Census
Every mob in your world is someone. Census gives villagers — and tagged
animals and monsters — a name, a personality, memories, a family, and feelings.
They remember what you do to them. Their friends hear about it. Their children
grow up knowing it. Nothing here is scripted; the stories emerge.
What happens in a Census world
- Walk up to a villager and a small card shows who they are and how they feel.
Right-click them with the Census Book for their full profile — personality,
what they think of you, and their recent memories.
- Hurt one and they remember it. Hurt them enough and they flee on sight — the
timid break first, the brave hold out. Word spreads: villagers who never saw
it come to distrust you too.
- Be kind and it's also remembered. Win a villager over and one day they'll
walk up and hand you a gift.
- Villagers form bonds, pair off for life, and raise children who inherit their
parents' temperament. Kill someone's parent and a vengeful child — even one
far away or asleep in an unloaded chunk — will come for you.
- Strong feelings show as particles; the fallen leave inscribed gravestones.
Made to be extended
Tropes, behaviours, and which species are censused are all datapack JSON —
add your own stories and tune the simulation without writing code, live via
/reload.
Notes
- Server-friendly: heavy work is spread across ticks and bounded; a single
socialEnabled=false switch gives the lightest setting. Everything tunable in
the config.
- Languages: English, 日本語.
- Open source (MIT): https://github.com/ashina814/census
Requirements
Minecraft 1.21.11 · NeoForge 21.11+ · Java 21.
Suggested CurseForge settings
- Categories: Adventure and RPG, Server Utility, Mobs
- License: MIT
- Tags / search terms: villagers, npc, social, simulation, emergent, rpg, story
