Clockwork Miner

Quickstart

1. Spawn a Clockwork Miner with its spawn egg from the Creative inventory’s Spawn Eggs tab. In Survival, a villager that dies from fire is replaced by a Clockwork Miner.
2. Put the miner near ore and right-click it while holding coal. One coal starts mining and is consumed in Survival.
3. It searches nearby blocks for ores it can mine, collects the resources, and returns to you when its cargo is full.
4. To call it back yourself, right-click it with an empty hand. You can also press U by default when you’re within 4 blocks and have an empty hand; you must be the miner’s owner.

Overview

The Clockwork Miner is a pickaxe-wielding villager that searches its surroundings for valuable ore. It carries mined resources back to the player who gave it coal.

What It Adds

• A Clockwork Miner mob, which carries an iron pickaxe.
• A Clockwork Miner spawn egg, available in the Creative Spawn Eggs tab.

How To Use

• Start mining: Give the miner coal. It searches the area around itself and heads toward the nearest ore it can mine.
• Call it back: Use an empty hand to interact with it, or press U by default within 4 blocks while at least one hand is empty. It returns to its owner and delivers its cargo.
• Set it to follow: Interact while holding an item other than coal. This toggles following on or off; the miner follows its owner until it gets within about 3 blocks. This also makes you its owner.
• The player who most recently gave it coal or changed its follow mode is its owner. Only that player can call it back with an empty hand.
• If your inventory is full, the miner keeps any undelivered cargo and won’t resume mining until it can deliver the rest.

Abilities And Mechanics

The miner searches up to 8 blocks horizontally and 4 blocks vertically from its position. It looks for the nearest supported ore; it does not mine ordinary stone to make a path.

Cargo has 3 slots. When full, the miner automatically returns to its owner, delivers what it can, and resumes mining once its cargo is empty. Ordinary damage cannot harm the miner, and it cannot be attacked.