Minecraft offers a variety of interesting creatures, but the Allay is one of the coolest mobs you can have in your world! These small blue spirits are loyal companions and help you better organise your items. If used correctly, you’ll never lose anything again. Helper spirits are also easy to find and multiply, making them incredibly practical. They have a special relationship with music, which you can utilise to your advantage. We’ll explore all this and more in this article!
Locations: Where to Find Allays in Minecraft
You can find Allays in two places in Minecraft. Firstly, they can be found at Pillager Outposts. They are caged there, and you can set them free. If you’re not playing on “Peaceful”, watch out for the Pillagers. Secondly, Allays can also be found in the prison cells of a Woodland Mansion, though this is not always guaranteed. Be particularly cautious of the Vindicator, as they can hit hard!
Whether Allays are present or not is determined during world generation. This is bound to the seed of your Minecraft world, and you might be unlucky, as sometimes no helper spirits spawn. Each cage/cell has a 50% chance of containing 1–3 Allays.
Guide: Taming Allays in Minecraft
Once you’ve freed the Allays from their cages, they will fly around. You can bind them to you by giving them a random item. They will then follow you within a radius of 64 blocks, but can also be led with a leash. Once a helper spirit is bound to you, you can no longer attack it.
On a multiplayer server, you can also share Allays! Once you remove the item with a right-click from an empty slot, another player can bind the blue spirit to themselves.
Tips for Breeding Allays
You can now also breed Allays, but it works differently than with other animals. You’ll need a jukebox and a music disc. Additionally, you’ll need amethyst shards, which can be found in underground geodes. Your helper spirit must be nearby and dance to the music. With the shard, the Allay splits into two spirits. The cooldown for this is five minutes.
Efficient Use: Overview of Allays’ Tasks
Now you might be wondering what these blue spirits are actually good for. Allays can pick up an entire stack of the item they are bound to. If you give them a sand block, they will collect up to 64 more stone blocks within a radius of about 32 blocks. Once an Allay has picked up all nearby items, it will bring them to you and drop them at your feet.
As previously mentioned, with an empty right-click and a new item, you can bind almost any block and item to an Allay and have it automatically collected. Do note, however, that some items (e.g., ender pearls or eggs) can only stack up to 16.
Automatic Item Sorting with Allays
You can also have the helper spirits drop items at a specific location. For this, you’ll need a note block that you activate. All spirits within a radius of 16 blocks will then drop their items around the note block for 30 seconds.
If you want your items to be automatically sorted, you can set up a small system with:
- a note block
- a redstone clock made of two observers facing each other
- a water channel
- a hopper and a chest
Practical Uses for Allay Helper Spirits
Of course, we also want to give you some practical applications for using an Allay. It’s worth having about a handful of these spirits and taking them on various adventures. You can have items given to you directly or set up a small collection area.
Tree Felling: You’ll frequently cut down trees in Minecraft, and Allays are your best companions for this! They can collect the logs, as well as fallen saplings, apples, and sticks. This way, you don’t have to run back and forth waiting for the leaves to decay. Helper spirits take care of this step for you!
Combat with Monsters: While fighting monsters, they drop many useful items. Allays are incredibly practical here too. You can assign rotten flesh, bones, and gunpowder to them, and have these drops automatically collected. A major advantage is that Allays can regenerate, and a little damage doesn’t affect them much. The chance of a spirit dying in battle is therefore quite low.
Crops: If you don’t have automatic farms, helper spirits are your helping hand when manually harvesting fields. Whether it’s sugar cane, wheat, or potatoes, they can collect any items and bring them to you in the end. This makes harvesting much more pleasant, and you won’t miss anything.
Eggs and Chickens: You can place Allays on a leash next to your chicken coop. They’ll collect the eggs and give them to you when you’re nearby. Especially in the beginning, this is quite handy, as chickens are a good food source.
Campfires: The usefulness of campfires is often underestimated, and with the blue spirits, you can automate the process. Once the meat or baked potato is done cooking, it jumps off the campfire. The Allay can then pick up the item. But be sure to place a trapdoor over the campfire so your spirits don’t burn themselves.
Kelp: When you break items underwater, they float to the surface. Your Allays will be waiting there to collect excess items like kelp. An automatic farm is hardly necessary anymore! And kelp is not only tasty but also a great fuel for the furnace.
Cave Tours: Allays are also handy helpers on cave tours, collecting excess coal, iron, or even diamonds. Especially with such resources, it’s important not to leave anything behind.
Conclusion
If you’ve never used Allays in Minecraft before, now is the time! They collect all items around you and can also sort them into chests through a note block. You can certainly make use of this! Rent your own Minecraft server with us and gather as many helper spirits as possible with friends. The good thing is that everyone can make use of them, as Allays are bound directly to a player with an item but can also be switched.
