EcoMinions

What is EcoMinions?

EcoMinions is a minion plugin for Spigot and Paper servers. Players place a minion, and it works the area around it into its own storage: mining, farming, felling trees, killing mobs, fishing, or collecting drops. Owners collect, sell, or compact what it gathers, and buy upgrades to make it better. Minions, upgrades, fuels and compactor recipes are all defined in config files, and use the shared eco effects system.

What sets EcoMinions apart?

Minions are configured entirely in files, so you can make any minion you like, from any block, crop, tree, mob or custom item.

• Six minion types: miners, farmers, woodcutters, slayers, fishing minions and collectors, each with their own page.

• Upgrades with any effect: each upgrade is a ladder of tiers bought one at a time, and can give any libreforge effect, not only the shipped speed, fortune, auto sell and the rest.

• Self-seeding: minions can place their own ores, crops and saplings, spawn their own mobs, or lay their own water.

• Offline catch-up: a minion is idle while its owner is offline, then pays out the time that passed in one go when they return, with upgrades still applied.

• Levelling and stored XP: minions can level up as they work, and keep the XP they earn for their owner to claim.

• Compacting and fuel: compactor recipes turn bulk drops into blocks, and fuels speed a minion up while they burn.

• eco integration: custom blocks and items from ItemsAdder, Oraxen, Nexo and CraftEngine work anywhere a vanilla one does, and every minion is an ecominions:<id> item for shops, crates and other plugins.

Where to go next

• Make a minion: start with Configuring a Minion.

• Make an upgrade: define what players buy in How to Make an Upgrade.

• Make a fuel: speed minions up in How to Make a Fuel.

• Make a compactor recipe: compact storage in How to Make a Compactor Recipe.

• Add levelling: let minions level up in How to Level a Minion.

• Server config: tune global settings in Plugin Config.