Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-25101089-20160714011933/@comment-26453572-20160714015004

Please don't let them be free, my Orcs and men need food if they're going to fight in the war. They should stay as slaves.

In all seriousness, I would imagine the only way to do this is to kill their master. From what I can tell, that isn't possible to portray in Minecraft. Although I'm not much of a coder, I can't imagine that any realistic way is actually possible in Minecraft without slave rebellions (and the ability to incite such rebellions). I'm not exactly suggesting slave rebellions, a d the only reason I bring them up is because I know they're on the planned features list, but that's the only way I can imagine it happening.

If it is possible, turning them into hired farmhands might not be a good idea-they'd basically be moving from one slave farm job to another, and I doubt that a newly freed slave would willingly do more farm work for a new "master".