Consolidated into Grand Workshop

This collection is now included in the single Grand Workshop Complete download on the Grand Workshop project. Future releases are published there. This separate listing is unlisted and retained only as a legacy record. Do not install its standalone file alongside the Complete edition. Existing block IDs are preserved in Complete; back up worlds before upgrading.

Grand Workshop: Companions

Build a small copper Workshop Porter to accompany your building projects. It has a custom animated model, an original 16x16 skin with 254 visible colors, and nine cargo slots.

Requires Minecraft Java 26.3, Java 25+, Fabric Loader 0.19.5+, Fabric API and Grand Workshop. The declared minimum core is 0.5.0-dev.1; use 0.6.0-dev.2 or later for the tested collection-navigation fix. Other Workshop expansions are optional. Install matching mods on client and server.

Assemble your Porter

Craft a Porter Assembly Kit in a normal crafting table:

C C C
C B C
I R I

C = copper ingot, B = chest, I = iron ingot, R = redstone dust. Picking up copper unlocks the recipe. Use the kit on a block to assemble the Porter in adjacent clear space. Survival assembly consumes one kit; blocked placement consumes nothing. It belongs to the player who assembled it. Porters have 24 health and do not breed or spawn naturally.

Working together

• Empty-hand use switches between following and waiting.
• Sneak-use opens nine cargo slots. Only the owner can access them.
• A copper ingot repairs four health, consuming one ingot outside Creative mode.
• While following, it seeks nearby dropped Grand Workshop building pieces thrown by its owner. It respects pickup delays and available cargo space. Other players’ drops, unowned drops and non-Workshop items are left alone. Other items can be stored manually.
• Waiting stops collection. Cargo and ownership persist with the entity. Death drops cargo but does not refund the assembly kit.

Cargo access closes when the owner moves too far away. The Porter uses ordinary ground navigation and standard tame-animal following; it is not remote storage across unloaded worlds. Name tags work normally.

Tested development build

Verified owner-only cargo interaction, assembly, repairs, death drops, eight repeated collection cycles, and saved-world persistence across separate game processes. Keep this expansion installed in worlds containing Porters.

The original artwork includes ImageGen-derived textures exported to exactly 16x16. The project logo is a branding illustration, not a gameplay screenshot. No vanilla texture replacements are included.

More from the same creator

For a great combination, explore my other mods: Carry & Quarry, Grand Workshop, Grand Workshop: Cultivation, Grand Workshop: Hearthworks, Grand Workshop: Passageways, Grand Workshop: Signalworks, IDEAS Workshop, Praseodymium. Use matching Minecraft versions and compatible mod loaders. Grand Workshop Complete already includes its expansion collections; do not install duplicate standalone expansion JARs with Complete. Compatibility of the full collection has not yet been verified.