Crop Cultivation

A Minecraft Forge Mod that takes out the simple out of Crop Farming.
Currently focuses on soil management, and plant growth restrictions.

This mod modifies the growth requirements, growth chance and yield of all compatible Crops.

This mod will not add new crops. Use supported mods like Simple Farming.

Mod Support

Supported Crops

• Minecraft (exceptions: coca beans, saplings, sweet berry bush, mushroom)
• Simple Farming (exceptions: saplings/trees & bushes & grapes)
• XL Food Mod (exceptions: vanilla spice plant)

Partial Support

• HarvestCraft Crops (only the crops overlapping with SimpleFarming, the remainder falls back to generic crop stats)

Note: HarvestCraft Crops contains over 70 crops and requires time to research/guesstimate the crop characteristics. If you want full support consider helping out.

Compatible Crops

Note: not supported crops will fallback to generic behavior

• blocks extending CropsBlock
• blocks implementing IGrowable
  • should contain a Block Property for age (IntegerProperty with the identifier "age") if not crop yield will not be properly modified

Farming For Blockheads

Note: you will not be able to create their fertilized farmland variants because vanilla farmland is no longer attainable in survival.

• made Red Fertilizer a Nitrogen Fertilizer
• made Green Fertilizer a Phosphorus & Potassium Fertilizer
• added Soil Amendments to the market
• added Measuring Devices to the market

Growth Speed

Although Crop growth can be accelerated by other mods, the growth requirements still need to be fulfilled in most cases. (Mods that use the IGrowable interface to grow a crop circumvent the growth restrictions since the CropGrowthEvent is not fired).

Serene Seasons

Theoretically compatible, but not tested.

Wiki

Crop Growth & Yield

• growth requirements
  • soil moisture
  • soil macronutrients: Nitrogen (N), Phosphorus (P), Potassium (K)
  • soil pH inside tolerance
  • temperature inside tolerance
• growth chance
  • based on nutrient availability in soil which depends on soil pH
• crop yield
  • based on nutrient concentration in soil throughout its growth stages

Note:

• Unsatisfied plants will eventually starve
• Crops can be burned by over-fertilization

Soils (Farmland)

! The Mod removes the ability to create vanilla farmland from vanilla dirt with the hoe

You can craft the different "non tilled" soil variants with dirt, sand and clay. Place them in the world and use your hoe on it. You can use a shovel to convert tilled soil back to their respective dirt variant.

From left to right: Vanilla Dirt, Sandy Soil, Loamy Soil, Silty Soil and Clayey Soil

Soil Properties

• Soil Texture
• Moisture
• pH
• Nutrients: Nitrogen (N), Phosphorus (P), Potassium (K)
• Organic Matter Content
  • increases moisture capacity/retention of soil
  • increases nutrient retention of soil

Soil Moisture Level

Instead of vanilla crops requiring only moist farmland to grow well, each crop requires now the moisture level to be within a specific range to be able to grow.
There are 10 soil moisture levels, ranging from 0 to 10:
SEVERELY_DRY -> EXCESSIVELY_DRY -> ABNORMALLY_DRY -> DRY -> AVERAGE_0 -> AVERAGE_1 -> MOIST -> ABNORMALLY_MOIST -> WET -> EXCESSIVELY_WET -> STANDING_WATER

From left to right: Very Dry, Average, Moist, Wet, Standing Water

SimpleFarming Rice growing on a "flooded" field (Wet, Excessively Wet, Standing Water)

Player Interaction

• Moisture capacity can be modified
  • by placing sand/gravel/clay/stone below soil
  • adding compost to soil which adds organic matter to the soil
• Organic Matter has a chance to decay into nutrients for the soil
• Overall pH doesn't change much by itself, the player is the only big influence through the application of liming or acidifying material
• Basically macronutrients and compost are the least things that should be checked before replanting

Raised Soil Bed

Crafted by putting soil into a partially filled composter.

• the heat of the decomposing compost raises the soil temperature allowing plants to grow in colder regions
• keep the soil moist and occasionally reapply compost to keep the decomposition process going

Environmental Influences

• Rain
  • can decrease soil pH
  • can wash away nutrients if the organic matter content of soil is low

Plant Macronutrients

• Nitrogen (N)
  • high concentration in soil leads to faster crop growth
• Phosphorus (P)
  • high concentration in soil leads to better crop yield
• Potassium (K)
  • high concentration in soil leads to better crop yield

Soil Amendments

Compost

Applied to the soil to increase the organic matter content of soil.

Fertilizer

Fertilizers increase the Nutrients in the soil.

! The Mod removes the ability to use bone meal on compatible crops

Note: Apply Fertilizers to the soil instead of the crop.

• Bone Meal
• Industrial Fertilizer
• Granite Dust
• Feather Meal
• Seaweed Meal
• Fish Meal
• Soybean Meal optional (requires simplefarming or harvestcraft)

Liming Material

Increases the Soil pH.

• Lime Dust
  • uncommon side product from cutting Rocks with the Stonecutter
• Wood Ash
  • process charcoal into dust with the mortar and pestle (unrealistic)
    (make wood ash a waste product of burning/smelting wood logs in a furnace?)

Acidifying Material

Decreases the Soil pH.

• Blaze Powder
• Gunpowder
• Sulphur from simplysalty mod

Datapack

data/cropcultivation/...

Item Tags

• n_fertilizer
  • contains already optional entry for farmingforblockheads:red_fertilizer
• p_fertilizer
  • contains already optional entry for farmingforblockheads:green_fertilizer
• k_fertilizer
  • contains already optional entry for farmingforblockheads:green_fertilizer
• acidifying_material
  • contains already optional entry for simplysalty:sulphur
• liming_material
• compost
  • contains already optional entry for cannycomposter:compost

Block Tags

• default_growth: crops/plants added to this tag will be excluded from the modified growth behavior, this does not prevent the consumption of nutrients!