No Hired Hands

Your base, run by villagers you pay.

Set up a workstation and a jobless villager (or a nitwit) takes the job. Workers sort your chests, shelve enchanted books, cook, smelt, farm, herd, fell trees, fish and haul, lead llama caravans to a far mine, build Create railways and dig whole mineshafts. They pass their goods to each other, and every one of them wants a daily wage.

👷 Features

• 🧰 Thirteen jobs, each with its own workstation: sorter, archivist, cook, smelter, field hand, herder, woodcutter, fisher, porter, caravan master, track layer, miner, and the allay courier.
• 🏠 Hiring like vanilla: a jobless villager takes a workstation like any job site, and nitwits work too. Only a workstation you set up hires a worker.
• 🔁 Teamwork: workers hand goods on. The sorter brings raw meat to the cook, and the cook brings it back cooked to be stored.
• 💰 Wages: every worker draws a daily wage from a Paymaster’s Coffer and stops working when unpaid. Breakfast from the cook makes them work a quarter faster.
• 🧚 Allay couriers settle at a roost and fly goods between your workstations, day and night.
• 🦙 Llama caravans carry whole loads between your base and a far mine or farm.
• 🚂 Track layers build a Create railway line between two train stations, tunnels and all. Up to three work on one line, and two crews building from both ends meet in the middle.
• ⛏️ Miners dig a working mineshaft, laid out like a vanilla one, and bring out everything they dig. Up to three share one minehead.
• 🔊 Volume sliders for villagers and allays on the Music & Sounds screen.

🚀 Getting started

1. Craft the Foreman’s Handbook (a book and a paper). It explains every job.
2. Craft a Paymaster’s Coffer and put emeralds in it (a hopper can fill it).
3. Bring jobless villagers or nitwits to your base.
4. Place a workstation. A jobless villager nearby walks over and takes it, and you get a message with the new worker’s name.
5. Set up what the job needs around the workstation (chests, furnaces, a field, a pen) and put its supplies in.
6. Talk to a worker with an empty hand: it tells you what it is doing and whether it was paid today.

📦 Requirements

• Minecraft 1.21.1 with NeoForge
• Nothing else
• Recommended: Modonomicon for the Foreman’s Handbook, Create for the railway builders

🤝 Works with

• Create: the Surveyor’s Table and its track layers.
• Envelope: letters from the foreman when workers are in trouble.
• Open Parties and Claims: party members share workers and coffers.
• Jade: a worker’s name and status at a glance.
• JEI: a page for every workstation, with its supplies and wage.

⚙️ Good to know

• Only you and your party can open your workstations.
• When no player is near, workers skip the walking and still get the work done, which spares the server.
• Server config hiredhands-server.toml: every job’s wage and range, meals, caravans, track layers and miners.
• 🌍 In English and German.

Made for the Far Lands modpack. Works in any NeoForge 1.21.1 pack.