LavaGolem

Two hard-working Copper Golems that automate the most tedious parts of vanilla - without a resource pack, without client mods, and without breaking the survival spirit. You still build the infrastructure yourself; the golems just save you the endless walking back and forth.

Tired of building a giant super-smelter - stacks of furnaces wired up with hoppers, minecart loops, item sorters and half a chunk of redstone just to melt some ore? Drop a Smelter Golem next to a few furnaces and a couple of labeled chests instead. Want your dripstone-and-cauldron lava farm collected for you? That's what the Lava Golem is for.

Two little golems can replace a whole room of contraptions.

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The two golems

🪣 Lava Golem - the lava hauler

Vanilla already lets you drip a lava source through pointed dripstone into a cauldron and slowly accumulate lava - but you have to stand there and bucket it out. The Lava Golem does that for you: it grabs an empty bucket, fills it at a full lava cauldron, and drops the lava bucket into your storage. Forever.

🔥 Smelter Golem - the furnace keeper

Feeds your furnaces and hauls out the results, so you don't need a hopper-and-rail smelting factory. It's genuinely smart about it:

• Reads your stock - takes the most abundant smeltable from the [Smelt] chest.
• Picks the right fuel - lava buckets for big batches, coal for small ones, wood if that's all you have - sized so nothing is wasted.
• Spreads the load - splits a big pile evenly across all your furnaces so they run in parallel, instead of dumping it all into one.
• Closes the lava loop - a spent lava bucket becomes an empty bucket; the golem pulls it back out and returns it, so it never clogs the furnace.
• Work modes - right-click a Smelter Golem to open its menu and set it to Balanced, Load only, or Collect only. Run one golem that loads and another that collects if you like.

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Recipes

Both golems share the same shape - only the center changes:

C R C        C = Copper Ingot
R X R        R = Redstone Dust
C R C

• Lava Golem - X = Lava Bucket
• Smelter Golem - X = Furnace

The result is a "Golem Heart" (a labeled Copper Golem Spawn Egg). Right-click it on the ground to place the golem.

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Setting up a station

Storage containers can be chests, trapped chests, barrels or shulker boxes. Tag each one either by:

• placing a sign with the matching text on any of its 6 sides, or
• renaming the container itself in an anvil to the matching text (no sign needed - cleaner build).

Lava Golem station: a [Buckets] container with empty buckets, a lava cauldron nearby, and a [Lava] container for the output.

Smelter Golem station: furnaces within range, plus containers tagged [Smelt] (ore/food to melt), [Fuel] (any vanilla fuel), and [Output] (finished goods - spent buckets come back here too).

Drop the matching Golem Heart nearby and it gets to work.

Note: the Smelter currently services regular furnaces (blast furnaces and smokers are not handled yet).

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Everyday use

• Stats / settings - right-click a golem with an empty hand. The Lava Golem shows its stats in chat; the Smelter Golem opens a settings & stats menu.
• Disassemble - sneak + right-click with an empty hand. The Golem Heart drops back, along with anything it was carrying.
• Survives restarts - golems (and their current job and mode) are restored automatically when their chunk loads.

Commands

Command	Permission	Description
/golemstats	lavagolem.admin	Server-wide statistics
/removegolems	lavagolem.admin	Remove all custom golems

Configuration

plugins/LavaGolem/config.yml:

search-radius: 8            # how far a golem looks for containers, cauldrons and furnaces
reach-distance: 2.2
search-cooldown-ticks: 40
tick-period: 10
bucket-sign-text: "[Buckets]"
lava-sign-text: "[Lava]"
smelt-sign-text: "[Smelt]"
fuel-sign-text: "[Fuel]"
output-sign-text: "[Output]"
locale: en                 # en or ru
bstats: true

Every tag text above works either as a sign or as the container's own name.

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Only golems created from the custom recipes are controlled - vanilla copper golems behave normally.