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[AtomicStryker]

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Spoiler:

[SPANISH]


Note: These videos were made before sounds and FX were fixed to work on 1.3.2














Even more

Spoiler:

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, so i decided Minions to do it for you were needed!!!


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
  
• dig custom spaces you defined, above and below ground
  
• 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 Block with inventory (> 23 slots) you pointed out

Specific technical information for those interested

Spoiler:

Minions use an A-star algorithm custom pathing system. It's threaded and multicore-capable.
Hitches and problems/teleporting you see all stem from Minecraft pathfollowing, which is ... lets call it suboptimal.

The tree finding algorithm is threadbased aswell, and stops when it has found 16 trees or has scanned a 64x64 area. It supports mod Tree's so long their custom Tree blocks have "wood" in their name.

Animal abduction works on all entities that extend EntityAnimal.

Strip mining scans the walls and roofs of the dug shaft continuously for precious blocks. Anything that is not worthless (eg dirt, stone, gravel...) is considered precious, so it fully supports mod ores.

Giving the order to mine an ore vein or having found such a vein while strip mining, the Minion will follow the vein and mine all connected Blocks of the same kind until there are no more. Then it will return to the player, or, if it was stripmining, return to that.

They don't come for free, you have to prove your worth by slaying living beings (to accumulate levels) and then take action for the dark gods. Only after a number of evil deeds they may grant you minions.


So, here's the short minion manual:

• Kill enough stuff to reach lvl 8
  
• Press M and do evil 4 times
  
• Receive Master Item
  
• Rightclick Master Item to spawn Minions
  
• Rightclick to issue orders, context-sensitive (a place, trees, an animal, an ore vein, your feet)
  
• Also press M for advanced orders
  
• Rightclick 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
  
• Leftclick with Staff out for evil sparkly

Minions are fully compatible with SMP. However there may be oddness regarding their movement and animations - i'm not sure that is fixable.



Default settings: (configurable by the file in the /mods/ folder)


Minions main menu: "M"
Maximum Minions per player: 4
Cost of evil Deed: 2 levels
- 4 evil deeds are required to gain minions



Instructions:

Requirements to install:
Newer versions - just Forge


The folders in the downloaded file are labeled.




Take part!
As you might notice, evil Deeds can be added dynamically using the config file. Share yours!



Changelog

Spoiler:

see http://www.atomicstryker.net

Downloads moved to:
http://www.atomicstryker.net



Problem fixes:

Spoiler:

Read your Forge log and try to google the error message. You can also put the log on pastebin and post it here.

My other mods:

Spoiler:

http://www.atomicstryker.net

[AbrarSyed]

wow... nice mod.

[Amber Tonerre]

lol the video is cool i like the mod

[Mr. Pie Guy]

Shit, son!

[KILLSWITCHstudios117]

seems legit seems legit

darkmalamo, on 02 February 2012 - 12:39 AM, said:

Sweet! I've just received my free minecraft giftcode!

>> mod edit <<

­ing a i hate these type of people

[Amber Tonerre]

seems you dont have a download?

EDIT? why is it caps you ask?

ok nvm you added the download link sry

[deathonator123]

hahaha.. nice

[Dawtm :D]

Ahh,iv never seen a bad mod come from you,keep up the good work!

[AtomicStryker]

Bear in mind this is the initial release. There might be a lot of bugs i haven't bothered to find


Also, voices. I need good voices so very much for this to increase epicness.

[streetstar5]

This looks awesome!

[iTzz Chicken]

Amazing Mod! I'll make a video in the next 24 hours if you wouldn't mind

[ToRageAltF4]

I like your mods there always something useful

[Genetalian]

Don't get rid of the Dark Lords voice. It is perfect.

[Nuka]

Very nice mod, but the minions are always glitching into walls. Also, my minions disappeared and I can't spawn any more.

Im playing SMP

[DjGyarados]

Oh my god, this looks so epic

[Fearlessjay]

Looks good so far, but it seems the chest setting doesnt work and they seem to glitch into the ground sometimes..

Also I would suggest a despawn option maybe just killing them or whatever, because they kinda get in the way when you dont want them to.

other wise pretty good mod

[TooAngryZin]

Sir.

This.

Is.

Awesome.

Nuff' said.

...Anywho, minions with complex AIs. Love it man, keep epic stuff like this goin' on!

[Sevenedges]

You, sir, are what would happen if Notch and Batman had a brainbaby. You have the ingenuity to think of things we didn't previously know needed and the knowhow to put these tools into use.

And for that, I give you this: http://whosawesome.com/

EDIT
You should make a one-stop thread for all your mods. You'd get better coverage if they weren't scattered willy-nilly around the forum.

[AtomicStryker]

To set a chest as destination, when right clicking it, you obviously must be away for enough for you not to accidentally open the chest (the item wont work).


I have links to all my mods in all my mod threads, that should be enough.

[kacpi55501]

Oh... That trailer made me lol, and Awesome mod.