Raid Aftermath (Vanilla Tales)

Villagers repair the damage a raid or an explosion left in the village.

Masons, toolsmiths and nitwits walk to the spot, work for a few seconds, and put the block back.

Versions: 1.20.1, 1.21.1, 1.21.8

Loader: Fabric, Forge (1.20.1); Fabric, NeoForge (1.21.1, 1.21.8)

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Requirements

• On Fabric you need Fabric API. On Forge or NeoForge you do not.
• Server-side: install it on the server (or in singleplayer). Players do not need it, and vanilla clients can join without it.
• Languages: English and German. German shows for players who have the mod installed (for example in singleplayer); vanilla clients without the mod see English.

What it does

• Explosions, fire spreading, zombies breaking doors and ravagers count as damage while they happen inside a village, but only during an active raid; explosions are recorded at any time. TNT itself is never recorded, so a TNT explosion is never rebuilt.
• Anything a player does, including player-lit TNT, building or breaking blocks, is never recorded.
• Villagers with a repair profession walk to a damaged spot in the daytime and rebuild it, with particles, over a few seconds; several villagers can work on the same village at once. Which professions repair is data-driven through the tag raid_aftermath:repairers (mason, toolsmith and nitwit by default).
• Two-part blocks, like doors and beds, are always repaired together as a pair.
• Destroyed blocks drop as usual. Blocks that keep items or data, like a shulker box, a banner or a head, are not rebuilt. Chests, barrels, beds, bells and job-site blocks (furnace, smoker, blast furnace, lectern, brewing stand, campfire) are rebuilt; their contents drop as usual. The list is the tag raid_aftermath:rebuildable.
• Short grass, ferns, flowers, saplings and crops are never rebuilt; they grow back on their own. A rebuilt grass block matches whatever snow layer sits above it at repair time, not the state it was in when it was destroyed.
• Filling in a hole lifts any mob standing in it onto the new block instead of trapping it inside.
• A spot that no villager repairs within abandonAfterDays days of active village time is forgotten.
• Right-clicking the village bell shows how many houses are still damaged.
• Optionally, the materials for the repair are taken from the village’s own chests.

Advancements

• Good as New: the last damaged spot in a village is repaired.

Configuration

File: raid_aftermath.json.

A config file with a syntax error is left untouched: the mod logs the problem and keeps the last working settings instead of overwriting the file with defaults.

Commands

Needs operator permission.

Good to know

• Only block damage is tracked, never chest contents.
• A damaged spot is dropped if a player has already built something else there.
• With payFromChests on and the material missing, the spot stays open and is retried later.

Part of VanillaTales

Raid Aftermath is part of VanillaTales, a collection of small, independent mods that add little stories to vanilla content. Each mod works on its own; install only the ones you want.

• Zombie Sieges: turns a vanilla zombie siege into a real event, with a ringing bell, a boss bar and two waves of zombies.
• Sherd Stories: gives every decorated pot a title and the story of where its sherds were found.
• Ghost Crews: gives every shipwreck a name and a crew of drowned that guard it until it is looted clean.
• Illager Scouts: a pillager scout watches your village and warns you two days before a patrol arrives.
• Occupied Villages: some new villages spawn already occupied by an illager garrison you can liberate.
• Bonded Pairs: binds two mobs from the same spawn group into a pair that avenges each other.
• Golem Patrol: gives iron golems a daily patrol, a night watch and an escort for villagers.
• Wayfarer’s Landmarks: shows a title and helpful icons when you enter a structure.

More mods by LithiumPlus

• DataDrivenVillagers: create and change villager professions from JSON files or an in-game editor.
• VillagersPlus: new villager types, trades and beautiful workstations. Forge version: VillagersPlus (Forge).
• VillagerTradingPlus: add, replace or delete the trades of any villager, change the currency and gate trades behind conditions, all from a datapack.
• Nyctophobia: dark, foggy and unsettling biomes for the Overworld. Forge version: Nyctophobia (Forge).
• The Graveyard (Fabric) and The Graveyard (Forge/NeoForge): structures, mobs, bosses and blocks with a graveyard theme.