Additional Information Video
(patch 1.3.2)
Minions can [currently]:
- follow you around
- be sent to places
- chop down entire forests
- carry you, animals and other players
- dig mineshafts complete with stairwell
- dig custom spaces you defined, above and below ground
- mine ore veins you point out to them
- intelligently strip mine where you tell them to
- return their goods and loot to you
- or to a Block with inventory (> 23 slots) you pointed out
Minions use an A-star algorithm custom pathing system. It's threaded and multicore-capable.
Hitches and problems/teleporting you see all stem from Minecraft pathfollowing, which is ... lets call it suboptimal.
The tree finding algorithm is threadbased aswell, and stops when it has found 16 trees or has scanned a 64x64 area. It supports mod Tree's so long their custom Tree blocks have "wood" in their name.
Animal abduction works on all entities that extend EntityAnimal.
Strip mining scans the walls and roofs of the dug shaft continuously for precious blocks. Anything that is not worthless (eg dirt, stone, gravel...) is considered precious, so it fully supports mod ores.
Giving the order to mine an ore vein or having found such a vein while strip mining, the Minion will follow the vein and mine all connected Blocks of the same kind until there are no more. Then it will return to the player, or, if it was stripmining, return to that.
They don't come for free, you have to prove your worth by slaying living beings (to accumulate levels) and then take action for the dark gods. Only after a number of evil deeds they may grant you minions.
So, here's the short minion manual:
- Kill enough stuff to reach lvl 8
- Press M and do evil 4 times
- Receive Master Item
- Rightclick Master Item to spawn Minions
- Rightclick to issue orders, context-sensitive (a place, trees, an animal, an ore vein, your feet)
- Also press M for advanced orders
- Rightclick chest (FROM DISTANCE) to set it as destination
- Charge staff like a bow to have minions follow you
- Rightclick minions to have them drop whatever they have
- Leftclick Minions for working incentive .... mueheheheh
- Leftclick with Staff out for evil sparkly
Minions are fully compatible with SMP. However there may be oddness regarding their movement and animations - i'm not sure that is fixable.
Default settings: (configurable by the file in the /mods/ folder)
Minions main menu: "M"
Maximum Minions per player: 4
Cost of evil Deed: 2 levels
- 4 evil deeds are required to gain minions
Instructions:
Requirements to install:
Newer versions - just Forge
The folders in the downloaded file are labeled.
Take part!
As you might notice, evil Deeds can be added dynamically using the config file. Share yours!
God this mod would be fun if the fucker who coded this shit made them good enough to dig.
it would be really super awesome if you make a big update of the mod to be able to have it in 1.15.2 because I think a lot of people want to be able to use it on their Forge 1.15.2 server ! :)
update for 1.15??
Minions can loose their textures after a certain time.
They sometimes get stuck in unloaded chunks, requiring to respawn them.
You can only make minions do anything while all 4 minions are spawned.
The food costs are a Good Idea to balance this mod and would be a cool mechanics if the mod didn't regularly use up your entire food to spawn all minions anew because they got stuck or went invisible. So, maybe spawning minions should be a different action, maybe the attack action? Or teleporting minions to the player whenever they are unloaded regardless of an active task, OR at least store a task while minions are unloaded, or maybe even make them force-load 3x3 chunks around them.
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its a bit bugged doenst have sounds , and it hapenned one time when they tp'ed to me and dropped TONS of dirt on me and make me crash then i had to kill dirts via dedicated server console but it works
The Minions mod will be even better if the minions can even fight mobs for you.
Is this mod dead?
In reply to sorenisawesome:
i guess so
Would it be okay to include this mod in my modpack? I would link back to it, of course.
when I click m it doesn't allow me to choose to do evil it just tells me that im missing the evil deeds config. how am I suppose to install the mod
How do I make the grids go down? Can I? I want to tell my minions to make a mineshaft without having to go down to the level I want them to dig to also so I can see the progress from the top of the mineshaft
Edit : nvm, I shouldn't have used the dig command
i meant right clicking
im left clicking my minions but they dont drop anything
is the blindness a sign i chose the right one?
nvm i got the staff
One of my favorite mods, it lets you focus a little less on basic resource collecting and don't get me started on the amount of building materials you can get in half an hour. For an average computer though (along side several of the larger mods) beware of telling them to put stuff in chests, every time they teleport to put stuff inside your game will have a major lag-induced seizure for a couple of seconds. At least make sure to tell them to stop when doing something important like fighting a boss, and you'll be good.
It appears the minions see Actually Additions crates as a precious ore and mine them up. Just an FYI to anyone that tries that storage method.
Um the mod dosent install when i try.
I'm really conflicted while I play with this mod, while i do like not having to do all this boring work, I really want to be able to gift my minions stuff (maybe rotten flesh or bones to keep in with the evil theme)
Edit: So i started to play around with this mod and I find it works pretty good, except my minions models will go invisible but still keep working, or I have 4 minions out but can only get one to work at a time.
"AtomicStryker: Evil always finds a way"
"Me and the minions: Hail the Overlord!"
xD
Will new minion types be added at some point in the future? -sorry this mod really does remind me of the overlord series its why i had to ask; purely out of curiosity.