Villager Farm

A Fabric mod for Minecraft 1.21.11 that overhauls villager farming behavior.

Features

• Decoupled from mob_griefing — villager harvest, replant, and pickup now ignore the global mob_griefing gamerule (toggle in config). Set mob_griefing=false to stop creepers/endermen damaging the world while villagers keep farming.
• Atomic harvest + replant — when a farmer breaks a mature crop, the seedling goes back in the same tick. Yields are vanilla loot minus one seed-equivalent.
• Five extended crops — sugar cane, nether wart, pumpkin, melon, and cocoa. Pumpkins and melons are only harvested when stem-grown (verified via blockorigin) so player-placed decorations are left alone. Sugar cane harvest leaves the bottom stalk so the column regrows. Each crop is independently toggleable.
• Food sharing + breeding integration — pumpkin (food=4 by default), melon slice / sugar cane / cocoa beans (food=1) all count toward villager breeding readiness. Custom share path lets farmers throw any of these to neighbors as soon as they have ≥2 in a slot, so the new crops actually circulate.
• Pickup status effects — picking up sugar cane gives Speed (configurable duration + amplifier per cane). Cocoa beans give Regeneration. A cleric picking up nether wart rolls one of the configured positive effects.
• Farmer anti-trample — farmer-profession villagers stop wrecking their own farmland by jumping. Other entities still trample normally.
• Wider AI scan — vanilla's farmer brain only scans ±1 around the villager. The mod adds a configurable wider scan for extended crops (default ±2). Includes a fallback that populates SECONDARY_JOB_SITE for soul-sand and jungle-log farms; without it, the brain framework would refuse to even consider the farming task.
• WTHIT + Jade tooltip integration — hovering a villager shows their current activity (Working / Resting / Meeting / Idle / etc.) plus their inventory contents. Optional; works with either tooltip mod, or none.

Every feature has a config toggle, and every magic number is editable.

Installation

1. Install Fabric Loader ≥ 0.19.2 and Fabric API for Minecraft 1.21.11.
2. Download blockorigin (required runtime dep — provides the cause-tracking that makes the stem-grown pumpkin/melon detection work).
3. Download villagerfarm-x.y.z.jar from the releases page and drop it into your mods/ folder alongside blockorigin.
4. Optional: install WTHIT or Jade to get the villager tooltip overlay.

Configuration

On first launch the mod creates config/villagerfarm.json with sensible defaults. Edit the file and restart the game/server to apply changes. There's no hot-reload command.

The schema is a single JSON object with two top-level sections:

features — toggles

Key	Default	Effect
gamerule_split	true	When true, villager farming + pickup ignore vanilla's mob_griefing gamerule. Set false to revert to vanilla coupling.
atomic_harvest_replant	true	Vanilla wheat/beetroot/potato/carrot harvested + replanted in the same tick. Disable for vanilla two-step behavior.
anti_trample	true	Farmer-profession villagers don't trample farmland by jumping.
secondary_job_site_patcher	true	Forces farmers near soul-sand / jungle-log / etc. to consider the FarmerVillagerTask. Without this, vanilla brain refuses to run the task for non-farmland farms.
tooltip_integration	true	WTHIT/Jade villager tooltip displays activity + inventory.
extended_crops.enabled	true	Master switch for the five extra crops.
extended_crops.sugar_cane / nether_wart / cocoa / pumpkin / melon	true	Per-crop toggles, layered under the master switch.
food_sharing.enabled	true	Master switch for the custom low-threshold share path.
food_sharing.share_pumpkin / share_melon_slice / share_sugar_cane / share_cocoa_beans / share_nether_wart_to_cleric	true	Per-item share toggles. Wart is farmer→cleric only when its toggle is on.
pickup_effects.sugar_cane.enabled	true	Effect on sugar-cane pickup.
pickup_effects.sugar_cane.effect	"minecraft:speed"	Status effect identifier rolled. Any vanilla/modded effect id works.
pickup_effects.sugar_cane.ticks_per_item	200	Ticks added per cane (20t/s, so 200 = 10s).
pickup_effects.sugar_cane.amplifier	0	0 = level I, 1 = level II, etc.
pickup_effects.cocoa_beans.*	true / "minecraft:regeneration" / 100 / 0	Same shape as sugar cane, 5s/bean of Regen by default.
pickup_effects.nether_wart.enabled	true	Random positive effect on nether-wart pickup.
pickup_effects.nether_wart.cleric_only	true	Only fires for cleric villagers.
pickup_effects.nether_wart.duration_ticks	600	30 seconds at 20 t/s.
pickup_effects.nether_wart.amplifier	0	Effect level.
pickup_effects.nether_wart.allowed_effects	11 entries	Identifier list rolled from. Bad ids are silently dropped.

values — numeric knobs

Key	Default	Effect
food_values	pumpkin=4, melon_slice=1, sugar_cane=1, cocoa_beans=1	Map of minecraft:item_id → food points. Items not in this map are not villager food.
search.extended_radius_xyz	2	The outer search shell for extended crops (vanilla is 1).
search.extended_harvest_distance_squared	16.0	Max squared distance the villager will harvest an extended crop from.
search.unstuck_min/max_distance_squared	1.0 / 6.25	Vanilla CropBlock targets in this squared-distance window get an unstuck-harvest so the brain doesn't lock onto unreachable wheat.
search.secondary_job_site_radius_xz / radius_y / tick_interval	4 / 2 / 40	Patcher scan dimensions and refresh interval (ticks).
sharing.min_stack_size_to_toss	2	Farmer needs at least this count in a slot to toss it to a neighbor.
sharing.max_share_distance_squared	5.0	Max squared distance between farmer and target villager for the custom share path.

The config does not validate its inputs. If you set ticks_per_item: -50 or rename enabled to enabled_lol, you get whatever fallback Gson decides — usually defaults for missing fields, weird behavior for nonsense values. Edit responsibly.

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