Villager Workers: Traveling Merchant Update!
Mod Features
Transform ordinary village residents into useful workers! This mod adds a villager hiring system where they perform various tasks for emeralds. Workers have their own inventories, can store items in chests, and automatically spawn in villages. All parameters can be customized to your needs!
Traveling Merchant Update
Merchants gained the ability to travel along predefined routes! They can ride assigned horses and even use boats for water travel. Compatibility with the Small Ships mod allows merchants to sail on ships. In the merchant's interface, you can set the number of days they'll spend traveling - after this time, they automatically return home along the set route.
Fishermen also learned to use boats! If there's an available boat nearby, the fisherman will board it and search for ideal fishing spots.
Getting Started
Buy special profession blocks from farmers, fishermen, masons, wandering traders, and shepherds (requires level 2). Place the profession block and wait for an unemployed villager to transform into a new worker.
To manage workers, first hire them: hold enough emeralds in your hand and right-click the worker. Make sure they have enough food in their inventory.
For better efficiency, build the worker a house with a bed - this restores their health and reduces food consumption. Assign them a bed and chest through the command screen where they can store items. Workers need to eat - simply put food in their inventory or store food in their chest.
Tool upgrades are also possible - high-level tools increase work speed.
Worker Types
Currently available 9 types of specialists:
- Miner
- Lumberjack
- Farmer
- Fisherman
- Merchant
- Shepherd
- Chicken Farmer
- Cattle Farmer
- Swineherd
Worker Interaction
- Right-click - make worker follow you
- Shift + Right-click - open worker's inventory
Command Screen
On the screen, you can select nearby workers by switching left and right. After selection, the worker's name and profession are displayed. Buttons are available for assigning workplace, chest position, and sleeping spot. The block is selected based on where you're looking.
Profession Tutorials
Miner
Miner has 8 mining modes:
- Tunnel - digs a passage 1 block wide and 2 blocks high up to 16 blocks deep
- 3x3 Tunnel - digs a 3x3 block passage up to 16 blocks deep, starting from bottom left
- 8x8x1 Flat - levels an 8x8 block area 1 block high
- 8x8x8 Pit - digs an 8-block deep pit 8x8 in size, placing planks as stairs
- 8x8x3 Room - creates a room 3 blocks high and 8x8 in size
- 16x16x1 Flat - levels a large 16x16 block area
- 16x16x16 Pit - large-scale excavation 16 blocks deep
- 16x16x3 Room - spacious room 3 blocks high
During work, the miner can place torches if they're in his inventory or chest.
Lumberjack
Lumberjack searches for trees within 10 blocks and chops them down. If there are saplings in inventory, replants trees.
Farmer
Farmer first plows a 9x9 field with a water block in the center. With seeds available (potatoes, carrots, beetroots), plants the field. Harvests crops and replants new seeds from inventory.
Fisherman
Fisherman searches within 8 blocks for sufficiently deep water for fishing. Can sail a boat if it's near the workplace.
Shepherd
Shepherd searches for sheep within 10 blocks and shears them. With wheat in inventory, breeds sheep. Maintains optimal sheep count by slaughtering extras.
Chicken Farmer
Chicken Farmer cares for chickens within 10 blocks. Breeds chickens with seeds and maintains optimal flock size.
Cattle Farmer
Cattle Farmer works with cows within 10 blocks. Breeds cattle with wheat and regulates animal count.
Swineherd
Swineherd cares for pigs within 10 blocks. Breeds pigs with carrots and maintains optimal herd size.
Merchant
Merchant is perfect for multiplayer - allows item exchange between players. Owner can create up to 4 fully customizable offers. Must add goods to merchant's inventory.
Owner Screen:
Travel System:
Travel screen allows owner to configure merchant's routes. Can set return day after reaching the last waypoint.
Two types of waypoints exist:
- Ground - reached without vehicles using standard navigation
- Water - marked with boat icon. Merchant searches for boat near waypoint. Compatible with ships from Small Ships mod
Travel control with three buttons: "Start", "Stop", and "Return". Can enable auto-restart for infinite travels.
IMPORTANT: Merchant loads chunks and reaches all waypoints even with no players online.
Customer Screen:
When interacting with another player's merchant, you can view their offers. "Trade" button allows transactions when both parties have required goods.
Merchant Creative Mode:
Administrators in creative mode can switch merchants between "Owned" and "Creative" modes. In creative mode, no sales limits, income not saved, and merchant is invulnerable.
Future Plans
- Beekeeper and Goat Farmer update
- Smith and Courier update
- Builder's update
- Village integration
- Leveling system
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