Villager Guilds

Villager Guilds — Smarter Villagers, Living Towns, Meaningful Professions

Villager Guilds transforms Minecraft villages into thriving, believable communities by giving villagers purpose, progression, and pride in their craft. Instead of every villager being a static trading post, this mod introduces villager professions that actually do their jobs, unlock new abilities, and contribute to the growth of their town.

🌱 Villagers With Careers, Not Just Trades

Villagers now progress through their profession beyond Master, gaining access to Guild Ranks and specialized skills that improve their usefulness and immersion in village life.

🏛️ Build Guild Halls to Unlock Advanced Skills

A villager can’t rise above Master on their own — they must join a Guild. To do that, players build Guild Halls: profession-specific workspaces that meet certain requirements such as:

Dedicated Guild Banner for that profession

Required workstations and furniture

Sufficient space and storage

Once a hall is complete, Master villagers of the matching profession may join, becoming Adept, and eventually Guildmaster — unlocking enhanced behaviors, trades, and abilities.

📜 The Commission System: Post Jobs, Earn Results

Villager Guilds introduces the Commission Board, a wall-mounted job board where players can:

Post work requests (commissions)

Set payment and desired items

Have villagers claim and complete the tasks

The system is fully server-authoritative, making it SMP-friendly and fair.

🪓 New Professions & Behaviors

Each profession gains new, lore-friendly abilities that make them valuable members of your settlement. Examples include:

Woodcutter Guild

Plants and manages forests

Crafts refined wood goods at higher ranks

Farmer Guild

Tends assigned crops properly (no random planting)

Uses chests to store harvests, replants intelligently

Shepherd Guild (planned)

Shears sheep and stores wool automatically

Butcher Guild (planned)

Breeds and maintains livestock responsibly

Miner Guild

Works at the Prospector’s Table

Mines intelligently, stores resources, and at Guildmaster rank can perform Directed Mining by following player-placed Survey Stakes to carve tunnels, torching and securing the path as they go

🧠 Why This Mod Exists

Vanilla villagers have potential, but act more like shopkeepers than townsfolk. Villager Guilds gives them:

Goals instead of routines

Progression instead of static roles

Community instead of randomness

Your villages will feel alive, productive, and worth building around.

🧩 Compatibility & Modpack Vision

Villager Guilds is designed to feel like a natural extension of vanilla. Its systems can scale with modpacks, expanding professions and industries over time.

Upcoming goals include:

Player reputations & guild memberships

Decorative guild-themed furniture

Villager collaboration between guilds

Automated supply chains through commissions