Villagers Regen

Villagers Regen is small project that I did for personal purposes to use on my server because we have a lot of villagers there, but I thought it was nice to share it. Villagers Regen is a simple, lightweight mod that adds natural health regeneration to villagers, designed to compensate for their questionable AI and pathfinding.

Villagers tend to accumulate damage over time even if you put them in an environment that should be safe of any danger. It doesn't matter if you wall their village or if you remove all the dangers, they will always find a way to hurt themselves because of their lack of sense of self preservation. This mod fix that by giving villagers a slow natural health regeneration. The healing rate is intentionally kept reasonable and balanced with a rate of just half a heart every 10 seconds.

This mod will not make your villagers invincible, it's meant to let them survive the frankly unfair damage they take just from existing and moving around with their questionable pathfinding. It will not save your villagers from zombie attacks, raids, or any other combat related damage. What this mod does is let villagers slowly recover from the accidental damage they tend to accumulate over time, fall damage from dumb pathfinding being the most common culprit.

The end result is that, instead of caging your villagers like a super villain, you can let them roam freely around your base or village without needing to constantly babysit them or worry that a random fall will bring them dangerously close to death. You still need to keep them safe from actual threats, this mod doesn't change that part of the gameplay.