to-do' list to work on their patrol pathing, but I'll look into this as well.

Jimothy_Billiams I'll give the info-display a look-see for getting some more information to folks via the mayor station, thanks for that feedback.

Bavid I'll see about adding that to the server config asap, but for now you can go into the mod-zip and find the recipe for the summoning stuff and delete it that should prevent anyone from going about it that way. As far as them buying a mayor workshop from a trader if one is there, that is trickier....but yeah, i'll work on that config option asap.


Current progress on my side has been getting some of the non-functioning systems up and running again. So far I've got the villagers heading to work and doing idle-tasks, the farmers cultivating the field, and the shepherd adding some feed to troughs. The villagers are going to sleep and generally pathing better, but there's still some work to do. Essentially we're having to adapt changes in the vanilla villagers that theres are based on....its mostly working as intended but there are a few things here and there that are still giving trouble. I've managed to null protect and fix a good number of the crashes people have reported in my test build I've been using the last while on my own saves.....so, keep tuned and we'll get ya something out asap!

galaxytraversal I'm talking about their hiring quest, not their general role within villages.

DarkThoughts the soldiers will kill the enemys that spawn around the village, they usually work around their workstation. the archers, i have not been able to get them to work myself. theres no archer workstation, i just dont have it available anywhere. just make sure u have stone paths and waypoints around the village. 

Are the soldiers & archers supposed to follow you? It seems they only take your gears and that's it.

hello i love the mod, i have been using it for my entire playthrough with my buddys on our server. it works great, its a little glitchy sometimes but i assume its because of the other mods i have. but anyways i was just wondering on the update progress? i understand it takes time, so i am patient. 

Hi, very cool mod, is there a way to see the "Ratios" for villagers, for example im trying to hire my third villager (One trader and one farmer so far) but it says I need more food, is there a way to see how much each farmer makes or is there like a ratio? is it just one farmer/shepard for every one other villager? thanks

Hey, sorry I vanished. Things have settled down and I have been able to work on mods again, I'll try to be in touch soon about the work I've done on the mod

Can i add this to an existing world? I wasn't sure if it might work I guess, or if I could find villages in non loaded chunks. I just felt like the villages were giving a lot of advantage to a new player, so wanted to enjoy the world before stumbling on one haha

hey is there anyway to turn off Founding Villages and just leave it to the server to Gen them? thanks 

@Captin_Krunch not ideal but I wanted something similar, what worked like a charm is waiting to enable the mod in the world until after I genned chunks that I wanted without them. 

I don't know if it's just me, but some of the villages that spawned in my new world will have villagers that do not move, nor do they have anything to trade. Is this a known bug, or is there something I may have done wrong?

I downloaded version 4.00

Hi, I am getting low FPS near villages after updating on an existing world is that normal?

I wanted to use this mod with the Continental mod but I was wanting to limit village spawns to islands other than spawn Island. That way I'd have my own spawn island to set up on first before exploring to find villages. Is this possible to set up or could a distance from spawn config be possible? Thank you I'm advance!

@Maoman I don't get a crash report, the game just sends me back to the home screen

My FPS dropped to 1fps when I approched a village

The logs seems odd. repeats 300 times with different names

12.2.2026 16:51:33 [Debug] Villager Dominicus loaded at 511791, 115, 511530
12.2.2026 16:51:33 [Debug] Villager Magdalena loaded at 511791, 115, 511530
12.2.2026 16:51:33 [Debug] Villager William loaded at 511792, 115, 511531
12.2.2026 16:51:33 [Debug] Villager Ludwig loaded at 511792, 115, 511530
12.2.2026 16:51:33 [Debug] Villager En Repos loaded at 511792, 115, 511530

Not sure if this is related to vs village

I approached a building and saw a building full of villagers. they were teleporting around.  still 1 fps.

Edit: I killed all entities and they kept respawning. i had to put blocks over the invisible spawner to stop them and prevent an overpopapocalypse

Matfox no one will be able to help you without a crash log unfortunately.

So if you are starting your own village and spawn the initial guy, what's the radious around the initial workstation spawn that the villagers will recognize as actual "village"?

I'm 90% sure something is bugged here as every time I use the horn or try to even spawn a villager my game hard crashes. What is going on?

SonyFanboy you have to craft a horn out of bone and a temporal gear, then right-click on the ground to spawn a villager "helper" NPC who selled villager beds and workstations and stuff. He also buys basic cooked foods so you can generate gears more easily to buy the villager stuff.

hopefully this can overlap with the race mods so we can choose which race can run the village for the sake of personal worldbuilding.

How in the world do I manually generate a village

MiraLeaps looking forward to seeing your fixes being implemented. Good luck with life stuff.

I don't suppose you could upload what you already have so far (like to Mega.nz or Google Drive or something) and share it with the class? I know it's not "complete" as to what you plan to do, but it's already got a lot of fixes implemented, according to your comment below. This mod is the last thing I need before I finally commit to starting a new world now that my modlist is mostly stable (with nearly 200 mods lmao) cause I want to use those addons to generate villages in world.

Hello, I’ve installed version 4.0.0-pre.4, and I’m currently experiencing extreme lag on my server.
We recently updated from version 3.0.1.

Sorry I haven't been in touch, the power in my house died and we had to quickly move to a temporary place and sort out our son's school stuff and everything. I'll try and be in touch when I get stuff going again!

I can also confirm that village produce massive lags which makes me actively avoid them, which is a shame because they're really great otherwise.

hey there,

i just wanted to go to the menson from better ruins.

But as soon i was near it i did get massive laggs.

After some testing, i did finde out, that a village was spawned there too.

And the villigers did get spawned from spawners and did not stop spawning them, this caused the laggs.

it looks to me, that the loctus spawner in the ruin was overrited.

I'll be in touch asap, when I finally get it all squared away. I'm very very close. Had a breakthrough with the activity driven by digging around in the vanilla repo and found that you can prompt it to allow AI tasks as part of it to get the best of both worlds (which it seems like vanilla isn't doing with their villagers)....so I will probably let it handle some basic schedule stuff and let the AI tasks handle the stuff you'd want to have random. This also fixes this vanilla based health issue tied to damage and activity driven, so works out.

Gonna get it right and then I'll be in touch 💜💜

Discord would be easies, you can find me on the official VS Discord as G3rste. MiraLeaps

You can also just send in a PR on GitHub and I could make you co-owner of this mod so you can upload versions yourself.

you should make it so the villagers have to farm, eat food, hunt, and get mad when you steal stuff

they just make the game easy

Hey! is there any way I can get in touch with you? I've been working on this pretty hard for days now and I've got a TON of stuff working and reimplemented and still working on getting other stuff cleaned up.

So far I've returned everything to TaskAI for better random handling instead of ActivityDriven's scripted stuff that seemingly lobotomizes the villagers. I have them pathing with the open/close door while doing those jobs. The shepherd will add feed once more, the Farmer will Cultivate and the Herbalist will heal (working on a fix for this vanilla behavior that needs activity driven to not break apparently, got some fixes in mind....one is a harmony patch but I don't want to go there yet.)
The biggest acomplisment so far is that they can finally walk on farmland haha, that was so ridiculously hard to figure out and just involved tweaking the pathfinding to something more vanilla.
I fixed the hiring crash (mentioned before) with null safty nets so all that's working.

I am planning on making the farmer and shepher's job more dynamic with them walking around making points of interest as they go (like 'target sheep, target chicken' and 'target farmland, now target farmland random-x distance) to keep them moving around during the day, but right now I've got them going to different troughs for feeding, cultivating different crops etc.

Following I'm going to try and get the smith acting a bit more dynmaic too and maybe try and add him in a little 'bring me the ore and I'll smelt you something or fix your whatever'.....something like that.
Also, and this should be easier, I want to make the soldier go on random patrols and actually attack stuff again (they just kinda stand there)

Perhaps use the code thats sitting there already that made them 'hireable' by the player....not sure.

And I've been working on adding several random socializing animations (based on the existing set) to them when they are at go-to gather. Pulled it out because somewhere just getting to the gather was breaking, but I think its solved.

Anyway, gonna keep working at it and I'll give you what I wind up with if you feel its worth it to publish!

Love this mod and I'm so happy to maybe contribute to getting it shining :)

Hello there, first, thanks for this great mod!

Did the update alter the soldier/archer jobs? They seem not to fight enemies anymore, and enemies seem not even recognize villagers, so they all just stand side by side.

So far I've managed to fix a few crash culprits by adding in null-value safety nets (the hire crash and some other stuff). Right now the big bugbear is how the AI fights between the ActivityTask Driven stuff and the AITask stuff. SOMETIMES they get along, sometimes one breaks. I've managed to get some kind of okay seeming thing one time and then it breaks again haha. I tried fixing both the AItask version of the cultivate/filltrough, and the ActivityDriven, but both seem to....kinda work, sometimes, maybe, but don't actually provide anything. Will let you know what becomes of it soon, but I am thinking of taking some of the tasks and making a routine behavior handler custome inside the code that drives their day to day so its less bound to the vanilla systems, which aren't documented at all (bravo to you for having them working at all, that was so much guess work for me to start to mess aroun with them haha)

I take every help I can get ^^. MiraLeaps

I understand how that goes, I've been spending most of today sitting down and looking at the code tweaking and adjusting to try and get it up and running on those aspects (I really really love the mod) and I think I've made some breakthroughs on some of the the things after bashing my head against other parts. If I make some headway and get something done, I'll send it your way and maybe spare you the time and trouble? if that's welcome, I don't want to assume.

Hi, the most recent game version broke quite a lot and I am trying to migrate to the new activity system, but I am lacking the time I once had for modding so its taking way longer than it should. But all your guesses were basically right MiraLeaps

Hey, I was really curious about why the farmers and such don't really do anything when I had read in the changes way back when there was something they did.....so I had a look into the code and was surprised to see that there were systems for cultivating crops and filling troughs and such, so I'm like "Why aren't they using that??" and then I noticed that the code was labled "AITrask....." instead of "AITask....", would that be an issue? I looked back through past versions and it has been like that since the start....was this stuff working the whole time and now its just been removed in favor of the activity driven villager code?

Is it possible to add that stuff to the activity lists in the config? I would love to make one for the farmer and stuff so they can actually work in a given day.

cheers!

Such a great mod! We're building up our little village one person at a time and I love interacting with all of them.

Issue we're having is that every time we go to hire on a new person, the person hiring crashes. The villager shows up, alls good with them, we just.....expect a crash every time now. Also, we had a crash when the herbalist quest was finished to let her become our healer. I'm not sure if it worked actually....no chance to test it, but it crashed, much like the hiring....seemed to complete the quest at least.
There also seems to be an error in the logs every time we interact with  the NPCs, but it doesn't really do anything.

It would also be nice to get some more detailed documentation about how the stuff you can purchase to set up you own village works....like I am so lost on the waypoints and I gues the Brazier only creates one hangout spot? It would be cool to somehow get them walking around, even if randomly, during the day. Especially if its just around their workstations so it can look like the farmers are farming and stuff.

I love this mod, I hope to see it go so far! Legit, one of my absolute favorite mods...I'v spent hours and hours building homes for the NPCs, shops for them to work in, and a big bar for the animals the shepherd is tending to....and we have a tower for our soldiers to bunk at!

WARNING! Most recent update for this mod causes the game to constantly spawn and despawn and respawn NPC Villagers causing crazy lag spikes when in a village/a village is rendered on-screen. Reverting to version 3.0.1 fixes the issue as a workaround for now. Hopefully the mod author fixes this.

This happens with no other mods installed. Here is a TINY snippet of my debug log before I reverted while I was standing in a village:

Is there a command to manually destroy a village? I have one on my current server that is glitched and crashes my client everytime I try to access the Mayor table.

Hey, so this is an exciting mod, but we're experiencing a crash that was reported back in March and doesn't seem to have been addressed. Using mod version 3.0.1 on a v1.21.5 server. 

System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException: The given key 'elderbalanced' was not present in the dictionary.
   at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2.get_Item(TKey key)
   at VsVillage.EntityVillager.set_Personality(String value) in E:\Workspace\vintage_story_mods\vsvillage\src\Entity\EntityVillager.cs:line 40
   at VsVillage.EntityVillager.Initialize(EntityProperties properties, ICoreAPI api, Int64 InChunkIndex3d) in E:\Workspace\vintage_story_mods\vsvillage\src\Entity\EntityVillager.cs:line 71
   at Vintagestory.Client.NoObf.ClientSystemEntities.entityFromPacket(Packet_Entity entitypacket, ClientMain game) in VintagestoryLib\Client\Systems\Entities.cs:line 445
   at Vintagestory.Client.NoObf.ClientSystemEntities.createOrUpdateEntityFromPacket(Packet_Entity entitypacket, ClientMain game, Boolean addToLoadQueue) in VintagestoryLib\Client\Systems\Entities.cs:line 407
   at Vintagestory.Client.NoObf.ClientSystemEntities.<>c__DisplayClass8_0.<HandleEntityLoadedPacket>b__0() in VintagestoryLib\Client\Systems\Entities.cs:line 222
   at Vintagestory.Client.NoObf.ClientMain.ExecuteMainThreadTasks(Single deltaTime) in VintagestoryLib\Client\ClientMain.cs:line 786
   at Vintagestory.Client.NoObf.ClientMain.MainGameLoop(Single deltaTime) in VintagestoryLib\Client\ClientMain.cs:line 752
   at Vintagestory.Client.GuiScreenRunningGame.RenderToPrimary(Single dt) in VintagestoryLib\Client\MainMenu\Screens\GuiScreenRunningGame.cs:line 172
   at Vintagestory.Client.ScreenManager.Render(Single dt) in VintagestoryLib\Client\ScreenManager.cs:line 719
   at Vintagestory.Client.ScreenManager.OnNewFrame(Single dt) in VintagestoryLib\Client\ScreenManager.cs:line 663
   at Vintagestory.Client.NoObf.ClientPlatformWindows.window_RenderFrame(FrameEventArgs e) in VintagestoryLib\Client\ClientPlatform\GameWindow.cs:line 112
   at OpenTK.Windowing.Desktop.GameWindow.Run()
   at Vintagestory.Client.ClientProgram.Start(ClientProgramArgs args, String[] rawArgs) in VintagestoryLib\Client\ClientProgram.cs:line 338
   at Vintagestory.Client.ClientProgram.<>c__DisplayClass10_0.<.ctor>b__1() in VintagestoryLib\Client\ClientProgram.cs:line 133
   at Vintagestory.ClientNative.CrashReporter.Start(ThreadStart start) in VintagestoryLib\Client\ClientPlatform\ClientNative\CrashReporter.cs:line 95

It is working, but I get an incredible amount of lag when I approach Sedna ( musician at nadiya village ) 

@TGerror I have both installed and works.

Gerste, Kareener Villagers are showing up in their villages, ive noticed they dont run around and do anything right now but as it stands, their core function is working great! i mean with vsquest installed that is. 
@Rabblerouser, Pre4 fixes your problem

ohh this do look so cool and if someone can get the Kobold mod to work with this can this be nice too

So, loving the mod so far. The only problem im having so far is whenever i place the herbalist station, alot of the textures in the village become transparent

Also having the issue with empty villages. Not sure if it's this mod or the village extension submods.

Running the 4.0.0-pre3 version of the mod on game version 1.21.5

Using the summoning horn does nothing, either.

Its not showing me how to make a summoning horn in my guide, how do i make one?

My server has been getting a bug where a portion of the village my friends have commandeered will not load in, and I've narrowed the issue down to specifically this mod rather than any of the addons. Not sure what's going on with that

Any chance we get some better tools to assign specific villagers to specific beds/jobs? it seems quite random where they decide to choose their bed. I would love to be able to assign a villager a job if the table is there and assign a specific bed.

I was in my village and right clicked the mayor workstation when my game suddenly crashed. Its V3.0.1

latest release is not working like others have said, but v3.0.1 works, the villagers are spawning

I'm not sure why it's not working for you Mothica I hope you can get it figured out 🙁

I dont know if I can reply to your at as Im semi new to Vintage, but in reply -  I have tried both version and neither of them spawned villigers >: 

Went back and reloaded vsvillage_v3.0.1 , villagers now back! Thank you.

Unsure if an issue unique to my mod pack, but I'm seeing villages spawn within like 100 blocks from each other. Is there a place in the config I am missing for mindistance or spawn chance of villages?

EDIT: utilizing 3.0.1 on 1.21.5

Katzvielle
Same here bud and none of the command lines for generating a village are working

really frustrating

 im playing 

vsvillage_v4.0.0-pre.3

VSVillageAddon-VikingVillage-1.0.2

VSVillageAddon-DesertVillage-1.0.2

all items in the town like beds and the work tables are owned by one villager though there is no villagers around. i cheated myself the horn just to see if it would work. i can blow the horn but but no one shows up

can someone reply with a command on how to gen the villages cuz everytime i try it doesnt work and it says "try this" and those dont work. super annoying and i cant find a list of commands anywhere!

Villagers not spawning on the for testers version: vsvillage_v4.0.0-pre.3 

Villagers did spawn on the latest release: vsvillage_v3.0.1 

All this being on the latest Stable release of Vintage Story 1.21.5 and just my own experience with the different versions.

Also, any chance to in the future, have the ability to pick the race of your villagers? I use the Racial Equiality mod, playing as a Dwarf, would be cool to have dwarvish strongholds, elven settlements, orc camps, etc. 

Yeah the villagers spawn fine if you use the old version

So I am using pretty much all your village mods.

VS Village Desert Village Addon 1.0.2

VS Village Viking Vilage Addon 1.0.2

VS Village Aged Village Addon 0.0.6

VS Village Industrial Village Addon 0.0.6

VS Village 4.0.0-pre3

can you set up the ability for players, not just server owners, to use the commands so they can set up their own pathing and see what is wrong with what they built? My players dont have the privilages to use the commands that come with the mod and is getting overwhelming with many players for us to have to go to each one and do these commands for them.

Alright, If anyone else posts here about villagers not spawning, please let the rest of us know which version of the VS Villagers mod you downloaded.

I want to know if villagers arent spawning due to people downloading the 1.21.5 Version, but also wanna see if it ATLEAST works on the 1.21.0 Version.

I also wanna know if the Older version download can still be used AND works well "enough when installed for Vintage Story version 1.21.5.

Could yall lemme know which version you downloaded on this page?

Mothica
IgnisPolonia
Katzvielle
Waildanbear

no villagers spawn ): 

Dear Autor - Seraphs doesn't spown to villiges. Villige is a empty write now.

people dont spawn

i used the Summoning Horn and the sound played but no one showed up.

I can't get "permission to send messages in channel" for the discord, and it always shows only one channel, so I'm going to put my idea here:

Is there any way we can get villages that always have walls built around the village limits? One thing that I loved in Nadiya but that drives me nuts with this mod is the lack of walls around the entire village to keep out monsters spawning at night. It just... feels like the villagers have to be idiots to not realize that walls help protect them from incoming monsters, and that always breaks my immersion. I tend to manually create my own walls around settlements like this just to satisfy this itch.

Maybe it could be something where you've got (at minimum) one design for corners, one (minimum) design for main wall segments, and one (minimum) design for gates, and the structure will generate the corner-pieces at the ends, the wall segments along the sides, and put 1-4 gates placed along major walls.

IDK just an idea.

Waildanbear i too had empty villages but im guessing its because the other vs village mods are not updated for 1.21.5.

i went to a story village and they do have people in them.

Hi I my game crashes when I use a summoning horn with the desciption that says "can be used to call for help"

Greetings, so is anyone else having an issue with all of the towns (regular ones you randomly come across) being completely empty? When I first created my current game, they had villagers, even did a few quests for them, then I go back some time later, totally empty, now every town/village/settlement I come across is empty. Not sure if its some random mod conflict that wasnt there when I first started, or if they all have been killed by monsters/critters, or if they are all just hiding from me =(

I have yet to create a town myself to see if NPC show there, but was just curious if this was a version issue all of a sudden, or something more Roanoke Colony-ish.

Thank you.

@NoLatePizza306 I don't think it's VS Village causing this. I think your terrain gen overhaul might be linked to the issue: I use Terra Prety and everything seems to be working as intended... Although I have many mods and now, treasure hunter camps spawn underground or on flat floaty disks connected to high terrain... Need to figure out what's that about...

I dont know if it's only me, but with rivergen, plains and valleys, continental world and this mod together, rivers fail to generate.

Client keeps crashing when accessing mayor workstation in version 3.0.1 in 1.21.5 

Running on 64 bit Windows 10.0.26200.0 with 32599 MB RAM
Game Version: v1.21.5 (Stable)
11/14/2025 12:22:23 PM: Critical error occurred in the following mod: vsvillage@3.0.1
Loaded Mods: chiseltools@1.15.3, fagreenwich@1.4.1, overhaullib@1.12.20, primitivesurvival@4.0.0, sortablestorage@2.4.3, game@1.21.5, vsimgui@1.1.15, animalcages@4.0.1, bedspawnv2@1.6.4, betterfirepit@1.2.0, betterruins@0.5.2, bettertraders@0.1.0, carryon@1.12.1, combatoverhaul@0.10.12, commonlib@2.8.0, configlib@1.10.8, kevinsfurniture@1.7.5, maltiezcrossbows@1.6.8, maltiezfirearms@1.3.6, oneroof@1.11.0, petai@4.0.1, terraprety@7.0.8, th3dungeon@0.4.4, thecritterpack@1.3.4, creative@1.21.5, vsquest@3.0.0, survival@1.21.5, vsvillage@3.0.1, armory@1.5.3, cats@4.0.0, fastbreeding@0.0.26, stonequarry@3.5.1, vsvillagetowers@0.0.6, wolftaming@4.0.1
System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException: The given key '512625, 141, 512411' was not present in the dictionary.
   at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2.get_Item(TKey key)
   at VsVillage.Village.InitWayPoints() in E:\Workspace\vintage_story_mods\vsvillage\src\Systems\VillageSystem\Village.cs:line 152
   at VsVillage.Village.Init(ICoreAPI api) in E:\Workspace\vintage_story_mods\vsvillage\src\Systems\VillageSystem\Village.cs:line 37
   at VsVillage.VillageManager.OnVillageMessage(Village village, ICoreClientAPI capi) in E:\Workspace\vintage_story_mods\vsvillage\src\Systems\VillageSystem\VillageManager.cs:line 119
   at VsVillage.VillageManager.<>c__DisplayClass5_0.<StartClientSide>b__0(Village village) in E:\Workspace\vintage_story_mods\vsvillage\src\Systems\VillageSystem\VillageManager.cs:line 43
   at Vintagestory.Client.NoObf.NetworkChannel.<>c__DisplayClass12_0`1.<SetMessageHandler>b__0(Packet_CustomPacket p) in VintagestoryLib\Client\API\NetworkChannel.cs:line 74
   at Vintagestory.Client.NoObf.NetworkChannel.OnPacket(Packet_CustomPacket p) in VintagestoryLib\Client\API\NetworkChannel.cs:line 29
   at Vintagestory.Client.NoObf.NetworkAPI.HandleCustomPacket(Packet_Server packet) in VintagestoryLib\Client\API\NetworkAPI.cs:line 152
   at Vintagestory.Client.NoObf.ClientMain.ExecuteMainThreadTasks(Single deltaTime) in VintagestoryLib\Client\ClientMain.cs:line 786
   at Vintagestory.Client.NoObf.ClientMain.MainGameLoop(Single deltaTime) in VintagestoryLib\Client\ClientMain.cs:line 752
   at Vintagestory.Client.GuiScreenRunningGame.RenderToPrimary(Single dt) in VintagestoryLib\Client\MainMenu\Screens\GuiScreenRunningGame.cs:line 172
   at Vintagestory.Client.ScreenManager.Render(Single dt) in VintagestoryLib\Client\ScreenManager.cs:line 719
   at Vintagestory.Client.ScreenManager.OnNewFrame(Single dt) in VintagestoryLib\Client\ScreenManager.cs:line 663
   at Vintagestory.Client.NoObf.ClientPlatformWindows.window_RenderFrame(FrameEventArgs e) in VintagestoryLib\Client\ClientPlatform\GameWindow.cs:line 112
   at OpenTK.Windowing.Desktop.GameWindow.Run()
   at Vintagestory.Client.ClientProgram.Start(ClientProgramArgs args, String[] rawArgs) in VintagestoryLib\Client\ClientProgram.cs:line 338
   at Vintagestory.Client.ClientProgram.<>c__DisplayClass10_0.<.ctor>b__1() in VintagestoryLib\Client\ClientProgram.cs:line 133
   at Vintagestory.ClientNative.CrashReporter.Start(ThreadStart start) in VintagestoryLib\Client\ClientPlatform\ClientNative\CrashReporter.cs:line 95

Latest version V4.0.0-pre.1 crashing in 1.25. Last version V3.0.1 loads Ok.

Crash log:

I currently am running the test version in my world. I was wondering if the villages produce anything, or is it purely cosmetic? Do the farmers produce crops or any of the other jobs outside of trading? I was really hoping I could have towns making food. 

As a feature request, it would be fun to see villages specalize in certain things such as blacksmithing, farming, etc. and have traders travel between villages on roads. That sounds pretty complex though so not expecting much.

i got the same crash as Lucian_Fallen and i have multiple addons,now my game wont stop crashing on start because i'm right next to a village.

So I placed some soldiers on the map of my 1.21.5 server while in creative mode, using the testing release.
I tried to hire them. They accepted, but did not move from the spot. Upon taking the gears, they continued to stand stil and then the quest showed as complete.
Each soldier had a bed and workstation nearby.

VS Village and VS Quest both installed.

Is there any way currently to disable a player from creating the horn on a SMP server? Would I have to write a patch?

StellarHarbour  In a way, VS Village is like Minecraft's Millenaire mod.  The villages spawn randomly, but you can config how often they should spawn.  They come in small, medium, and large size villages.  Some medium and all large villages will have a Trader who only sells VS Village items for the villages themselves.  There is no possible trading between villages like is possible in Millenaire.  If you have VS Quest, most villagers have 3 basic quest/requests that will repeat after a while.  While the Farmer will generally give you an immediate reward, the Herbalist will only heal you after you fulfill all 3 quests should you be hurt while in the village. IE:  During/After fighting mobs that attack the village like predators or drifters. (Currently, the 3.0.1 version and earlier villagers do not recognize bowtorn or shivers, but neither do bowtorn or shivers recognize the villagers.)  The village militia (soldiers/archers) only recognize, seek out, and attack wolves, bears, and drifters that I know of.  You can also hire them for 1 rusty gear per in-game 24 hours to follow you and help you fight whatever you come across.  The village militia seem to have iron tier weapons which you cannot take from them or pick up from the ground.  Attacking a villager will get that villager to attack you and keep attacking you until you die.  Even if you go into Creative mode, the villager will crowd you, still wanting to attack, but unable to do any damage.  They will NOT stop until you die.  I am unsure if killing a villager will set the whole village after you.  It's been a while since I even tried to test that.  Villagers, Traders and Seraphs (Players) all use the music language to "speak", but you need to click on them to get the dialogue box to show up.  There is one additional mod call VS Quest which allows you to modify all the quests.  Plus there are several different styles of "addon" villages beyond the generic villages.  You can either wait to find a village you like and make it your base or you can make your own villager in a location of your choice.  You will need a villager horn which is made by surrounding a teal temporal gear with bones in the crafting grid.  When you use the horn, you will spawn a "Temporary Village Trader" (TVT) who will sell you what you might need to create your own village.  I would suggest you purchase the Mayor's Workstation and one bed minimum with rusty gears.  You can trade meat and bread items with the TVT to get more rusty gears if you're short.  Set up the Mayor's Workstation in the CENTER of where you want your village (you can move it later).  Please, remember that your village border is a square when building dwellings and other structures and the villagers have certain types of roads that they prefer.  I would suggest stone path blocks if your area gets snow as the villagers can become disorientated if they can't reach their destinations due to "high snow drifts".  I would actually suggest building certain buildings before calling your TVT.  Every villager will need a bed placed in a safe location and that is where they will spawn when you hire them.  Your Mayor's Workstation will allow you to hire all the villagers.  The first villager you should "Hire" is a permanent Village Trader--which is why you want that bed.  With your permanent Village Trader, you can buy everything else you need as you Hire more villagers.  All villagers have a destination sequence; from bed to workstation to a brazier (we call it the Gathering or Socializing Brazier) in the evening after the day's work is done and then back to bed.  So you should also buy a Village brazier from your new Village Trader if you didn't buy one from your TVT.  You will need 50% of your village to always be either Farmers or Shepherds (food production).  Farmers will make crops within three blocks of their Workstations grow faster.  Shepherds will place grain into troughs for animals.  You do not even have to give them grain, the Shepherds will materialize it from thin air.  This can be great for you if you have chickens as the chickens will lay eggs when they eat grain.  If you do not have a rooster, you can use the eggs as protein.  If you do, you can increase your flock.  Since adult roosters will attack each other, you may want to trap your existing rooster so that you may later create a second chicken coop when a chick turns into a cockerel (teenage rooster) or rooster.  Most male animals in the game will eat food from the troughs, but they may not need the food to stay healthy.  Food in the troughs in really just a mechanic to get the female animals "ready to mate" and "pregnant" if you have a male nearby.  Males only need to be within a certain distance of a female who is "ready to mate" to get them pregnant.  Since hens who have eaten one serving of food are "ready to mate", they will lay fertile eggs if the rooster is nearby.  You may want to surround your rooster with fences where your hens will walk buy him so they will lay fertile eggs (which can also be eaten if you're desperate for food).  Place the Shepherd's workstation within three blocks of all troughs.  Do not place troughs or the workstation along walls as that may allow animals to escape.  Unfortunately, the Shepherds may accidentally release the animals so you will want to build "airlock gates" that will make it more difficult for the animals to escape.  Warning:  Lightning can kill off your entire chicken coop!  Copper lightning rods cover an area below them in a pyramid shape.  The higher it is, the more it covers.  Lightning can kill the Player, it can kill everything in the game if it hits nearby often enough.  I would suggest that you try to hire a Herbalist and Soldiers as soon as possible if you don't want to always spend night time defending your village from mobs or predators.  The Herbalist can heal anyone from injury or recent death plus defend themselves with a knife.  The Soldiers have either iron swords, spears, or bows/arrows and are not bound by the road system the other villagers must follow.  Try to keep your village boundary tight to the buildings.  You don't want your militia wandering so far that your Herbalist cannot detect their fallen bodies if they get overwhelmed by mobs.  All living entities in the game have a detection range, but it varies by species and time of year.  Same with villagers and their professions.  Soldiers/Archers have a higher detection range than the other villagers.  Villagers "ping" off Waypoint poles to get to their destinations.  If a villager has a long way to travel, using waypoint poles will help them find their destination.  The mod Description and Handbook information should also give you some good basic and debug info.  You do NOT need to hire a Mayor or Smith for your village, but they do offer quests.  I have been unable to determine the benefits of having either a Mayor or a Smith in the village.  Maybe Gerste can elaborate on the benefits of having each villager profession at some date in the future.  I hope this detailed explanation helps.  If your Village Trader runs out of gears, you have two options; hire a new Village Trader or try to find a village with a Village Trader and trade with them.  You can use the Temporary Village Trader summoning horn in a village that you want to take over if they don't have a Mayor's Workstation or their own Village Trader.  I hope this helps you decide if you want to try out this mod.  I would advise you to avoid the 4.0.0 version until it's no longer a WIP/"buggy".  All the above info is for 3.0.1 version and earlier.

I was getting close to a village and my game crashed, I used VS Village Aged Village Addon

System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException: The given key 'lazy' was not present in the dictionary.
   at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2.get_Item(TKey key)
   at Vintagestory.GameContent.EntityVillager.set_Personality(String value) in VSSurvivalMod\Lore\Village\EntityVillager.cs:line 33
   at Vintagestory.GameContent.EntityVillager.Initialize(EntityProperties properties, ICoreAPI api, Int64 InChunkIndex3d) in VSSurvivalMod\Lore\Village\EntityVillager.cs:line 93
   at Vintagestory.Client.NoObf.ClientSystemEntities.entityFromPacket(Packet_Entity entitypacket, ClientMain game) in VintagestoryLib\Client\Systems\Entities.cs:line 445
   at Vintagestory.Client.NoObf.ClientSystemEntities.createOrUpdateEntityFromPacket(Packet_Entity entitypacket, ClientMain game, Boolean addToLoadQueue) in VintagestoryLib\Client\Systems\Entities.cs:line 407
   at Vintagestory.Client.NoObf.ClientSystemEntities.<>c__DisplayClass8_0.b__0() in VintagestoryLib\Client\Systems\Entities.cs:line 222
   at Vintagestory.Client.NoObf.ClientMain.ExecuteMainThreadTasks(Single deltaTime) in VintagestoryLib\Client\ClientMain.cs:line 786
   at Vintagestory.Client.GuiScreenRunningGame.RenderToPrimary(Single dt) in VintagestoryLib\Client\MainMenu\Screens\GuiScreenRunningGame.cs:line 172
   at Vintagestory.Client.ScreenManager.Render(Single dt) in VintagestoryLib\Client\ScreenManager.cs:line 719
   at Vintagestory.Client.ScreenManager.OnNewFrame(Single dt) in VintagestoryLib\Client\ScreenManager.cs:line 663
   at Vintagestory.Client.NoObf.ClientPlatformWindows.window_RenderFrame(FrameEventArgs e) in VintagestoryLib\Client\ClientPlatform\GameWindow.cs:line 112
   at OpenTK.Windowing.Desktop.GameWindow.Run()
   at Vintagestory.Client.ClientProgram.Start(ClientProgramArgs args, String[] rawArgs) in VintagestoryLib\Client\ClientProgram.cs:line 338
   at Vintagestory.Client.ClientProgram.<>c__DisplayClass10_0.<.ctor>b__1() in VintagestoryLib\Client\ClientProgram.cs:line 133
   at Vintagestory.ClientNative.CrashReporter.Start(ThreadStart start) in VintagestoryLib\Client\ClientPlatform\ClientNative\CrashReporter.cs:line 95

Is it similar to Millenaire mod?

Gerste

Is there a list of all the NPC's you can summon/create somewhere, besides just opening the game with the mod installed? Are there soldier type NPC's, for example? I really like what BadRabbit did with VS Kingdom https://mods.vintagestory.at/vskingdom which was compatible with VS Village/Quest, but sadly they haven't updated their mod in about a year. Any possibility of doing something similar with soldiers for VS Village?

Really love these mods, ty! Makes the world more interesting.

Cheers :) 

Hello, not sure if this is the mod where this verbage in the help files about Villages and Villagers comes from, but I found a typo or missing word. It's in the very bottom paragraph.

"To find their way around, villagers make use of the . You can put those..."

Not sure what the villagers make use of here. 

Thank you.

Jaggedcan9ne Cheers. Did that as well when we crashed.
Renamed the vsvillage.dll from the cache folder at a safe distance from Tobias, talked with him and reverted the name at a safe distance. Probably could've (and should've) just disabled the mod driectly from the mod manager in the meantime as well, as not having a .dll in a code mod disables it anyway AFAIK, but that's how we did it in any case.

Only losses as far as I can tell was one village that was too close to the cave (it no longer has a name or villagers with "functions" but the vilagers themselves are still there) and we all lost our elks to the crash. But that was remedied with creative tools.

Just need to remember to disable the mod again when we go back to Tobias, lol.

Hi, my game crashes when loading in Tobias, saying it failed to load some kind of villager personality "elderbalanced", similarly to people bellow

I too am getting a crash going to tobias' cave, but i dont know what you meant by editing a dll file @jaggedcan9n (i figured id include the crash report just incase it matters)

I got around the issue of the game crashing trying to make it to tobias by adding "_backup" to the end of the DLL file when I renamed it. I talked to Tobias then moved far enough away and changed the name back, and so far so good. Was able to load in and not have the game crash on me with the same error message.

@mysticnym I'm having similar issues on 1.21.2

Hi, not sure if anyone else is having this issue, but Im having an issuse in our locally hosted server where the players in my server can't seem to interact with the villagers without the server throwing a bunch of error lines/red lines and then it will boot the other players (but not me the host). i'll paste the cmd window info if anyone can help, i might just be missing something simple, thx!

6.10.2025 14:29:19 [Error] Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at Vintagestory.GameContent.BlockBaseDoor.DoesBehaviorAllow(IWorldAccessor world, IPlayer byPlayer, BlockSelection blockSel) in VSSurvivalMod\Block\BlockBaseDoor.cs:line 38
   at Vintagestory.GameContent.BlockBaseDoor.OnBlockInteractStart(IWorldAccessor world, IPlayer byPlayer, BlockSelection blockSel) in VSSurvivalMod\Block\BlockBaseDoor.cs:line 80
   at VsVillage.VillagerWaypointsTraverser.toggleDoor(BlockPos pos, Boolean shouldBeOpen) in E:\Workspace\vintage_story_mods\vsvillage\src\Entity\Pathfinding\VillagerWaypointsTraverser.cs:line 293
   at VsVillage.VillagerWaypointsTraverser.OnGameTick(Single dt) in E:\Workspace\vintage_story_mods\vsvillage\src\Entity\Pathfinding\VillagerWaypointsTraverser.cs:line 168
   at Vintagestory.GameContent.EntityBehaviorTaskAI.OnGameTick(Single deltaTime) in VSEssentials\Entity\AI\Task\BehaviorTaskAI.cs:line 128
   at Vintagestory.API.Common.Entities.Entity.OnGameTick(Single dt) in VintagestoryApi\Common\Entity\Entity.cs:line 1083
   at Vintagestory.API.Common.EntityAgent.OnGameTick(Single dt) in VintagestoryApi\Common\Entity\EntityAgent.cs:line 653
   at Vintagestory.GameContent.EntityTradingHumanoid.OnGameTick(Single dt) in VSSurvivalMod\Systems\Trading\EntityTradingHumanoid.cs:line 379
   at VsVillage.EntityVillager.OnGameTick(Single dt) in E:\Workspace\vintage_story_mods\vsvillage\src\Entity\EntityVillager.cs:line 131
   at Vintagestory.Server.ServerSystemEntitySimulation.TickEntities(Single dt) in VintagestoryLib\Server\Systems\World\EntitySimulation.cs:line 238
   at Vintagestory.Server.ServerSystemEntitySimulation.OnServerTick(Single dt) in VintagestoryLib\Server\Systems\World\EntitySimulation.cs:line 158
   at Vintagestory.Server.ServerMain.Process() in VintagestoryLib\Server\ServerMain.cs:line 854

Braziers are set to the "extinct" state after mining them, but there is no way to light them or otherwise get them to the "lit" state. 

All village houses don't count as inside, rain goes straight through all blocks.

All villagers get stuck on walls and fences, pathing is b0rked

i have stone path in my village and the waypoints don't recognize the block as road, how do i fix that

Does this mod work after world gen'? Or will I have to start a whole new world with this installed?

It may seem obvious, but im new to the game so Im not 100% sure how it works.

At  the time (some months ago, in 1.20.10+), it seemed the mod had quite an impact on performance. Does anyone know how impactful this is still?

I have noticed that villagers tend to switch their beds and workstations with other villagers constantly, is there a way to fix a workstation and bed to a villager?

Allow us to carry or destroy villager bodies

I'm very interested in this! In Minecraft what I always spent my time doing was just building more and more houses for villagers :D. I'm playing vanilla for now bit I'll definitely try this mod eventually

Patroclus near the top of the description there is a hyperlink to a search on this modsite for the addons which add villages to worldgen. Or you can search village addon in the search here and get the same results. 

For some reason they keep walking into walls and fences. I mean they find their beds and workstations fine but... unless they are farmers or shepherds they just wonder off away from their post if they have the chance. They didn't do this before.

How do I activate this mod? I read that it's disabled by default but I don't see how to activate it. I don't (at least at the moment) want to download an add on. Thanks.

Hey there, I wanna use this mod so much but there is huge lag and FPS drop in villages. Villagers are overspawning I think, there is like 10+ villages per house at least? Highly doubt thats intended, any settings I can do to fix this?

heads up to you peeps! vs quest does not work ATM

Are you allowed to take stuff from villagers? Or are there safeguards in place that prevent you from just stealing their stuff like in Minecraft. I hope that you cannot touch their stuff nor break their stuff to preserve the feeling that its not yours. Also helps with gameplay.

Echoweaver Nice! I've been wanting to get into VS modding but just haven't had the time to truly sit down and go through all the documentation to see what's what.

As for quest suggestions, maybe simple things like:

• Deliver (x) bread
• Deliver fruit pie of (y) type
• Deliver (x) pelts or double the amount as hides
• Kill (x) wolves or bears
• Craft a recurve bow
• Craft (x) arrows
• Craft (x) linen sheet
• Craft (x) cloth
• Deliver (x) of crop type (y)

Gerste , Are we gonna get an update to either of your other mods, "Simple Village Add-On" or "VS Quest" ?

@LunaGore Huh, isn't VS Quest just a framework? Have difficulty finding anything for the newest version that actually uses it.

LunaGore I'm actually messing around with buildings for an elf village for Fantasy Races NPCs. It's a pretty steep learning curve, though. I've never used the building export feature, and I know zero about command blocks. I'd need to come up with some appropriate quests for VS Quest as well. Not a trivial undertaking!

I'd love suggestions for quests.

WOOOOOOOOOOO!

YEAH BABY!

UPDATE TIME!

Darcmut You have to use VS Quest if you wanna interact with them outside of the trader that spawns with their special items to found your own village.

Also it'd be really neat if someone used the Fantasy Races NPCs for these villager mods :P

Are the villagers useless? Can't interact with em.

Hell yeah! this mod has become a essential for my end goals. I can't just build a village for myself. i want it to feel alive. And that's exactly what this mod is.

NO WAY, ITS IN 1.21!!!  🎉🎉

Kareener Gerste I call upon ye, v1.21 stable, villages generate but villagers do not seem to at this time. Tested in creative and survival, summoning horn plays sound (Oddly, every time in C, only sometimes in S) but no NPCs spawn. I have a pretty stacked modlist, anyone with a small list able to confirm? Dunno what Kivcet 's looks like.

Hey, I realise my issues might bee cos mod isn't updated, but i see the entities in world edit items, but can't spawn them. All I want is just a customisable NPC trder to use as shop keepers in my NPC city (custom trading, clothing and dialog) can you make this possible without the other functions please? Ideally just by placing them and then maybe interacting with them in creative mode to access the customisation options. Server is 1.21, old version doesn't produce any errors when run but horn of summoning doesnt seem to work. 

Can you please update the mod? The villages still spawn in but none of the actual entity villagers spawn in, you cannot even spawn them with creative commands.

Is this mod being updated? I usually play solo and the world feels so much more alive with these villages. 

Please update Love this in the game please!

Getting a crash, maybe an incompatability with Thievery? not sure but it's also in the area near Tobias' Cave

I noticed that your code had variants for the summoming horn recipe, but they weren't useable, I fixed it, here is how

your og code tried to put variants in the base recipe, but VS does variants by mulitple files, one output, so I simplly added 3 new recipes named after the variant, and I put them with the og recipe. for the redmeat version for example, I just made a file called "Villagerhornred.json" and put in it

[
    {
        "ingredientPattern": "BBB,BGB,BBB",
        "ingredients": {
            "G": {
                "type": "item",
                "code": "game:redmeat-raw"
               
            },
            "B": {
                "type": "item",
                "code": "game:bone"
            }
        },
        "width": 3,
        "height": 3,
        "output": {
            "type": "item",
            "code": "villagerhorn"
        }
    }
]

I have just started playing around with this mod, but as I play homosapan mostly, I couldn't use the mod until I gave it meat versions

Is this mod safe to remove after having generated random villages? 

Hello dear adventurer, just ask does  i do something wrong ? I find any village ... I use only vs village and theirs addon and better ruins.

Someone can explain me how to do please ? Merci ;)

can we revive dead villagers?

Kill them

How to make those villagers disapper? 

an you fix the discord links so we can have access to help and documentation

ssunny2008

also have roundabouts of 120~ mods. we ended up switching to ndl villagers. Even on a pretty basic flat area with basic homes, vanilla paths connecting everything, accessible beds, something in this mod would desync players and lead to incompatible game states. Player A would load in and that would crash player B, Player B loads in and Player A and C crashes, server reboots wouldn't always resolve. The lack of updates and engagement from the mod author makes this feel abandoned.

I think we´ve found the issue for Logs written down here.

1. It´s about villagers who´re not able to get back to their bed at the evening. For example our village spawned with a couple of ruined tiles and also caves under it. Some villagers stucked in ruins, others fell into caves. We spotted and either free´d or killed them. We´ve only 2 villagers left now, which are able to get to their beds, we closed the wholes, etc... and the server stopped to crash every ~30 minutes (each evening/bedtime).

So be sure if you´ve a village that your villagers can´t hardstuck somewhere, maybe even build a fence around your village. So lapislilly i guess Danatweaks caused the villagers to stuck here and there in those auto-doors and caused said crash, but there doesn´t seem to be some direct incompability or so.

2. Multiple client-crashes came from "dead objects". We had pretty much a whole house forcing crashes once we saw an info from the blocks. So we disabled the info-box, destroyed the whole house VS-village spawned, enabled the info-box again and all is fine.

I hope that helps. Everything is running perfectly now and we play with 134 mods so far.

Btw we play on 1.20.10.

Extension links don't work, what am I supposed to install to get villages to generate? Thanks.