Golem Care
Reading a golem's status, managing oxidation, calling workers to heel, trusting friends, and the little flower — the upkeep side of the copper folk.
Copper folk are sturdy hires, but they still weather, wander out of sight, and answer to whoever first put them to work. This page covers the upkeep side: reading a golem, keeping the patina in check, calling workers back, and deciding who may boss them around.
Checking on a golem
Right-click a golem with an empty hand and the action bar shows its readout: job │ status │ oxidation. Status comes in plain words — hauling, tidying up, tending crops, idle, needs a route, drop-off full, or stuck - can't reach (that last one appears after about three failed tries to path somewhere, so go look for the missing bridge). The FAQ decodes every status, and Routes & Filters explains how to repair a broken route.
A working golem wears a floating copper nameplate — ✦ Courier — instead of holding a tool. Rename it with an ordinary 
name tag and the name folds in: "Clank · ✦ Courier". The nameplate is the uniform; golems never carry a visible job tool.
Oxidation
Golems weather like any copper: unaffected, then exposed, then weathered, then oxidised. On Sunday Market they work at full speed at every stage — a green golem hauls just as briskly as a shiny one. The only stage that matters is the last: a fully oxidised golem freezes into a statue, per vanilla, and Work Orders makes frozen golems glow so a worker that seized up behind the wheat field is easy to find and revive.
Two tools keep the patina in check:
Wax. Right-click one of your own golems with a honeycomb to stop its oxidation for good.
Scrape. An axe removes oxidation one stage at a time, same as any copper block.
Wax a golem the day you hire it and oxidation never crosses your mind again.
Calling workers back
Heel, for one golem
SneakRight-click a golem with an empty hand to toggle follow mode. It trails you, stopping about 3 blocks away; leave it more than about 18 blocks behind and it quietly slips to a spot behind you and walks the rest. Following pauses its job, so sneak-click again to send it back to work.
The whistle, for all of them
Hold a 
copper ingot, sneak, and right-click the air. Every golem you own within 48 blocks glows for a few seconds and comes to heel — they walk straight to you. Whistle again and they all return to their jobs. Good for headcounts, moving day, and clearing the floor before you rebuild the sorting hall.
Ownership and trust
The first player to give a golem a job owns it. Only the owner and trusted players can re-task or manage it; staff bypass ownership.
To trust a friend, hold that player's head and right-click the golem. The same gesture removes the trust again.
When a golem dies
Whatever it was carrying drops on the ground where it fell. Work Orders never duplicates or voids items, so a fallen courier's cargo is on the floor waiting for you, not gone.
The flower
After finishing a big batch of work, a golem sometimes brings its owner a flower. No buff attached. It is a gift; take the flower. (The little greetings and idle flourishes when you walk past are the same — pure charm, no mechanics.)
Vanilla habits that still work
Working golems are still vanilla mobs, so the familiar tools behave:
| Item | On a working golem |
|---|---|
| Name tag | Names it; the name folds into the ✦ job nameplate |
 Lead | Works as usual — a leashed golem pauses its job |
| Honeycomb | Waxes it; oxidation stops for good |
| Axe | Scrapes off one oxidation stage |
A golem riding in a boat or minecart also pauses its work until you let it out.
See also
- Routes & Filters — binding containers and editing what a golem may carry
- FAQ — the status glossary and why-did-it-stop checklist
- Work Orders overview — the six jobs and the shared recipe
Work Orders
Hand a copper golem a Work Order and it picks up a job — hauling, smelting, restocking, sweeping, sorting, or farming. They walk real routes and never play the game for you.
Routes & Filters
The 30-second bind window, what each job wants tapped, the 48-block rule, fixing lost routes, and the seven-slot filter editor — with the one sneaky trap to avoid.