v2.0.0-beta

Changelog

2.0.0-beta — 2026-09-03

The first public build of the rewrite, and a beta because most of it has never been played. The
feature list below is what 2.0.0 will be; what the beta is asking for is whether it holds up with a
player in it. Saves made with it open on 2.0.0 — the no-breaking-changes promise starts here, not
at the final release.

Hempdustry 2 — the Fabric rewrite. The mod was originally a Forge 1.16 mod built with MCreator;
this is a hand-written (LLM-assisted) rewrite for Fabric 1.21.1 and 1.21.11 and the first release on that line. The version
number marks the rewrite rather than feature parity: some of the original's content has been
reimagined, and some has not been ported yet.

If you played the original, the plant, the smoking gear and the building materials will be familiar;
almost everything else is new or works differently.

Added — the plant

• Two strains, Purple Kush and Lemon Haze, each with its own crop, seeds, buds and wild flower.
  They differ in plant shape and in what they drop, not in a claimed difference of feeling: Purple
  Kush is a short, leafy two-block plant; Lemon Haze is three blocks tall, grows slower, needs
  headroom, and pays out in stems where the other pays in leaves.
• Wild flowers generate across a curated set of biomes — jungle, swamp and lush caves for Purple
  Kush; savanna through to badlands for Lemon Haze, thinning out as the ground gets harsher. Shears
  or Silk Touch lift one intact for a flower pot.
• Hemp seeds turn up in tall grass and in a handful of exploration chests, so the mod can be
  stumbled into rather than sought out.
• Defoliation. A growing plant can be sheared twice, in two windows during its life. Each cut
  gives a hemp leaf immediately and shifts that plant's harvest one step towards buds and away from
  leaves. Ignoring it is a perfectly good way to play.
• Bees pollinate hemp; parrots and chickens eat the seeds; goats eat the leaves.

Added — smoking

• A spliff, a wooden pipe and a bong. What is loaded is data on the item rather than a separate
  item per combination, the same way a potion carries its contents.
• The device sets the duration, the dose sets the strength. Packing more buds raises the effect
  level; the bong's bowl simply holds more than the pipe's.
• Every strain is a bundle of good and bad, and dosing raises both halves. Purple Kush trades
  mining speed for damage resistance; Lemon Haze trades melee damage for movement and mining speed.
• Green out — a big dose carries a real chance of losing the hit entirely and spending a while
  nauseous and useless instead. A single-bud hit never can.
• Pipes and bongs are damageable, enchantable and anvil-repairable, packed or empty.

Added — the cannabutter chain

• Decarboxylator, the mod's first machine: a hemp-brick oven with three trays that cook on their
  own timers. Deliberately expensive; edibles are meant to be a goal rather than a first-day crop.
• A water cauldron does two jobs — rinsing decarboxylated hemp, which decides how good the
  result can get, and retting hemp stems into fibre at a better rate than the crafting grid.
• Infuser, a hempcrete tub that takes its heat from whatever is burning underneath it. A batch
  carries two independent axes — strength and quality — and pours itself into an adjacent container
  through a visible spout once it peaks.
• Cannabutter, carrying both axes into whatever you cook with it.

Added — food

• Edibles: Space Cookies, Space Brownies, Space Cake, Cannabutter Toast, Dawamesk and a Bucket
  of Bhang. One batch of butter spreads across eight cookies or concentrates into a single dawamesk,
  and that dilution is what separates the tiers.
• Edibles do not hit straight away. Thirty seconds to three minutes pass before anything
  happens, the first thing you feel is your legs getting heavy, and the good part arrives after
  that. A better batch of butter narrows the wait and makes the effects last longer.
• Food with nothing psychoactive in it: toasted hemp seeds, a hemp seed bar, a bucket of hemp
  milk, and siemieniotka, the Silesian hemp-seed soup eaten at Christmas Eve.
• Hemp milk works anywhere milk does. It clears effects the way cow's milk does, and it is
  accepted by the Infuser, by Space Cake and bhang, and by vanilla's cake — so the whole cannabutter
  chain, and a cake, can be had without ever finding a cow.

Added — materials and building

• A cloth chain — stems → fibre → canvas → hemp wool → hemp carpet, reversible one step at a
  time. Canvas stands in where vanilla uses leather, hemp wool where vanilla uses wool; between them
  you can reach books, item frames, paintings and a bed without a cow or a sheep.
• Hempcrete, including a powder form that sets on contact with water like concrete.
• Hemp bricks and a full hemp plank set — stairs, slabs, doors, trapdoors, fences, signs,
  hanging signs, boats — fireproof, the way Crimson and Warped are.
• A hemp armour set: beanie, shirt, harem pants and flip-flops. It is not good armour, but it
  takes enchantments and armour trims like any other.

Added — everything else

• Twenty-one advancements covering cultivation, smoking, the cannabutter chain and the edibles.
• Two music discs with original tracks by Nefuß — Moonlight and
  Robadob — droppable by creepers and findable in dungeon and mansion chests.
• Six paintings.
• Eight locales, kept 1:1 — five English variants and three French, with regional vocabulary
  rather than copy-paste.
• The Infuser simmers audibly. A looping simmer plays while and only while a batch is actually
  cooking — milk in the tub and heat underneath. Subtitled in all eight locales.
• An update checker that tells you once, on your first world join, if a newer release exists.
  Client-side only, silent on any failure, and switched off with client.updateCheck: false in
  config/hempdustry.json — which is what a pack with pinned versions generally wants.

Notes for pack makers

• Fabric API is required.
• The mod is required on both client and server.
• config/hempdustry.json is written on first run, commented, with every knob at its default —
  effect duration and strength, the effect master switch (an "industrial hemp only" mode), green-out
  and nausea toggles, cooldowns, crop and machine speed, the Infuser's two timings, the mod's
  additions to vanilla loot tables, and client.updateCheck. Everything but that last one is applied
  server-side, so a client needs no matching file. /hempdustry reload re-reads it. A knob added in a
  later version appears in an existing file at its default; there is no migration step.
• Listing the mod in a pack is fine, monetised or not — the launcher downloads it from Modrinth,
  so no licence is engaged at all. Embedding, mirroring, modifying and forking are also permitted,
  non-commercially, with credit and share-alike on anything adapted; the art and music are
  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 and the code is AGPL-3.0-only, which does not restrict commercial use at all.
  Only a commercial use needs to ask. Full table in CREDITS.md, inside the jar.
• EMI and JEI plugins are included. Both show the Decarboxylator, the Infuser and the two water-
  cauldron soaks, and both list every way to pack a pipe or a bong in the ordinary crafting category,
  where "move ingredients into the grid" works on them. REI is not supported.
• Both directions of item automation work with Fabric storage mods: the machines can be extracted from
  by any pipe, and the Infuser's spout pours into anything that exposes a storage — an AE2
  interface, a Modern Industrialization pipe — as well as ordinary chests, hoppers and minecarts.

Saves and updates

From 2.0.0 onward a world opens on every later version, with no migration script and nothing for
the player to do. Registry ids, item components, block entity data, blockstates, advancement ids and
the datapack formats below are all treated as frozen after this release; anything that has to change
ships a fallback that keeps reading the old form. If an update ever cannot honour that, it will be a
major version and it will say so here.

For datapack and resource-pack authors

• Strains are a datapack registry. data/<your_pack>/hempdustry/strain/<id>.json — note the
  hempdustry directory inside your namespace; a file without it is silently ignored. Fields:
  translation_key, color, seeds, buds, flower, optional model_index and effects. Edit a
  shipped strain by writing the same id, and /reload applies it.
• A strain you add gets its own look for free. Leave model_index at 0 and the spliff tip and
  device bowls are tinted with your color. Colours multiply, so pick the brightest point of the
  range you want rather than the middle. model_index 1–99 is reserved for this mod; use 100+ only if
  you are also shipping textures.
• Resource packs: the smoking gear draws as base art on layer0 plus a tinted mask on layer1.
  Keep that split when replacing the art. Item properties are hempdustry:packed (0/1) and
  hempdustry:strain (a model_index).
• Convention tags joined, so recipes elsewhere find hemp without either side knowing about the
  other: c:crops/hemp, c:bricks/hemp, c:storage_blocks/hemp, c:concretes,
  c:concrete_powders, c:strings, c:leathers, c:buckets/milk, c:armors, c:music_discs and
  the c:foods family.
• #hempdustry:heat_sources — add a modded forge or crucible and it will heat an Infuser.
  #hempdustry:milk_buckets — add another mod's milk and the Infuser will take it.
• Both machines run on datapack recipes. hempdustry:decarboxylating takes ingredient and
  result, one file per input — that is how another mod's buds get into the oven, and how a pack
  changes a yield. hempdustry:infusing is a single file describing the whole tub: container,
  hemp, washed_hemp, result. Strength and Quality are measured by the machine and are not part
  of the recipe. Both are rebalanceable with KubeJS and CraftTweaker.

For mod authors

• There is an API package, com.warlonmhite.hempdustry.api, with four Fabric events:
  ALLOW_SMOKE (veto a hit — a sober zone, a jail plugin, an accessibility mod), AFTER_SMOKE and
  AFTER_EAT (your own effect, a tolerance system, a quest task) and AFTER_INFUSE (a batch of
  cannabutter collected, with its strength and grade). All fire on the server thread.

• Counting consumption means listening to two events, not one. A hit is AFTER_SMOKE, an edible
  is AFTER_EAT; an addon watching only the first sees half the traffic.

• That package is frozen from this release, along with the types its signatures name. New events
  may be added; none will be removed or re-shaped. Everything outside it is internal.

• Compile against it from Modrinth's maven:

  repositories { maven { url = "https://api.modrinth.com/maven" } }
  dependencies { modImplementation "maven.modrinth:hempdustry:2.0.0-beta+1.21.1" }