Factories

Factories replaces all vanilla villager trades on FortressMC. Instead of normal villager recipes, you invest in a villager to lock it to a production category, then use it to bulk-craft items.

Requires: Player Essence for many trades

Wandering traders keep their sell trades (emeralds → items) but purchase trades are removed to prevent emerald farming.

How factories work

1. Find an unspecialized villager. It shows ~22 investment trades labeled with enchanted paper.
2. Pay the investment cost. You receive no item. The villager permanently locks to that factory category.
3. The villager now shows production trades for that category only.
4. Most production trades require an empty shulker box plus materials. You get the same shulker back filled with 27 identical items.
5. Some trades (mount armor, bells) output the item directly without a shulker.
6. Trades costing essence require a physical Player Essence item in the trade window.

Hero of the Village and villager reputation do not affect factory costs. Specialization is saved on the villager and survives restarts.

Investment costs

Category	Cost
Iron Tool Smith	64 iron ingots
Iron Weapon Smith	64 iron ingots
Iron Armor Smith	10 iron blocks
Iron Mount Armor Smith	14 iron blocks + 16 essence
Gold Tool Smith	64 gold ingots
Gold Weapon Smith	64 gold ingots
Gold Armor Smith	10 gold blocks
Gold Mount Armor Smith	14 gold blocks + 16 essence
Diamond Axe Smith	64 diamonds + 2 essence
Diamond Hoe Smith	32 diamonds + 1 essence
Diamond Pickaxe Smith	10 diamond blocks + 3 essence
Diamond Shovel Smith	48 diamonds + 1 essence
Diamond Sword Smith	8 diamond blocks + 3 essence
Diamond Spear Smith	48 diamonds + 2 essence
Diamond Helmet Smith	21 diamond blocks + 3 essence
Diamond Chestplate Smith	35 diamond blocks + 10 essence
Diamond Leggings Smith	28 diamond blocks + 8 essence
Diamond Boots Smith	17 diamond blocks + 5 essence
Diamond Mount Armor Smith	14 diamond blocks + 16 essence
Elytra Factory	64 phantom membrane + 64 essence
Heart of the Sea Factory	64 prismarine + 16 essence
Experience Factory	64 XP bottles + 12 essence

Production examples

Iron (×27 per shulker trade)

Item	Material cost
Iron pickaxe	27 iron + shulker
Iron sword	18 iron + shulker
Iron chestplate	8 iron blocks + shulker

Gold tools (×27, all Unb III + Eff V, random ST or Fortune III per item)

Item	Material cost
Gold pickaxe	27 gold + shulker
Gold sword	18 gold + shulker (Unb III, Sharp V, KB II, Loot III, Fire Aspect II)

Gold armor (×27, all Unb III + Prot IV + Thorns III)

Item	Extra enchants	Material cost
Gold helmet	Aqua Affinity, Resp III	45 gold + shulker
Gold leggings	Swift Sneak III	63 gold + shulker
Gold boots	Depth Strider III, Feather Falling IV	36 gold + shulker

Diamond (×27 per shulker, no enchants)

Item	Material cost
Diamond pickaxe	27 diamonds + shulker
Diamond chestplate	8 diamond blocks + shulker
Diamond sword	18 diamonds + shulker

Direct trades (no shulker)

Item	Cost
Iron horse armor	8 iron + 1 essence
Bell	8 gold + 1 essence
Diamond horse armor	8 diamonds + 1 essence

Experience Factory

Separate cauldron-based precursor chain (suspicious stew tiers I through X) leading to emerald blocks. Investment: 64 XP bottles + 12 essence. Ties into the Experience XP economy.