🎲The Villagers' Problem
You might think that villagers in Minecraft are perfect, because they have their own charm, are “fun” to interact with, and are generally the face of Minecraft, like a creeper or Steve. But in reality, villagers are the game's most serious problem. Why? Let's find out!
Defining the Problem
As you can see, I don’t need to be eloquent to show that the scale of the problem is colossal. Such videos gain millions of views, teaching players to "cheat" and spreading this plague even to small servers for tiny player groups. But "trading halls" don’t just simplify the game—they completely change its core principle. Instead of embarking on an adventure to gather resources in Minecraft’s infinite generated world, players find it easier to locate a village and turn it into a PRISON. A concentration camp! What was once added to the game to make it feel more alive now makes it dead. Monotonous. Visit any server, and you’re 100% likely to find a player breeding villagers like cows or chickens, using them as vending machines.
Solution to the Problem
To fix the problem, it’s not enough to simply adjust trading prices or update the villagers’ AI within the game—a completely new approach is needed to cut the root of the issue. Villagers must be made interesting. Endlessly interesting. And Ignis does exactly that.
Resource-Oriented Trading. Villagers receive a real inventory (just like players) and trade only what they have. Additionally, Ignis introduces item production—for example, a blacksmith orders iron ingots from a player through a quest and then crafts weapons, tools, or armor from them. A cleric brews potions from ingredients provided by the player. Trade items no longer appear out of thin air.
Villager Personalization. Instead of generic mumbling, Ignis gives villagers a voice to communicate with the player: if a player hits a villager, they’ll be outraged; if you try to wake them at night, they’ll ask you to leave. When a villager spawns, they are assigned one of 50 personalities (as of this writing), which affects their communication style. For example, a depressive villager will be sad and apathetic, while an angry one will be rude or even curse (if enabled in the plugin settings).
Depth of Exploration. In addition to everything mentioned, villagers have a gender, race, skin, name, settlement (Ignis automatically detects village locations and generates names for them using AI), unique voice, and memory—you can even talk to them and give them gifts. Each race has its own culture, voices, and skins...
Endless quests. Using AI and a few tricks, Ignis generates quests, resulting in villagers offering the player "jobs" for which they receive rewards. There are many types of quests that depend on the villager's condition: hungry villagers will ask the player to bring food; villagers wanting to improve their profession skills will request materials; sometimes villagers will send the player on a "hunt," asking for items that drop exclusively from monsters. There's even a quest related to finding potions: villagers tell the player they are tired and want to rest, and the player brings them a drink, as if it were alcohol (remember, excessive alcohol consumption is harmful to health!).
Villagers can craft! Have you ever wondered why in MineCRAFT only the player can craft, yet villagers somehow manage to have entire villages and even furniture at their disposal? Ignis changes this as well. As mentioned above, villagers craft items! With a small chance (which depends on the villager's profession level), villagers produce unique items, whose names and descriptions are generated using AI. These items have rarity levels (from common to legendary, and in extremely rare cases, even mythical), enhanced stats, and increased value.
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