Minions

The minion module. A small armour stand that mines nearby ores on its own and stores what it collects. Config file: modules/minion/config.yml.

Getting and placing one

Players buy a Mining Minion in the Zeta Shop for 5,000 Zeta. Admins can hand them out with /mine give minion or /mine minion give [player].

Right-click a block with the minion item to place it there. Each player can own up to MaxMinionsPerPlayer.

What it does

Every MinionMineSpeed ticks, the minion picks a random block with ORE in its name within MinionRadius blocks of itself, removes it, and adds its normal drops to its storage. It keeps working while its chunk is loaded, whether or not the owner is online. It does not give its owner XP, Zeta or BusyMining drops.

Managing it

Right-click the minion, or stand within 10 blocks and run /mine minion, to open its menu:

Stats: blocks mined and owner.
Collect: move everything in storage to your inventory (overflow drops at your feet).
Remove: pick the minion up, with its storage, and get the minion item back.

Only the owner can open a minion. Players with busymining.admin can open anyone's.

Settings

yaml

Settings:
  Enabled: true
  MaxMinionsPerPlayer: 3
  MinionMineSpeed: 100
  MinionRadius: 3

MaxMinionsPerPlayer: minions one player can have placed at once.
MinionMineSpeed: ticks between blocks mined (100 ticks = 5 seconds).
MinionRadius: how far the minion reaches, as a cube around itself.
Enabled is not read in this version. Use modules.minion in config.yml to turn minions off.

The menu title and its items are set in modules/minion/gui.yml.

⚠️ Minions ignore protected areas

Minions remove blocks directly and don't fire block-break events, so claim and region plugins don't see what they mine. Only let players place minions where they're allowed to build.

Minions placed with older versions, before the per-player count existed, aren't counted toward the limit.