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Shepherd

Hired with a work contract, the shepherd works at a vanilla loom. It shears the sheep around the loom, breeds them with wheat while there are fewer than you want, and brings the wool to a chest.

Note

Ordinary (not hired) villagers still become vanilla shepherds at looms. Only hired villagers become shepherds of this mod. A loom you have set up (linked chests) is kept for hired workers, and Assign makes room there.

Setting it up

  1. Place a loom next to your sheep pen.
  2. Open the loom: the tabs above its screen lead to the overview.
  3. Link at least one chest (+ Chest). A hired villager without a job finds the loom by itself; Assign picks a specific one.
  4. Right-click the shepherd with its wage (emeralds), shears and some wheat for breeding.

Without a chest or shears the shepherd does not work.

How it works

During work hours the shepherd:

  1. shears every sheep with wool within 12 blocks of the loom (4 blocks up or down), 1.5 seconds per sheep,
  2. breeds the sheep while there are fewer than the herd size set at the loom: it feeds two grown sheep a wheat each, and they get a lamb, like after a player fed them,
  3. brings the wool to the nearest chest once there is nothing left to do (or its inventory is full).

It reaches over a fence: a pen needs no gate (villagers do not open fence gates). Sheep it cannot get at, it leaves alone for half a minute.

The shears wear out like a player's, one use per sheep, and are used until they break (shears count as cheap tools, see Worn tools). It carries up to 2 shears and keeps up to 16 wheat; it needs the wheat only for breeding.

The menu shows how much wool it sheared today.

The herd size

Tab White Wool Settings in the overview: − and + set up to how many sheep (lambs included) the shepherd breeds, from 0 (no breeding) up to 32. The default is 8. Below it the menu shows how many sheep there are around the loom now.

Good to know

  • Sheared sheep grow their wool back by eating grass, so give the pen grass.
  • The wool keeps the color of the sheep. Dye the sheep yourself for colored wool.
  • Sort the wool by color with hoppers, or let a carrier take it on.
  • The loom works as usual for you; the shepherd does not use it.