By now, many great extensions of the Minecraft gameplay exist (such as Industrialcraft, Buildcraft....) but they have one common weakness. They usually require you to amass X resources before you can make use of the advanced stuff. The process of mining down and then stripmining for raw materials has become very repetitive and boring after a while.
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
- 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 chest you pointed out
So, here's the short minion manual:
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- Kill enough stuff to reach lvl 8
- Press M and do evil 4 times
- Receive Master Item
- Right click Master Item to spawn Minions
- Right click to issue orders, context-sensitive (a place, trees, an animal, an ore vein)
- Also press M for mining shapes.
- Right click 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
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