Minions Mod 1.8, 1.7.10, 1.7.2 can:

• Follow you around.
• Be sent to places.
• Chop down entire forests.
• Carry you, animals and other players.
• Dig mineshafts complete with stairwell.
• Dig custom spaces you defined, above and below ground.
• Mine ore veins you point out to them.
• Intelligently strip mine where you tell them to.
• Return their goods and loot to you.
• Or to a Block with inventory (> 23 slots) you pointed out.