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# Villager Workers
\n*Hireable workers to automate your village!*<\/p>\n
This mod adds **hireable villager workers** for mining, farming, and breeding animals, inventories, the abilitiy to depositing into chests, and many more features.
\n**Traveling Merchants** can follow waypoints, ride horses or boats, and interact with the Small Ships mod.
\nConfigure everything to fit your gameplay \u2013 more features are coming soon!<\/p>\n
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\n## Features<\/p>\n
### General Workers Features
\n– Hire villager workers with **emeralds**.
\n– Workers have **inventories** and can deposit items in chests.
\n– Change to player like models if needed.
\n– Fully **configurable settings**.<\/p>\n
### Traveling Merchants Update
\n– Merchants travel to predefined waypoints.
\n– Can ride **horses** or use **boats** for waterway travel.
\n– Compatible with **Small Ships mod**.
\n– Configure travel **duration and routes**.
\n– Fishermen can also use boats to reach optimal fishing spots.<\/p>\n
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## Worker Types
\nCurrently there are **9 worker professions**:
\n– Miner
\n– Lumberjack
\n– Farmer
\n– Fisherman
\n– Merchant
\n– Shepherd
\n– Chicken Farmer
\n– Cattle Farmer
\n– Swineherd<\/p>\n
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## Tutorials<\/p>\n
### Hiring & Commanding Workers
\n1. Buy the **profession blocks** from a Farmer, Fisherman, Mason, Wandering Trader, or Shepherd (villager must be level 2).
\n2. Place the profession block and wait for an **unemployed villager** to adopt the profession.
\n3. Hire a worker by **right-clicking with emeralds**.
\n4. Ensure the worker has enough **food** in their inventory.
\n5. Assign a **home, bed, and chest** to improve efficiency.
\n6. Tool upgrades affect **work speed**.<\/p>\n
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### Worker Interaction
\n– **Right-click**: make the worker follow you.
\n– **Crouch + Right-click**: open worker inventory. <\/p>\n
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### Miner
\n– 8 mining modes (Tunnel, 3×3 Tunnel, Flat 8x8x1, Pit 8x8x8, Room 8x8x3, Flat 16x16x1, Pit 16x16x16, Room 16x16x3).
\n– Can place torches if available in inventory or chest.
\n– Start-block can be assigned via **Command Screen**.<\/p>\n
### Lumberjack
\n– Assign **work position** via command screen.
\n– Searches a **10-block radius** for trees to chop.
\n– Replants saplings if available.<\/p>\n
### Farmer
\n– Assign start block via command screen.
\n– Hoes **9×9 field**, plants seeds, and harvests mature crops.
\n– Manages inventory of seeds for replanting.<\/p>\n
### Fisherman
\n– Assign work position.
\n– Searches **8-block radius** for water sources.
\n– Can use boats to fish if available.<\/p>\n
### Shepherd
\n– Assign work position.
\n– Searches **10-block radius** for sheep.
\n– Breeds or slaughters to maintain target count.<\/p>\n
### Chicken Farmer
\n– Assign work position.
\n– Searches **10-block radius** for chickens.
\n– Breeds or slaughters to maintain target count.<\/p>\n
### Cattle Farmer
\n– Assign work position.
\n– Searches **10-block radius** for cows.
\n– Breeds or slaughters to maintain target count.<\/p>\n
### Swineherd
\n– Assign work position.
\n– Searches **10-block radius** for pigs.
\n– Breeds or slaughters to maintain target count.<\/p>\n
### Merchant
\n– Create up to **4 customizable offers**.
\n– Travels along predefined **waypoints** with return days setting.
\n– Two waypoint types: **ground** and **water**.
\n– Merchant acts as an **active chunk loader**. <\/p>\n
#### Owner Screen
\n– Configure travel routes and timing.
\n– **Start, Stop, Return, Auto-Restart** buttons for travel control.<\/p>\n
#### Customer Screen
\n– Trade with merchant using **inventory-based goods**.
\n– Example: 4 cooked mutton for 1 emerald. <\/p>\n
#### Creative Mode
\n– Toggle merchant modes: **Owned** or **Creative**.
\n– Creative mode removes limits and disables saving income.<\/p>\n
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## Coming Soon
\n– Beekeeper and Goat Farmer Update
\n– Smith and Courier Update
\n– Builder\u2019s Update
\n– Village Integration Update
\n– Leveling Update<\/p>\n
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## Installation<\/p>\n
1. Install Minecraft Forge
\n2. Drop the mod into your `mods\/` folder
\n3. Launch the game and hire your first worker!<\/p>\n
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## Feedback & Issues
\nJoin the community on **Discord** for support, bug reports, and suggestions.<\/p>\n
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## My Other Mods<\/p>\n
### 
\n**Villager Recruits**:
\nCommand your own **Villager Army** into war! Now with **Diplomacy and Factions**!<\/p>\n
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### 
\n**Villager Workers**:
\nHire Villagers and let them **work for you**!<\/p>\n
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### 
\n**Small Ships**:
\nExplore the oceans in your **own sailable ships**!<\/p>\n
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### 
\n**Siege Weapons**:
\nPrepare for war. Build your siege weapon. Dominate the battlefield.**!<\/p>\n
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