I've spent months rewriting Minecraft's villager AI. They farm, build, hold grudges, and bury their dead now (Fabric, no LLM)

Been working on this solo for a while. It swaps vanilla villager AI for handwritten behavior code. No ChatGPT or anything online, it's regular game AI logic like any other mod, so it runs offline and can't make stuff up.

What villagers actually do now: work jobs and get better at them, build houses (with doors, which took me embarrassingly long to get right), farm, mine, marry, raise kids, hold elections, form factions, and bury their dead in a small graveyard at the village edge. They remember how you treat them. Punch one and its family hears about it. Feed one during a famine and it remembers that too.

Left alone they keep themselves alive. Food, shelter, torches, a night watch. My first test village lost half its people in one night. The current version came out of that same test 24 out of 24 alive.

Weirdest thing I've seen it do: one villager walked over and sat with a neighbor who had just lost someone. I didn't code that, it fell out of the grief and empathy systems interacting.

Free, Fabric 1.21.4, beta, so expect some jank. Happy to answer anything.

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Someone might lose a finger or two today...
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Trapped as a Capybara
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Someone might lose a finger or two today...
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Does anyone know where this ship in a bottle came from? I can’t remember the name.

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New to minecraft mods, wtf is this that appear in my base out of nowhere?
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My First Mod: A Penguin!

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What in avaritia is this
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Rlcraft bedrock edition is literally more expensive than the Minecraft ios version. Wtf

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Introducing Launchpad: Port your Fabric mods to NeoForge with zero platform-dependent code
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If I reach Buddhahood it will be because of my extremely modified Tinkers' hammer
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Why can't they capitalize on the abundance of infection mods? Are they stupid?

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can you tell what biome makes me create a new world once i see it? (IMPOSSIBLE)
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New 1.10 Scape and Run: Parasites update LITERALLY adds INFECTED GOJO 😭 (Cr:YT:"Crimson Gaming")

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STOP USING ESSENTIAL MOD, USE ALTERNATIVES

I can’t believe I need to say this, but please uninstall the Essential mod. If you want to play online with friends, use the Worldhost mod, or the e4mc mod, there’s 0 reasons to use Essential.

Edit: Essential is literal bloatware (like others mentioned, filled with microtransactions and completely unnecessary things so that they can more easily collect users data), and borderline malware (a few users mentioned that the patch no longer works? If this is true and they crash your game for having the patch installed, it IS malware).

I am not sure about the current situation, but the developers also were pushing against making the mod opensource, a huge red flag with any software that collects user data (especiallyfor a Minecraft mod). I think right now they have a version that is sort of open source, but given their past, I highly doubt that it is the same as the actual version users are able to install.

It is very sad to see that people install it just for the online feature, not knowing about the much better alternatives I mentioned before

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