Bountiful — a mod for village quest boards in Minecraft

Bountiful — a mod for village quest boards in Minecraft

Bountiful adds a quest system to Minecraft built around a single block — the Bounty Board. You walk up to the board, take a quest, complete it, and return for your reward. No complex interfaces, no character leveling: just a goal for each session and a concrete reward for completing it. 

The Bounty Board 

The Bounty Board is the mod's main block. You can find it in villages (if generation isn't disabled in the config) or craft one yourself.

Crafting recipe for the quest board 

The board's inventory opens with a right-click — it displays the current quests. Each quest is a separate note listing the objectives (what you need to gather, bring, or destroy) and a list of rewards. To complete a quest, take the note, fulfill the stated conditions, then return to the board and right-click again. After that the rewards appear in your inventory immediately. 

Fresh quests appear over time — old ones are removed, new ones are generated. By default the refresh happens every 45 seconds. 

The bounty board in the center of a settlement 

Quests 

Each quest consists of two parts: the objectives (what you need to bring or kill) and the rewards (what you get after turning it in). The number of objectives and rewards depends on the settings and the quest's own rarity. By default a single quest has 1–2 rewards and just as many objectives.

The mod's value system is balanced: the total value of the rewards roughly matches the total value of the objectives. Every item in the quest pools has a numeric value unitWorth, and the generation algorithm picks objectives so that their total value approaches the value of the rewards. Exact balancing isn't always possible, so a small deviation in favor of the reward is considered normal.

Quest rarity 

Bountiful uses the same rarity scale as vanilla Minecraft:

• Common

• Uncommon

• Rare

• Epic

The higher a quest's rarity, the greater the chance that items from a higher pool will appear among the rewards. At first the board's reputation is low and common quests dominate. Over time their quality grows. 

An open bounty board with quests of different rarities

Reputation

Each bounty board has its own reputation value. It rises every time someone turns in a quest at that specific board. Higher reputation gives two things:

• More frequent rare rewards. Starting from reputation level 5, uncommon items appear twice as often.

• A discount on quest objectives. The higher the reputation, the less you need to turn in for the same reward. With a 10% discount, for rewards worth 1000 you only need to bring objectives worth 900.

On servers, reputation is tied to a specific board, not to the player globally. If you keep turning in quests at one and the same board, that's where more favorable conditions will appear.

Decrees 

A Decree is an item that defines the theme of the quests on a specific bounty board. For example, a Blacksmith's Decree fills the board with quests for leather, iron, and armor. A Farmer's Decree — wheat, melons, mushrooms, and other agricultural produce.

When a crafted decree is placed on a board, it assigns it a random theme. Decrees can also be found as a reward for completed quests.

Crafting recipe for a decree 

Up to three decrees can be placed on a single board at once. If you set up, say, a Blacksmith's Decree and a Farmer's Decree, the new quests may mix themes: bring wheat in exchange for an iron chestplate. This mixing is enabled by the bounty.allowDecreeMixing parameter and is active by default. 

Configuration

The mod's config is located at config/bountiful.json. Below are all the parameters with explanations.

The board section

The bounty section 

The client section 

The dbg section 

The general section

Conclusion

Bountiful gives the player a goal for every session without needing to come up with something to do on their own. The reputation system stretches interaction with the boards out over the long term — the more you turn in, the more favorable the conditions you get.

The mod is best suited for group survival on a server: shared board reputation, the ability for several players to take the same quest at once, and difficulty adjustable through the config make it convenient for a cooperative experience. It works for single-player too, but without the social component part of the mechanics — particularly shared reputation — doesn't fully unfold.