Villager Enhanced

Names above the heads of people you know.

Added

Villagers you have met show their name when you look at them

• Look at a villager and their name appears above their head, the same way it does for a mob you have name-tagged.
• Only villagers who have told you their name. Someone you have never spoken to stays anonymous, so this is a reminder of who you know rather than a way around asking. On a server each player sees only the names they have earned — two people looking at the same villager can see different things.
• Turn it off under Mods → Villager Enhanced → Config, alongside your other personal settings.

You are told when an iron golem is killed

• The golem is the village's defence, and losing one is usually the first sign something has got in.
• Only deaths caused by something are announced. Iron farms kill golems with lava, magma and drops, none of which has an attacker, so a farm stays quiet without you having to turn this off. A golem killed by a player still counts — on a server that is how you learn someone has been through your village.
• Has its own switch, separate from villager deaths and births.

Fixed

• Name tags did not work on villagers. The dialogue took over the click before Minecraft considered what you were holding, so a named tag did nothing at all. Both README and the Modrinth page claimed name tags took priority; now they actually do.
• Villager spawn eggs did not work on villagers either — the same cause. Using one on a villager produces a baby again, as in vanilla.
• A blank name tag, or a spawn egg for some other mob, still opens the conversation. Only clicks Minecraft would itself have acted on are handed back.

Notes

• Network protocol version raised to 8. Clients and servers must both be on 0.9.0. Nothing the mod sends has changed shape, but villager names are now synced to clients, and a 0.8.x client cannot read one.
• Requires Minecraft 26.2 and NeoForge 26.2.0.48-beta, as before.
• Names are only sent to players who have been introduced, so a client is never holding a name it has not earned.
• Existing worlds need nothing. Villagers you had already been introduced to show their names straight away.