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Minions

A minion is a worker you place and look after. The Miner mines stone and ores in front of it while you play, and it fills a chest for you. Right now it is the only kind of minion.

Buy and place a Miner

1. Buy it. Open /shop, then Money Makers, and click the Minions button. A Miner costs Ⓢ15,000, paid from the Silver Coin wallet of the world you are in.
2. Place it. Right-click the top of a solid block with it. It needs 2 free blocks above, and it faces the way you look. A figure holding a pickaxe appears, with a name tag that shows its level and its health.
3. Add a chest. Put a chest, a trapped chest, a barrel or a hopper right next to it. The Miner drops what it mines there. Without one, it keeps everything in its own storage.

A minion doesn't pay you by itself. Take what it collects and sell it in the Bazaar. A cobblestone generator in front of it keeps it busy.

Where it works

• Only while you are online. A minion works only while its owner is online, and only while its chunk is loaded. It never catches up on the time you were away.
• Skyblock. On an island you are a member of.
• Survival. Inside your own claim or a claim that trusts you, or on unprotected land (no claim and no protected region) at least 32 blocks from the world spawn.
• Not everywhere. Never in the hub, the Nether or the End.
• Crowding. At most 4 minions in one chunk.

How many minions you can have placed depends on the world. In Survival it is 6. In Skyblock it grows with your island level.

The Skyblock page lists the island levels.

What a Miner does

• It mines. Every 2.5 seconds it breaks the blocks in front of it, as many as its level allows, from 1 up to 5. It mines stone, cobblestone, deepslate and other stone, and the ores: coal, iron, copper, gold, redstone, lapis, diamond and emerald.
• It smelts. From level 2 it smelts what it mines.
• It stops, it doesn't dig. At any other block it stops and says Blocked, and nothing behind that block is touched. It never mines a chest, a furnace or any other block that holds items.
• No XP, no level-up pay. A minion's mining gives no skill XP and no skill level-up money.
• When it is full. If the chest next to it and its own storage are both full, it stops until you empty them.

Levels

You upgrade a Miner from its menu, up to level 5. Each upgrade costs the price in the table for the level you move to.

Health and food

A Miner gets tired. It loses 1 health for every 20 times it mines something. At 0 health, with no food to eat, it stops and its name tag says Hungry.

• Food pouch. Open the minion and use the Food pouch, which holds 9 stacks. The Miner eats from it by itself when it needs to.
• Feed it. No food to hand? Click Feed it and pay Ⓢ25 for every missing health point. You pay from the Silver Coin wallet of the world you are in.

Its menu

Right-click the figure to open its menu. Only the owner can open it.

• Take the drops. Click an item to take it. Left-click takes one stack, right-click takes all of them.
• Upgrade. The button shows the next level and its price.
• Feed it and Food pouch. See Health and food above.
• Pick up. Takes the minion back as an item. It works only when the storage and the Food pouch are empty.
• The name tag says what is wrong: Hungry, Storage full, Blocked or Cannot work here.

The minion item looks like a pickaxe, but it is no tool: you can't mine, craft or sell with it. Put it away before you use /sell.

Where next

Minions work next to your machines that pay. Looking for a first goal? Start with the Goals guide books.