Dibs!

Take control of villager profession assignment. Bind any villager to any workstation permanently.

✨ Features

• Permanent villager-workstation binding: Right-click an unemployed villager while holding a workstation item to bind them together. Place the block and it belongs to them exclusively.
• Protected workstations: Other villagers cannot gain a profession from a bound workstation or show any claiming behavior (They may still briefly approach it, but will be silently evicted with no visible effects or profession textures).
• Villager locator: Press V while looking at a bound workstation to apply a glowing effect to its villager, making them easy to find in a crowded trading hall.
• Auto-cleanup on break: Breaking a bound workstation automatically releases the binding, freeing both the block and the villager.
• Configurable: Adjust particle effect duration and glow duration via the in-game config screen.

🎮 How to Use

Binding a villager to a workstation:

• Hold a stack of workstation items in your main hand (e.g. a composter, lectern, blast furnace, etc.).
• Right-click an unemployed villager, a brief ritual begins, shown by happy particles around them.
• One item from your stack is now bound to that villager (the rest remain unbound).
• Place the bound item as a block anywhere in the world.
• The villager will navigate to their workstation and gain the corresponding profession.

Finding a villager's workstation owner:

• Look directly at a placed workstation block.
• Press V (default key), the bound villager will glow for a configurable duration, making them visible through walls.

Releasing a binding:

• Simply break the workstation block. The binding is removed automatically and the villager returns to unemployed status.

⚙️ Configuration

Open the config screen via ModMenu → Dibs! → Config (requires ModMenu). Config is saved per-client in .minecraft/config/dibs.json.

• Particle Duration (Default: 2 seconds): Determines how long the happy_villager particles play around the villager during the binding ritual.
• Glow Duration (Default: 5 seconds): Determines how long the assigned villager remains highlighted with the glowing effect when the V key is pressed.

📋 Requirements

• Fabric Loader
• Fabric API
• Cloth Config API (for the configuration system)
• Mod Menu (recommended for easy in-game configuration)

🌐 Client & Server

Some functionality exists on both the client and the server, making the mod required for the server but optional for the client.

💝 Free & Open Source

This is a completely free project. I'm not asking for donations or "buy me a coffee" contributions. If you enjoy the mod, the best way to support it is by:

• Leaving a rating/review
• Sharing it with friends
• Reporting any bugs you find

🔗 Links

• Report Issues
• Source Code

🖼️ Screenshots

A. Binding Ritual

B. Pressing V at a bound workstation block