Recruits Reborn

Hired recruits — swordsmen and archers — fight on your side. Swordsmen engage in melee, while archers provide ranged support from a distance. Recruits defend their owner, automatically attack hostile mobs, and join the fight when you or they are attacked. If a recruit falls too far behind, they teleport to their owner so they are not lost during combat or while traveling.

Equipment directly affects a recruit’s combat effectiveness: right-clicking a recruit with armor, a weapon, or food equips the item on them or heals them. Right-clicking your own recruit with an empty hand cycles their order through Follow → Hold Position → Wander, and Shift + Right-click dismisses them.

The Commander’s Horn has been replaced by a Bannerlord-style command menu. A hotkey opens the command menu, through which you can issue orders to all your recruits within a 64-block radius: follow you, hold position, or wander. Individual orders can still be given by right-clicking a specific recruit with an empty hand.

This mod was created with the assistance of Claude Sonnet 5.5.