Villager Names Mod FAQ

Use a name tag on the villager like you normally would in vanilla. Once a villager has a name tag applied, the mod detects it as already named and leaves it alone, so your custom name sticks.

Yes. It scans for unnamed villagers and names both newly spawned ones and ones already living in your world. Any villager you've already named with a name tag keeps its name.

Names are picked randomly from the mod's built-in list whenever an unnamed villager is detected, so you can't choose the result directly. If you want a specific name, apply a name tag to override it.

In the mod's config, toggle _useMaleNames and _useFemaleNames. Setting one to false removes that list from the random pool, and disabling both means no names get assigned.

The mod skips any villager that already has a name, so applying a name tag is the way to exclude one. There's no per-villager blacklist beyond that.

Open the trade screen. The mod adds the villager's profession to that screen so you can still tell what they do even though the name replaced the usual profession label.

It's a configurable mod, so it needs to be installed on the server for naming to apply there. Clients connecting generally don't need it for the naming itself, but the trade screen profession display depends on how the mod is set up.

It's minimalistic and only assigns names to unnamed villagers, so conflicts are rare. Mods that also rename villagers or overhaul trading screens are the most likely to overlap, so test them together.

No. The mod only changes the displayed name and adds the profession to the trade screen; it doesn't alter trades, prices, or profession mechanics.

No. The name list is just text and names are assigned when an unnamed villager is detected, so the impact is negligible even in large worlds.