How to Install and Play Life in the Village 2 on a Minecraft Server

Overview

Minecraft villages are handy early on. They offer beds, crops, trades, and a convenient place to hide when the night gets rude. After enough worlds, though, the standard village loop can start to feel familiar.

Life in the Village 2 expands that idea into a fuller colony experience. The modpack adds new structures, NPCs, village-focused progression, companions, quests, and systems inspired by city-building games. Instead of just borrowing a village for supplies, you can turn a settlement into a growing home base and eventually a much larger colony.

This guide explains how to install Life in the Village 2 on a HolyHosting Minecraft server, install the modpack on your computer, and begin your first world.

Install Life in the Village 2 on the Server

1. Open the HolyHosting server panel.
2. Find the Game File or server version selector.
3. Open the dropdown menu and search for Life in the Village 2.

1. Select Life in the Village 2, then confirm the version change.
2. When prompted, create a new world and restart the server.

Your previous world is not normally deleted by changing the game file, but this modpack should use a fresh world so its structures, villages, and generation features can appear correctly.

Install the Modpack on Your Computer

To join the server, your Minecraft client needs the same modpack installed. CurseForge is the simplest option because it downloads the correct mods and keeps modpacks separated.

1. Download and install the CurseForge app from the CurseForge website.
2. Open CurseForge and go to the Minecraft modpack browser.
3. Search for Life in the Village 2.

1. Click Install next to the modpack.
2. After installation finishes, click Play to launch Minecraft with the pack loaded.

Once the server and client are both running Life in the Village 2, connect to the server as usual.

Starting a New World

New Life in the Village 2 worlds often begin inside or near a village. Some starts are even stranger, including sky or underground villages. This gives you an immediate place to work from instead of punching trees in a field while pretending that was the plan all along.

The modpack includes expanded world generation, colony mechanics, quests, custom NPCs, dungeons, machines, and several progression paths. The first few steps below will help you get established without getting buried under every system at once.

Build Your First House

When you first enter the world, you receive several starter items. These usually include a sword, bread, a quest book, a manual for The One Probe, and a schematic for a starter house.

To place the starter home:

1. Put the house schematic in your hand.
2. Look at a block on the ground.
3. Right-click to open the build menu.
4. Choose the house style, bed color, glass color, and other available options.

After choosing the design, click Build! to create the house.

Use Preview! before building if you care about exact placement. It shows a transparent version of the structure in the world, which is much easier than discovering your front door faces a cliff.

The starter home may include a chest with extra supplies and a ready-made mineshaft. The mineshaft also has a chest at the bottom with useful early resources, so it is worth checking before you wander too far.

Use the Quest Book

Quests are not mandatory, but they are one of the best ways to learn the modpack. They explain core systems, point you toward useful goals, and often reward you with items that make colony building easier.

Open the quest book like a normal Minecraft book. Hold it in your hand and right-click. The menu usually starts on the Getting Started questline, but you can switch questlines with the arrow on the left side of the screen.

Life in the Village 2 includes questlines for several different mods. Early on, focus on Getting Started and My Colony. Those sections introduce the basics of building, resources, and settlement progression. Other questlines can wait until you want to explore more of the pack.

Place a Supply Camp or Supply Ship

A colony needs a supply building before it can properly grow. This structure acts as the base for your settlement, so choose its location carefully. Each player can only have one colony at a time.

You can craft one of two starter supply structures:

• Supply Camp: crafted with five chests.
• Supply Ship: crafted with five boats.

After placing the supply structure, continue through the My Colony quests. That questline explains how to unlock more buildings, manage workers, and keep the settlement functioning.

Recruit Companions

While exploring, you may find unique named NPCs. These characters can become companions and help with travel, combat, and colony work.

Recruiting them works much like taming other mobs. Hold food, such as your starter bread, then right-click the NPC. After enough attempts, the companion will join you.

Right-clicking a companion opens a menu where you can equip gear and adjust behavior. They can follow you, patrol an area, stand in place, hunt animals, or fight hostile mobs.

If a companion gets stuck while doing a task, use the Clear button in their menu to reset their AI. This returns them to default behavior and stops any broken patrol or combat action.

What to Do Next

With a house, quest book, supply structure, and a companion or two, your village has a real foundation. From there, Life in the Village 2 opens into colony expansion, dungeon exploration, new machines, better buildings, and plenty of NPC management.

Keep following the quest book when you need direction, especially the colony-related pages. The modpack has enough systems to keep a multiplayer server busy for a long time, whether you build a quiet village or turn it into a crowded metropolis with questionable zoning decisions.

Useful Links

• How to change your Minecraft server version
• How to add mods to your Minecraft server
• Life in the Village 2 modpack page on CurseForge