{"id":166237,"date":"2026-06-09T21:16:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vpesports.com\/minecraft\/mods\/village-guards\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T21:16:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:16:46","slug":"village-guards","status":"publish","type":"mod","link":"https:\/\/vpesports.com\/minecraft\/mods\/village-guards\/","title":{"rendered":"Village Guards"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Introduction:<\/h3>\n<p>This datapack aims to add Village Guards in vanilla minecraft and it supports minecraft versions 1.16.2 to 1.21.11.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Village Guard Stats:<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>HP \u2665\ufe0f: 20 (10 hearts)<\/li>\n<li>AP \ud83d\udee1\ufe0f: 6 (3 armors)<\/li>\n<li>Attack Damage \u2694\ufe0f: 11 (5.5 hearts)<\/li>\n<li>Ranged Attack Damage \ud83c\udff9: 8-10 (4-5 hearts)<\/li>\n<li>Floats in water hence does not drown \ud83c\udfca<\/li>\n<li>Hate \ud83d\ude21: All zombie types, all illagers, and creepers<\/li>\n<li>Heals overtime \u2795<\/li>\n<li>Spawns : When villagers create their own iron golem<\/li>\n<li>Spawn count : 6<\/li>\n<li>Max Spawn \ud83d\udd22: 10 per village (This value is changeable. See Admin Commands section.)<\/li>\n<li>Weapons \u2694\ufe0f:<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Iron Sword(60% chance)<\/li>\n<li>Iron Axe(20% chance)<\/li>\n<li>Bow(20% chance)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Loot Drop \ud83d\udcb0: Current Weapon<\/li>\n<li>Builds light pole \ud83d\udca1 near villages. This feature can be disabled. See Admin Commands section.<\/li>\n<li>When on fire \ud83d\udd25: Can put out fire faster.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr>\n<h3>Types of Players according to Village Guard:<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Bad Players \ud83d\ude08: These type of players are the players who have provoked the Village Guards. Provoking Village Guards is done in following ways:-<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Kill one of the protected entity.<\/li>\n<li>Hit a protected entity 3 times.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Normal Players \ud83d\ude00: This type is assigned to every player by default.<\/li>\n<li>Heroes of the Village \ud83d\udc6e\u200d\u2642\ufe0f: These are the players who have &#8220;Hero of the Village&#8221; effect. Guards and Golems will protect these players.<\/li>\n<li>Protected Players \ud83d\udc68\u200d\ud83d\udcbc: Players, when they lose their &#8220;Hero of the Village&#8221; effect still remain protected by Guards and Golems.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr>\n<h3>Village Guard&#8217;s Behaviour towards every type of player:<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Bad Players \ud83d\ude08: Guards and Golems attack them on sight and forgive after one of them successfully kill that bad player.<\/li>\n<li>Normal Players \ud83d\ude00: Neutral. Passive to the players until provoked.<\/li>\n<li>Heroes of the Village \ud83d\udc6e\u200d\u2642\ufe0f: These players count as protected entities. With this effect, you can do whatever you want to do with anybody, guards and golems won&#8217;t fight back. Guards and Golems are always passive until you lose the &#8220;Hero of the Village&#8221; effect. After you lose the effect, you still remain a protected entity.<\/li>\n<li>Protected Players \ud83d\udc68\u200d\ud83d\udcbc: These players also count as protected entities. Guards and Golems are passive until a protected entity has been killed by this player.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr>\n<h3>How does protecting an entity works?<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>If you are a Hero of the Village OR the Protected Player, you come under protected entities.<\/li>\n<li>Guards and Golems will not care about anybody you fight by yourself. They will stay neutral.<\/li>\n<li>Once a mob\/player targets you or tries fighting back to you, they get angry on that mob\/player and starts attacking them.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr>\n<h3>Extra Features:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>You can give following items to Village Guard and each item has a function:\n<ol>\n<li>Any Weapon which is better than the one it is holding.<\/li>\n<li>Shield \ud83d\udee1\ufe0f: Absorbs 70% of damage dealt to Guard from anything.<\/li>\n<li>Banner \ud83d\udcdc: Only works if a shield is already equipped.<\/li>\n<li>Totem of Undying \ud83d\uddff: Gives an extra life to Guard but its not very useful since they do not know how to flee on low health.<\/li>\n<li>Any Tipped Arrow (Bow Guard only) \ud83c\udfaf: Gives the Guard unlimited Tipped Arrow.<\/li>\n<li>Spectral Arrow (Bow Guard only)\ud83c\udfaf: Gives the Guard unlimited Spectral Arrow.<\/li>\n<li>Iron Axe (Axe Guard only)\ud83e\ude93: Gives the Guard the Double Axe Power = DOUBLE DAMAGE.<\/li>\n<li>Golden Apple\ud83c\udf4f: Gives the Guard a chance to cure nearby zombie villagers, guard drops that apple if they find any of the above.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>If a village guard equips anything in its offhand, it will lock its weapons forever and will never change its mainhand weapon until the offhand weapon is destroyed.<\/li>\n<li>Village Guard will not attack a Zombie Villager unless and until Zombie Villagers are 3 blocks closer to protected entity and is about to attack.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h3>Admin Commands:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<pre>\/function give:vg\/spawn_egg\/village_guard<\/pre>\n<p>Obtain Village Guard Spawn Egg<\/li>\n<li>\n<pre>\/function summon:vg\/village_guard<\/pre>\n<p>Summons Village Guard<\/li>\n<li>\n<pre>\/function toggles:village_guards<\/pre>\n<p>Here you can toggle datapack specific features if you want. They are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><b>Maximum Village Guards : <\/b>Set the maximum amount(limit) of Village Guards that are allowed to naturally spawn in a 256*256 blocks area. (Default = 10)<\/li>\n<li><b>Tutorial Messages : <\/b>When Enabled, tutorial messages will appear.<\/li>\n<li><b>Speed : <\/b>Controls the Speed of Village Guard.<\/li>\n<li><b>Guards construct light poles : <\/b>When Enabled, guards will construct light poles at night where its too dark anywhere near village.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<pre>\/function uninstall:village_guards<\/pre>\n<p>Starts the uninstallation process of this datapack.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h3>Pros:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Iron Golem is no longer lonely now.<\/li>\n<li>Villages are more safe from illager raids and zombie hordes.<\/li>\n<li>The effect Hero of the Village has REAL use now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h3>Cons:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Its not easy to get your first iron ingots if you get those by killing the iron golem. You will be chased by a horde of village guards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h3>Known Bugs:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>You cannot sleep in the Village because of Village Guard unfortunately being a skeleton.<br \/>Fix:- You can build up 10 blocks and sleep peacefully. If you have a solution to this bug via datapack programs, please recommend me in comments section of my datapack page, I am always thankful to you.<\/li>\n<li>Village Guard will convert into stray mob when it freezes inside the powder snow block.<br \/>Fix:- It will now climb up automatically whenever it starts freezing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h3>My Socials:<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>PlanetMinecraft Page<\/li>\n<li>Modrinth Page<\/li>\n<li>Discord Server<\/li>\n<li>Paypal Account<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr>\n<h3>License:<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"https:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/88x31.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.<\/p>\n<p><b>Conditions that apply:<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You must give appropriate credit to the creator if you publicly showcase this work.<\/li>\n<li>You may not use this work for commercial\/business purposes. (this does not include having the datapack installed in your server)<\/li>\n<li>You may modify this work, but may not distribute the modified work.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr>\n<h3>Installation:<\/h3>\n<p>Open your .minecraft directory. Put the datapack into the saves\/world_name\/datapacks directory.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adds Village Guards in vanilla minecraft without replacing original skeleton mobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":166238,"template":"","meta":{"_minecraft_slug":"village-guards","_minecraft_project_id":"bQkYXUlJ","_minecraft_author":"SAMEER_99","_minecraft_license":"CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0","_minecraft_downloads":2864,"_minecraft_follows":31,"_minecraft_client_side":"optional","_minecraft_server_side":"required","_minecraft_storage_type":"zip","_minecraft_archive_name":"village-guards.zip","_minecraft_size_bytes":704310,"_minecraft_version_count":6,"_minecraft_updated_at":"2026-05-16T02:42:35.430935Z","_minecraft_date_created":"2023-06-17T14:52:47.067727Z","_minecraft_date_modified":"2026-01-26T20:12:24.146721Z","_minecraft_project_url":"https:\/\/modrinth.com\/mod\/village-guards","_minecraft_icon_attachment_id":166238,"_minecraft_imported_at":"2026-06-09T18:16:46+00:00","_minecraft_import_hash":"7e593c2e8ec5a47da306e42f041f0d95","_minecraft_versions":"","_minecraft_links":"","_minecraft_gallery":"","_minecraft_api_metadata":""},"mod_category":[84,89,137],"mod_loader":[86],"minecraft_version":[120,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,36,60,712,93,726,727,728,729,94,101,102,62,37,40,41,73,74,38,78,79,80,81,82,680,681,682,692,693,694,695,696,697,708,709,710,711,718,719,720,721,722,723,724,725,75,76,77],"class_list":["post-166237","mod","type-mod","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mod_category-datapack","mod_category-game-mechanics","mod_category-mobs","mod_loader-datapack","minecraft_version-1-16-2","minecraft_version-1-16-3","minecraft_version-1-16-4","minecraft_version-1-16-5","minecraft_version-1-17","minecraft_version-1-17-1","minecraft_version-1-18","minecraft_version-1-18-1","minecraft_version-1-18-2","minecraft_version-1-19","minecraft_version-1-19-1","minecraft_version-1-19-2","minecraft_version-1-19-3","minecraft_version-1-19-4","minecraft_version-1-20","minecraft_version-1-20-1","minecraft_version-1-20-2","minecraft_version-1-20-2-pre1","minecraft_version-1-20-3","minecraft_version-1-20-3-pre1","minecraft_version-1-20-3-pre2","minecraft_version-1-20-3-pre3","minecraft_version-1-20-3-pre4","minecraft_version-1-20-4","minecraft_version-1-20-5","minecraft_version-1-20-6","minecraft_version-1-21","minecraft_version-1-21-1","minecraft_version-1-21-10","minecraft_version-1-21-11","minecraft_version-1-21-2","minecraft_version-1-21-3","minecraft_version-1-21-4","minecraft_version-1-21-5","minecraft_version-1-21-6","minecraft_version-1-21-7","minecraft_version-1-21-8","minecraft_version-1-21-9","minecraft_version-23w03a","minecraft_version-23w04a","minecraft_version-23w05a","minecraft_version-23w12a","minecraft_version-23w13a","minecraft_version-23w13a_or_b","minecraft_version-23w14a","minecraft_version-23w16a","minecraft_version-23w17a","minecraft_version-23w31a","minecraft_version-23w32a","minecraft_version-23w33a","minecraft_version-23w35a","minecraft_version-23w40a","minecraft_version-23w41a","minecraft_version-23w42a","minecraft_version-23w43a","minecraft_version-23w43b","minecraft_version-23w44a","minecraft_version-23w45a","minecraft_version-23w46a","minecraft_version-24w44a","minecraft_version-24w45a","minecraft_version-24w46a"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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