Getting Started

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Your first hour with Hempdustry, from the first seed to the first hit, and then a map of where the mod goes after that. If the mod is not installed yet, start with Installation.

The short version: find hemp seeds → plant them on farmland → shear the plant twice while it grows → break it when it is ripe → put a bud over a sheet of paper in a crafting grid → hold the Spliff and right-click.

On this page: Part 1: Your first hour · Don't want the drugs? · Part 2: Where to go next · Early game · Mid game · Late game

Part 1: Your first hour

1. Find seeds

Three ways, quickest first:

• Find a wild plant. Wild Purple Kush grows in plains, jungles, swamps and lush caves; Wild Lemon Haze in savannas, sunflower plains and badlands. Break one and it drops a few seeds. (Shear it instead and you take the whole plant home for a flower pot.) Wild Beldía grows already ripe along desert rivers and shores.
• Open chests. Dungeons, mineshafts, woodland mansions, pillager outposts and shipwreck supply chests hold one to three hemp seeds about one time in three. Plains and taiga village houses have a few, rarely.
• Break tall grass. The two-block-tall grass and large ferns drop a hemp seed one time in a hundred (not with shears). Slow, but it is how most players stumble into the mod.

Beldía is the odd one out: its seeds never come from grass. Look in desert temple chests, desert village houses, or brush the suspicious sand of desert wells and pyramids. More on all of this: Finding Hemp.

Your first hemp seed also opens the Hempdustry tab in your advancements. It is the mod's guide, so glance at it when you wonder what to do next (Advancements).

2. Plant it

Purple Kush Seeds and Lemon Haze Seeds plant like wheat: till dirt near water with a hoe and plant on the farmland.

• Give it light and headroom. Like any crop it grows at light level 9 or more. Purple Kush grows two blocks tall and Lemon Haze three, so leave that much air above it. A plant with no room stops at the height it can fit and carries on once you clear the space.
• It takes about as long as wheat. Lemon Haze takes about a third longer than Purple Kush. Bone meal works.
• Beldía Seeds go on sand, never farmland, with water within four blocks (the same reach farmland has). Take the water away and the plant stops growing, but it never dies.

Any strain also grows in a Grow Pot or a Hydro Tray (Indoor Growing), but those come later.

3. Trim it twice

Optional, and worth it. Hold Shears and right-click the growing plant in each of its two windows:

Window	What the plant looks like
First trim	bushy, but still one block tall (its last stage before it shoots up)
Second trim	after it has shot up to two blocks, before it is ripe

Each cut hands you a Hemp Leaf on the spot and shifts that plant's harvest away from leaves and towards buds. Too early, and the action bar says Too young to trim. Skip trimming entirely and the plant still ripens; it just finishes leaf-heavy. The details are on Growing Hemp.

4. Harvest it

A plant is ripe when it has finished growing and faint wisps drift off it. Break it (any part of it will do) and it drops buds, Hemp Leaves, Hemp Stems and seeds to plant again. Break one before it is ripe and you only get the seed back.

Tip: before you break a ripe plant, shear it once more. It always gives a leaf, and one time in four a pinch of Charas, the start of the hash game.

5. Roll a spliff

A bud over a sheet of Paper in a crafting grid:

B
P

B = buds · P = Paper → Spliff

No paper? Your harvest is the answer: a Hemp Stem in the grid makes four Hemp Fiber, and three Hemp Fiber in a row make two Paper. Two buds over two sheets roll a stronger spliff, three over three stronger still (see step 7 before you try that).

6. Take a hit

Hold the spliff and right-click. It burns up in one hit, and what it does depends on the strain:

Strain	The good part	The price
Purple Kush	Resistance	Mining Fatigue, Hunger
Lemon Haze	Speed, Haste	Weakness, Hunger
Beldía	Invisibility	a moment's Blindness as you exhale, Hunger, and twice the coughing

A one-bud spliff is level I and lasts 45 seconds. After any hit, all your smoking gear waits a few seconds before the next one. Everything about strength, length and the other devices is on Smoking.

7. Mind the green-out

More buds make a stronger hit and a riskier one. One bud never greens you out.

Buds in one hit	Level	Green-out odds: spliff	Green-out odds: pipe or bong
1	I	never	never
2	II	1 in 24	1 in 12
3	II, and it lasts half as long again	1 in 8	1 in 4 (bong only: a pipe holds two)

At two buds a green-out is the spins: you lose that hit's good part and spend a quarter of a minute dizzy, slow and weak. At three it is the full green-out: your whole high ends, your saturation goes, you are sick and weak for half a minute, and you cannot smoke again for a minute. For more than one bud, a spliff is the gentlest choice: half a pipe's or a bong's odds.

That is the first hour: you can grow it, trim it and smoke it. The rest of the mod builds on those buds, leaves and stems.

Don't want the drugs?

Hemp without the high. In config/hempdustry.json, in the effects section, set both "enabled": false and "greenOut": false, then run /hempdustry reload or restart. Smoking and edibles then give nobody any effects (edibles still fill you up), and the farming, the building, the cloth and the hemp-seed food all stay. Set greenOut as well because enabled on its own removes the effects but not the green-out roll: a three-bud hit could still roll a green-out, which ends other effects, empties your saturation and locks you out of smoking for a minute. On a server, the server's file decides. See Configuration.

Hempdustry is a comedy (but serious) mod about a plant: the game mirrors real processes, and nothing in it or in this wiki is advice for real life.

Part 2: Where to go next

A rough order, not a rulebook. The advancement tree follows the same path, and JEI, REI or EMI (Installation) show every recipe in the game.

Early game

What your first few harvests pay for.

Next step	What it takes	Read
Wooden Pipe	a plank over three sticks; pack it in the grid with up to two buds, one per slot, for two hits	Smoking Gear
The cloth chain	Hemp Stem → Hemp Fiber (four per stem, six if you ret the stem in a water cauldron first) → Hemp Canvas (four fibre) → Hemp Wool (four canvas make two) → Hemp Carpet	Hemp Materials
Canvas instead of leather	canvas makes books, item frames and (on 1.21.11) bundles; hemp wool makes paintings and a Hemp Bed. No cow, no sheep	Hemp Materials · Furniture and Decoration
Hemp food	smelt seeds into Toasted Hemp Seeds. Nothing psychoactive, just food	Hemp Food

Mid game

Building with hemp, and better ways to smoke it.

Next step	What it takes	Read
Hempcrete and Hemp Bricks	four stems make two Hempcrete, four Hempcrete a Hemp Brick, nine bricks a Block of Hemp Bricks. Plus hemp planks, all fireproof	Building Blocks
Grow Pot	five Hemp Bricks around a block of dirt. Water it with bottles, feed it bone meal, and the plant grows half again as fast as in the best field	Indoor Growing
Bong	glass, a glass pane, an iron nugget and a water bucket, or stained glass and a matching pane for any colour. Three buds, four hits, and you hold right-click to draw	Smoking Gear
Redstone Vaporizer	iron, redstone and hemp planks. One bud a bowl, and it can never green you out	Smoking Gear
Sifting Box and Kief	hemp plank slabs, iron bars and a canvas. Fill it like a composter: seven buds come out as nine kief	Hash and Concentrates
The hemp outfit	beanie, shirt, harem pants and flip-flops, all from Hemp Fiber. Not good armour, but all four worn together halve your odds of coughing and of nausea	Hemp Outfit

Late game

The big builds, and the goals at the top of the tree.

Next step	What it takes	Read
Decarboxylator → rinse → Infuser → edibles	the oven alone is seven Blocks of Hemp Bricks, some five hundred stems: a goal, not a first-day crop. Then a rinse in a water cauldron, a tub over a campfire, and Cannabutter for six edibles that take their time to hit	Cannabutter · Edibles
Hemp Press and Rosin	eight Blocks of Hemp Bricks around a piston, with heat underneath. Kief presses into Hashish; kief sifted a second time presses into Filtered Hashish, and that into Rosin. Add the ice wash for Bubble Hash, and roll Moon Rocks	Hash and Concentrates
Hydro Tray and Grow Lamp	filled with water, fed and powered, the tray grows hemp twice as fast as the best field; the lamp, hung over the plants, adds two buds to each. Its redstone lamp means glowstone, so a trip to the Nether	Indoor Growing
Top Shelf	the tree's goal for growers: a plant trimmed twice, grown in a Hydro Tray under a Grow Lamp it never lost	Advancements
Around the World in 80 Grams	the tree's challenge: hold Charas, Hashish, Filtered Hashish, Bubble Hash and Rosin, not necessarily at the same time	Advancements

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See also: Growing Hemp · Smoking · Advancements · FAQ