Golem Patrol (Vanilla Tales)

Gives iron golems a village routine instead of aimless wandering.

They patrol by day, stand watch by night, escort villagers home, and rally to a ringing bell.

Versions: 1.20.1, 1.21.1, 1.21.8

Loader: Fabric, Forge (1.20.1); Fabric, NeoForge (1.21.1, 1.21.8)

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Requirements

• On Fabric you need Fabric API. On Forge or NeoForge you do not.
• Server-side: install it on the server (or in singleplayer). Players do not need it, and vanilla clients can join without it.
• Languages: English and German. German shows for players who have the mod installed (for example in singleplayer); vanilla clients without the mod see English.

What it does

• By day, golems patrol a route past the door of every house with a bed anywhere in the village, not only the houses near the bell; several golems in the same village split the route so they cover different parts.
• By night, one golem stands watch at the bell, plus one more at the door of every house with a bed.
• A house whose door has no dry, solid ground to stand on is left out of both the day patrol and the night watch.
• A villager walking home at dusk gets a golem as an escort.
• Ringing any bell, whether a player, redstone or a raid rings it, calls every golem within range to the ringer's position.
• Applies to golems built by players too, not only village-spawned ones.

Advancements

• Rally the Guard: ring a bell and have at least one golem answer the call.

Configuration

File: golem_patrol.json.

A config file with a syntax error is left untouched: the mod logs the problem and keeps the last working settings instead of overwriting the file with defaults.

Good to know

• Golems still attack hostile mobs immediately; the patrol routine stands down whenever there is a fight to have.

Part of VanillaTales

Golem Patrol is part of VanillaTales, a collection of small, independent mods that add little stories to vanilla content. Each mod works on its own; install only the ones you want.

• Zombie Sieges: turns a vanilla zombie siege into a real event, with a ringing bell, a boss bar and two waves of zombies.
• Sherd Stories: gives every decorated pot a title and the story of where its sherds were found.
• Ghost Crews: gives every shipwreck a name and a crew of drowned that guard it until it is looted clean.
• Illager Scouts: a pillager scout watches your village and warns you two days before a patrol arrives.
• Occupied Villages: some new villages spawn already occupied by an illager garrison you can liberate.
• Bonded Pairs: binds two mobs from the same spawn group into a pair that avenges each other.
• Raid Aftermath: villagers repair the damage a raid or an explosion left in the village.
• Wayfarer's Landmarks: shows a title and helpful icons when you enter a structure.

More mods by LithiumPlus

• DataDrivenVillagers: create and change villager professions from JSON files or an in-game editor.
• VillagersPlus: new villager types, trades and beautiful workstations. Forge version: VillagersPlus (Forge).
• VillagerTradingPlus: add, replace or delete the trades of any villager, change the currency and gate trades behind conditions, all from a datapack.
• Nyctophobia: dark, foggy and unsettling biomes for the Overworld. Forge version: Nyctophobia (Forge).
• The Graveyard (Fabric) and The Graveyard (Forge/NeoForge): structures, mobs, bosses and blocks with a graveyard theme.