Will Of The Master

⚠ THIS MOD IS IN TESTING ⚠

This is a test build. Things may not work as intended yet, and settings, yields and gather speed will still change between versions.

If you run into something broken, please say so in the comments — what the thrall was doing, which resource, and whether it was single player or a server.

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Will Of The Master

Your followers stop standing around while you do all the chopping. Give a thrall an order and it goes to work: fells trees, breaks rocks, mines ore, cuts fiber, picks up what is lying around, harvests the dead and empties their bodies — on its own, until the job is done or something stops it.

You point. They work.

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Getting started

Three steps, once:

• Learn the feat — Will Of The Master. It costs nothing and needs no
• level. It teaches every tool the mod adds.
• Craft the tools. Tier 1 is made in your own hands; tier 2 and above at a
• blacksmith's bench. Both backpacks are handcrafted.
• Put a tool in the follower's inventory. Not yours — the thrall's. That is
• what it works with, and what decides how good it is at the job.

No tool, no work. A thrall without the right tool will refuse the order rather than wander off and pretend.

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Giving an order

Open the emote menu — R by default. The mod adds its own tab there, named after the mod, and every order lives on it. Pick one and the thrall gets to work.

No console command, no extra keybind to set up: if you can emote, you can give orders.

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The tools

These are the mod's own items, made for thralls — you cannot equip them yourself. Five families come in four tiers each:

• Master's Axe — wood
• Master's Pickaxe — bark, stone, iron, coal, silver, brimstone
• Master's Sickle — plant fiber
• Master's Pickup — everything gathered by hand; carried, never held
• Master's Skinning Knife — harvest the bodies of the dead

And two backpacks, which have no tiers because they take rather than gather:

• Master's Backpack — empties a body of everything it holds
• Master's Backpack (Filtered) — takes only what the thrall already carries

The tier decides the haul. A tier 2 tool brings back about twice what tier 1 does, tier 3 a little over three times, tier 4 nearly four and a half. Same work, same time — a better tool simply comes home with more. The backpacks have no tiers: they carry what is already there, so there is nothing to multiply.

Harvesting the dead is the one job that does not pay from the mod's own table. What comes off a carcass is the animal's own drop list, and the tool decides which part of it you get — the same body answers differently to a knife and to an axe.

Give a follower an axe and a pickaxe and it swaps between them by itself, depending on what you asked for. Hand it several tiers and it always reaches for the best one it owns.

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What they can do

Fifteen orders:

• Wood — fell trees (Master's Axe)
• Bark — strip bark from trees (Master's Pickaxe)
• Stone — break rocks (Master's Pickaxe)
• Iron — mine iron ore (Master's Pickaxe)
• Coal — mine coal (Master's Pickaxe)
• Silver — mine silver ore (Master's Pickaxe)
• Brimstone — mine brimstone (Master's Pickaxe)
• Fiber — cut plants for fiber (Master's Sickle)
• Stones — gather loose stones (Master's Pickup)
• Crystals — gather crystal (Master's Pickup)
• Branches — gather fallen branches (Master's Pickup)
• Harvest (Knife) — harvest the dead with a skinning knife (Master's Skinning Knife)
• Harvest (Axe) — harvest the dead with an axe (Master's Axe)
• Loot — take everything from the dead (Master's Backpack)
• Loot Matching — take only what the follower already carries (Master's Backpack (Filtered))

Each order knows what it is looking for and what it should bring back. A thrall sent for stone will walk past the trees, and one sent to loot will walk past an empty body — with the filtered backpack, past any body holding nothing it already carries.

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How it works

They know when to stop

Work ends by itself when:

• there is nothing left to gather nearby
• the thrall's bag is full
• the tool is gone
• you call the follower back
• the thrall ends up swimming
• something attacks — fighting comes first, always

They share the field

Send several thralls at once and they divide the work between them instead of all crowding the same tree. A resource one thrall has claimed is left alone by the others, and an interrupted thrall gives its claim back so nothing is left reserved by nobody.

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Multiplayer

Built for servers, not only single player. Animations, tools in hand and the work itself are visible to everyone, not just the host.

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My other mods

• Fantasy Races Of Exiles
• Player Ignores Follower Collision
• Keeper of Thralls
• AgeOfThrallables
• Brotherhood: Clan Experience Sharing

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