Villager Names has been reworked to better fit the game's worlds, and to keep things easy to wrap your head around since these features are purely detail stuff.

Changes:

• Is now designed for Minecraft 1.21 and 1.21.1!
• Names are now split into two categories: It's either a Full Name, or a Nickname.
• Nicknames is a new category of short, interesting but weird Villager names.
  • They don't speak our language after all, so their Nicknames are weird.
  • There are 10291 unique nicknames available currently.
  • If there are any names that sounds offensive, it's because they were essentially made by merging random bits of words together, and I don't have the resources to do a full profanity scan of all the generated results just yet. Sorry!
• Added more names and house names¹ to the Full Name category to increase its diversity.
  • There are now 30 million combinations of full names, more than enough to last a lifetime.
  • Also, names only convey gender meaning if you think of it as such. Villagers are genderless, after all.
• Names are no longer colored differently based on its category.
  • This is to keep things simple, since colored names don't really mean anything in game anyway.
• Some villagers can now be found without a name.
  • They do have names, they just don't want you to know it.
  • You can use Name Tag commands on them if you're really curious though.
• Popular Names and Mojang Names category have been removed.
  • I find that having ties to real world just takes away from the feeling of being in the game's world.
  • Also because, I don't have a reason to keep up to date with famous people, or new people in the Credits. I mean, it doesn't help me get better in doing this stuff, so why bother?
• New Name Tag command: /nickname, which gives the Villager a new nickname.
• /rename now no longer has a chance to give nicknames to Villagers.
  • You can use the new /nickname for that.
• /nameless now works properly again in wiping out a Villager's name.
  • I didn't ship this workaround before because past me had it set in their head that having a different UUID messes things up a lot.
  • It does have some breaking implications, but it only affects a very small number of people, if the specific case that led up to it even exist.
  • Also, I'll never wait for Mojang to fix the bug that broke my things ever again.
• Fixed a bug causing Villagers to take on others' house names if they were really close to them when /rename is applied.
• New advancement: Also Known As²
• All previous advancements have had reworks to be more unique!
• Removed the 2 reference trading achievements.
  • Mainly because of the whole "having ties to the real world" nature of those advancements.
• Updated the internal Villagers' format to prepare for future updates.
  • If you're updating from an older version, the pack will do this automatically for you.
• Completely overhauled the project's inner workings, using new techniques to improve pack performance!
• Villager Names now pauses itself in servers when no players are active.
  • This improves performance on servers with a lot of forceloaded chunks, but no one's around.
  • You only really see these names when you're online anyway.
• Improved performance whenever a Name Tag command was used.

Extras:

• Added Admin Commands! To use these commands:
  • Simply type /function tdp., and the game should give you suggestions on what to use.
    Side note: Any suggestions with underscores followed by numbers are for internal use only and won't work if run on their own.
  • Only those with the "Allow Commands" permission can use Admin Commands.
• A lot of filenames have been changed to properly organize everything.
  • IDs have been removed and is now replaced by code names.
  • The format is now tdp:code_name/data, to reserve the old names for Admin Commands.
• After 6 years of making datapacks, we finally have icons now!
• Improved the look of info text messages.
• Text files have been merged into one single Interactive Help File.
  • I have to learn 3 new languages to get all this to work as well as it did.
  • Not the best at it yet, but it works well enough for now.
• The master background has been updated for major releases as always.
• Codebase now uses Scripter 4.

Credits:

• For the Full Names, I got the lists from these sources:
  • Names Names 2 Last Names
  • Once the list is made, I cropped out all the duplicates (315 names and 2 housenames).
  • The duplicated names are then replaced with a custom set of unique names so they match the intended 6000 count. I generated these by randomly merging syllables formed from the existing set of names then filter out the ones I like - you can get the list of these on Patreon.
  • I've also added 2 family names: Persson and Bergensten. I think you can see why.
  • I considered clipping out similar sounding names, but I decided to keep them since it would make for more interesting stories.
• Heads used for the Advancements: Question Mark
• I'll tell you how I generated these nicknames in a separate Patreon post.
  • Some of the things I used: IPA Reader ToPhonetics

Footnotes:

1: Previously known as Family Names.
2: Name a Villager "/nickname" to show their nicknames!

• Here's the real secret: I've been doing all this since 2018, but ad revenue alone is tiny compared to the time it took to research, develop, test, and maintain all this for free.
  • As a result, most of my days are swallowed by other work just to keep the lights on.
  • With your help though, I'll be able to go full-time: Faster updates, better tools, and many more features.
    Together, we don’t just keep this going, we build it into what it was always meant to be.
  • So help me keep the lights on here, and have fun with Villager Names!

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