Mercenary
Mercenary is a simple mod that allows you to press a keybind (by default #) whilst near villagers to get a quest for your team
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 mobs in a small radius, remaining mobs will be lit up with the glowing effect if they still exist
once you return to a village after completing the quest, you can claim your prize which will be 1-64 emeralds
as of 1.1.0 you can also remove quests that you cannot/don't want to do with right square bracket
you can also press left square bracket to "count" your emeralds for your team, in this case the emeralds in your main hand are removed from you, but it is added to a scoreboard (using the vanilla scoreboard system) - now you can be in competition with other people!
if you don't like keybinds, or have too many, you can also /mercenary quest|count|remove
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.20.1, 1.20.2, 1.20.3
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as mercenary-1.1.2.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 47 KB
- Download link checked 1 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.