Mercenary
by Acrogenous
Mercenary is a Fabric transportation and adventure mod in which players take on quests that send them between villages and into hostile places.
What it does
Quests in the mod ask a player to deliver a package to a named village, or to clear the hostile mobs near a location. A quest is complete once the required block is placed at or near the target location and the remaining mobs in a small radius are gone. Mobs that are still alive in that radius receive a glowing effect, so they stay visible until they are dealt with. The quest set and its hostile locations come from a datapack, so a world can change them.
Players start and track jobs through an in-game keybind and a scoreboard built on the vanilla scoreboard system, which lets a group see who has completed what. A later update added the ability to remove quests a player no longer wants, and a keybind that counts emeralds held in the main hand, so a player can pay for a job in emeralds. The mod runs on client and server, and is open source under the MIT License.
Mercenary requires Async Locator, which the server uses to find the target locations. Files are published for Fabric only, across six game versions 1.20.1 – 1.20.6, and the latest is 1.1.2 for 1.20.6, released on 2024-07-21.
Key features
Village delivery quests
Quests send a player to a village to deliver a package and return it to the quest giver.
Hostile location quests
Other quests ask a player to clear mobs from a location and finish by placing a required block there.
Glowing remaining mobs
Mobs left in the quest radius are highlighted with a glowing effect until they are removed.
Scoreboard competition
A scoreboard built on the vanilla system tracks progress, so players can compete with each other.
Emerald payment and quest removal
Players can count emeralds in the main hand for a payment and remove quests they do not want.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
Use cases
Who it’s for: The mod suits adventure players who want quests that take them between villages and hostile places, and server owners who want to run a quest system through a datapack. Both the server and every player need it installed.
Questions
Does Mercenary need Async Locator?
Does Mercenary have to be installed on both sides?
Which game versions does Mercenary support?
Can the quests be changed?
In the catalog
Mercenary is one of 3,932 Transportation mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,390 Transportation mods for Fabric. 11,154 mods support Minecraft 1.20.6.
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What the author says
the quest will either be "deliver a package to X" where that location will be a village, or "you must deal with some rogues at X" where you will have to go to a location (Datapack configurable) that is hostile both quests require you to place a block at/near the location specified once you have removed all hostile…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/mercenary
- Owner
- Acrogenous
- Published
- 2024-07-16
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2024-07-21
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15