Toby

The settler. Toby builds somewhere to come back to - smelting, farming, villagers, golems - and calls the tools for it out of thin air. He is not helpless while it grows: the pickaxe he calls up on the very first rung comes down hard at the fourth, and by the eighth he can rally everything he has built into a fight.

Starters have no tier. They have a ladder of ten upgrades, and the suit changes shape as you climb it.

Hold the suit and right-click it.

No bench, no block, no keybind. The screen lists all ten upgrades, what each costs and what it unlocks.

Most upgrades let you choose what to learn, so two players can climb the same ladder and finish with different suits.

The first rung is meant to be reachable within minutes of starting a world.

Chop wood, shear a sheep, turn the wool into Fabric. That is the whole cost.

Later rungs want Reinforced Leather and Diamond Cubes, but nothing early asks for more than the overworld gives up freely.

Given to you when you pick your starter. This rung is never crafted.

The Toolkit comes with it: open your inventory and the summoning menu is there - the same one the lanterns use, with a settler's tools behind it. Your pickaxe is its first entry, and it grows from iron to netherite as you climb. No keybind spent on it.

Cost: 12x Oak Planks, 5x Fabric

Wood and wool. Luckier chests, and the rest of the working set: shovel, axe and a Fortune hoe join the toolkit here, and climb with the pickaxe.

Cost: 8x Leather, 8x Fabric, 32x Wheat

No new power - a bigger kit. Water, torches and ladders to stay out there, and the fishing rod, shears and flint and steel that always wanted their own slot.

Tools stay out once summoned. Supplies - a bucket, a bed, a stack of cobble - come one at a time, each on its own cooldown.

Cost: 6x Iron Ingot, 10x Fabric, 1x Furnace

Hammerfall is your first real button: leap, bring the hammer down, and the ground under you is mined while everything around you is thrown off its feet. The choice beside it is what the settlement lives on - the field or the shaft.

Cost: 8x Emerald, 12x Fabric, 1x Bell

Villager Whisperer: villagers near you will have a child when you ask, for some bread. Beside it, choose a crafting table or your ender chest, wherever you are.

Cost: 4x Diamond, 8x Reinforced Leather, 1x Anvil

Excavator bores a wide passage ahead of you, and Mending repairs your tools from the experience you pick up.

Cost: 4x Emerald Block, 12x Reinforced Leather, 2x Diamond Cube

The Forge Totem is planted where you stand and keeps working while you do something else - healing you, your golems, your wolves and your villagers, and keeping the lot of you from burning.

Cost: 1x Ender Chest, 4x Diamond Cube, 1x Shield

Rally calls every golem and villager you have to where you stand, sets the golems on whatever is nearest, and keeps you standing while they are beside you. Golem Bond underneath it is what makes them worth calling: yours hit harder because they are yours.

Cost: 8x Iron Block, 6x Diamond Cube, 4x Carved Pumpkin

The Anvil Drop knocks a flying opponent out of the air. The choice beside it is how you stay upright.

Cost: 2x Netherite Ingot, 8x Diamond Cube, 16x Reinforced Leather

Take the building apart and keep the pieces, or call the guard. Demolition sets three charges where you are looking; when they go, the blocks inside drop as materials and everything standing there is thrown. Iron Muster raises several golems at once.