Minions on CarbonNetwork Skyblock
Minions on CarbonNetwork’s Skyblock server mine, farm and chop one block for you, and keep working for a while after you log off. Placing them, tiers and modules.
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Minions are small helpers that work one block for you: mining, farming or chopping. They keep going while you're away, up to a limit.
/minions every minion on your island
Also Escape → Skyblock → Island → Minions.
Placing one
Hold the minion and right-click a solid block on your island. It stands there and works the block in front of it. That block has to be empty, or something it can work.
| Minion | What it does |
|---|---|
| Cobblestone | makes cobblestone in the space in front of it |
| Wheat | plants and harvests a 3×3 field in front of it |
| Oak | plants a sapling, grows it and chops it |
| Miner | mines the block in front. Put it facing an ore vein |
Every new island gets a Cobblestone Minion. More come from the barge.
How many you can place depends on Minion slots in /is upgrade. See
Upgrades & level.
The minion menu
Right-click a minion to open it.
- Storage fills the top of the menu. Click a stack to take it. Collect all takes everything that fits. It also shows what quick sell would pay for the lot.
- Upgrades — speed, storage, time away and module slots, each bought on its own.
- Modules — see below.
- Rename.
- Speciality — what this minion does, roughly how much it makes an hour, and any module only its kind can take.
- Pick up (shift-click) — the minion goes back in your inventory with its upgrades, modules and storage.
Anyone on the team can collect from and upgrade any minion. Only the owner or whoever placed it can pick it up.
Upgrades
Click Upgrades and pick what to improve. Each one is bought on its own, so a minion you only visit once a day can go all in on storage and time away.
Every upgrade costs money and some of what the minion makes, taken from its storage first. For a Cobblestone Minion:
| Level | Speed | Storage | Time away |
|---|---|---|---|
| I | every 26 s | 36 | 2 h |
| II | every 20 s | 72 | 4 h |
| III | every 14 s | 162 | 8 h |
| IV | every 10 s | 324 | 14 h |
| V | every 7 s | 576 | 24 h |
Module slots go from none to one to two. Each tile shows its next level and its price.
A minion's Tier is its lowest upgrade. Tier III and Tier V also give it a better pickaxe.
While you're away a minion catches up when you come back, but only for as long as its Time away allows, and it stops when storage is full. Empty it before you log off.
Modules
Open Modules in the minion menu, then click a module in your own inventory to fit it. Click a fitted one to take it out. Buy slots under Upgrades.
| Module | Effect | Where to get it |
|---|---|---|
| Compactor | keeps blocks instead of items (9 into 1): hay bales, ore blocks, nether wart blocks. Fits Wheat, Nether Wart and Miner minions. With a Chest Link, the blocks go to the chest | the barge, crates |
| Chest Link | puts what it makes into the chest, barrel or shulker box behind it | the barge, crates |
| Expander | a Wheat Minion's field grows to 5×5 | the barge |
| Fuel Burner | 25% faster while lit. Click coal, charcoal, blaze rods or dried kelp blocks in to fuel it. Only while you're there, not while you're away | the barge, crates |
| Auto-smelt | ores come out as ingots, cobblestone as stone. Cobblestone and Miner minions | the barge |
The barge brings a few of these on some visits, never all five at once. Fuel Burner and Auto-smelt cost the most.