Villagers Who Remember You

NowTheyTalk turns ordinary Minecraft villagers into persistent characters with names, personalities, moods, preferences, and individual relationships with every player.

Instead of opening the same trading screen every time, players can talk to villagers, learn what they like, build friendships, make enemies, give gifts, and influence the prices they receive.

Every Villager Is Different

Each villager receives a:

• Name and gender
• Personality
• Daily mood
• Profession
• Friendship value for every player
• Liked gift and favorite gift

These traits remain attached to the villager, giving every village its own recognizable community.

Talk and Build Relationships

Players can start conversations through a simple interaction menu.

The villager's response depends on their current mood. Conversations may increase or decrease friendship, and talking too many times during the same day can gradually worsen the villager's mood.

Relationships are completely player-specific. One villager may trust one player while disliking another.

Earn Discounts or Face Higher Prices

Positive conversation points earned during one Minecraft day can provide a personal discount on the following day.

Discounts become active around midday and remain available until evening. They apply to the first required item in a trade, so they can affect emeralds, crops, paper, and other materials.

Villagers also remember negative relationships. If a villager strongly dislikes a player, their prices gradually increase. Improving the relationship reduces this surcharge.

Vanilla reputation, demand, Hero of the Village, and normal Minecraft trade limits are preserved.

Discover and Give Gifts

Every villager has one item they like and another they love.

Villagers may occasionally reveal their preferences during conversation. Players can then offer an item from their main hand:

• A liked gift improves the relationship.
• A favorite gift provides a larger friendship increase.
• An unwanted gift reduces friendship.
• Positive gifts have daily limits, while unwanted gifts do not.

The gift button changes color to show how the villager reacted.

Designed for Multiplayer

Friendship, gifts, discounts, and surcharges are tracked separately for every player-villager pair.

This means players sharing the same village can have completely different relationships and trade prices with the same villager.

Fully Configurable and Translatable

Server administrators can customize:

• Conversation responses and probabilities
• Friendship gains and losses
• Gift items, selection weights, and reactions
• Discount and surcharge thresholds
• Discount hours
• Villager names
• Personality and mood probabilities
• GUI labels, professions, relationship descriptions, and system messages

All player-facing text is stored in editable YAML files. Minecraft item names use each player's selected client language.

Planned Features

NowTheyTalk is still in beta, and the long-term goal is to make villager relationships feel even more personal.

Features being considered for future versions include:

• Romantic relationships and marriage
• Starting a family and having children with villagers
• Optional player-style skins for villagers
• More relationship stages and unique interactions
• Additional dialogue based on professions, weather, time, and village events

These features are plans, not part of the current release, and may change as development continues.

Requirements

• Paper 1.21.8 to 26.2
• Java 21 or newer
• No additional plugins required

Beta Notice

This is the first public beta of NowTheyTalk. It has passed automated and hands-on testing, but unexpected situations may still occur on large or heavily customized servers.

Back up your world before installing beta software and restart the server when replacing the plugin JAR.