Create Employees — little helpers for your world
**If you're an experienced modder and want to collaborate together and flesh this mod out into its full potential please contact me within the comments section of this mod!**

Create Employees adds simple, friendly “Runners” you can hire to patrol, guard, and haul items between inventories. No complicated setup, no required dependencies — just hand them their orders and watch them work.

This is my first mod. I originally built it around the Create ecosystem, but I scrapped the hard dependency so anyone can use it, even on lightweight modpacks or vanilla-plus servers. If you do have Create, Runners play nicely with most inventories thanks to standard Forge item handler support.

What they can do

• Patrol between two points. 

• Guard a single point. 

• Travel to specific coordinates

• Work (haul items) from a Source inventory to a Destination, honoring a filter you control (whitelist/blacklist or disabled).

• Fight while patrolling or guarding. They spot nearby hostile mobs and switch to a faster combat pace.

How to give orders

Craft Order Papers: 

All direction comes from the Orders Paper:

• Shift + Right-click a block → set Source.

• Right-click a block → set Destination.

• Shift + Right-click air (not pointing at a block) → open the Orders GUI.
  
  Apply your source and destination, as well as your order type.

Drop the Orders Paper into a Runner’s orders slot. They’ll poll it and update behavior on the fly.

Orders GUI highlights

• Modes: Patrol, Guard, Travel, Work.

• Travel: enter X/Y/Z for a one-time move.

• Item Filter: toggle Enabled/Disabled; pick Accept (whitelist) or Deny (blacklist) and drop example items to define the rule.

Hiring options

Recruitment Horn (cooldown ~10 minutes)

Craft the Recruitment Horn, blow it like a goat horn (uses the “Sing” call), and a fresh Runner answers.

Runner Robot Kit (craftable, place like a spawn egg)

Want automation? Craft a Runner Robot Kit to place a Runner Robot. Perfect for factories, warehouses, and mass employment deployment.

Customization: right-click a placed robot with a dye to recolor its skin. Available variants (matching dye items):
black, blue, green, lime, white, light blue, red, purple, pink, orange, yellow, gray.

Use cases

• Town guards: Drop a Guard order on gates, villager squares, or portals.

• Wall patrols: Set perimeter patrol points; they’ll roam and respond to threats.

• Warehouse runners: Move filtered items from farm output to storage bins.

• Waypoint travel: Zip a Runner to a jobsite, then switch them back to Work.

Under the hood, Runners interact with blocks using a safe “fake player” where needed and standard Forge capabilities for inventory transfers, so they’re broadly compatible.

Recipes (quick list)

• Orders Paper (shapeless): Book & Quill + Ink Sac + Yellow Dye.

• Recruitment Horn (shaped): Goat Horn + String + Light Blue Dye + Iron Ingot (see layout above).

• Runner Robot Kit (shaped): Iron Nugget/Redstone Block/Iron Nugget | Leather/Gold Ingot/Leather | Leather/Redstone/Leather.

Why no hard dependency on Create? Why doesn't this look like a true-to-create add-on?

I love Create, and the first prototypes hooked directly into it. I struggled as a first time modmaker trying to get it to pull from create files, and I wanted this to be a small, focused helper mod that fits anywhere that i could actually make— So the final result doesn’t require Create. If Create is present, great — but it’s entirely optional.