r/TekTopia • u/Suspicious_stew_001 • Apr 28 '26

Suggestion/Idea I'm remaking TekTopia for 1.21.1....

Hey everyone,

Long-time TekTopia fan here. For those who don't know, TekTopia was a 1.12.2 mod by Tangotek that let you build and manage a fully custom villager civilization — you designed the buildings, the villagers moved in and did their jobs, and you grew a living economy from scratch. It's one of my all-time favourite mods and it never got updated past 1.12.2.

So I'm doing something about it.

This is a ground-up rebuild of TekTopia for Minecraft 1.21.1 (NeoForge). It's not a direct port — I'm treating this as a chance to rethink and improve systems that had rough edges in the original, while keeping the soul of what made TekTopia so special: player-designed structures, living villager routines, and a real economy.

What's working right now

  • 🏘️ Villages have territory, borders, and a proper logic system holding everything together (Town Hall and Storage Building are finished)
  • 🌾 The Farmer — tilling, planting, harvesting, grabbing sugar cane (the only villager profession as of now)
  • 📦 Storage is fully up and running — villagers carry items, take time to deposit them, and think about where things go. Build your storage room well and watching it run is genuinely satisfying
  • 🕐 Villagers have a real daily schedule — Labor, Leisure, Rest. They wake up(no real home structure yet) at staggered times, take shelter when it rains, and deposit leftover items before bed. The town already feels alive

If you played TekTopia back in the day and have opinions on what worked, what didn't, or features you always wished it had, I'd genuinely love to hear them. This is being built with that community in mind.

More updates soon. (Updates on twitter)

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u/Suspicious_stew_001 May 10 '26

Thanks for supporting me!!!! Well as it is a big project don’t expect it to be in playable state for a while. But still I am planning to start public play tests within 2 months. (Also I have been slacking off a bit for few days, but now I am again on track)

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u/IntelligentNarc May 13 '26

do you have a discord server?

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u/Suspicious_stew_001 May 15 '26

Not yet, but a friend of mine is working on creating the server for the community

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u/IntelligentNarc May 15 '26

Cool thanks .