Botanists and Minerals

🌾 Botanists and Minerals

Botanists and Minerals is an MCreator mod that adds a collection of crops capable of producing renewable mineral resources. Each crop corresponds to a specific Minecraft resource and produces a raw crop product when fully grown.

Raw crops must go through several stages of processing using custom crafting stations before they can be converted into their corresponding Minecraft resources.

⚖️ Balance Comes First

The mod includes several mechanics designed to keep Ore Crops balanced and prevent large quantities of resources from being obtained too easily.

• Seed drop rates can be configured using game rules.
• Final production costs can be customized using game rules.
• Crop Research introduces progression and delays access to higher-tier resources such as Diamond.
• Seeds for rarer resources are naturally more difficult to obtain due to the lower world generation rates of their corresponding ores.
• Harvesting a crop only returns one seed, preventing farms from being rapidly expanded without obtaining additional seeds from their original resource.
• Wandering Trader seed trades require both Emeralds and blocks of the corresponding resource, providing an alternative method of obtaining seeds while maintaining a resource cost.

⭐ Features

The mod includes several farming, progression, processing, and automation mechanics:

• Rare seeds can be obtained by mining ores or, in some cases, smelting resources.
• Crops must be researched before their seeds can be planted.
• Ore Crops can be planted on Farmland.
• Crops have light requirements for planting and growing.
• Bees carrying nectar can pollinate crops and advance their growth.
• Crops can be harvested by flowing water, allowing automated farming systems to be created.
• Raw Crops can be processed into Crop Dust.
• Crop Dust can be processed into Compacted Crop Dust.
• Compacted Crop Dust can be processed into the corresponding Minecraft resource.
• 9 Crop Dust are required to produce one Compacted Crop Dust.
• Processing can be automated using Hoppers and other redstone systems.
• Seeds for rarer resources, such as Diamond and Ancient Debris, are naturally harder to obtain due to their lower ore generation rates.
• The mod uses tags where possible to improve compatibility with other mods.

🌽 Crop Types

The mod currently includes 10 Ore Crops:

• Carbon Lily – Coal
• Irontail – Iron
• Cuprum – Copper
• Emnip – Emerald
• Lapbarb – Lapis Lazuli
• Gorn – Gold
• Redtus – Redstone
• Diamlic – Diamond
• Quash – Quartz
• Debage – Ancient Debris

⚙️ Machines

Raw crop products are processed through three crafting stations in the following order:

1. Grindstone – Available in Andesite, Diorite, Granite, and Stone variants.
2. Compactor
3. Smelter – Available in Andesite, Diorite, Granite, and Stone variants.

The complete processing chain is:

Raw Crop → Crop Dust → Compacted Crop Dust → Minecraft Resource

💪 Compacted Blocks

Compacted Blocks provide additional decorative building options. Their textures can be used for floors, walls, and other decorative structures.

🧩 Made With Vanilla MCreator

This mod was made without custom code, or plugins, strictly out of the box MCreator features.

🔗 Related Mod Pages

I kindly ask that people read the wiki before opening issue, the mod is well documented.

• Mod Wiki
• Mod Issue Tracker
• MCreator Mod Page