Living Sponge

Living Sponge

Living Sponge adds self-spreading sponge utilities for water and lava: drain fluid spaces, trace borders, and solidify areas into usable structures.

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Main Uses

1) Drain and Clear

Use Neutral sponges when you want to remove fluid without leaving structural remains behind.

Best for:

• clearing work areas
• cutting into lakes or oceans
• cleaning fluid spaces before building

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2) Build Walls and Borders

Use Wall-Forming sponges when you want a colony to leave a border shell of Sponge Remains on old-age death.

Best for:

• outlining basins
• tracing perimeter walls
• building underwater houses

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3) Solidify and Fill

Use Solidifying sponges when you want colonies to leave Sponge Remains across the whole grown area.

Best for:

• building platforms in fluid
• filling underwater or lava-filled spaces

Result:

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Sponge Types

Every living sponge is defined by four trait slots:

• Growth Medium
  • Water
  • Lava
• Spread
  • Volume - spreads through the body of the fluid
  • Flat - spreads only across exposed flat fluid surfaces
• Output
  • Neutral - leaves nothing on old-age death
  • Wall-Forming - leaves border remains
  • Solidifying - leaves remains everywhere
• Radius
  • Standard - 8
  • Expanded - 16
  • Huge - 256

Tooltips show these traits directly.

Also, by default, the mod adds a custom sponge recipe:

• Any Wool + Kelp + Seagrass -> Sponge

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Configuration

The mod is designed to be configurable without code changes.

Current configurable areas include:

• lifecycle timings
• spread timings and cooldowns
• flat diagonal spread
• radius values
• creative sponge behavior
• wall-forming shell thickness
• custom vanilla sponge recipe toggle

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Links

• Source code: https://github.com/Goldsk1n/LivingSponge
• Report bugs / suggest features: https://github.com/Goldsk1n/LivingSponge/issues