ChoiceTheorem's Overhauled Village in All the Mods 10

Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.1 guide

ChoiceTheorem's Overhauled Village, or CTOV, is a world-generation mod that adds new and improved villages and pillager outposts. It brings 23 village variants and 14 pillager outpost variants, and each one is tailored to the terrain, theme and biome it spawns in.^[1]

The pack ships CTOV 3.6.3 as the NeoForge build, and it has been included since version 2.25 or earlier. It adds no machines or progression items you need to chase. It only changes what the villages and outposts you stumble across look like.^[1][2]

Who it's for

If you like exploring, this one is for you. It gives you more varied villages and outposts to find, and the structures still use vanilla loot tables for the most part. You will still find pillager outpost loot in outposts, profession chests in villages, and bells and workstations. Some custom loot tables also add food, armour and other goodies.^[1]

Good to know

• CTOV relies on vanilla biome tags, so world-generation mods that add biomes should get fitting CTOV villages in those biomes.^[1]
• Mods that add new villagers need compatibility packs. The sources don't say whether this pack includes any, so that is unverified.^[1]
• CTOV's own structures are separate from vanilla villages in newer versions. The author says it only modifies vanilla villages in older versions.^[1]

Unverified The sources don't show any quests or ATM Star path involvement for this mod, so don't expect it to be part of the pack's progression.

Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.1 guide

This one is a little different from most mods in the pack. ChoiceTheorem's Overhauled Village (CTOV) is a structure mod. It adds new and improved villages and pillager outposts to the world, so you don't have anything to craft first. Your first step is to go find the structures.^[1]

The mod adds 23 village variants and 14 pillager outpost variants. Each one is tailored to the terrain, theme and biome it generates in. It relies on vanilla biome tags, so world-generation mods that add biomes should still get fitting CTOV villages.^[1]

Step by step

1. Explore new terrain. CTOV structures only spawn in newly generated chunks, so chunks you've already explored won't get them. If you add the mod to an existing world, head out to unexplored areas.^[1]
2. Use the locate command to track a structure down. On 1.19 and later the format is /locate structure ctov:[structure_from_list]. On 1.18.2 it's /locate ctov:[structure_from_list]. The part in brackets is the name of the structure you want.^[1]
3. Loot the structures. Most of them use vanilla loot tables, so you'll still find pillager outpost loot in outposts and profession chests in villages. You'll also find bells and workstations. Some custom loot tables add extras like food and armour.^[1]

Unverified I couldn't confirm the exact structure names available in this pack, any in-pack recipes or quests involving this mod, or any pack-specific config changes. Check tab completion on the locate command in-game for the structure names.

This mod is about world generation. The project page describes it as adding new and improved villages and pillager outposts to Minecraft. So the mechanics worth knowing are how the structures are grouped, how you find them, and how they get their look.^[1]

Village variants and size tiers

The project page says the mod adds 23 village variants and 14 pillager outpost variants, each tailored to the terrain, theme and biome. Villages come in large, medium and small versions. Each size has its own structure tag, and one combined village tag pulls all three together.^{[1][3][4][5][6]}

Every theme also has its own tag that groups its large, medium and small versions. Beach, christmas, desert, dark forest, jungle, mesa, mountain and mushroom all work this way.^{[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]}

Plains, savanna, swamp and taiga follow the same pattern. So does the snowy theme, which is built around the igloo village.^{[15][16][17][18][19]}

Some themes have a special form with its own tag: plains fortified, mesa fortified, swamp fortified, taiga fortified, desert oasis, mountain alpine, jungle tree, savanna na and an underground village.^{[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]}

Pillager outposts

The mod's pillager outpost tag lists biome-themed outposts for beach, dark forest, desert, jungle, badlands, mountain, plains, savanna, snowy, swamp and taiga. The vanilla pillager outpost is included in the same tag.^[29]

Finding structures

To find a structure, use the locate command. On 1.19 and later the form is: /locate structure ctov:[structure_from_list]. The structure ids come from the tags above, for example ctov:large/village_plains.^[1][15]

How villages get their look

The mod reskins buildings with processor lists in its data files. The bountiful lists use a block swap to turn oak planks, oak slabs and spruce fences into biome-appropriate blocks. In the desert list they become cut sandstone, cut sandstone slabs and sandstone walls. In the badlands list they become cut red sandstone, its slab and red sandstone walls.^[30][31]

• Jungle and beach: jungle planks, slabs and fences.^[32][33]
• Dark forest: dark oak planks, slabs and fences.^[34]
• Savanna: acacia planks, slabs and fences.^[35]
• Swamp: mangrove planks, slabs and fences.^[36]
• Snowy and taiga: spruce planks and slabs, with the spruce fence kept.^[37][38]
• Mountain: dark oak planks and slabs, with the spruce fence kept.^[39]
• Mushroom: brown mushroom blocks for the planks and slabs, and mushroom stems for the fences.^[40]
• Plains: an empty processor list, so nothing is swapped.^[41]

The beach village shows how these lists stack. Its house list has a compatibility processor for Nature's Spirit. It also has a rule that turns campfires into jungle leaves with a probability of 0.2. The farm and town center lists then reference the house list.^[42][43][44]

Some processor lists only load when another mod is present. The beach Croptopia farm and orchard lists, for example, are conditional on Croptopia being loaded.^[45][46]

Extras and loot

The mod has a village flowers placed feature. It uses the flower forest flower feature with a count of 3 and a rarity filter with a chance of 2.^[47]

The vast majority of structures use vanilla loot tables, with some custom ones mixed in. You still find pillager outpost loot in outposts, profession chests in villages, and bells and workstations. You may also find extras like food and armour.^[1]

This mod works differently from a tech or magic mod, so there are no crafting tiers to climb. It adds villages to the world, and your progress comes from finding them and looting their chests. The village structure tag groups three sets of villages: large, medium and small.^[6]

What the village chests give you

Several of the house chests share the same setup: they roll between 3 and 8 times on a short list of everyday items. Here is what the ones I can confirm contain.^[48][49][50]

• Badlands house: red sand, green dye, cactus, wheat, bread, a book, dead bush and Emerald (1 to 3 at a time).^[48]
• Beach house: sand, sugar cane, wheat, bread, a book, dead bush and Emerald (1 to 3 at a time).^[49]
• Dark forest house: gold nuggets, dandelions, poppies, potatoes, bread, apples, a book, a feather, dark oak saplings and Emerald (1 to 4 at a time).^[50]
• Bakery: gets one roll on the vanilla butcher village chest table and one roll on the farm village chest table from this mod.^[51]
• Forager: rolls 5 times on a mix of mushrooms and saplings from the BYG mod, with a stack size of 1 to 10.^[52]

The takeaway is that these chests are basic supplies. The one valuable find in the houses above is the Emerald, which is handy if you plan to trade with villagers.^[48][49][50]

All the Mods 10 8.2 ships ChoiceTheorem's Overhauled Village 3.6.3. The mod has been in the pack since All the Mods 10 0.32 or earlier, and it has been updated many times since. Here is what changed along the way, newest first, with the pack release that brought each version in.^[53]

Changes by version

• 3.6.3 (pack 6.2): the experimental Nature's Spirit compatibility now covers all villages. Point Blank's arm dealer's barn and EvilCraft's werewolf mansion were added to the villages.^[54][55]
• 3.6.2a (pack 6.1): the "gross blocks" typos were changed to grass block, one reported bug was fixed, and village injection was hot fixed.^[56][57]
• 3.6.2-beta.1 (pack 6.0): added experimental Nature's Spirit compatibility, built on a new "ctov:modular_compat" processor. The changelog calls it experimental and bug-prone, to be used at your own risk.^[58][59]
• 3.6.1 (pack 5.5): the way houses and decorations spawn was reworked. Thai style villages now use mangrove instead of crimson wood, and Japanese villages also get cherry wood buildings alongside the birch ones. Road processors were revamped, and Russian and Brazilian Portuguese translations were added. The changelog also announces configs for village frequency and for enabling or disabling villages and pillager outposts.^[60][61]
• 3.6.0 (pack 5.2): fixed crashing in 1.21.10.^[62][63]
• 3.5.10a (pack 4.13): lapis blocks in the desert village were replaced with blue terracotta, and rat garbage piles are limited to a maximum of 1 per village.^[64][65]
• 3.5.10 (pack 4.11): some desert and desert oasis village buildings were rebuilt. The Climatologist's station from Tough as Nails can now spawn in villages, and taiga villages no longer spawn jungle buildings.^[66][67]
• 3.5.9a (pack 3.0): fixed a crash caused by unfinished Nature's Spirit compatibility.^[68][69]
• 3.5.8 (pack 2.47): jungle tree villages no longer spawn a desert vault. Compatibility was added for Create: Dynamic Village and Better Archeology.^[70][71]
• 3.5.7a (pack 2.43): fixed a crashing bug in the cobblemon processor.^[72][73]
• 3.5.6 (pack 2.39): fixed the OBWG forager loot table and added compatibility for Easel does it!, Iron's gem 'n jewelry and Just more cakes. All fisherman buildings were reworked to have outlining blocks. The Ice and Fire library is limited to 1 per village, and structures from Iron's series are limited to 1 of each building per village.^[74][75]

Before the tracked updates

A few earlier mod releases are worth knowing about. 3.5.5 added compatibility with Scorched Guns, Respawn Obelisk and Muffin's picnic, brought back BYG/OBWG compatibility, and required Lithostitched 1.4.x or newer. 3.5.4 added Sawmills and Simply Cats compatibility. 3.5.3a fixed a desert oasis village vault crash, and 3.5.3 fixed the jungle village using the wrong road.^{[76][77][78][79]}

3.5.2 and 3.5.1 smoothed the jungle tree village floor and carved its path through the hill less invasively. They also fixed empty loot tables, and 3.5.2 fixed empty pet shops. In 3.5.1, Croptopia compatibility became built-in.^[80][81]