{"id":166415,"date":"2026-06-09T21:22:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vpesports.com\/minecraft\/mods\/villager-retaliation\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T21:22:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:22:36","slug":"villager-retaliation","status":"publish","type":"mod","link":"https:\/\/vpesports.com\/minecraft\/mods\/villager-retaliation\/","title":{"rendered":"Villager Retaliation!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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![villagers chasing a player](https:\/\/cdn.modrinth.com\/data\/cached_images\/16269e99f4ef7ac15b6d24f3b523e5fa5778d5f5.png)<\/p>\n

Villager Retaliation! is a Vanilla+ NeoForge mod that makes villagers and wandering traders less helpless without turning villages into warzones.<\/p>\n

Adult villagers can defend themselves, react to crimes they witness, use profession-based combat roles, and remember how each player treats them through a personal reputation system.<\/p>\n

– Attack a villager and that villager can fight back
\n– Kill a villager in public and nearby villagers may rally
\n– Player-placed lava and fire can count as aggression for a short attribution window
\n– Build trust through trade and positive village defense
\n– Lose trust through attacks, witnessed crimes, and village harm
\n– Make villagers suspicious, hostile, despised, or feared if you push things too far
\n– Keep babies defenseless and nitwits cowardly as intended<\/p>\n

![features](https:\/\/cdn.modrinth.com\/data\/cached_images\/ec0e4dc78ec1a652eb11b233dd2926f7461fe770.png)<\/p>\n

![villagers carrying profession based weapons](https:\/\/cdn.modrinth.com\/data\/cached_images\/44e64c624e3bad762345ee5f8df5d91c5ef5f6cd.png)<\/p>\n

## Main Features<\/p>\n

### Retaliation<\/p>\n

Villagers are neutral instead of purely passive.<\/p>\n

By default, hitting a villager only angers that villager. Killing an adult villager can anger nearby adult villagers if they can witness it. Anger expires after a configurable duration, and creative\/spectator players can be ignored.<\/p>\n

Villagers and wandering traders can also block trading while hostile. Hostile villagers can be pacified with emeralds, unless your reputation has fallen too low.<\/p>\n

### Reputation<\/p>\n

Reputation is tracked per villager and per player.<\/p>\n

That means one villager can trust you while another despises you. Reputation can affect trade prices, pacification, anger duration, fleeing, despised attack-on-sight behavior, cleric support, and advancement progression.<\/p>\n

Default tiers:<\/p>\n

| Tier | Default threshold |
\n| — | —: |
\n| Royalty | 750 |
\n| Revered | 400 |
\n| Respected | 250 |
\n| Trusted | 75 |
\n| Neutral | 0 |
\n| Suspicious | -75 |
\n| Hostile | -100 |
\n| Despised | -250 |
\n| Feared | -750 |<\/p>\n

Reputation changes are configurable. By default, direct villager hits are punished more than witnessed hits, villager kills are punished heavily, and player-attributed lava\/fire damage counts for half the normal reputation penalty.<\/p>\n

![villagers retaliating against a player that killed another villager](https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/6c3vdac.gif)<\/p>\n

### Profession Combat<\/p>\n

Villagers fight in ways that match their profession.<\/p>\n

| Profession | Behavior |
\n| — | — |
\n| Weaponsmith | Uses stronger melee behavior with swords |
\n| Armorer | Can fight defensively, gain resistance, and use shields in hard mode |
\n| Toolsmith | Uses tool-based melee |
\n| Mason | Uses mining-tool style melee |
\n| Butcher | Uses axe-based melee |
\n| Fletcher | Uses bows or crossbows |
\n| Farmer | Can defend themselves and heal with bread |
\n| Cleric | Uses potions for defense, attacks, and ally support |
\n| Librarian | Can fight with book-themed |
\n| Nitwit | Usually flees unless holding a usable weapon |<\/p>\n

Fletchers and other villagers holding ranged weapons can use bows, crossbows, and tridents. Crossbows use charge\/hold\/fire states, and tridents use a thrown attack.<\/p>\n

### Cleric Support<\/p>\n

Clerics have the most advanced combat role.<\/p>\n

They can drink defensive potions, throw harmful or slowing splash potions, avoid friendly splash damage where possible, heal injured villagers and wandering traders, and support trusted-or-better players.<\/p>\n

Passive cleric healing has configurable range, health threshold, and line-of-sight rules.<\/p>\n

### Hazard Attribution<\/p>\n

Player-placed hazards can count as aggression.<\/p>\n

If a player places lava, uses flint and steel, or uses a fire charge, nearby lava\/fire damage can be attributed to that player for a short window. This allows “accidental” environmental attacks to still matter for retaliation, reputation, and advancements.<\/p>\n

The default attribution window is 2 real-time minutes. Natural lava, old hazards, worldgen hazards, and untracked hazards are not meant to count.<\/p>\n

![A player using lava to kill a villager, and being attributed to the kill](https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/GSgbQr8.gif)<\/p>\n

## Reputation Behavior<\/p>\n

Higher trust can reduce anger duration, improve trade pricing, and unlock helpful cleric support.<\/p>\n

Lower trust can make villagers more dangerous or less willing to deal with you:<\/p>\n

– Suspicious villagers apply negative trade pressure
\n– Hostile villagers can harass you with eggs or poisonous potatoes
\n– Despised villagers can attack on sight when enabled
\n– Feared villagers visibly react when you get close
\n– Despised or feared villagers may refuse emerald pacification
\n– Babies, nitwits, and non-combat villagers can flee from hated players<\/p>\n

## Loot<\/p>\n

Villager Retaliation! adds configurable drops for villagers and wandering traders.<\/p>\n

– Villagers can drop emeralds and bread
\n– Adult villagers can roll profession-themed loot
\n– Combat weapons can drop at configurable rates
\n– Baby villager loot is disabled by default
\n– Wandering traders can drop emeralds, invisibility potions, and safe copies of current trade results<\/p>\n

Profession loot generally requires player kill credit by default.<\/p>\n

## Advancements<\/p>\n

The mod includes a full reputation advancement tab.<\/p>\n

\nAll Advancements (Click to Expand)<\/strong><\/summary>\n

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| Advancement | Type | Criteria | Hidden |
\n| — | — | — | — |
\n| Village Relations | Task (Tab Root) | Automatically granted when any Villager Retaliation advancement is awarded. | No |
\n| Commonfolk | Task | Interact with any villager, or enter a village. | No |
\n| I’m Sorry! | Task | Pacify a hostile villager with emeralds. | No |
\n| A Familiar Face | Task | Reach Trusted reputation with any villager. | No |
\n| Respect Is Earned | Task | Reach Respected reputation with any villager. | No |
\n| Friend of the Village | Goal | Reach Trusted with 5 villagers in one village area. | No |
\n| Local Legend | Challenge | Reach Revered reputation with any villager. | No |
\n| Crowned by the Village | Challenge | Reach Royalty reputation with any villager. | No |
\n| Second Chance | Goal | Cure a zombie villager that retains known reputation data for you. | No |
\n| The Village Remembers | Goal | Move from Suspicious or lower back to Neutral or higher. | No |
\n| Bad First Impression | Task | Reach Suspicious reputation with any villager. | No |
\n| Hands Off | Task | Damage a villager. | No |
\n| The Village Has Eyes | Goal | Harm or kill a villager while at least 3 adult villagers can witness it. | No |
\n| Marked | Challenge | Reach Feared reputation with any villager. | No |
\n| Village Enemy | Challenge | Have 5 or more villagers targeting you at the same time. | No |
\n| Mob Justice | Challenge | Have 8 or more villagers targeting you at the same time. | No |
\n| Regular Customer | Goal | Complete 10 trades with the same villager. | No |
\n| Community Support | Goal | Trade with 5 different villagers in one village area. | No |
\n| Price of Trust | Goal | Reach a positive trust tier with a villager after trading with them. | No |
\n| Refused Service | Task | Attempt to trade with a villager that blocks interaction due to low reputation. | No |
\n| Hero, Not Menace | Goal | While distrusted by nearby villagers, gain positive reputation by defending against hostiles. | No |
\n| An Unwise Decision | Goal | Damage an iron golem associated with a village. | No |
\n| Peace Offering | Challenge | After being Hostile or worse with a villager, return to Neutral or higher with that villager. | Yes |
\n| Accidentally, Of Course | Challenge | A villager dies from a player-attributed environmental hazard without direct player damage. | Yes |<\/p>\n<\/details>\n

![keybinds](https:\/\/cdn.modrinth.com\/data\/cached_images\/201d5ce49ba16974e3c3b0b562c392e03f38e35f.png)<\/p>\n

## Commands<\/p>\n

Requires operator.<\/p>\n

“`mcfunction
\n\/villagerretaliation setNearbyReputation
\n“`<\/p>\n

This sets nearby villagers’ and wandering traders’ reputation toward the executing player. It is mainly useful for testing tiers, trade pricing, despised behavior, feared behavior, pacification, and the debug overlay.<\/p>\n

Example:<\/p>\n

“`mcfunction
\n\/villagerretaliation setNearbyReputation -150
\n“`<\/p>\n

## Configuration<\/p>\n

Main config file:<\/p>\n

– Singleplayer\/client: `config\/villagerretaliation-common.toml`
\n– Dedicated server: `\/config\/villagerretaliation-common.toml`<\/p>\n

Config categories include:<\/p>\n

– `general` – master feature toggles
\n– `balance` – loot and drop rates
\n– `retaliation` – anger rules, aggro radius, duration, line-of-sight witnesses
\n– `reputation` – penalties, gains, thresholds, gossip, trade pricing
\n– `combat` – profession combat toggles, armorer shields, clerics, farmers
\n– `debugOverlay` – optional reputation display for testing
\n– `wanderer` – wandering trader drop behavior<\/p>\n

## Debug Overlay<\/p>\n

There is an optional client-side debug overlay for testing reputation.<\/p>\n

When enabled, it can show the villager’s reputation tier and\/or exact reputation value above their head. It can be limited by distance, sneaking, or advanced tooltips.<\/p>\n

This is disabled by default and is mainly intended for testing and balancing.<\/p>\n

![compatibility](https:\/\/cdn.modrinth.com\/data\/cached_images\/1252c11050b7daf8b8621712b58dd1005e7ba982.png)<\/p>\n

## Compatibility<\/p>\n

Villager Retaliation! is designed to work with vanilla villager systems rather than replacing villager entities.<\/p>\n

– Built for NeoForge 1.21.1
\n– Uses vanilla-style entity events and AI memory adjustments
\n– Uses vanilla gossip integration where enabled
\n– Uses NeoForge item tags for weapon detection where possible
\n– Does not replace the villager entity type<\/p>\n

Compatibility may vary with mods that heavily replace villager AI, trading, combat, or entity classes.<\/p>\n

## Version and Loaders<\/p>\n

– NeoForge 1.21.1 – active development
\n– Forge – not planned anytime soon, don’t ask please \ud83d\ude42
\n– Fabric – possible future port, not anytime soon
\n– Older Minecraft versions – not planned
\n– Eventually, will skip straight to 26.1\/whatever the newest standard will be for modding.<\/p>\n

![credits & license](https:\/\/cdn.modrinth.com\/data\/cached_images\/5fd3ad80e342e6985dd6ebda1f7afd9c48749fce.png)<\/p>\n

## Modpacks<\/p>\n

You may use this mod in modpacks, videos, servers, and other projects. A link back to the Modrinth page is appreciated.<\/p>\n

## Credits<\/p>\n

Created by me \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

## License<\/p>\n

This project is licensed under the **GNU General Public License v3.0**.<\/p>\n

Feel free to use this mod in modpacks, videos, etc. Just provide a link back to this page if possible \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Looking to port the mod to your favourite loader\/version outside of my scope? Feel free to, and let me know so I can add a sub-section to direct users to it!<\/p>\n

For any general queries\/unlisted questions, DM me on Twitter (@prodbyjvn) \/ Discord (ijvn).<\/p>\n

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\u26a0 This mod ONLY exists on Modrinth & CurseForge as of May 2026. Any sites hosting this mod outside of Modrinth\/CurseForge are not official releases.<\/em> \u26a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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