Brik
On your first night, a small light finds you in the dark. That's Brik, the spirit of an ancient barbarian warrior. He follows you, warns you of danger, and takes back his body one form at a time as your gear improves. Start with a wisp; finish with a barbarian at your side.
Brik of the Broken Pass was a warrior of an age now buried under stone and dirt. When the night-horde came for his village, he held the mountain pass alone until sunrise so his battle brother Orrin and the others could escape. The horde broke, and so did Brik. His body shattered, but his oath did not: wherever you stand, I stand beside you.
For ages his spirit drifted as a small light, unable to hold a shape. Spirits can't forge their own bodies. They can only be reforged from metal shaped by a battle brother's hands. On your first night, that light stops beside you. It has chosen you.
Danger Sense calls out hostile mobs nearby, points an arrow on your screen at each one, and shouts when a creeper's fuse is lit.
From iron on he swings an axe, pulls mobs off you, blocks hits aimed at you, and keeps your items safe if you die.
Press B and type. With an AI key he holds real conversations; with no key he still follows orders and speaks in pre-written lines.
A night on the plains with Brik in his Barbarian form.
Caving with Ore Sense: he points out what's hidden in the stone.
Each form is more solid than the last and adds new abilities. He keeps every ability from his earlier forms, and a form is permanent: changing your gear never takes it away.
Install Fabric Loader 0.19.5 or newer for Minecraft Java 26.3, and make sure your launcher uses Java 25.
Put brik-0.1.7.jar and Fabric API in your mods folder. GeckoLib, which animates Brik, is already inside the jar.
Start a world and wait for dark. Brik finds you on your first night. Press B to talk and J for his menu.
You don't need a new one. Brik finds each player at the next nightfall (straight away in the Nether or the End). Everyone starts at Wisp, but the gear you already have counts at once: a player in diamond qualifies for each early form immediately, and their bar fills twice as fast. Each form still needs its attunement and offering. A dragon you killed before Brik arrived doesn't count toward Legend; respawn it with four End Crystals on the exit portal and fight it again with him.
Install Brik on the server and on every player's game. Each player gets their own Brik, with their own progress. His conversation uses the server's AI key; his voice uses each player's own settings. How keys work on a server.
| Do this | What happens |
|---|---|
| Press B | Opens the talk box. Type anything: questions, orders, or just conversation. While he rests, B calls him back. |
| Press J | Opens Brik's menu: his form, strength, your gear score, and progress to the next form. Also has the Ore Sense switch, the Rest button, and what he calls you. |
| Crouch + right-click Brik | With an empty hand, opens his menu. Holding an item, gives it to him: offerings, rekindling metal, and Totems of Undying. |
| Watch the chat | Everything he says appears in chat. Short warnings fade quickly; long lines stay up until you've had time to read them. |
| Check the bar by your hotbar | Shows his health, his strength, and progress to his next form. |
Just say what you want ("stay here and watch the door") and Brik works it out. Both keys can be changed in Controls.
| Order | What Brik does |
|---|---|
| Follow | Stays close and keeps up with you. This is his default. |
| Stay / Guard | Holds a spot and defends it until you call him back. |
| Scout | Ranges ahead and reports what he finds. |
| Fight / Hold back / Stay out of it | Sets how eager he is to fight: aggressive, defensive, or passive. |
| Come here | Returns to your side right away. |
| Rest / Take a break | Fades out to rest while you build. Press B or talk to him to call him back. While he rests he does nothing: no warnings, no fighting, no Ore Sense, no Keeper. |
What he calls you. Brik calls you brother until you tell him otherwise. He can call you sister or shieldmate instead: just tell him ("call me sister"), click the button beside Rest in his menu, or type /brik callme brother, sister or shieldmate. Each player picks their own.
1. Wear the gear. Brik looks at six things: your helmet, chestplate, leggings and boots, plus the best weapon and best pickaxe in your hotbar. All six should be the next tier's material, but one can be a tier lower (two for netherite). Gold and chainmail count as copper; a turtle shell counts as iron.
2. Attune. Once you qualify, the attunement bar fills as you play, and faster when you fight alongside him. Expect 30 to 60 minutes for the first tier. Progress never resets: take the gear off and the bar just pauses.
3. Make the offering. When the bar is full, crouch and right-click him holding the tier's offering: a Block of Copper, Iron or Diamond, or a Netherite Ingot.
Legend isn't earned with gear or attunement. It takes two boss fights, in either order:
His form is permanent, but how hard he hits depends on what you're wearing right now. Strength runs from 60% to 100%: it rises within a minute when your gear gets better, falls slowly over about two in-game days when it gets worse, and never drops below 60%.
He remembers missing gear for 10 minutes, so none of these hurt him:
When his health hits zero he fractures back into a Wisp. He can't fight for a while, but he still warns you and lights the way, mobs ignore him, and he keeps his form. Bring him back any of three ways:
Give him a Totem of Undying and he'll carry it: the next time he would fracture, the totem breaks instead.
When you die, Brik stays where you fell and shines as a beacon you can see from far away. Once you're back on your feet, he guides you there and watches your back on the way. He tells you the coordinates, and the line above his status bar shows how far, how far up or down, and exactly where.
From the Ascendant on, Keeper gathers everything you dropped and holds it until you get back, so nothing despawns. You don't need the exact block: within a few blocks of the spot, even on a ledge above it, he hands it all back. Die again on the way and it all waits at the newest spot; if your pockets are full, he holds the rest until you make room.
Each world has one setting for how much a fall costs him. Type /brik difficulty to see it; an operator can change it with /brik difficulty forgiving, standard or brutal.
| Setting | Wait to reform | Can Brik lose a form? |
|---|---|---|
| Forgiving | 1 minute | Never. |
| Standard (default) | 5 minutes | Never. |
| Brutal (default in Hardcore) | 5 minutes | Yes. Every fracture loses his highest form; winning it back only needs half the attunement. A Totem still saves him. |
Brik is fully playable with no keys at all: he follows, warns, fights and grows exactly the same. Keys add real conversation and a spoken voice, and you can mix them. ElevenLabs works with either brain.
| Setup | How he talks | His voice | Keys |
|---|---|---|---|
| No keys at all | Pre-written lines; understands simple orders | System: your computer's built-in speech. Free and offline, a bit robotic | None |
| Claude + ElevenLabs (best) | Full conversation | ElevenLabs: the most characterful voice | Anthropic + ElevenLabs |
| Claude + System | Full conversation | System: free, no extra key | Anthropic |
| OpenAI for both | Full conversation | OpenAI: the same key does both jobs | One OpenAI key |
Everything lives in config/brik.json, created the first time you launch with the mod. The file explains each setting:
aiProvider: claude or openai, with claudeApiKey or openAiApiKey.voiceProvider: off, system, elevenlabs or openai, with voiceApiKey for ElevenLabs.systemVoice: which built-in voice to use. On a Mac, Ralph suits a gruff barbarian.After editing it in game, run /brik reload (talk) or /brikvoice reload (voice).
The AI service gets what you say and a short summary of the game around you. A voice service gets the lines he speaks. The system voice never leaves your computer. Spoken lines are cached, so repeated warnings only cost once.
Volume is the Voice/Speech slider in Minecraft's Music & Sounds settings.
His conversation runs on the server. The AI key in the server's config/brik.json is used for every player on it, and its request limits (400 a day and 8 a minute by default, set by dailyRequestLimit and requestsPerMinute) are shared by everyone. Players' own AI keys aren't used there, and the server's AI service receives what players say to Brik.
His voice is made on each player's own computer, from their own config/brik.json. Each player picks their own voice and key, or the free system voice. In singleplayer, both come from your own file.
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
/brik rest · /brik call | Send Brik to rest, or call him back. |
/brik callme | What Brik calls you: brother, sister or shieldmate. |
/brik oresense on|off | Switch Ore Sense. With no value it flips it. |
/brik difficulty | Show this world's setting, or change it (operators). |
/brik ai | Whether he's using an AI, and how many requests he's made today. |
/brik reload · /brikvoice reload | Re-read config/brik.json for his AI or his voice. |
/brikvoice | Which voice he's using, and how many lines he's voiced. |
Brik 0.1.7 for Minecraft Java 26.3 on Fabric. Free to play, no key needed.