Botania Mod Wiki

Botania is a unique "natural magic" tech mod that breaks the traditional mold of machinery. Instead of pipes, wires, and complex GUIs, Botania utilizes Mana—the life force of the earth—to power a vast array of magical flowers and devices. The mod is designed to be fully automatable using its own mechanics or vanilla Redstone, encouraging sandbox gameplay and creative engineering.

Design Philosophy

• No GUIs: Almost every interaction happens in the physical world. You drop items into pools, aim bursts with wands, and watch mana flow in real-time.
• No Pipes or Wires: Mana is transported via Mana Bursts fired from spreaders, requiring line-of-sight and careful positioning.
• No Numbers: The mod avoids showing exact values (like "100 RF/t"). Players must rely on visual cues, such as the fullness of a Mana Pool or the brightness of a spark.
• Renewability: Nearly every resource added by the mod can be automated and renewed within a self-sustaining loop.

To begin your journey into botanical magic, you must first gather the basic tools of the trade.

The Lexica Botania

The Lexica Botania is the definitive guide to the mod. It contains documentation for every block, item, and mechanic.

• Crafting: 1x Any Sapling + 1x Book.
• Usage: Right-click to open. You can also use it to visualize multiblock structures by clicking the "Visualize" button on relevant pages.

Mystical Flowers

Botania adds 16 colors of Mystical Flowers to the world. These glow faintly and emit particles. They are the primary source of Mystical Petals, which are used in almost all early-game recipes. You can use Floral Fertilizer (Bone Meal + Yellow/Red/Blue/White Dye) on grass to grow more flowers if you cannot find them naturally.

Petal Apothecary

The Petal Apothecary is the first functional block you will craft. It is used to create magical flowers.

• Crafting: 4x Cobblestone (or Slabs) + 1x Any Petal.
• Process: Fill it with water (using a bucket or a nearby source), throw in the required petals, and finish the recipe by throwing in a Wheat Seed.

Pure Daisy

The Pure Daisy is the most essential early-game flower. It does not require Mana to function. When placed, it will slowly transform adjacent blocks:

• Wood Logs → Livingwood
• Stone/Deepslate → Livingrock

Livingwood and Livingrock are the foundational materials for Mana-handling equipment.

Mana is the energy system of Botania. It is generated by Generating Flora, stored in Mana Pools, and moved by Mana Spreaders.

Mana Storage & Transport

The Wand of the Forest

Crafted with two petals and three twigs, this tool has two modes:

1. Function Mode: Allows you to rotate blocks or check Mana levels.
2. Bind Mode: Shift-right-click a Spreader, then shift-right-click a Pool (or another receiver) to link them.

Mana Lenses

Lenses can be attached to Mana Spreaders to modify the properties of the Mana Burst:

• Velocity: Increases speed but reduces range.
• Potency: Increases Mana carried per burst but slows it down.
• Resistance: Prevents Mana loss over distance.
• Messenger: Carries very little Mana but travels extremely fast (useful for Redstone signals).
• Weight: Causes blocks hit by the burst to fall like sand.

These flowers produce Mana by consuming various resources. They must be placed near a Mana Spreader to function.

Functional flowers consume Mana from a nearby Mana Pool to perform tasks in the world.

• Agricarnation: Uses Mana to speed up the growth of nearby crops and saplings.
• Bellethorn: Damages nearby living mobs (excluding players).
• Dreadthorn: Specifically targets and kills adult animals (useful for automated farms).
• Hebe Tuberose: Prevents baby animals from growing up.
• Hyacidus: Inflicts poison on nearby mobs.
• Jaded Amaranthus: Consumes Mana to grow Mystical Flowers on nearby grass.
• Hopperhock: Picks up dropped items and puts them into adjacent chests. Can be filtered using item frames.
• Rannuncarpus: Places blocks from nearby item drops onto the ground.
• Clayconia: Transforms nearby Sand into Clay balls.
• Orechid: Consumes massive amounts of Mana to transform nearby Stone into various ores (Vanilla and Modded).
• Loonium: Consumes Mana to spawn random dungeon loot as item drops.
• Bubbell: Creates a large sphere of air underwater.

Botania introduces several tiers of magical materials used for tools, armor, and advanced machinery.

Mana-Infused Materials

By tossing items into a Mana Pool, you can infuse them with magic:

• Iron Ingot → Manasteel Ingot
• Ender Pearl → Mana Pearl
• Diamond → Mana Diamond
• String → Manaweave Cloth
• Glass → Managlass

Terrasteel

Terrasteel is the highest tier of material in the base mod. It is created using the Terrestrial Agglomeration Plate multiblock.

• Recipe: 1x Manasteel Ingot + 1x Mana Pearl + 1x Mana Diamond.
• Cost: Exactly half a Mana Pool (500,000 Mana).
• Process: Place the items on the plate; Mana must be supplied via Sparks for the process to complete.

Elven Materials

Obtained via trading with the Elves through the Alfheim Portal:

• Manasteel → Elementium
• Mana Pearl → Pixie Dust
• Mana Diamond → Dragonstone
• Livingwood → Dreamwood

The Portal to Alfheim is a gateway to the elven realm. While players cannot pass through, items can be thrown in to be traded for elven equivalents.

Construction

To build the portal, you need:

• 1x Elven Gateway Core
• 8x Livingwood
• 3x Glimmering Livingwood
• 2x Mana Pools (placed near the portal)
• 2x Natura Pylons (placed on top of the Mana Pools)

Usage

Once activated with a Wand of the Forest, the portal consumes Mana to stay open. Throwing your Lexica Botania into the portal will return it with "Elven Knowledge," unlocking the second half of the mod's content.

The Gaia Guardian is the ultimate challenge in Botania. It is a powerful boss summoned through the Ritual of Gaia.

Summoning

1. Build an arena: A 12-block radius flat area with a Beacon at the center.
2. Place 4 Gaia Pylons four blocks diagonally and one block up from the beacon.
3. Shift-right-click the Beacon with a Terrasteel Ingot to summon Gaia Guardian I.
4. Shift-right-click with a Gaia Spirit Ingot to summon the much harder Gaia Guardian II.

The Fight

• Phase 1: The Guardian teleports frequently and attacks with magic missiles and "Gaia Traps" (purple ground effects).
• Phase 2 (20% HP): The Guardian becomes invulnerable and summons waves of blighted mobs (Zombies, Skeletons, Witches).
• Phase 3: The Guardian returns to the ground, attacking faster and with more intensity.

Drops

• Gaia Spirits: Used for high-tier crafting.
• Dice of Fate (Gaia II only): When right-clicked, it rolls for one of the six Relics of the Aesir. Each relic is soulbound and unique.

Relics are powerful artifacts obtained from the Dice of Fate. They cannot be crafted.

Corporea System

Corporea is a wireless, GUI-less item management system. By using Corporea Sparks on chests, you can link them into a network.

• Corporea Index: Allows you to request items by typing their name in chat.
• Corporea Funnel: Automatically pulls items from the network into a container when triggered by Redstone.

Luminizers

Luminizers are a high-speed player transport system. Players are converted into light and zip along a path of Luminizer blocks, allowing for vertical and horizontal travel through walls.

The Botanical Brewery

Used to create Brews (potions) with multiple uses. Unlike vanilla potions, brews can have up to 6 doses and can be applied as incense to provide area-of-effect buffs to all players nearby.

Garden of Glass is an optional Skyblock mode included with Botania. It changes several mechanics to make the game playable in a void world:

• Roots: Right-clicking Dirt with an empty hand has a chance to drop Living Root, which can be crafted into Oak Saplings or used as bone meal.
• Pebbles: Shift-right-clicking Dirt drops pebbles, which can be crafted into Cobblestone.
• Orechid: In this mode, the Orechid is significantly cheaper to allow for early-game resource gathering.
• Skyblock Island: Players start on a small island with a single tree and a Petal Apothecary.

Commands

• /botania-share <player>: Shares your Lexica Botania knowledge with another player.
• /botania-skyblock-island: (Garden of Glass only) Creates a new skyblock island for the player.

Configuration

Botania's behavior can be tuned in the botania-common.toml file. Key options include:

• Passive Wither: Toggle whether Hydroangeas and other passive flowers wither over time.
• Visuals: Disable specific particle effects or shaders if they cause performance issues.
• Mana Spread: Adjust the speed and loss rates of Mana Bursts.