The Village Names mod backports modern village structures and villager skins, and assigns randomized names to villages and villagers and other structures and entities. The mod offers a lot of customization village generation and entity naming.
Some features developed over the years:
- A new village generator, able to place down road blocks other than gravel, and will even use certain backported Grass Path blocks in 1.7.
- Backported and custom village components
- Highly configurable village size and components
- Highly configurable syllable pools for name generation
- Custom name signs, banners, and preferred colors for each village
- A custom item (Codex) used to generate names for supported non-village structures, obtained either from giving emeralds and iron/gold to Librarians/Cartographers, or found as chest loot
- Configurable list for entities that can receive automatic names when spawning, or names assigned when right-clicked
- Villagers with skin tones that are based on their spawn biome
- Support for a career-like profession subdivision in 1.7
- Modified villager trade pools, and added "treasure" trades for Librarians and Cartographers
- Modular biome-and-profession-based villager outfits
- Backported Cartographer villager to previous versions, and Nitwit where able
- Backported Concrete and Glazed Terracotta to previous versions
- Backported Guardian, Monuments, and Prismarine to 1.7
- Backported Igloos to 1.7 and 1.8
Here is are feature showcase videos:
Librarians and Cartographers can unlock high-level trades involving Village Names items!
One of the material types that a village can use is "Mushroom."
Villagers textured with the Savanna biome type
Villagers textured with the custom End type
V3.0 has a new feature where you can specify entities that receive names when you right-click them. Pictured is a ToroQuest Guard—included in the configs by default.
A Desert-style village spawned in a Desert biome
You can now control which blocks accelerate/retard the zombie villager curing ritual. The 1.7.10 and 1.8.9 versions use the updated zombie villager skins. In all versions, a villager's name and profession will carry over when they are zombified and cured.
Villagers textured with the custom Nether type
Well sign and banner for Arkma
Example of a Plains-style village center in a mushroom biome
A Taiga-style village spawned in a Taiga biome
You can right-click a Village Book onto a Villager to get a gauge for your reputation in the village
Example 1 of a village banner pattern
A Plains-style village spawned in a Heathland biome (Biomes o' Plenty). Typically, these villages will be Savanna-style, but with Jacaranda wood.
The 1.7.10 and 1.8.9 now have the 1.9 igloos as rare snowy structures!
Medium-dark skin tone with low variance
Having a pint
The 1.7.10 version now has Guardians, and all the joy/horror that comes with them!
There is support for certain backported Lanterns
Villagers textured with the custom Aquatic type
Using a Codex in a structure reveals the structure's name.
The new Achievements
A village spanning multiple biomes might have a mixture of villagers displaying different biome types.
Villagers textured with Plains (default) biome type
Villagers textured with the custom Mushroom type
Villagers textured with the custom Highlands type
Villagers from many mods are supported. Depicted here are villagers from Forestry, Fossils
Example 1 of a village banner pattern
V3.0 has a feature where you can specify entities which automatically receive names upon spawn/load
A Snowy-style village spawned in an Ice Plains (or similar) biome
Example Jungle village using the new custom Jungle components in VN 4.3.0
Villagers textured with the custom Magical type
The new Mason villager, which is a career subset of the Blacksmith, buys and sells rock, stone, and minerals
Armorer selling a shield bearing the Arkma pattern
Villagers textured with the custom Forest type
Collection of various village banners
Instead of achievements, the 1.12 version of course has advancements
Village Books sometimes contains hints leading to another structure, depending on your rapport with the villager, among other things.
Lightest skinned villagers are typically found only in cold, snowy villages
Example 3 of a village banner pattern
Village golems have names too!
A Librarian/Cartographer villager will make you a Codex (in hand) if you give him emeralds and ingots
Example of four skin tones
Well the fur trapper stood there with his arms outstretched across the frozen white wasteland
Typically, Mushroom villages would use Plains-style buildings. With the right config settings, you could get a Desert-style building in a Mushroom biome. To the left is a Chocobo Stable from ChocoCraft Plus.
Example Swamp village using the new custom Swamp components in VN 4.3.0