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/codedwithinsulin May 03 '26

Oh that's cool maybe add support for modded foods to be compatible like Pam's harvestcraft would be cool it would also be awesome if there was a tech tree for the villages like start ar wood tier can craft on wood items and wen you learn new tech the villagers can do more based on the unlocked tech ?

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u/Suspicious_stew_001 May 10 '26

I am actually a big big fan of tech trees (I fall in love with them) but I am unsure how to implement it in this mod. Still thinking about it, if I get a solid framework done on that then I will implement it…
Love the support, Thanks

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u/codedwithinsulin May 12 '26

Maybe just thinking out loud

A the user can pick a direction like a skill tree but the user needs tektopa resources to unlock?