
data pack
Village GuardsMinecraft data pack for 1.21.11
Adds Village Guards in vanilla minecraft without replacing original skeleton mobs.
- Latest version
- 8.6f
- Minecraft
- 1.16.2 to 1.21.11
- Licence
- CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
- Downloads
- 3.0k
- Updated
- 8 mo ago
- Available on
- Modrinth
Host Village Guards servers
Deploy a server with Village Guards already added to the world, on hardware built for it.
- 1.21.11
- Data pack
- One click install
- Version matched
- Automatic backups
- NVMe SSD
Screenshots
Click a screenshot to open it. Screenshots are served from the author’s own host and belong to them.
Minecraft versions
Every version Village Guards declares support for, newest first, with the Java runtime that version needs.
| Minecraft | Through | Java | Evidence | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.21.11 | Data pack | 21+ | declared | 9 Dec 2025 |
| 1.21.10 | Data pack | 21+ | declared | 7 Oct 2025 |
| 1.21.9 | Data pack | 21+ | declared | 30 Sept 2025 |
| 1.21.8 | Data pack | 21+ | declared | 17 Jul 2025 |
| 1.21.7 | Data pack | 21+ | declared | 30 Jun 2025 |
| 1.21.6 | Data pack | 21+ | declared | 17 Jun 2025 |
| 1.21.5 | Data pack | 21+ | declared | 25 Mar 2025 |
| 1.21.4 | Data pack | 21+ | declared | 3 Dec 2024 |
| 24w46a | Data pack | 21+ | declared | 13 Nov 2024 |
| 24w45a | Data pack | 21+ | declared | 6 Nov 2024 |
| 24w44a | Data pack | 21+ | declared | 30 Oct 2024 |
| 1.21.3 | Data pack | 21+ | declared | 23 Oct 2024 |
| 1.21.2 | Data pack | 21+ | declared | 22 Oct 2024 |
| 1.21.1 | Data pack | 21+ | declared | 8 Aug 2024 |
| 1.21 | Data pack | 21+ | declared | 13 Jun 2024 |
| 1.20.6 | Data pack | 21+ | declared | 29 Apr 2024 |
| 1.20.5 | Data pack | 21+ | declared | 23 Apr 2024 |
| 1.20.4 | Data pack | 17+ | declared | 7 Dec 2023 |
| 1.20.3 | Data pack | 17+ | declared | 4 Dec 2023 |
| 1.20.3-pre4 | Data pack | 17+ | declared | 28 Nov 2023 |
| 1.20.3-pre3 | Data pack | 17+ | declared | 27 Nov 2023 |
| 1.20.3-pre2 | Data pack | 17+ | declared | 22 Nov 2023 |
| 1.20.3-pre1 | Data pack | 17+ | declared | 20 Nov 2023 |
| 23w46a | Data pack | 17+ | declared | 16 Nov 2023 |
| 23w45a | Data pack | 17+ | declared | 8 Nov 2023 |
| 23w44a | Data pack | 17+ | declared | 1 Nov 2023 |
| 23w43b | Data pack | 17+ | declared | 26 Oct 2023 |
| 23w43a | Data pack | 17+ | declared | 25 Oct 2023 |
| 23w42a | Data pack | 17+ | declared | 18 Oct 2023 |
| 23w41a | Data pack | 17+ | declared | 11 Oct 2023 |
| 23w40a | Data pack | 17+ | declared | 4 Oct 2023 |
| 1.20.2 | Data pack | 17+ | declared | 20 Sept 2023 |
| 1.20.2-pre1 | Data pack | 17+ | declared | 5 Sept 2023 |
| 23w35a | Data pack | 17+ | declared | 30 Aug 2023 |
| 23w33a | Data pack | 17+ | declared | 17 Aug 2023 |
| 23w32a | Data pack | 17+ | declared | 9 Aug 2023 |
| 23w31a | Data pack | 17+ | declared | 1 Aug 2023 |
| 1.20.1 | Data pack | 17+ | declared | 12 Jun 2023 |
| 1.20 | Data pack | 17+ | declared | 2 Jun 2023 |
| 23w17a | Data pack | 17+ | declared | 26 Apr 2023 |
22 older versions not shown.
Download
From Village Guards’s own host. Nothing is re-hosted here.
village-guards-v8.6f.zip · 0.1 MB · for 1.21.11
9173b88b9e38…Older versions5Hide older versions
- 8.6e26 Jan 20261.21.5, 1.21.6, 1.21.7, 1.21.8, 1.21.9 +1 more0.1 MB22 downloads
22de4608c081…Get - 8.6d26 Jan 20261.21.2, 1.21.3, 24w44a, 24w45a, 24w46a +1 more0.1 MB16 downloads
db6fb3a5622e…Get - 8.6c26 Jan 20261.21, 1.21.10.1 MB27 downloads
cc065062df30…Get - 8.6b26 Jan 20261.20.5, 1.20.60.1 MB17 downloads
5142189841cd…Get - 8.6a26 Jan 20261.16.2, 1.16.3, 1.16.4, 1.16.5, 1.17 +40 more0.1 MB77 downloads
95de5cdb5cc2…Get
Frequently asked
Does Village Guards work on Minecraft 1.21.11?
Yes. 1.21.11 is the newest Minecraft version Village Guards declares support for, and the claim comes from the author's own release metadata rather than from a compatibility list somebody maintains by hand.
Which Minecraft versions does Village Guards support?
Everything the author has declared, from 1.16.2 up to 1.21.11. The full list is in the table above, with the Java runtime each version needs next to it.
Do I need to install Village Guards on the client or the server?
The server only. Players join with an ordinary Minecraft client and install nothing.
What licence is Village Guards under?
CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0, as stated by the author on the platform we synced it from. Check the project's own page before redistributing or bundling it.
How do I install Village Guards?
Data packs install per world: put the downloaded file in that world's datapacks folder and run /reload, or add it when creating the world. No loader is involved. On a server, the world folder lives next to the server jar.
Where do I download Village Guards safely?
Start with the author's page on Modrinth, which is where the data here is synced from. MCReference does not host or repackage files. The download link goes to the source recorded for that release; verify the publisher, filename and checksum before running it.
Works on the same versions
Ordered by how much of the recent Minecraft version coverage overlaps, not by popularity.
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