Phone Economy
# 📱 Phone Economy
**A full economy simulator built around one item — your phone.**
Craft a Cell Phone, and it opens a real smartphone-style UI right inside Minecraft:
a home screen, installable apps, notifications, the works. Everything below runs on
custom Script API UI — no resource pack hacks, no fake GUIs, an actual interactive menu
system.
## ✨ Features
**🏦 Bank** — A wallet + bank balance per player. Deposit, withdraw, or use the ATM to
get physical Cash Note items you can carry and trade by hand.
**💜 Instant Money Transfers** — Pick any online player and send them money straight
from your phone, PIN-protected with a confirmation step.
**💳 Debit Card** — Craft one, then either use it like the phone for a quick-pay
screen, or literally interact with another player while holding it to "swipe" a
payment straight to them.
**🛒 Shop — 350+ Items, Any Quantity** — Browse a huge categorized catalog (ores,
building blocks, every wood type, food, farming, redstone, tools, weapons, armor, mob
drops, and more) and buy or sell *any amount you type in* — not locked to fixed
buttons.
**💼 Jobs With Their Own Apps** — Pick Miner, Farmer, Lumberjack, or Builder, and a
dedicated app for that job installs on your home screen. Miner/Farmer/Lumberjack pay
you automatically the instant you break the right block. Builder is different: build
something, then submit it for review — the system scans the structure around you
(size, material variety, decoration) and pays you accordingly. (Being upfront: this is
a heuristic block-scan, not a real photo or AI judgment — Minecraft's scripting engine
has no camera or network access, so that's a hard platform limit, not a corner I cut.)
**🏪 Profession-Based Villager Trading** — Villagers now trade your phone's currency
instead of emeralds, and the goods on offer depend on their actual profession: a Farmer
sells crops, a Librarian sells books, an Armorer sells armor, and so on across 13
professions, with a sensible general store as a fallback.
**💬 Messages** — A built-in async chat app. Send a player a message even if they're
offline; they'll see it next time they check their phone.
**📲 App Store** — Your phone starts with just the basics. "Download" Bank, PhonePe,
Shop, and Jobs onto your home screen like installing real apps.
**🤖 Auto-Detects Items From Other Add-ons** — Run this alongside another add-on (a
guns mod, a food mod, anything) and the Shop automatically picks up its items and
prices them by keyword-matching the item's name — a "rifle" prices like a firearm, a
"burger" prices like food, etc. It's a smart guess, not a perfect one, so anything that
guesses wrong is fully editable.
**🔧 Admin Tools** — Tag yourself `admin` to unlock a shop price editor, so you can
rebalance any item — including anything auto-added from other add-ons — without
touching a single file.
**⚒️ Real Crafting Recipes** — Both the Cell Phone and Debit Card are now actually
craftable, not just `/give`-only.
## 🚀 Getting Started
1. Install the add-on (Behavior Pack **and** Resource Pack — both are required).
2. Craft a Cell Phone: Iron Ingot / Glass Pane / Iron Ingot, Iron Ingot / Redstone /
Iron Ingot, blank / Gold Ingot / blank.
(Or `/give @s eco:cell_phone` with cheats on.)
3. Use the phone (or type `.phone` in chat) and set up your account — you start with
$100.
4. Open the **App Store** to install Bank, PhonePe, Shop, and Jobs.
5. `/tag @s add admin` to unlock the shop price editor.
## 💬 Chat Commands
`.phone` — open the UI directly · `.myjob` — check your job & wallet · `.testpay` —
test the payout system · `.phonehelp` — list all commands
## ⚠️ Good to Know
- Requires Minecraft Bedrock 1.26 or newer (uses the modern Script API).
- All currency is fictional and stays entirely inside your world — no real accounts,
no real payments, fully offline.
- PIN storage and job payout rates are tuned for a fun survival add-on, not meant as
real banking-grade security — see the full README in the download for details and
every tunable number if you want to rebalance the economy yourself.
