LiveVillages

Turn your live stream into a village. Every gift builds a house.

LiveVillages is a NeoForge mod that grows a village in real time from the gifts your viewers send you on a live stream. Each donation places a house, moves in a villager named after the donor, and wires the new home into the town with a real road, a lamp post and a sign. Nothing is pre-built: the town grows organically, house by house, while your audience watches.

Built for TikTok LIVE, and usable by hand even without a live running. Works in single-player and on a dedicated server alike — the connection just lives in whichever player's client runs /lv tiktok connect, so that player needs the mod installed. For a version where the connection runs on the server itself (no client install for anyone), see the LiveVillages plugin for Paper servers, on Hangar, Modrinth or SpigotMC.

Two Minecraft versions, one mod. LiveVillages is published for both 1.21.1 and 26.x. Grab the file tagged for the version you run — CurseForge separates them so you never install the wrong one. If you're upgrading an existing 1.21.1 world to 26.x, your villages come with you automatically: the mod finds and migrates them the first time you load the world, no extra steps.

Platform status: TikTok LIVE is the only platform connected right now. YouTube Live and Twitch support is in development. In the meantime, the manual commands already work with any source of events — including those two.

How it works

There are two ways to place houses, and they both go through the same door in the code, so they behave identically:

1. By hand — you (or an authorized moderator) run a command: /lv house add for a quick placement, or /lv house donate to simulate a specific gift and let the mod pick the house. Great for testing, giveaways, and for rewarding people outside the stream.
2. Connected to TikTok LIVE — /lv tiktok connect <username> <village> listens to your live and places a house every time a gift arrives. YouTube and Twitch are on the roadmap.

The mod decides which house a gift builds from a configurable gift table, so a small gift gives a small house and a money gun gives the good one.

Features

Organic town growth

• Houses are scattered around a central plaza with randomized angle and radius, and rejected if they land too close to another house, on water or lava, or on top of an existing road.
• Every plot is levelled to the true average ground height underneath it — trees, grass, snow and water are ignored, so a house on a slope sits properly instead of floating or sinking.

Roads that actually make sense

• Paths are generated with A* pathfinding over a cost map, so roads bend around obstacles instead of bulldozing through them.
• Automatic terracing on slopes, bridges over water, lamp posts with hanging lanterns along the way, and decoration.

Nothing is destructive

• Every house records the previous state of every block it changed. Removing a house restores the terrain exactly as it was, in reverse order.

Multiple villages

• Create as many towns as you want, mark one as active, open and close them to new arrivals, rename, teleport to, regenerate or delete them independently.

House styles you can extend without recompiling

• Houses are .nbt structures grouped into skins (a theme) and models (a tier). The catalog lives in a JSON config file, so you can add your own builds — plaza, houses, lamp post — and map them to gift tiers yourself.

Villager management

• Each house gets its own villager with a workstation and a sign carrying the donor's name. Villager AI can be paused per village (useful during a long stream), and a revive command brings back anyone who died. /lv house regenerate reuses the existing villager instead of spawning a duplicate, and keeps their assigned profession instead of re-rolling it.

Built-in GUI

• /lv gui opens an in-game catalog of every command with a form for each one, so you don't have to memorize the syntax mid-stream.

Permissions

• Three levels: admin, authorized users (by UUID, granted in-game), and everyone else. Hand a moderator the controls without handing them your server.

Localization

• Fully translated into English and Spanish. Every player sees the mod in their own Minecraft language setting.

Requirements

Pick the file that matches your Minecraft version — CurseForge tags each download, so the app installs the right one automatically.

• For the TikTok LIVE connection only: the companion library mod (listed as a dependency — the CurseForge app installs and updates it for you). Manual placement works without it.

Commands

Root command is /lv (/livevillage works as an alias). Everything requires operator level 2.

Villages

/lv village create <name> [skin]      Create a village where you stand
/lv village list                      List every village
/lv village setactive <name>          Choose which village receives donations
/lv village tp <name>                 Teleport to a village
/lv village rename <old> <new>        Rename a village
/lv village open|close <name>         Allow or stop new houses
/lv village ai <name> on|off          Pause or resume villager AI
/lv village forceload <name> on|off   Keep chunks loaded while building
/lv village regenerate <name>         Rebuild roads and decoration
/lv village delete <name>             Delete the village and restore the terrain

Houses

/lv house add <model> <donor>                   Place a house in the active village
/lv house addto <village> <model> <donor>       Place a house in a specific village
/lv house donate <village> <giftId> <coins> <gift>|<donor>
                                                Simulate a real donation
/lv house list                                  List houses with their owners
/lv house rename <n> <name>                     Change the name on the sign
/lv house tp <n>                                Teleport to a house
/lv house revive                                Bring back missing villagers
/lv house regenerate <n>                        Rebuild a house
/lv house remove <n>                            Remove it and restore the terrain

Gifts

/lv gift list                                   Show the gift to house table
/lv gift set monedas <coins> <model>            Map a coin value to a house model
/lv gift set id <giftId> <model>                Map a specific gift ID to a model
/lv gift set tramo <min> <max> <model>          Map a coin range to a model
/lv gift set nombre <model> <gift>              Map a gift by name
/lv gift remove <n>                             Delete a rule
/lv gift test <giftId> <coins> <name>           Dry run a gift without placing anything
/lv gift log on|off|show                        Log incoming gifts to find their IDs

Models and skins

/lv model list                                  List every model
/lv model info <model>                          Details of one model
/lv model add <id> <skin> <coins> <structure>   Register a new house model
/lv model remove <id>                           Remove a model
/lv model skin add <name> <lift> <plaza> <post> Register a new skin
/lv model skin remove <name>                    Remove a skin

TikTok LIVE

/lv tiktok connect <username> <village>         Connect to a live and start listening
/lv tiktok status                               Connection status
/lv tiktok disconnect                           Stop listening
/lv tiktok diag                                 Diagnose the library setup

System

/lv gui                                         Open the command catalog
/lv reload                                      Reload the config files
/lv perm grant|revoke <player>                  Manage authorized users
/lv perm list                                   List authorized users

Configuration

Two JSON files are created in your config/ folder on first run and can be reloaded live with /lv reload:

• livevillage-regalos.json — the gift-to-house table.
• livevillage-modelos.json — the catalog of skins and house models.

A broken JSON file never takes the server down: the mod warns and keeps the previous values.

Notes

• Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by TikTok or ByteDance. TikTok is a trademark of its respective owner and is referenced here only to describe what the mod connects to.
• The live connection relies on a third-party, unofficial library (TikTokLiveJava by jwdeveloper, MIT). It is not an official API, so it can break temporarily when the platform changes something. Manual placement is unaffected.
• If you run a public or paid server, you are responsible for making sure how you reward donors complies with the Minecraft Usage Guidelines. This mod is a building tool; how you use it is on you.

Support

LiveVillages is free. If it's useful to you and you'd like to help keep it going, you can leave a tip here: paypal.me/josstv77. Completely optional — the mod isn't gated behind it in any way.

Feedback

Bug reports and feature requests: please leave a comment on this page.