Botany Pots Mod Wiki

Botany Pots is a utility mod designed to streamline farming by allowing players to grow any crop inside a specialized pot. Unlike traditional farming, which requires large plots of land, water sources, and manual replanting, Botany Pots condense the entire growth cycle into a single block.

The mod is highly compatible with other mods, supporting a wide range of plants from various agricultural expansions through a flexible datapack system. It is available in all 16 Minecraft colors, as well as the standard terracotta and glazed varieties, making it an excellent choice for both automation and decoration.

The mod adds two primary functional blocks, each available in numerous aesthetic variations.

Botany Pot

The standard Botany Pot is the foundation of the mod. It allows for the growth of a single plant. To use it, a player must place a valid soil block inside, followed by a seed or sapling. Once the plant reaches maturity, it can be harvested by right-clicking the pot. The plant will then reset to its initial growth stage, provided the soil remains.

Hopper Botany Pot

The Hopper Botany Pot is an upgraded version of the standard pot. It functions identically in terms of growth but features an integrated automation system. When a plant reaches maturity, the Hopper Botany Pot will automatically harvest the crop and attempt to deposit the items into an inventory (such as a chest or barrel) located directly beneath it. This allows for completely hands-free farming.

Aesthetic Variations

Both the standard and Hopper versions come in the following styles:

• Terracotta: The default brownish-orange look.
• Dyed Colors: All 16 Minecraft colors (White, Orange, Magenta, Light Blue, Yellow, Lime, Pink, Gray, Light Gray, Cyan, Purple, Blue, Brown, Green, Red, Black).
• Glazed: Decorative patterns corresponding to glazed terracotta colors.

The growth process in a Botany Pot is governed by three main factors: the plant, the soil, and fertilizers.

The Growth Cycle

1. Placement: Place the Botany Pot on a surface. For Hopper variants, place them on top of a chest.
2. Soil Selection: Right-click the pot with a soil item (e.g., Dirt, Sand, Soul Sand). The soil determines which plants can grow and how fast they grow.
3. Planting: Right-click the pot with a seed, spore, or sapling. The growth progress will begin, indicated by a visual model of the plant growing inside the pot.
4. Harvesting:
   • Manual: Right-click the mature plant to collect drops.
   • Automatic: The Hopper Botany Pot harvests instantly upon reaching 100% growth.

Soil Modifiers

Different soils provide different growth speed multipliers. Using higher-tier soils or specific soils required by certain plants (like Soul Sand for Nether Wart) is essential for efficiency.

Fertilizers

Fertilizers can be used to instantly increase the growth progress of a plant. Right-clicking a growing pot with a fertilizer will consume the item and add a percentage to the growth bar.

• Bone Meal: The standard fertilizer. Provides a random boost to growth progress.
• Modded Fertilizers: Many mods add custom fertilizers that are natively supported by Botany Pots for larger growth boosts.

While the mod primarily focuses on blocks, it interacts with several item categories:

• Seeds and Saplings: Any item tagged as a seed or sapling in the game's code can typically be used in a pot.
• Trowel: In some versions, a Trowel item is available to help manage soils and plants within the pots without breaking the block itself.
• Harvested Goods: The outputs are the standard items you would receive from world-based farming (e.g., Wheat, Seeds, Apple, Oak Log).

Crafting recipes are straightforward and utilize standard vanilla materials.

Botany Pot

Crafted using five pieces of Terracotta in a 'U' shape, similar to a boat or minecart.

Hopper Botany Pot

Crafted by combining a standard Botany Pot with a Hopper.

Dyeing Pots

You can change the color of a Botany Pot by surrounding a dye with eight Botany Pots in a crafting table, or by combining one pot with one dye for a single conversion.

For versions 1.18.2, 1.20.1, and 1.21.1, Botany Pots uses the Minecraft Datapack system to define recipes. This allows users and modpack creators to add support for any custom plant or soil.

Recipe JSON Structure

A typical recipe file includes:

• Type: botanypots:crop or botanypots:soil.
• Seed: The item used to start the growth.
• Categories: Tags that link the plant to specific soils (e.g., "dirt", "sand").
• GrowthTicks: The base time required for the plant to grow.
• Display: The block model shown inside the pot.
• Drops: A list of items dropped, including their chance and quantity.

Example Drop Table

Users can find the built-in datapack files within the mod JAR to use as templates for creating their own custom compatibility patches.