Minecraft Minions

This modification is designed exclusively for legacy versions of Minecraft up to 1.12.2 inclusive.

Additional Information

While numerous Minecraft gameplay extensions exist, they share a common drawback - they require gathering vast amounts of resources before utilizing advanced features. The resource extraction process becomes monotonous and tedious, hence the need for assistants to handle this work for you!

Minion Capabilities

Your loyal servants can:

• Follow you closely

• Travel to specified locations

• Clear entire forests

• Carry you, animals, and other players

• Create mines with stairwells

• Excavate designated areas above and below ground

• Mine ore veins you point out

• Intelligently develop areas as instructed

• Return gathered resources to you or a designated container (over 23 slots)

Technical Features

Minions employ an advanced navigation system based on the A-star algorithm with multi-threading and multi-core processor support. Teleportation issues stem from Minecraft's movement system limitations.

The tree detection algorithm operates in a separate thread and stops after finding 16 trees or scanning a 64x64 block area.

The mod supports trees from other modifications if their blocks contain "wood" in the name. Animal abduction works with all entities derived from EntityAnimal.

During mine development, minions continuously scan walls and ceilings for valuable blocks. Anything not considered worthless material (dirt, stone, gravel) is deemed valuable, thus supporting ores from other mods.

Resource Extraction

When commanded to mine an ore vein or discovering such a vein during mine development, the minion will follow the vein and extract all connected blocks of the same type until exhausted. Afterwards, it returns to the player or resumes mine development.

Obtaining Minions

Minions aren't freely given - you must prove your worth by eliminating living beings to accumulate levels and performing evil deeds before dark gods. Only after a series of wicked acts will you gain access to servants.

Quick guide:

• Eliminate creatures until reaching level 8

• Press M and perform 4 evil deeds

• Receive the Master Item

• Right-click the Master Item to create minions

• Right-click to issue context-sensitive commands (location, trees, animal, ore vein)

Additional functions:

• Press M for advanced commands

• Right-click chests (from distance) to set destination

• Charge staff like a bow for minions to follow you

• Right-click minions to drop their contents

Left-clicking minions serves as work incentive... muahahaha

Left-clicking with staff creates ominous glow

Minions are fully compatible with multiplayer mode, though peculiarities in movement and animations may occur.

Default settings (configurable via file in /mods/ folder):

• Minion main menu: "M"

• Maximum minions per player: 4

• Evil deed cost: 2 levels - 4 deeds required to obtain minions

Installation requirements: only Forge for newer versions.

Folders in downloaded file have appropriate labels.