Faction Mooks

One of the most speculative pieces of content for Eradication is the prospective inclusion of NPC Faction Mooks. Members of a faction with substantial military clout would be able to use a handheld battle standard item to spawn disposable soldiers to swell the ranks of their faction and provide assistance. Basic mooks would be free, while more advanced versions could be available with the expenditure of resources.

Ideally, each faction would have its own unique, themed battle standard and customized mook uniforms. Furthermore, the mooks of each faction would have a special ability exclusive solely to that faction. Mooks would be the loyal to the player who spawned them. They would attack anything that their spawner attacks, or anything that attacks their spawner.

The chief obstacle in the addition of the mook is obvious: the addition of this feature would be deeply mod-intensive, and the mods in question would probably have to be proprietary, made specifically for Eradication. Modding in Minecraft at the moment is both difficult and labor-intensive, requiring constant vigilance to keep one's mods up to date. If the eventual release of the Modding API makes modding substantially easier and/or more stable, the mooks might be that much closer to becoming a reality.