Minion Horde

⚔️ MINION HORDE 3.0 — THE HORDE! ⚔️

The biggest update yet. Your minions ride beasts into battle, you can use the gauntlet to bend enemy minds to your will, march in formation, and won't stop talking. All hail the Overlord!

🐺 INTRODUCING MOUNTS!

Build the new Minion Stable with your Blueprint and buy war beasts at its Stable Post:

• War Wolves for your browns. They charge into enemies with crushing knockback and leap over 2-block gaps.
• Horde Spiders for your greens. They climb straight up walls, and their riders stay cloaked.
• Salamanders for your reds. They stroll across lava while their riders rain fireballs from the saddle.

Sweep your horde over a mount, or point your gauntlet at it, and a minion climbs on. Mounted minions are pure cavalry: they only fight. Leave the work to the minions on foot! A mount whose rider gets off waits 30 seconds, then returns to its stall on its own.

🧠 INTRODUCING DOMINATE!

Hold left-click with your gauntlet on a creature and a dark thread bends its mind to yours.

• Thralls: your first 2 conquests follow you and fight beside your horde.
• Allies: everything you dominate after that stays where it is, never attacks you and turns on anyone who does.
• Drain: keep holding and suck the life out of it to heal yourself.
• Grow your power: start with wild minions, then unlock Weak Minds, Equal Minds and finally Dominion at the Soul Forge. Bosses and champions? Not even you can tame those.

👉 INTRODUCING THE SEND!

Right-click and the nearest free minion charges at whatever you point at, then does the job:

• attack a creature, grab loot off the ground or raid a chest or pot;
• chop a tree, mine an ore vein or harvest crops;
• light TNT, put out a fire or revive a fallen minion.

When it's done, it brings the spoils straight back to you. Hold the button to unleash a stream of minions!

🏃 A HORDE THAT MARCHES

Your minions now walk in ranks behind you, with no more pile-ups, stumbling or crowding your heels. They hold their formation when you look around and fan out wide when you sweep.

🎨 FOUR COLOURS, FOUR FACES

Every colour has its own look and its own tricks:

• 🔵 Blues grow fins, swim like sirens, heal your wounded, give air to drowning crewmates, and cast hexes that ignore armour.
• 🔴 Reds sprout wings, glide down cliffs without a scratch, and light TNT on command.
• 🟢 Greens bare their claws, ride on their prey's back, and climb walls like spiders.
• 🟤 Browns stay the classic, loyal, hard-working grunts you love.

🗣️ YOUR MINIONS HAVE OPINIONS

• Minions crack jokes and grumble in speech bubbles about fights, loot, rain, the Nether and more.
• Meet Skritch, your grumpy one-eyed advisor. He drops tips about the creatures you meet (including many from popular mods) and a daily word of wisdom.
• Minions now wear hats: pumpkins, skulls, buckets, flower pots... Fashion is evil.
• Jade tooltips show what every minion is up to.

🛠️ SMARTER CREWS

• Greens join work crews. They carry stuck browns up walls and fetch stone, materials and pickaxes from far-off chests.
• Tunnels and strip mines put your whole squad to work.
• Half-built buildings can be finished. Lost your crew? Use the Blueprint again and new browns pick up where they left off.
• Minions play fair. No blocks from thin air and no free Silk Touch. Stuck browns build their own way out with real rubble.
• Browns never waste ore with a weak pickaxe, and never chop down houses.

🔧 FIXES & TWEAKS

• Beetles are 10× rarer.
• Hive Seekers skip hives you've already conquered.
• Mines stop safely at floods too big to plug.
• The War Wolf's charge no longer fizzles out mid-sprint.
• Reds give up on fires they can't reach.
• ...and lots more under the hood.

⚠️ BEFORE YOU UPDATE

• Back up your world! Worlds from 2.3.0 carry over: minions, hives, gates, posts and the tower.
• Servers: the server and every player must update to 3.0.0 together.
• Heads up: minions no longer heal on their own. Keep a blue (or a hive, or the tower's barracks) nearby to patch up your horde!