OreGanics: Bio-Flasks

Grow your own ores in glass lab flasks. Put soil in a Bio-Flask, plant a resource spore and watch a tiny speck swell into a chunk of iron, a cluster of diamonds or a little oak tree. Right-click to harvest, then smelt the clump in an ordinary furnace.

Coal in a Basic Flask, iron in a Thermal Flask above magma, diamonds in a Crystal Flask on crying obsidian.

The Basic Flask works anywhere and grows coal, copper, flint, wood, string, slime and bone. The Thermal Flask stands on an iron ring above a heat source (a campfire, magma, lava, fire or a lit furnace) and adds iron, gold, redstone, lapis, quartz, gunpowder, amethyst, glowstone and blaze rods. The two-block Crystal Flask needs crying obsidian below and grows diamonds, emeralds, ender pearls and, very slowly, netherite.

A spore is a small piece of the resource plus a seed or a slimeball. One iron nugget becomes one Bio-Iron Clump, and that clump smelts into a whole ingot. Every culture has a favourite soil (gold likes red sand, flint likes gravel, netherite likes soul soil) and grows 25% faster in it. You can watch each one grow through six stages.

Seven cultures come from mobs, the Nether and the End: slime and bone in the Basic Flask, gunpowder, amethyst, glowstone and blaze rods in the Thermal Flask, and ender pearls in the Crystal Flask. Glowstone and blaze grow best in netherrack or nylium, ender pearls in end stone, and each one grows in its own shape: a wobbly gel cube, a sheaf of glowing rods, a dark round pearl.

• Growth Module: +50% growth speed, fits every flask.
• Yield Module: a 50% chance of an extra clump, fits every flask.
• Replication Module: a 25% chance that a harvest keeps its spore, fits every flask.
• Lava Module: heats a Thermal Flask from inside.
• Resonance Module: frees a Crystal Flask from crying obsidian.

Bone meal, by hand or from a dispenser, moves a growing culture in a Basic or Thermal Flask a step forward. A redstone signal pauses a flask until it ends. Up to 16 spores wait in a flask and start one after another. Hoppers feed soil and spores and pull out the harvest, comparators read the growth stage, and pipes from other mods can reach the flask's slots. A small furnace-style screen shows progress, speed and anything that is missing.

1. Install NeoForge for your Minecraft version and drop the OreGanics jar into mods. The same file works on every supported version.
2. Craft a Basic Flask: a clay ball, two glass and three planks.
3. Right-click it with dirt, then with a Coal Spore (coal and wheat seeds). The recipe book shows every recipe once you hold a flask.

Every item has a tooltip in English and Russian, and the whole mod lives in its own creative tab.

• One jar for Minecraft 1.21.1, 1.21.3, 1.21.4, 1.21.5, 1.21.8, 1.21.10, 1.21.11, 26.1.2, 26.2 and 26.3.
• Needed on both client and server; no other mods are required.
• How each culture grows is a recipe of the game, so recipe viewers that read recipes by themselves, such as Kinda Enough Items, show it in a Bio-Flask tab: spore, favourite soil, flask and time.
• Growth times, the global speed, the bone meal step and the heat and resonance rules are adjustable in the server config.

Screenshots are real in-game captures of OreGanics 1.1.0 on Minecraft 26.3.

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All the creative work and in-game testing are done by the mod's creator. AI is just a handy tool working in the background to help generate code and support the project.