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Hire mercenaries and workers with emeralds. They follow you, fight for you, or work as lumberjacks, miners, farmers, fishers, ranchers, haulers and cooks, storing what they gather in a chest. Management screen, levels, groups and chat orders.
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Hired Hands
Hire mercenaries and workers with emeralds. They follow you, fight for you, or work a trade and bring what they gather to a chest.

📖 Wiki: https://hired-hands-mod.vercel.app
Versión en español más abajo.
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🤝 Hiring
- Free mercenaries wander village biomes. Right-click one with emeralds to hire it (10 emeralds = 5 days).
- Mercenary Contract (paper + iron sword + 5 emeralds): use it on the ground and a hired mercenary appears.
- Each emerald adds a day. They warn you before the contract ends, then leave with their gear.
⚒️ Eight trades, chosen by what's in their hand
| Give it | Trade |
|---|---|
| Sword, bow, spear, trident, mace | Mercenary: follows you or guards a spot |
| Axe | Lumberjack: chops natural trees like a player, pillars up tall ones, replants |
| Pickaxe | Miner: real branch mining toward a target ore, or expeditions through a Mine Entrance |
| Hoe | Farmer: harvests and replants |
| Fishing rod | Fisher: real bobber, vanilla odds, treasure included |
| Shears | Rancher: shears, breeds, culls extras |
| Bundle | Hauler: moves items from nearby chests to its own |
| Bowl | Cook: runs furnaces and smokers |
Workers use a chest at their post to store what they gather, swap tools before they break, eat when hurt, and sleep in a bed at night.

🖥️ Management screen
Sneak + right-click: 3D preview, equipment slots, backpack, level, contract, current task and Follow / Wait / Work / Group buttons.

⭐ More
- Levels 1–10: more health, more damage, faster work.
- Groups and the Command Horn: order everyone at once.
- Foreman's Rod: mark a work area for each worker.
- 12 medieval skins.
- Patron's Handbook: an in-game guide every new patron receives.
💬 Talk to them
Type their name in chat: Wren, what are you doing?, Garrick, find 10 iron, all, follow me. Simple orders work with no AI at all, in English and Spanish.
Optional: the server owner can add an Anthropic API key to let them understand free-form sentences and chat in character (Claude Haiku 4.5 by default). The key stays on the server and is never sent to players.

📋 Requirements
- Minecraft 26.2 with NeoForge
- No other mods required
- Install on server and clients
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🤝 Contratar
- Mercenarios libres aparecen en biomas con aldeas. Clic derecho con esmeraldas para contratarlos (10 esmeraldas = 5 días).
- Contrato de mercenario (papel + espada de hierro + 5 esmeraldas): úsalo sobre el suelo y aparece un mercenario ya contratado.
- Cada esmeralda suma un día. Te avisan antes de que se acabe el contrato y luego se van con su equipo.
⚒️ Ocho oficios, según lo que tengan en la mano
| Le das | Oficio |
|---|---|
| Espada, arco, lanza, tridente, maza | Mercenario: te sigue o monta guardia |
| Hacha | Leñador: tala árboles naturales como un jugador, sube a los altos con un pilar y replanta |
| Pico | Minero: minería en ramas de verdad buscando un mineral, o expediciones por una Entrada de mina |
| Azada | Granjero: cosecha y vuelve a sembrar |
| Caña de pescar | Pescador: corcho de verdad, probabilidades de Minecraft, con tesoros |
| Tijeras | Ganadero: esquila, cría y sacrifica lo que sobra |
| Saco | Cargador: lleva lo de los cofres cercanos al suyo |
| Cuenco | Cocinero: usa hornos y ahumadores |
Los trabajadores usan un cofre en su puesto para guardar lo que sacan, cambian la herramienta antes de romperla, comen si están heridos y duermen en una cama de noche.
🖥️ Pantalla de gestión
Agachado + clic derecho: vista en 3D, equipo, mochila, nivel, contrato, tarea actual y botones Seguir / Esperar / Trabajar / Grupo.
⭐ Además
- Niveles del 1 al 10: más vida, más daño, trabajo más rápido.
- Grupos y el Cuerno de mando: órdenes a todos a la vez.
- Vara de capataz: marca una zona de trabajo para cada uno.
- 12 skins medievales.
- Manual del patrón: una guía en el juego que recibe cada patrón nuevo.
💬 Háblales
Escribe su nombre en el chat: Wren, ¿qué haces?, Garrick, busca 10 de hierro, todos, síganme. Las órdenes sencillas funcionan sin nada de IA, en español e inglés.
Opcional: el dueño del servidor puede poner una clave de la API de Anthropic para que entiendan frases libres y conversen en personaje (Claude Haiku 4.5 por defecto). La clave se queda en el servidor y nunca se envía a los jugadores.
📋 Requisitos
- Minecraft 26.2 con NeoForge
- No necesita otros mods
- Se instala en servidor y clientes
License / Licencia: MIT
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