Hiring and contracts
Getting one
| How | Details |
|---|---|
| Free mercenaries | Appear now and then in village biomes (plains, savanna, taiga, snowy plains, desert) with random basic gear. Right-click with emeralds to hire (10 emeralds = 5 days by default). Without emeralds they tell you their price. |
| Mercenary Contract | Paper + iron sword + 5 emeralds, shapeless. Use it on the ground: a mercenary hired by you appears. |
| Mercenary Spawn Egg | Creative only. Spawns a free mercenary. |
The first time you hire someone you also receive the Patron's Handbook, a guide to all of this inside the game.
Every item is in the Hired Hands creative tab.
The contract
- Each emerald you give adds 1 day (sneak to pay the whole stack).
- Days are world days and keep running while nobody is online.
- With less than a day left, it warns you in chat.
- When it ends it becomes free again, keeps its gear, and anyone can hire it.
Death
A hired hand always drops everything you gave it, plus its backpack.