Villages&Pillages in All the Mods 10

Villages&Pillages is a structure mod that adds hostile, unfriendly pillages to the world, a contrast to the peaceful villages you already know. If you like finding new places to explore while you travel, this is the kind of mod that adds them.^[1]

Season 1: the Witch Village

The mod's developer plans seasonal updates, and the first season adds Witch Villages. These sit deep in swamp and mangrove biomes. The project page describes mossy houses, bubbling cauldrons and treacherous bogs you have to navigate to uncover the village's dark secrets.^[1]

Compatibility

The mod is designed to work with all world generation mods. It also has enhanced compatibility with the Waystones mod.^[1]

In this pack

This pack ships Villages&Pillages 2.0.0, built for NeoForge on Minecraft 1.21.1. It has been in the pack since version 0.46 or earlier.^[2]

Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.1 guide

Villages&Pillages is a structure mod that adds hostile and unfriendly pillages as a contrast to the peaceful villages. Its first season adds the Witch Village, so that's the place to head for first.^[1]

Your first step: find the Witch Village

The mod is getting seasonal updates, and Season 1 adds the Witch Village. You'll find it hidden deep within swamp and mangrove biomes, so head for those if you want to see it. Expect mossy houses, bubbling cauldrons and treacherous bogs to get through before the village's dark secrets are revealed.^[1]

1. Travel to a swamp or mangrove biome, since that's where the Witch Village generates.^[1]
2. Look around for mossy houses and bubbling cauldrons, which mark the village.^[1]
3. Watch your step in the bogs while you explore. They're described as treacherous.^[1]

Travel and compatibility

The mod is designed to be fully compatible with all world generation mods, so it should sit alongside the other biome and structure mods without trouble. It also has enhanced compatibility with the Waystones mod, which is handy once you've found a village you want to come back to.^[1]

Unverified I couldn't confirm any in-pack recipes, quests or item descriptions for this mod, so there's no crafting order to follow here. If you spot something craftable or any loot worth chasing in the Witch Village, that isn't verified yet.

Same as in the All the Mods 11 0.10.0-beta guide

Villages&Pillages is a structure mod, so there are no machines, multiblocks or power networks to wire up. The mechanics worth knowing are how the Witch Village is placed and built, and what lives inside it. That is what this section covers.^[1]

Where Witch Villages generate

Witch Villages are tied to swamps. The biome tag lists swamp and mangrove swamp, plus two optional swamp tags that only apply if another mod provides them. The structure itself is added to the surface structures step of world generation.^[1][3][4]

Placement uses random spread with a spacing of 24 and a separation of 16. The structure set holds just this one village type, with a weight of 1.^[5]

The village is a jigsaw structure with a size of 7. It starts at an absolute height of 64 and can reach out 63 blocks horizontally from its centre.^[4]

How the village is assembled

Generation starts from a single centre piece, and everything else branches off it. If a branch cannot place anything from its pool, it falls back to a pool of road ends so the paths finish cleanly.^[6][7]

The road and house pool is weighted. Each of the three small houses has a weight of 4, and each of the two medium houses has a weight of 3. Road pieces share the same pool: long roads weigh 6, medium roads 4 and short roads 2. The four-way crossroad weighs 4, the three-way 3, the two-way 2 and the one-way 1. Damaged and broken one-way crossroads weigh 3 each, which is where the village gets its run-down look.^[8]

Road ends come from the terminator pool. The dead end is the most common (weight 5), followed by the short (4), medium (3) and long (2) ends. A broken one-way crossroad can also cap a branch, at weight 1.^[7]

Decorations are mostly empty. The empty entry has a weight of 100, so most decoration spots stay bare. When something does appear, it is a villager cage (weight 8 for each cage variant) or a dead tree (weight 3 for each tree variant).^[9]

What makes it look like a witch village

After the pieces are placed, processors rewrite blocks. In houses, moss blocks become mossy cobblestone with a probability of 0.33, and cobblestone does so with a probability of 0.75. Vines are removed with a probability of 0.7, and cobwebs with a probability of 0.75.^[10]

The house processors also add some witchy touches. Some black concrete markers become lit black candles (3 or 4 candles), and some white concrete markers become flower pots. Orange concrete markers always become lit campfires with the signal fire property. Brown concrete becomes oak wood, and there are dedicated processors for waterlogging, open doors and brewing stands.^[10]

Roads and other village pieces use a lighter processor list. Vines are removed with a probability of 0.5, light gray concrete becomes mossy cobblestone wall, and light blue concrete becomes spruce slab for the collapsed underwater parts. The black candle and flower pot rules are similar to the houses, but candles are more likely, with a probability of 0.3 for each candle count instead of 0.2.^[10][11]

Who lives there

The structure overrides mob spawns inside its pieces. Expect groups of 4 to 8 witches in the monster category and 2 to 4 cats in the creature category. The village also has entity pools for a cat, a villager and a witch.^{[4][12][13][14]}

Compatibility

The mod is designed to be compatible with world generation mods, and it currently offers enhanced compatibility with the Waystones mod.^[1]

Unverified The loot inside the witch house chests (attic chest, barrel and personal chest) is defined in the mod's loot table data files. The sources here do not show what those tables contain, so check them in game before you count on any particular drop.

The files from Villages&Pillages that I can see here describe one thing: the witch village. They don't show any tiers or crafting steps, so this section is about where to find that village and what to expect when you get there.^[15][16]

Finding the witch village

The witch village generates in swamp and mangrove swamp biomes. It can also appear in biomes tagged as swamps by other mods, but those tags are optional.^[15]

The structure set places villages on a random spread with a spacing of 24 and a separation of 16. They are surface structures with a jigsaw size of 7, and they start at height 64.^[16][17]

Who lives there

• Witches: the village spawns 4 to 8 of them within its pieces.^[16]
• Cats: 2 to 4 spawn within the pieces as well.^[16]

Loot worth grabbing

The witch house has an attic chest and a barrel, each with its own loot table. Both are worth opening before you leave.^[18][19]

• Barrel, first pool: redstone, glowstone dust, spider eyes, sugar, brown mushrooms, red mushrooms or fermented spider eyes, in stacks. A rabbit foot or a pufferfish can also turn up.^[18]
• Barrel, second pool: it rolls 2 to 4 times and gives glass bottles or a splash potion of slowness, poison, weakness or harming.^[18]
• Attic chest, first pool: it rolls 2 to 4 times and gives an Emerald, 2 to 4 cobwebs or 2 to 4 string.^[19]
• Attic chest, second pool: a painting, a flower pot, a book, 1 to 2 leather or 2 to 4 glass bottles.^[19]

All the Mods 10 8.3 ships Villages&Pillages 2.0.0, built for Minecraft 1.21.1 on NeoForge. The mod has been in the pack since All the Mods 10 0.46 or earlier.^[2]

Pack changelog

The pack changelog for All the Mods 10 2.39 records the mod being updated from 1.0.2 to 1.0.3.^[20]

Mod changelogs

Here are the changes the mod's own changelogs list, newest first.^{[21][22][23][24]}

• 2.0.0: Reworked most of the internal mod setup, improved terrain check accuracy and performance, and improved terrain generation around the structures. This is the version your 8.3 pack runs.^[2][21]
• 1.0.3: Fixed compatibility with newer YUNG's API (version 5.1.4).^[22]
• 1.0.2: Fixed possible deadlocks on worldgen.^[23]
• 1.0.1: Improved the details of the witch village structure.^[24]

In short, the earlier releases were fixes and polish, and 2.0.0 focused on how structures sit in the terrain around them.^{[21][22][23][24]}