Actually good village gameplay.

[Samoja]

So currently there are, as far as I can tell, 2 village mods. VS Village and NDL Villagers. But I had an idea for a village mod that works somewhat differently. And allows you to follow in Saint Tobias footsteps.

It would start by you finding a pre generated stone age village, people would be using stone tools and living in huts made of packed dirt and straw,

Now you would need to earn their trust before they let you do anything else for them. One idea I had was that, come winter, the tribe would be facing starvation, because they haven't even mastered pottery yet so they have no way to store food effectively. They would also only have access to turnips and rye as far as crops go.

By entering a village during winter you would be able to pick up a quest to provide the village with certain amount of food to stave off starvation. Doing so would unlock a series of quests that would let you slowly upgrade and expand the village.

For example you could bring them some more seeds to diversify their crops, or some clay to make pottery with. Eventually they would ask you to bring them some copper so they can start making tools.

The important thing here is that the village would expand on their own. You are just providing them with what they lack. Other mods seem to put the onus entirely on the player to do everything.

Eventually the villagers would start trading their new goods, food, metals, pottery. Possibly the village would have a specialization based on the resources available in the area, allowing for trade between different villages(selling wood and coal in the forested area for example, buying iron if density of iron is low or non existent nearby). Their packed dirt houses would be replaced with wattle and daub, and more prominent structures would even be made of stone, once metals are introduced.

Villagers could also be attacked by bandits when player is nearby, and you would need to help defend them. You could also arm them with weapons to fight against bandits. If the bandits are successful they would reduce population of the village and knock it down a few pegs on the tech ladder, undoing some of your progress.