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The straw golem
Straw Golem is a mod for Forge and Fabric made by CommodoreThrawn that acts as a spiritual successor for the original Straw Golem mod for modern versions of Minecraft. This mod adds a helpful (and awfully cute) little golem to do some of your farming for you.
This is an incredibly small yet quality mod, adding in no crafting recipes, biomes, items, or anything of the sort. It simply adds in the unique mob, some genuinely impressive AI attached, and that’s all! This awesome new mob, the Straw Golem, will help you by automating some of your farm…to a degree. Because of how small and needy it is, don’t expect massive levels of automation.
This is probably the simplest, most intuitive part of the mod. Ever made an Iron Golem before? What about a Snow Golem? If you remember how you made them, then this should be pretty familiar. Simply place a Carved Pumpkin atop a Hay Bale, and then boom! You got yourself a lil’ Straw Golem at your side.
The fun part! Now that you have your very own Straw Golem, you can put him to work in this lovely practice we call indentured servitude. Don’t worry, he likes it. But seriously, how does this little guy work? What does he even do?
Well, the Straw Golem automatically harvests and replants crops while simultaneously delivering the harvested crops into the nearest storage container. You can specify which container it delivers the harvest to by shift-right-clicking the golem and then the container with an empty hand. Also, Straw Golem supports modded crops and containers, stem-grown blocks like Pumpkins and Melons, and more! The configuration files can also be used to whitelist or blacklist particular crops.
Unfortunately, our little golem friend is not as steadfast as his Iron brother. Straw Golems have a lifespan of 7 days, but this can be changed. The golem’s lifespan can be restored with wheat. 1 wheat = ¼ Minecraft day.
An Iron Golem holding a straw golem
Straw Golems also get hungry. Feeding my workers? Preposterous. Anyway, the golems get hungry in 2 days, but this is also configurable. If they don’t get an apple in time, they will sit and pout until you give them one. Each apple gives them another day before they’re hungry again. Lastly, for some reason, Iron Golems often get curious and will quite literally pick up the Straw Golem for inspection.