Allay Folks - UI & HALLOWEEN UPDATE

Allays that feel like real little companions. Tame them, give them a home, put them to work, and take one along on your adventures. There are nine allay variants. Each one lives in its own part of the world and has its own power.

NeoForge 1.21.1 · Requires GeckoLib · Optional: Jade, Xaero's Minimap, Critters and Companions, Curios or Accessories, Starcatcher, Terralith, Biomes O' Plenty, Oh The Biomes We've Gone

🚧 Work in progress: Allay Folks is still being actively built and expanded. New allays, jobs and features are added often, and some things may change between updates. Bugs or ideas? Message me on Discord: YETSHADOW.

Quick Start

1. Find an allay. Look in its home biome, or craft an Allay Compass and follow it to the nearest allay home.
2. Earn its trust. Wild allays are shy. Stand still with its favorite food in your hand and wait a few seconds. It comes over.
3. Feed it. One bite and it's yours.
4. Open its screen. Hold the Allay Interact key (Left Shift by default) and right-click it with an empty hand.
5. Give it a home. Next to Home, press Set, then right-click an Allay Door or Allay Chest.
6. Give it a job. Press Manage next to its job, then Change job, and put the job's tool in its hand slot.
7. Keep track. Press K to see all your allays, wherever they are.

Crafting

The Allays

Each variant has its own touch:

• Mushroom Allay: feed it a mushroom and its cap changes to that mushroom's color. This works with modded mushrooms too.
• Ender Allay: when it's idle, it sometimes teleports a few blocks away, like an Enderman.
• Blaze Allay: it has no wings and floats on two rings of spinning blaze rods instead, trailing a little smoke.
• Sculk Allay: its home is hidden inside an Ancient City.
• Undead Allay: give it up to 3 wither skeleton skulls and it transforms each time, ending as a tiny three-headed Wither.

Spawning: allay homes are generated in the world with an allay living inside. They also spawn in biomes from Terralith, Biomes O' Plenty, Oh The Biomes We've Gone and other mods that use the shared biome tags. Vanilla allays (pillager outposts, woodland mansions, spawn eggs...) are replaced by the variant that fits the biome.

Shy wild allays: a wild allay hides in its home, or flies away, when you get too close. Sprinting scares it from far away, walking from closer, and standing still or sneaking only from right up close. Stand still holding its favorite food for about 5 seconds and it comes to you.

The Powers

A power only works while the allay is out with you (following you or on your shoulder). It's shown on the allay's screen.

The Allay Screen

Hold Allay Interact and right-click your allay with an empty hand. It stays in place while the screen is open.

• Allay tab: its picture, job, power, favorite food, home and costume.
  • Right-click the picture to pat it. Right-click it with an item on your cursor to feed it or give it the item.
  • Follow me, Stay here or Send home.
  • Click the button next to its name to rename it.
  • Set or Move its home, and track it with the compass button (a mark on your screen, through walls).
• Job page (press Manage next to its job): its tool slot, Change job, Work chest, and the job's settings.
• Inventory tab: its 9 slots, plus its hand and its helmet.
• Every page has a gold (?) button that explains how it works. Hold Shift to see tooltips.

Your allays

Press K (rebindable), or the small allay button in your inventory, to see every allay you've tamed.

• What each one is doing and how far away it is. Hover a problem to see how to fix it.
• Manage opens its screen when it's within 24 blocks, or from any distance if it's following you (it comes to you first).
• Track marks it on your screen, through walls and from any distance. The mark goes away once you get there.
• A message log of what it told you lately: a tool broke, its chest is full...

Homes

Every allay needs a home: it sleeps there at night and works near it during the day. Each home holds one allay.

Moving in: in the allay's screen press Set next to Home and right-click the door or chest. You can also catch the allay in a Jar and right-click the home with it.

Both homes take the look of the allay living there, one per variant. They're animated: the allay peeks out now and then, and the lights inside really light up the area while it's home (the door's window, the chest's lantern and fairy lights as the lid opens).

Once it has a home, your allay:

• wanders near it and sleeps inside at night, in pajamas and a nightcap
• goes inside when it rains or thunders, or when a hostile mob comes near
• comes out in the morning to drink a mug of coffee
• answers when you knock: punch the door or chest (right-clicking the door knocks too). If it's out, it hurries home. If it's inside, it comes out to greet you, even at night in its pajamas.

Mine a home with Silk Touch to take the allay along with it.

Jobs

Give your allay a job in its screen (Manage > Change job), or hold Allay Interact and right-click it with the job's tool. It puts on matching work clothes and works within 32 blocks of its work chest, or of its home before it has one.

What it gathers goes into its 9-slot inventory. When that's full, or when it has had nothing to do for a few seconds, it takes it to its work chest. Pick the chest in its screen (Manage > Work chest), within 32 blocks of its home. It also takes what it needs (seeds, fuel, bottles...) from that chest.

Job settings: every job has settings on its Job page: how big its work area is, its work hours, when to unload, and the job's own options (replant, keep seeds, torches for the miner, which fuel to burn, herd sizes...). Some jobs have a list where you mark what to do first (★) or never (✖): ores, crops, trees, wool colours, things to smelt. Modded ones show up too. Copy and Paste settings between allays with the same job.

Tools matter. Without enchantments, allays work slowly. Efficiency and better tools help, but they're never faster than a player. Fortune, Silk Touch and Looting work too, and so do modded tools.

Tools wear out. Plain tools break, and the allay takes a spare from its inventory. Enchanted tools never break: when one is almost broken, the allay puts it away for you to repair and takes another.

Work hours: workers sleep at home at night. Rainy days are days off, except for the fisherman (rain is great fishing weather) and the miner.

Your Companion

You can own as many allays as you like, but only one can be your companion at a time. Your companion follows you or rides on your shoulder. Taming a wild allay makes it your companion right away.

Controls

Allay Interact is a key you can rebind in the controls menu. It's Left Shift by default.

What your companion can do

• Shoulder riding: it sits on your shoulder, swaps sides and looks around.
• Light: while it holds a torch, lantern or any other light (modded ones too), it lights up the area around it.
• Portable stations: give it a chest, barrel, shulker box, ender chest, crafting table, stonecutter, smithing table, loom, cartography table, grindstone, anvil, enchanting table, furnace, smoker or blast furnace. Right-click it to open that block from anywhere. A furnace it carries keeps cooking.
• Teleports: it comes with you through commands, ender pearls, portals and waystones, even to another dimension.
• Lost allay? /allayfolks call brings your companion back to you, even from another dimension. No cheats needed.
• Death guide: if it's with you when you die, it remembers where you fell and calls you over when you respawn. Right-click it and it puts on a hooded death robe, holds a scythe and a soul lantern, grows bone wings and leads you back to your items.
• Helmet: it can wear any helmet, modded ones included, and it protects it like a full set of that armor.

Jar

• Craft: a wooden slab over a glass block.
• Catch your tamed allay in the jar to carry it around. The tooltip shows which allay is inside and where its home is.
• Right-click a block with the filled jar to let the allay out. Sneak and right-click to place the jar as a block, with the allay flying around inside.
• In your inventory and hand, the jar shows the real animated allay or critter inside.
• Catch critters: an empty Jar also catches small mobs (about 0.5 × 0.5 blocks) from vanilla or any mod: silverfish, endermites, frogs, and the bugs from Critters and Companions. Datapacks can add mobs with the allayfolks:jar_catchable tag.

Allay Compass

• Craft: a compass surrounded by 8 amethyst shards.
• Buy: from journeyman cartographers and wandering traders.
• Find: in chests in cartographer houses, pillager outposts and woodland mansions.

The compass points to the nearest allay home you haven't found yet, from anywhere in your inventory. When you reach a home it chimes and moves on to the next one.

• Height: teal-blue means you're at about the home's height. It turns purple the further above or below you are.
• Charm slot: with Curios or Accessories, wear it in the charm slot to get a small compass on your HUD.

Halloween

From Oct 20 to Nov 3, every allay dresses up in its own costume, wild ones included. On any other day, give your allay a carved pumpkin to put it on.

Costumed allays keep working and now and then play a little prank in a squeaky voice. Sweet dreams... during the Halloween dates, going to sleep has a small chance of a nightmare. It's only a vision.

Wandering Trader Allay

Once in a while, a Wandering Trader Allay visits: a random variant in a traveller's hat and backpack. It sells everything a wandering trader does, plus Jars, Allay Compasses and Allay Doors, and leaves after 2 days. It can't be tamed.

Little Details

• Smooth, lively animations: allays breathe, look around, blink (sometimes twice) and flap with a quick downstroke and a slow, twisting recovery.
• Idle allays drift over to look at nearby animals, and sometimes bring them a flower, or give one to another allay.
• Play a jukebox and every allay within 32 blocks flies over to dance. Amethyst duplication still works.
• Now and then, an idle allay with no job hops on a horse or another big animal for a ride.
• You can eat cake straight from an allay's hands, one slice at a time.
• Allays hold a big dripleaf umbrella when it rains.
• Jade: tooltips show an allay's owner, job and work chest, and who lives in a home.
• Xaero's Minimap: each allay has its own small icon on the map.
• Everything is in the Allay Folks creative tab.

Config

config/allayfolks-common.toml lets you turn features on or off. This is useful for modpacks.

Notes

• Requires GeckoLib.
• Allays can't be hurt by mobs, players, fire, falls or drowning. If one falls out of the world, it comes back.
• Allays can't be leashed.
• Multiplayer: other players can pet your allays, but only you can give them items or orders. While you're offline your companion waits, and it rejoins you when you log back in.

Found a bug or have an idea? Leave a comment, or message me directly on Discord: YETSHADOW.