Nomowanderer FAQ

It adds three items — the Anti-Solicitor Talisman, the No Soliciting Sign, and the Trader Rug — that stop wandering traders from approaching and offering trades at your base. Place or hold them where you don't want traders to bother you.

Craft any of the three items (the sign, rug, or talisman) and place or carry it near the area you want protected. Once it's active, wandering traders will avoid that spot instead of walking up to you.

All three block trader solicitation, but they differ in how you use them: the sign and rug are placed in the world as blocks, while the talisman is an item you keep on you. Pick based on whether you want a fixed protected zone or personal protection that travels with you.

Each item has its own recipe using common early-game materials, and the exact ingredients are shown in your recipe book or JEI/REI once you have the mod installed. Check the crafting guide in your recipe viewer for the precise layout.

Yes — by default the mod stops traders from approaching and soliciting at your base, but it doesn't necessarily remove them from the world entirely. You can configure it so traders still spawn elsewhere if you want them to exist without bothering you.

Open the mod's config file and adjust the options that control trader spawning and blocking radius. This lets you keep traders in the world while preventing them from reaching your protected area.

Yes, the mod includes commands for managing how traders are blocked. Use them to check or change blocking behavior without editing config files by hand.

The most common cause is that your sign, rug, or talisman isn't placed or held close enough to the area you want protected, or it's outside its effective range. Make sure the item is active and positioned where traders actually approach.

It's a lightweight mod that only affects wandering trader behavior, so it generally plays well with other mods and has minimal performance impact. Conflicts are rare, but if trader-related mods behave oddly, check load order and configs.

The talisman protects you as long as it's active in your possession, so you don't need to hold it in your hand. Keep it in your inventory and it will block trader solicitation around you.

It adds blocks and items that prevent and control Wandering Trader spawns. This includes blocking configured entity spawns near a block, preventing trader spawns around a player, and redirecting trader spawns to a set location.

The mod registers three things: the anti-solicitor talisman, the no soliciting sign, and the trader rug.

Use the No Soliciting Sign, which prevents configured entity spawns within a configurable distance in chunks of the block. The Anti-Soliciting Talisman also prevents Wandering Trader spawns around the player when it is in a Baubles slot, Curios slot, or anywhere in your inventory.

It prevents Wandering Trader spawns around the player when carried in a Baubles slot, Curios slot, or anywhere in your inventory. You can toggle it on or off by shift right-clicking the talisman.

If a Wandering Trader spawns within the radius of the rug, it will instead spawn on top of the rug block. This lets you set the spawn location of Wandering Traders nearby.

The radius option in nomowanderer-common.toml defaults to 8. It is the effective range of the mod's items and blocks, and the Anti-Soliciting Talisman uses the same distance as the No Soliciting Sign.

The entityWatchList blocks configured entities from spawning within the radius of a No Soliciting Sign. By default this list includes the Wandering Trader, the Plague Doctor from the Rats mod, and the Red Merchant from Supplementaries.

Yes. The entityWatchList option in nomowanderer-common.toml controls which entities are blocked from spawning within the radius of a No Soliciting Sign. If an entity is not blocked, its spawn will be moved to a Trader Rug if it is within the rug's radius.

The mod supports Fabric, Forge, and NeoForge. It is available for Minecraft 1.21.6, 1.21.7, 1.21.8, 1.21.9, 1.21.10, and 1.21.11.

It adds four functions: /function nomowanderer:setup_rug, /function nomowanderer:setup_sign, /function nomowanderer:setup_spawncap, and /function nomowanderer:setup_talisman.