Nebulus Juice Trader | Forest Drinks Trader Mod

A Forest Trader Who Sells Drinks

The Nebulus Juice Trader Mod for Minecraft drops a brand-new villager into your world, and he specializes in one thing: juicy beverages. The Juice Trader spawns in Birch, Flower, Dark, and Plains Forest biomes, so any forest you wander into has a chance of hiding one. His workstation is a bookshelf, which means you can also lure a wandering trader-style NPC into a base once you understand how he paths toward his job block.

Five drinks are locked behind his trade tiers. You start with the cheapest offers, then level him up the same way you would any villager, by completing trades, until the better beverages unlock. Each drink restores a different amount of hunger, so they double as handy trail food when you are exploring far from a wheat farm.

Five Drinks and a New Magical Effect

The headline feature is the drink menu. Beyond simple hunger restoration, the mod also adds a new magical effect that the beverages can grant, giving each drink a small identity of its own rather than making them five recolored potions. That effect is what makes the leveling grind worth it, since the higher-tier drinks are the ones that lean into it.

The structure the trader lives in is the other half of the package. It generates in the same forest biomes where he spawns and fits the surrounding trees well enough that you might walk past it once before noticing. Inside you will find the bookshelf workstation and a small layout built around it.

The Trader's Structure and Loot

The building is not just scenery. Check the chests and barrels inside, because the mod seeds them with different loot on top of whatever the trader himself sells. That makes the structure worth clearing even on a fresh world when you have nothing to trade with yet.

Don't forget to check the chests and barrels as they contain different loot!

How to Install the Juice Trader

This is a Forge mod, so you need a matching Forge profile before you drop the JAR in.

1. Install Minecraft Forge on your launcher and start the game once with that profile to generate the mods folder.
2. Drop the downloaded JAR into the mods folder inside your Forge profile directory.
3. Launch the game with the Forge profile and explore a forest biome to find the trader.

If you want a fuller walkthrough of the JAR-in-mods-folder workflow, the general Minecraft mod install guide covers edge cases like profile setup and folder locations. The mod is free to include in modpacks, so server owners can bundle it without asking.

FAQ

Where does the Juice Trader spawn?

He spawns in Birch, Flower, Dark, and Plains Forest biomes, usually inside the structure the mod generates for him. Keep an eye out for the bookshelf workstation inside.

How do I unlock all five drinks?

Level the trader up by completing his trades, the same way you level a vanilla villager. Higher tiers unlock the better drinks and their magical effect.

Is the mod still being updated?

The last release is from April 2024, so the project has been quiet for a while. Check the project page for the current status before building a long-term world around it.

Can I add this to a modpack?

Yes. The author explicitly allows including it in modpacks, so you can bundle it with other forest or village content like Better Villages without extra permission.