Herbalist Pots

There is currently no vanilla mechanic to create more flowers apart from generating new chunks with the worldgen as flower patches in-world do not spread. This mod allows you to slowly grow flowers in a herbalist pot and harvest them with shears when there are extra flowers grown. These pots behave very similarly to the vanilla large clay planters, but will only accept vanilla flowers. After placement, right click with a compatible flower in hand to set the pot to slowly grow more of that flower.

 

This mod was created with other mods that require a steady consumption of flowers (such as Alchemy) to provide a mechanic for creating more without needing to harvesting flowers from the world until they're depleted.

 

The pots work by rolling a chance of another flower being added to its output every 7 in-game days. The initial chance of the pot growing another flower is 50% after the first 7 days since planted (or last harvested). After that, if the chance for another flower failed at the end of those 7 days, 10% is added to the base chance for the next 7 day period (so after another week, there is a 60% chance for a flower to grow). Every subsequent 7 day period that fails to grow, another 10% will be added until you are guaranteed another flower after 5 in-game weeks.

 

Harvest grown flowers by right clicking the pot with shears. The max amount of flowers that can accumulate in the pot unharvested is 4, afterwards growing any more flowers will be halted until the pot is harvested.

 

Herbalist pots come in all vanilla clay and color varieties, and support controlling their output fired color with the beehive kiln.

 

I am open to any feedback or suggestions, this is my first attempt at releasing a mod after many months of learning the structure and experimenting with it. Please use the issue tracker to report any problems or conflicts.

 

Future goals and ideas:

1. Restricting growth conditions for pots to behave more like crops (rain, sunlight, temp requirements, etc.)
2. Supporting mushrooms or other growable plants while maintaining game balance
3. User-defined configurations for growing behavior of the pots for more customization
4. Balancing current behavior from any feedback and suggestions
5. Maintainence and support for future game versions

 

Made by BasaltSigma