ChoiceTheorem's Overhauled Village in FTB Evolution 2

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.

Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.2 guide

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]

Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.2 guide

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]

Everything for ChoiceTheorem's Overhauled Village lives in one file in this pack: config/ctov-common.toml. It has two groups of options, the on/off switches for each structure type and the spawn weights. Here is how the pack sets them.^[53]

Structure switches

All four structure toggles are set to true, so the mod's large villages, medium villages, small villages and pillager outposts all generate in this pack.^[53]

• structures.generateSmallVillage is true.^[53]
• structures.generateMediumVillage is true.^[53]
• structures.generateLargeVillage is true.^[53]
• structures.generatePillagerOutpost is true.^[53]

Which variants can generate

structures.enabledVillages controls which village variants can generate. The pack lists: beach, christmas, desert, desert_oasis, dark_forest, jungle, jungle_tree, mesa, mesa_fortified, mountain, mountain_alpine, mushroom, plains, plains_fortified, savanna, savanna_na, snowy_igloo, swamp, swamp_fortified, taiga and taiga_fortified.^[53]

structures.enabledPillagerOutposts does the same for outposts. The pack lists: beach, dark_forest, desert, jungle, badlands, mountain, plains, savanna, snowy, swamp and taiga.^[53]

If you want to remove a variant you do not like, take its name out of the matching list.^[53]

Spawn weights

The pack leaves all four spawn weights at the mod default, so nothing here has been changed. Each weight must be greater than 0.^[53]

• weights.smallVillageWeight is 10 (mod default 10).^[53]
• weights.mediumVillageWeight is 4 (mod default 4).^[53]
• weights.largeVillageWeight is 1 (mod default 1).^[53]
• weights.outpostWeight is 1 (mod default 1).^[53]

Small villages carry the highest weight at 10, then medium villages at 4, while large villages and pillager outposts sit at 1 each.^[53]

FTB Evolution 2 1.1.0 ships ChoiceTheorem's Overhauled Village at version 4.0.0, using the NeoForge build of the mod. The mod was already in the pack by 1.0.2 or earlier, so it is not a new addition in this release.^[54]

4.0.0

• The mod's own changelog for 4.0.0 lists one change: it was updated to Minecraft 26.1.^[55]