Description
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This plugin is in active development. It has been in extensive testing for some time now and is believed to be in a state for use. However, please note that as with anything it's not possible to test all edge cases.
Please report any issues or feedback in the Discord before leaving a review. We want to hear from you and make community suggestions heard.
Put your resources to work. HyMinions adds resource-generating NPC minions to Hytale that keep producing even when you are offline. Place one, come back later, collect your haul.
What Are Minions?
A minion is a small NPC you place in the world. It mines its assigned resource on a timer and stores the results. Walk up, interact with it, and collect everything it has built up since you last visited. Leave it running overnight and log in to a full storage ready to collect.
Each minion has five upgrade tiers. Higher tiers produce more per tick and hold more in storage. Upgrading requires you to hand over a quantity of the same resource the minion produces, so minions fund their own progression. The rarer the ore, the longer the grind to max tier.
9 Minion Types ( base to be extended )
additional minions configurable in
minion-types.json
| Minion | Produces | Rarity |
|---|---|---|
| Stone Minion | Stone | Common |
| Iron Minion | Iron Ore | Common |
| Copper Minion | Copper Ore | Common |
| Cobalt Minion | Cobalt Ore | Uncommon |
| Thorium Minion | Thorium Ore | Uncommon |
| Gold Minion | Gold Ore | Average |
| Silver Minion | Silver Ore | Average |
| Adamantite Minion | Adamantite Ore | Rare |
| Mithril Minion | Mithril Ore | Very Rare |
Rarer ore types generate fewer resources per tick at the same tier. A Tier 5 Adamantite Minion is a genuine long-term goal.
Other minion types (coming soon)
We're looking into foraging minions, harvesting minions and combat minions, we want to work our way out of beta before expanding types.
Crafting and Upgrading
Everything goes through the Workbench. No commands needed for normal play.
Craft a Tier 1 minion:
- 1x Crude Pickaxe + 8x of the ore type
Upgrade to the next tier:
- 1x current tier minion item + N x of the ore type
Default upgrade costs:
| Upgrade | Stone | All Ores |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 to Tier 2 | 500 | 500 |
| Tier 2 to Tier 3 | 1,500 | 750 |
| Tier 3 to Tier 4 | 4,000 | 1,000 |
| Tier 4 to Tier 5 | 4,000 | 1,000 |
Pick up your minion at any time using the Pick Up button in its stats panel. Stored resources are collected automatically before it returns to your inventory.
The Stats Panel
Interact your minion NPC to open its stats panel. It shows:
- Minion type and tier
- Which resource it produces
- Current storage with a live animated progress bar
- Production rate (per tick and per minute)
- All-time resources generated
- Upgrade craft cost
- Collect Resources and Pick Up buttons
The storage bar updates every second in real time between production ticks.
Offline Production
Minions never stop. The tick calculation is time-based, not server-tick-based, so everything a minion should have produced while you were offline is calculated exactly when you next interact with it.
Log in after a long session away and your minions will have filled their storage. You get a notification on login telling you which ones are ready to collect.
Progression
Each player can place up to 4 minions at once by default. All values are configurable. Server operators can tune tick speed, tier rates, upgrade costs, and per-type production scales through two JSON files with no recompiling required.
Requirements
- Just a Hytale server running pre-release
2026.03.20-db226053c - While there is a patch in-place so that it can run on the release patchline
2026.02.19-1a311a592we do not recommend this and don't support that version
Support
This plugin is in beta. If you encounter any issues, please join the HBL Nexus Discord before leaving a review: https://discord.com/invite/aCE6HqfCHj