Village Core
The controller block at the heart of an alien village — claim it, stock it, and teach the village to build itself.
Overview
The Village Core is the hub of the alien-village system: it stores the owner, a construction stockpile, the build queue, passive production, and the current quest. It appears in generated structures and can be placed by hand.
Obtaining
- Found at the centre of every hamlet, ruin and mega-city.
- Available in the Nerospace creative tab.
Claiming & growing a village
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Claim — right-click an unclaimed core to become its owner.
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Stock it — right-click with Block of Nerosteel to fill the construction store.
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Teach the next building — right-click as the owner. If the nearby villagers
trust you enough and the store has the materials, the core commits the cost and starts building.
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Watch it rise — the building is placed block-by-block over real time with particles.
Right-click again to read the % progress.
The core reads your standing as the highest reputation tier among nearby villagers, so trading with the locals is what unlocks teaching.
Build catalogue
| Building | Requires | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Hut | trust tier 2 | 32 Nerosteel |
| Workshop | trust tier 3 | 48 Nerosteel |
Buildings are taught in order as the village grows.
Functional village
Once buildings exist, the core becomes a small engine:
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Production — completed buildings periodically yield goods (Hut → bread, Workshop → nerosteel).
Sneak-right-click the core to collect the output and read the current task.
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Quests — the village posts a fetch task (e.g. bring 8 Xertz Quartz). Right-click the core with
the requested item to hand it in for emeralds + a village-wide trust bump; a new task rolls.
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Raids — at night, claimed villages near a player are occasionally raided by hostile mobs.
Toggle with
alienRaidsEnabled(see Configuration).
Interactions at a glance
| Input | Result |
|---|---|
| Right-click (empty hand, unclaimed) | Claim the village |
| Right-click with Block of Nerosteel | Deposit into the construction store |
| Right-click (owner, empty hand) | Teach/raise the next building, or read progress |
| Sneak-right-click | Collect production + read the current quest |
| Right-click with the quest item | Hand in the quest for emeralds + trust |
Details
- ID:
nerospace:village_core· tool pickaxe · drops itself - Saves the owner (as a player id only), stockpile, built count, the active build job, production buffers,
and the current quest. The owner's name is never saved: chat shows it while that player is online and says
"another player" otherwise. Cores from earlier versions keep their owner and drop the old saved name the
next time their chunk saves. A
/neroland data erasemerequest un-claims that player's cores.