Garden Trails

🌱 Garden Trails

A lightweight plant-focused mod introducing a variety of new flora, the Silk Moth and its unique silk crafting process, decorative potted plants, iron pergolas with climbing plant support, and a full food and brewing system built around crops.

This vanilla-friendly mod blends naturally into Minecraft and pairs especially well with Dawn of Time and Armor of the Ages. It combines exploration and discovery through new plants, creation and craftsmanship around silk production, and a growing ecosystem of cross-mod integrations.

Full-on compatibility

• ✔️ Dawn of Time : Silk unlocks new crafting recipes for decorative blocks. The Sake Bottle becomes a drinkable item when combined with Garden Trails ingredients.
• ✔️ Armor of the Ages : Silk is required to craft several armor sets, bridging plant farming with combat progression.
• ✔️ Critters and Companions : Silk recipes for Silk Lead and Grappling Hook.
• ✔️ Let's Do Vinery : compatibility with grapes and red grapes, red grape bag recipe & red grape seeds from DoT grapes.
• ✔️ Farmer's Delight : rice compatibility and bag of rice recipe.
• ✔️ Farmland compatibility : Aether, Farmer's Delight, and Immersive Weathering.

Silk cross-recipes for Dawn of Time

Result	Ingredients
Light Gray Futon	Silk × 3 + Thatch Bamboo × 3
Small Tatami Mat	Silk × 2 + Thatch Bamboo Slab
Spruce Legless Chair	Silk × 3 + Spruce Slab × 3
White Little Flag	Silk × 2 + Stick × 2
White Cushion	Silk × 2 + Feather

Silk cross-recipes for Armor of the Ages

Result	Ingredients
Raijin Chestplate	Silk × 4 + Diamond Chestplate + Redstone Block × 2 + Gold Block
Raijin Leggings	Silk × 4 + Diamond Leggings + Red Dye × 2
Pharaoh Chestplate	Silk × 4 + Gold Chestplate + Gold Block × 2
Pharaoh Leggings	Silk × 3 + Gold Leggings + Gold Block
Japanese Light Helmet	Silk × 3 + Leather Helmet
Japanese Light Chestplate	Silk × 4 + Leather Chestplate + Leather × 3
Japanese Light Leggings	Silk × 3 + Leather Leggings + Leather × 2

These recipes are optional and can be toggled individually in the Garden Trails config.

Features

Plants

• 11 new plants (with their wild versions): Boxwood, Camellia, Commelina, Cypress, Geranium, Grapes, Ivy, Maize, Maple Sapling, Mulberry, Rice
• 8 potted plants: Camellia, Commelina, Cypress, Geranium, Grapes, Maize, Maple Sapling, Mulberry

Silk

• Find mulberries in flowery forests or taigas.
• When fully grown, a Silk Moth may spawn.
• Kill it to obtain silk eggs, then hatch them with mulberry leaves in the Drying Tray.
• Silk unlocks recipes in Garden Trails, Dawn of Time, and Armor of the Ages.

Food & Effects

Every edible plant now has a distinct identity with status effects on consumption :

Plant	Effect
Grape	Speed
Maize	Strength
Mulberry	Regeneration
Rice	High food value

Drying and fermenting your crops unlocks stronger, longer-lasting versions of these effects.

Bamboo Drying Tray & Transformation Chain

The Drying Tray is the core of the crafting progression. It transforms raw crops into refined ingredients :

Input	Output
Maize	Dried Maize
Grape	Dried Grape
Cooked Rice	Fermented Rice
Mulberry Juice	Fermented Mulberry Juice

Dried Maize and Dried Grape provide stronger and longer-lasting effects than their raw versions. Fermented Rice is the base ingredient for Sake. Fermented Mulberry Juice is used in the Mulberry Sake variant.

Sake System (requires Dawn of Time)

If Dawn of Time is installed, the Sake Bottle is no longer purely decorative. Combine it with Fermented Rice at a crafting table to unlock a drinkable Sake with a stacking mechanic, each bottle changes the effects. The rewards grow with each drink, and so do the consequences.

Three variants can be crafted using crushed ingredients :

Sake Variant	Combat Buff	Crafted With
Sake	—	Sake Bottle + Fermented Rice
Grape Sake	Speed	Sake Bottle + Crushed Grape
Maize Sake	Strength	Sake Bottle + Crushed Maize
Mulberry Sake	Regeneration	Sake Bottle + Fermented Mulberry Juice

Iron Pergola

The iron pergola handles the climbing plant feature. It supports Grapes, Ivy and Vines, place the plant at the base and let it grow.

Grapes

To harvest grapes, you have to place the fruit you can collect from wild grapes on the pergola. The fruit will grow until you can haverst it when it appears purple dots on the fruit texture, once they turn dark, you can collect the seed to plant it again.

Achievement tree

Full advancement tree with 2 branches:

• Exploration : Man vs. Wild, Master Botanist, Bon Appétit
• Crafting : The Science of Green, Where Do We Get Silk?, Two Seeds, One Pot, Serious Business, Sake-chan, Pitiless

Credit

• Development, models and textures by Poulpinou & TheGoldenWorld.
• Thank you to Knoxxturre for the Maple tree.
• ChatGPT has been used to wrap up this page in markdown.
• Retro Diffusion has been used to generate the logo of this page and Poulpinou reworked it.