Interactive minions

[Kirika-]

Wait the magic bucket gives you a movement speed bonus? I never knew that, time to level fisher

Only for the Lord of Verminion mini-game.
No minion has a buff/effect on you or your party at all outside of the mini-game.
All actions made by a minion are solely visual and only observed independently by the observer in most cases (as in what your minion is doing on your screen may not be what it is doing on another player's screen)
Some minions will interact with other minions, of the notable ones are Moogle type minions who will start synchronized dancing with other nearby Moogle type minions.

[Eric_Riot]

'Special actions' are their abilities for Lord of Verminion only (the Gamerescape page you linked to outright states that), minions have no effect on player characters in the field or battle ('party members' in that case refer to the other minions in your 'party' in LoV, not a player character party in say a dungeon), and are just there for fun.

Aww man.. I totally read that wrong *ug*. Thanks

[ItMe]

Oh, also, fun fact: using the mammeteer title will make Mammet / wind-up minions respond to commands like living ones (for example, you should be able to feed them).

[Ilenya]

For what it's worth, my favorite interaction, that I still can't believe they did, is the fact the Wind-Up Exdeath and the Ghido minion fight each other. It's a wonderful call-back to FFV and one I didn't think they'd take the time to do. Little things are the best.