Millenaire Mod Review

I have been taking a look at the great series of Youtube videos by GaylenOrylee which takes you through the Millenaire mod (if you want to watch it start from Episode 9 as that is when she starts narrating the episodes).

To summarize Millenaire is a mod that adds active villages to the game. Now, Minecraft 1.8.1 added villages but these remain passive. The Testificates in the village do not do much and really do not add to the game overall yet (I am sure Jeb has big plans for them). Millenaire really changes this.

It adds a number of civilizations (Mayans, Norman, Hindu) with fully fleshed out villagers that interact with you. You basically find a village on your world (after installing Millenaire) and then you can start trading with the village. Each village will have a shop or tower where a trade lives. On his/her board in the shop or tower the requirements for the expansion of the village. For example, they may need 100 cobblestone. Now they can get some of it themselves or you can sell it to then earning money that you can spend at the shop or other villages for things you may need that they sell.

You start out as a stranger and as you trade with them you can gain trust and reputation to the extent that they can make you part of the village and will give you a plot of land in the village and even build you a house (of varying shapes and sizes). To be a village elder you must complete quests for the village to gain reputation.

The villages are diverse with lumberjacks (they might not wear women's clothing and hang around in bars), blacksmiths, traders in goods, farmers, innkeepers, soldiers for defense (including for you) and other members. There are even traders that pop in once and in a while that you can buy exotic goods to buy.

You can also help the villages by getting them self sufficient and even get villages to trade across each other (with you as the middle man initially).

One thing to remember is not to kill any of the village members as you can be banned from the village or even killed by the soldiers if you ever show your face near the village again.

This mod is very diverse and I cannot do justice to it in this simple blog entry and I will attempt to document my progress with a Norman village near my house I found to give you an idea.

It is great mod and is popular with lots of modpack makers (AMCO and YogBox have it included).