By now, many great extensions of the Minecraft gameplay exist (such as Industrialcraft, Buildcraft....) but they have one common weakness. They usually require you to amass X resources before you can make use of the advanced stuff. The process of mining down and then stripmining for raw materials has become very repetitive and boring after a while, so i decided Minions to do it for you were needed!!!
Minions can [currently]:
* follow you around
* be sent to places
* chop down entire forests
* carry you, animals and other players
* dig mineshafts complete with stairwell
* dig custom spaces you defined, above and below ground
* mine ore veins you point out to them
* intelligently strip mine where you tell them to
* return their goods and loot to you
* or to a Block with inventory (> 23 slots) you pointed out