NPC Logistics

Tired of running between chests yourself? NPC Logistics lets you hire worker NPCs and put them to work — collecting, crafting, and delivering items along programmable routes, or hand them a tool and a couple of tokens and they'll take on an autonomous Role, like farming a plot completely on their own.

How it works

Routes and roles are both built from Location Tokens — small craftable items you place at the spots you care about. Each token marks what should happen there:

Token Colour Purpose Collect Token 🔵 Blue Pick up items from this container Craft Token 🟡 Amber Craft a recipe at this station Deposit Token 🟢 Green Drop off items into this container Jobsite Token 🟣 Purple Centre point of a Role worker's job area Bed Token 🩵 Light blue Assigns where a Role worker sleeps at night

Hand a Work Order Scroll to a worker NPC, configure the route in their GUI, and they'll walk the loop autonomously — collecting, processing, and depositing without any further input from you. Or equip a worker with a tool, a Jobsite Token, and a Deposit Token instead, and they'll work a Role continuously with no scroll required at all.

Features

• Programmable delivery routes — chain any combination of Collect → Craft → Deposit stops, with per-item quantity filters (All / Full Stacks / Partial)
• Autonomous Roles — equip a worker with a tool + Jobsite Token + Deposit Token and they take over a job area on their own
• Farmer role — tills, plants, harvests, and restocks seeds from a linked chest, no input needed once set up
• Shepherd role — shears sheep within range of a jobsite/pen and deposits the wool automatically
• Work Goggles — a helmet that overlays a worker's route in-world (green = collect, red = deliver, gold = both)
• Night-time sleep — Role workers find their assigned Bed Token (or shelter) after dark; toggle it off per-worker if you want them working around the clock
• Five-tab worker GUI — Equipment, Orders, Cargo, Role, and Tasks, all from one screen
• Crafting Tasks — full gather → craft → deposit pipelines, up to 8 rows per worker
• No pipes, no power — logistics run on NPC labour; fits vanilla-adjacent modpacks

Getting started

For delivery routes:

1. Craft a Work Order Scroll — this becomes the worker's instruction sheet
2. Craft Location Tokens for each stop on the route (Collect, Craft, or Deposit)
3. Place the tokens at each chest, crafting station, or storage block
4. Right-click a Worker NPC to open their GUI, add the Scroll in the Orders tab
5. Close the GUI — the worker starts their route immediately

For an autonomous Role (e.g. Farmer):

1. Craft a Jobsite Token and place it at the centre of the work area
2. Craft a Deposit Token and place it at a chest for the harvest/output
3. Right-click a Worker NPC, open the Role tab, and fill the Tool, Jobsite Token, and Deposit Token slots
4. Close the GUI — the kit activates and the worker starts working the role on their own

Workers are persistent, survive server restarts, and resume their last active order or role on load.

Worker GUI

Tab What you do here Equipment Armour, tools, Work Order Scroll slots, rename, custom skin URL Orders View and manage active Work Order Scrolls and their stops Cargo Take-only 18-slot view of everything the worker is carrying Role 3-slot kit (Tool / Jobsite Token / Deposit Token) that grants an autonomous Role, plus a Sleep at Night toggle Tasks Up to 8 crafting task rows — Collect, Recipe, Craft, and Deposit slots per row

Location Tokens & Recipes

Item Recipe Work Order Scroll Paper + Paper + Feather + Ink Sac Collect Token Gold Ingot + Lapis Lazuli Craft Token Gold Ingot + Blaze Powder Deposit Token Gold Ingot + Emerald Jobsite Token Gold Ingot + Compass Bed Token Gold Ingot + Feather Work Goggles 2× Glass Pane + Iron Ingot + Gold Ingot

Admin commands

Command Effect /workorder spawn [x y z] Spawn a Logistics Worker /workorder addstop <worker> <x y z> collect|deliver|both Add a stop to a worker's route /workorder startorder <worker> "Route Name" Start a named route /workorder cancel <worker> Cancel the worker's current order /workorder status <worker> Report a worker's current status /workorder setrepeating <worker> true|false Toggle whether a route repeats

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.20.1
• Fabric Loader ≥ 0.15.0
• Fabric API 0.92.6+1.20.1
• Java 17+ (runtime) — building from source requires JDK 21

Compatibility

NPC Logistics is storage-agnostic — workers interact with any block that exposes a standard inventory. It works alongside storage mods (Tom's Simple Storage, Refined Storage, AE2) without conflict.

Roadmap

• Additional roles: Miner, Woodcutter, Fisher
• Multi-dimension pathfinding
• Footstep and work-complete sounds
• Location Token visual beam at stamped position
• Double-chest support
• 3rd-party storage block compatibility

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