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AI-BUDDIES — Your Companion Survival Crew
Forge 1.20.1 • No third-party API keys required
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WHAT IS IT?
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AI-Buddies adds smart, chat-commanded companion bots that live in your
world and actually help you survive and build. No accounts, no API keys,
no cloud services — everything runs locally in your game. Spawn up to six
buddies, give each one a name, gear them up, and tell them what to do in
plain chat.

This mod started as a personal experiment and has grown into a genuinely
handy survival crew. It's not claiming to be perfect — it's honest,
hand-built, and improving with every update.

CORE FEATURES
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• SPAWN 1–6 BUDDIES — each fully named and individually commandable.

• TALK TO THEM IN CHAT — natural commands like "follow me", "mine iron",
"protect my friend", "stand behind me", or "get out of the way".
Typo-friendly: sloppy fast typing still works.

• GEAR THEM UP — a full equipment screen: helmet, TWO chestplate slots,
leggings, boots, mainhand, offhand, plus a 27-slot backpack. Their
tools and armor take durability and wear down just like a player's.

• RESOURCE GATHERING — send them to chop wood, mine ores, or dig blocks.
They can strip-mine in a direction, tunnel at custom sizes (4x4, 6x6,
etc.), dig toward caves, and call out when they find one.

• WORK AS A TEAM — split your buddies into teams ("team 1 daisy ghost
raven") and command whole groups at once for big mining or gathering
jobs.

• THEY FIGHT FOR YOU — buddies defend you and your friends from hostile
mobs, swing their weapons, and chase down threats. Built and tested
alongside horror-themed mob packs, so they know how to take on the
scarier things that come out of the dark.

• MULTIPLAYER-READY — your friends can command the buddies too, not just
the host. Tell a buddy to protect a specific friend and it'll stick
with them. Hand control back any time with a return-to-host command.

• THEY FEED THEMSELVES — give them food and they'll eat when hungry,
complete with an eating animation.

• THEY KEEP UP — buddies use doors, fence gates, trapdoors, ladders and
stairs, follow you between floors, and travel with you through portals
(Nether, Twilight Forest, and other modded dimensions).

PLAYS NICE WITH OTHER MODS
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AI-Buddies was tested against a range of popular mods so it blends into a
real modpack instead of fighting it. Notably:

• Sophisticated Backpacks — put a backpack on a buddy's back and open it
remotely, right where it sits, without taking it off them.

• Designed to behave around NPC mods — buddies won't attack villagers or
colony NPCs just because you bumped one out of the way.

PS
if bugs arise for other mods/packs let me know in comments
has config for some basic switches/options

COMMAND EXAMPLES
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follow me → all your buddies follow you
ghost follow me → only Ghost follows
team 1 daisy ghost raven → form a team
team 1 mine diamond → send the whole team mining
daisy protect Steve → Daisy guards your friend
raven return to host → call Raven back to you
stand behind me / single file → line up out of your way
get out of the way → step back and give you room
stripmine / mine 4x4 → start a tunnel
tp to me / tp all → bring buddies (or everyone) to you

REQUIREMENTS
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• Minecraft 1.20.1 (Forge) only, for now.
• No API keys. No external services. 100% in-game.

A NOTE FROM THE DEV
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This is a small passion project that keeps getting better. If you run into a
bug or have an idea, feedback is genuinely welcome — a lot of these
features exist because the one friend i was testing with wanted some tweaks made Thanks for trying it out

— LegacyBlaze