Bleep

Bleep

A robot pet with an attitude: build one from a core you find deep down.

Bleep adds bleeps to Minecraft: little robots on two tracks, with a wide head that is one black display. On it they show how they feel, in pixel art. A bleep is not a worker but a pet with a character: it thinks out loud, is a little bit naughty, and never dies. It only runs out of battery.

The better you look after it, the more it likes you. A new bleep sometimes dawdles over what you ask; a best friend hardly ever does.

Build your own

• Find the core. The Bleep Core, the heart of a bleep (nobody knows what it is made of), waits in the chests of dungeons and abandoned mineshafts, and in fallen stars. Or craft one, if you can spare thirteen diamonds, or eight star shards and a block of diamond.
• Craft the rest. A Display, Tracks and Arms, from iron, redstone, black glass and dried kelp.
• Build it. Right-click the ground with the core, the other three parts in your inventory.
• Put together part by part. The tracks go down first, then its body, its arms and its head, each with a clunk and a few sparks, and then its screen comes on for the very first time.
• Missing a part? The core tells you which ones, and stays in your hand.

How it feels

• Eleven faces on a display that glows in the dark: happy, excited, sad, angry, bored, surprised, tired, asleep, stubborn, glitching and the start-up screen.
• It blinks every few seconds, each bleep at its own moment, and its arms and head move with its mood.
• A voice of its own. Cute robot chirps, a few for every mood, a little higher or lower for every bleep.

A battery and a home

• A battery instead of health. Driving and damage drain it: a zombie's hit is simply power lost. Below 20 % it looks tired and drives slower; at 0 % it switches off with a last sleepy face.
• A homebase. Craft a charging pad and place it near your bleep: it moves in. An empty bleep goes home to charge, and the Go Home button sends it there. The light on its post burns while it charges.
• A homebase battery. A homebase charges from a battery of its own, four bars on its post: fill it with redstone, a block of redstone or FE from any mod's cables. A comparator reads it, and hoppers and pipes reach the storage of the bleep parked on it.
• More ways to charge. Redstone tops it up, even when it has switched off. A power bank carries one full charge along and fills up again on a homebase. And lightning fills it at once and overcharges it: fast, glitchy and very happy for half a minute. In a thunderstorm it hopes for exactly that.
• Never really gone. Only /kill and the void remove a bleep. Break its homebase and it is homeless, and sad about it; die with your bed near the homebase, and your bleep is waiting for you there.

A bond you build

• The info screen. Right-click your bleep: its face, mood and what it is doing, its battery, your bond, its favourite item, what it is thinking, Follow, Stay (it potters about near the spot, and keeps other bleeps company) and Go Home, and a book that opens its Bleepedia.
• The bond. From New to Friend, Buddy and Best friend. Petting, treats, its favourite item, days together and fights won together raise it; hitting it, leaving it alone or breaking its home lower it.
• It learns. A Friend carries a torch that lights the way where it drives. A Buddy fights the monsters that go for you, and brings you what lies about after a fight.
• It does not always listen. It never refuses: it dawdles. A stubborn face, a turn on the spot, and then it does it anyway. In danger it always listens.

Dress it up

• Any colour. Right-click your bleep with a dye: its white shell takes the colour. White dye washes it back.
• Hats and stickers. A party hat, a top hat or an antenna with a red bow, and a star, heart or lightning sticker on its front. Shears take them off again.
• Tricks on its display. A new name scrolls across like a ticker, a bored bleep plays tic-tac-toe against itself, an arrow points the way home, and now and then it asks for a cookie.

Storage and magnet

• Its own little chest. 27 slots, as big as a small chest, behind the chest on its info screen.
• A magnet. Switch it on and it pulls in what lies about within 6 blocks. Now and then it drives over to show you something it found, very proud, and puts it back.
• A sword for a fight. Put a weapon in its storage and a Buddy fights with the one that hits hardest.
• Its name. Every bleep is called Bleep until you type a new name on its info screen. It always shows above its head.

Play and company

• A ball. Craft one and throw it: it bounces, and your bleep brings it back. Throw it at your bleep and it catches it.
• Bleeps together. They say hi, chat (you read along above your hotbar), play tag, pass the ball, squabble and fight with thunder clouds over their heads, get jealous when you pet another one, and cheer each other up.
• Friends and rivals. They remember each other: best friends chat more and sleep side by side, rivals fall out more often. All in the Bleepedia.
• Home comforts. A bed, a toy and its name on a sign by its homebase make it charge faster, and happier.
• Welcome home. Back after a while, and it races over, bouncing with joy.
• Birthdays. Every thirty days: a party hat, confetti and HAPPY BIRTHDAY across its screen. A cake makes its day.
• Llama spit gets in its circuits: its screen glitches.
• Ten bleeps per player at most. Any more and it really turns into a fight.

Play and work

• Hide and seek. It hides and you find it (a soft blip now and then gives it away), or it counts to ten and comes looking for you.
• Tricks. Spin, jump and wave from day one, dance as a Friend, play dead as a Buddy.
• Work while it stays. Set how far it goes from its spot, and switch on its jobs: farmer (harvests and replants), guard (an alarm at night), tidy up (its storage into a chest), fisher (now and then a treasure), smelter (keeps a furnace going) and gardener (a garden of flowers).

Chips and letters

• Upgrade chips. A speed chip, a shield chip (hits cost half) and a battery chip (lasts half as long again). The chip on its info screen shows which are in, and takes one out again.
• Letters. A bleep that is your Friend now and then writes you a letter from its diary, signed, and brings it over.

From the stars

• Falling stars. On a clear night, very rarely, a star falls nearby: a crater of glowing starstone, a fallen star at the bottom with star shards and, half the time, a Bleep Core.
• A mystery. Bleeps look up at the stars at night, sing together at full moon, and fill a page of their Bleepedia with signs nobody can read. Hints, never an answer.

It looks after you

• Your things, safe. When you die, your bleeps go to the spot, gather up everything you dropped and wait for you.
• Something to eat. Low on health or food, and it brings you something from its storage.
• Look out! A creeper about to go off behind you, and it sounds the alarm.

Hobbies and badges

• Hobbies. What it does most in its free time becomes its hobby, and then it does it even more: stargazing, digging, collecting, dancing, chatting or playing.
• Badges. Twenty milestones in its Bleepedia, from a kilometre driven to a falling star seen.
• Reactions. A little picture on its screen for what you do: a heart when you eat, a question mark at a chest, sweat when you fall, a tear for an animal, sparkles when you level up.

Adventures

• Cave guide. It warns you for lava and deep drops, and beeps warmer the closer you get to ore (with a pickaxe in your hand).
• Minecart fan. It hops in a minecart behind yours and follows like a little train.
• Shopping. Give it emeralds: it buys something from the nearest villager and brings you the change.
• Treasure hunt. It buries something and tells you warmer or colder while you dig, or it sniffs out what you hid.
• Dreams. At night on its homebase its screen shows what it dreams of: bits of its day.
• Show the way. Lost? It drives ahead to its homebase or your bed, leaving a glowing trail.
• Cool clothes. Sunglasses, a leather jacket, a cape, a bow tie, a scarf and a crown.
• Herder and lumberjack. It shears sheep and breeds animals, fells trees and plants new ones.
• Questions. “Are llamas dangerous?” It remembers your answer, and brings it up again.

The Bleepedia

• A book of all it has seen. The book on its info screen opens its Bleepedia: every mob it met, with its face and what it thinks of it (the rest are ???), every biome it drove through, and the special blocks it spotted.
• About me and a diary. Its age, days together, how far it drove, fights won, and a diary of what happened, in its own words.
• A ! for news. When it has seen something new since you last looked, a ! blinks on the book now and then.

Out in the world

• Abandoned bleeps. Now and then an old bleep stands somewhere, faded and switched off. A block of redstone wakes it up, and it is yours, with a bit of its past in its diary.
• Music, bedtime, digging. It dances when a record plays (a dance-off with an allay), sleeps next to your bed, and digs up bits and bobs, now and then an emerald.
• Big brother. Bleeps think iron golems are their big brothers.
• Ahoy and wheee. In the water a little boat pops up under it; on snow it rides a sled.
• A snowman. Told to stay somewhere snowy, it builds one. A carved pumpkin in its storage brings it to life.
• A museum. Place display cases near its homebase and it shows off its favourite item and best finds behind glass.
• A whistle and a tracker. Blow the whistle and your bleeps come to you; the Bleep Tracker shows where they all are, with an arrow to each.

Photos

• Click! At a nice moment it takes a photo of what you see: a sunset with you, a falling star, its best friend, a biome it has never been in.
• A Photos tab in its Bleepedia, twelve at most. Click one to see it big, and Print puts it on an empty map, for an item frame.

Character

• Its favourite thing. Every bleep is crazy about one item and drops hints about it in its thoughts. Hold it and it drives circles round you; if it finds one lying about, it gets so excited it glitches, then brings it to you anyway.
• A remark for every mob. The first time it sees a kind of mob, it drives over for a good look and thinks something dry about it. All of them, from the allay to the warden.
• Up to something. A bored bleep steals a cookie from a chest, hides next to a flower pot, or moves your torch. It never breaks anything.
• Afraid of llamas. Nobody knows why.
• A weather forecast. It feels rain and thunder coming a minute early. Thunder means lightning, and lightning means overcharged. It can hardly wait.
• Guess who. A bored bleep does an impression of a mob it met, then tells you who it was.

Help in the game

• Every part has a tooltip that says what it is for.
• Works with Jade (battery, mood and bond when you look at a bleep, and who lives in a homebase) and JEI (every recipe, and where the core is found).
• Thirteen advancements, in a Bleep tab of their own.
• A mute button on its info screen; on its homebase it is quiet anyway.
• A config for pack makers: bleeps per player, battery drain, magnet range, homebase power, cores in chests, falling stars, abandoned bleeps.
• Stand-alone: no other mod needed.

Requirements

• Minecraft 26.3 with NeoForge 26.3.0.99 or newer, or
• Minecraft 26.1.2 with NeoForge 26.1.2.109 or newer (All the Mods 11)

Each Minecraft version has its own file: pick the one for yours.

Links

• Full documentation, with every face, part and recipe: https://hookdev.io/projects/minecraft-mods/bleep/
• Bugs and ideas: https://github.com/ParadiseArchive/bleep/issues
• Source code (GPL-3.0): https://github.com/ParadiseArchive/bleep

How it is made

Bleep is designed by Hook Development: the ideas, the character and the gameplay. The code and the textures are written with Claude, an AI assistant.

Not an official Minecraft product. Not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.