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Minions are tiny baby mobs — zombie, pigman, and villager — that mine the prison on your behalf, earning the same economy rewards as if you mined the blocks yourself. Unlike the Autominer, you can have multiple minions active simultaneously, letting you field an entire crew at once.

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Minion Types

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Opening the Crew Menu

Open the minion management menu with any of these commands:
From the menu you can view all active minions, feed them additional time, purchase upgrades, and dismiss minions you no longer need.

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Getting Minion Time

Minions run on time items. Admins grant time items to players using:
The <time> argument accepts standard formats: 10m, 2h, 1d, and so on. The optional [count] argument controls how many time items to grant (defaults to 1). Example — give Steve two 1-hour zombie minion time items:
Steve receives two separate items in his inventory, each good for one hour of zombie minion activity.

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Feeding Minions

To extend an active minion’s runtime, take a minion time item from your inventory and use it on the minion. The time on the item adds directly to the minion’s remaining duration. Minions stop mining and disappear automatically when their time runs out, so keep them fed to maintain your crew.

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Upgrade Modules

Each minion type has its own independent upgrade tree, so your zombie upgrades do not affect your villager and vice versa. You purchase upgrades from the /minions menu using your economy balance. Typical upgrades available per minion type:
  • Speed — how fast the minion moves and mines
  • Earnings Multiplier — scales economy payout per block
  • Capacity — how many blocks the minion targets per cycle
  • Area of Effect — expands the mining radius around the minion
All upgrades persist permanently per player per minion type — they carry over between sessions and are never reset when a minion’s time expires. Upgrade module definitions live in plugins/JPPrison/minion-upgrades/.

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Configuration

After editing any of these files, run /jpprison reload to apply your changes without restarting the server.

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Diagnosing Issues

If your minions are not earning rewards or behaving unexpectedly, run:
This command inspects the current crew state and checks the jpprison-enchants WorldGuard flag at your location.
Minion rewards respect the jpprison-enchants WorldGuard flag. Deploy your crew inside a rewards region to ensure every block they mine pays out. Outside a rewards region, minions will still break blocks but no economy rewards will be issued.