This Is One Way To Get Into Game Design.

Honestly, this is mostly just me working out how to program and stuff through the medium of Minecraft Modding

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The Village And Pillage Overhaul Mod

What's Up With The Project?

To simplify things, this began as a response to people having issues with the antisemitic villager and pillager/illager designs. It has gotten very far out of hand.

What Am I Doing?

The Entities

I'm redesigning the Villager, Iron Golem, Pillager/Illager, and Witch entities, as well as renaming the Snow Golem to the Snowman.

The Iron Golems are becoming Copper Automatons, deadly protectors powered by mysterious magic.

Villagers are becoming the Light Veric, a mysterious culture still affected by a great mistake.

Pillagers, Illagers, and Witches are becoming the Dark Veric, the ones who didn't let the mysteries that haunted them go.

All of them are losing the nose, changing greatly in appearance, and also getting new animations.

The Structures

So first, I'm working on the villages. Yes, I know they're nice as they are, but I think I can make them better. Also, I'm weird about things like candles being where they belong and torches not being inside.

I'm working on the Plains Village first, then going to the Snowy Village, the Taiga Village, and the Desert Village. I'm adding a Mesa Village, a Swamp Village, a Jungle Village, and, in 1.20 and up, a Cherry Village.

Other

I'm going to create multiple new blocks, including translucent hide windows, greased paper windows, horn windows, small tables, and multiple forms of wattle and daub. I'm also planning to redo the trading system with multiple options and less importance of emeralds. Basically, I'm planning to make trade work entirely differently and more like actual trade.

Other Information

I'm really new to this, so I may ask more experienced modders in their inbox for advice. If anyone is unwilling to help me, then I apologize in advance for asking.

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Have decided on a proper base design for the Veric (Villagers/Illagers)! They're deer-people now!

Why? Because deer are weird. For example, there was a time there was a deer in a friend's garden (note: the garden had deer repellent in it) that was so busy eating the plants that my sister and her friend was able to pet it, and it didn't do anything when the friend's step-father waved one of the deer repellent sticks under it's nose.

Also, deer are kinda territorial. So I think it works.

(Upstate NY rural experience, here. The deer look both ways before crossing the road where we are.)

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hello!! i have a question regarding villager reputation. you said it goes down by stealing from them -- does this mean taking whats in chests in their homes or does it mean something else? just curious

If I can do this, it will go down from stealing from the chests, but also from their farms.

Honestly, though, I'm not quite sure how, so I'm just guessing.

(Might be difficult, basically.)

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Reputation System

So the reputation system has been explained already. Its basically a version of the "golden rule" where you're treated differently by the light veric (villagers) depending on how you treat them.

What Affects Reputation?

Reputation is affected by actions towards villagers. It is lowered by harming them, causing discomfort, killing their copper automatons, and stealing from them. It is raised by helping them with raids, reducing their discomfort, curing zombification, and similar actions.

What is discomfort?

Discomfort is another stat that villagers have. It is a stat that indicates how they feel in a situation/location.

You can make villagers more comfortable by giving them beds, a place to rest at least 10 blocks away from their workstations, time to be around other villagers, and room to wander.

You can make villagers less comfortable by taking away these things.

What does reputation do?

Reputation affects how the villagers treat you. You start with fifty reputation, meaning they are completely neutral towards you. Your reputation scales from zero to one hundred.

If your reputation is lower than fifty, they will ask for more for trades, give you less time to do "tasks" (Inspired by bounties from the bounty board mod), and, if your reputation is from zero to ten, copper automatons summoned by villagers will attack you on sight.

If your reputation is higher than fifty, they will ask for less for trades, give you more time to do "tasks" and be less likely to take a single low-damage hit as a danger, meaning the copper automatons won't attack you for that every time.

Please note that you have a single reputation counter for all villagers, partially to make this easier for me to code.

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Probably going to re-add missing villager-adjacent mobs

So the mobs from the mob vote, the Iceologer, the "copper golem" and the "tuff golem" will be in the mod.

They will be redesigned, and the "Copper Golem" will become the Copper Statue as well as the "Tuff Golem" becoming the Tuff Statue.

The redesigns will be standard for the redesigns I'm doing for everything else. Removing the noses, freeing the arms for the Iceologer, and just, in general, improving their designs.

(Part of this is because I think the "tuff golem" is cute, and I want them to be there, but I feel I shouldn't leave out the others.)

If anyone has any suggestions for smaller redesign bits for these three, feel free to talk about them!

[tigeradjacent]

𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆/𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐘 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐅𝐓 𝐁𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐒 ★ (𝐩𝐭𝟑)

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I have made a mistake. By changing the Iron Golem into the Copper Automaton, I cannot add a reimagined version of the Copper Golem without suggestions for how to change it to be more unique.

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Requesting advice on the Fletcher house interior. If anyone has ideas (that aren't things like “fill it with chickens”, something my sister suggested), please tell me.

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Requesting advice on the Fletcher house interior. If anyone has ideas (that aren't things like “fill it with chickens”, something my sister suggested), please tell me.

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New question!

Should I make a Dark Oak Village

Yes!

No, that is the realm of those consumed by darkness (illagers)

Voting ended onMar 28, 2023

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Okay, so it was a tie with a vote added after the poll ended. I'll flip a coin on it. Heads is yes, tails is no.

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Okay. It was tails. No dark oak village is happening.

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New question!

Should I make a Dark Oak Village

Yes!

No, that is the realm of those consumed by darkness (illagers)

Voting ended onMar 28, 2023

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Okay, so it was a tie with a vote added after the poll ended. I'll flip a coin on it. Heads is yes, tails is no.

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New question!

Should I make a Dark Oak Village

Yes!

No, that is the realm of those consumed by darkness (illagers)

Voting ended onMar 28, 2023

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So, I have a question for everyone:

How should I make the Veric inhuman?

Antlers

Weird eyes (like purple or red or something)

Clawed feet (get rid of the boots)

Don’t make them inhuman, leave them mostly the same (only change is noses)

Voting ended onMar 8, 2023

Remember, the Veric are the Villagers, Illagers, and Witches!

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Actually, I don’t know how the feet will work, I’m still learning blockbench modeling. If I can figure them out, they’ll remain a possibility.

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So, I have a question for everyone:

How should I make the Veric inhuman?

Antlers

Weird eyes (like purple or red or something)

Clawed feet (get rid of the boots)

Don’t make them inhuman, leave them mostly the same (only change is noses)

Voting ended onMar 8, 2023

Remember, the Veric are the Villagers, Illagers, and Witches!

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Some random details about the things I'm doing

Copper Automatons

Why are they copper?

First off, it looks pretty. Second, automatons can't work without some form of magic, and everyone knows that iron is horrible for magic!

Cool special things

One arm is a little grabby claw, the other arm is a sword. They are specialized for defending villages, and they are really cool, and I love them.

Light Veric

Arms!

I'm freeing their arms, mostly so they can have animations! Also because that means you can see more design details, but... they get to have arms! They get to interact with the world and the people around them! They can pat children on the head!

The Trading System

So what do I mean by "less importance of emeralds"? Well, it's simple. What Minecraft calls a trading system is actually a fixed economy. But, say, you want an enchanted book, so you go to a librarian. They might want paper, or leather, or ink sacs in return.

Or say you want a potion, so you go to a cleric. They may want glass bottles or potion ingredients in return.

The Reputation System

My way of making it less appealing to steal from villages and make trading halls is to create a reputation system. Basically, you treat villagers badly, they react and your reputation goes down. And since the villages communicate, this can have some serious consequences!

Dark Veric

Variation

Have you ever wondered why pillagers look exactly the same no matter what climate they're in? Well, that's not happening anymore. Very simply, it bothers me. Why don't they have furs for warmth in a snowy area? How do all the outposts look exactly the same?

That is changing very quickly.

Once again: Arms!

Look, maybe a self-indulgent village and pillage mod just lets people have functional limbs. Is that so strange?

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Have some concept art for the outfits! It’s not colored because I haven’t figured that out yet, but it is a basic design!

Unemployed Plains Villager

This is also the base outfit for most villagers

Plains Fool (Formerly Nitwit)

Longer coat!

Employment Edit Concepts

Just a bunch of little things I’m thinking of for the professions.

Plains Pillager

They get a long coat too, because they’re ranged fighters.

Plains Vindicator

Lot more armor.

Plains Evoker