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The words a player meets in Hempdustry: real-world terms from the hemp trade and the kitchen, and the mod's own. Each says what the word means, what it is in the game, and where to read more.

Jump to: A to C · D to G · H · I to L · M to R · S · T to W

A to C

AVB · "already vaped bud", what is left in a vaporizer once the bowl is finished. In the game it is Scorched Hemp, which a finished bowl of buds hands back. See Scorched hemp.

Beldía · from Moroccan Arabic, "of the country": the traditional landrace of Morocco's Rif mountains, the plant Moroccan hash was made from before imported hybrids replaced most of it. In the game, the third strain: it grows on sand with water nearby, and its resinous buds count twice in the Sifting Box. → Strains

Bhang · cannabis ground into milk with spices, drunk in India for thousands of years, notably at the Holi festival. The milk's own fat does the extracting, so no butter is involved. In the game, the Bucket of Bhang: decarboxylated hemp, milk and sugar, crafted straight into the bucket and drunk from it. → Edibles

BHO · butane hash oil, a concentrate made with a solvent. Not in the mod, on purpose; rosin fills its place. → Design Notes

Bong · a water pipe: the smoke is drawn down through water before it reaches you. In the game, the Bong comes in plain, tinted and all sixteen colours of glass, is drawn by holding the use button, and can be stood on a table. → Smoking Gear

Bubble hash · hash washed out of plant matter with ice and cold water: the cold makes the resin heads brittle enough to snap off, and they sink through mesh bags. In the game, made in a Sifting Box filled with water and packed in ice on all four sides; pressed, it becomes Filtered Hashish. → Hash and Concentrates

Cannabutter · butter infused with activated cannabis, the base of most edibles. THC dissolves in fat, not water, which is why the butter step exists. In the game, made in the Infuser from decarboxylated hemp and milk; each batch has a strength and a quality. → Cannabutter

Canvas · the word comes, through Old French, from Latin cannabis: canvas was first woven from hemp. In the game, Hemp Canvas stands in for leather wherever vanilla uses leather. → Hemp Materials

CBD · cannabidiol, a cannabinoid that does not get you high. Hemp grown for fibre is bred low in THC, and its main cannabinoid is CBD. The game does not model it separately.

Charas · resin rubbed off living cannabis plants by hand, the Himalayan way; it comes out dark and soft. In the game, shear a ripe plant (its last two growth stages) and there is a one-in-four chance of a pinch, once per plant, and the plant stays standing. Nine make a Charas Ball. → Hash and Concentrates

Chemotype · how researchers classify cannabis: by its chemistry, mainly the balance of THC and CBD (high THC, balanced, or high CBD), rather than by the folk labels "indica" and "sativa". The game's strains differ by plant shape instead. → Design Notes

Club des Hashischins · a club in 1840s Paris where writers and artists, Théophile Gautier and Charles Baudelaire among them, met to take dawamesk. An advancement is named after it. → Advancements

D to G

Dawamesk · a North African confection of cannabis worked into a paste with sugar, nuts, fruit and spices; the one the Club des Hashischins ate. In the game, the strongest edible: a whole batch of cannabutter goes into a single Dawamesk, with sugar, a honey bottle and sweet berries standing in for the spices and fruit. → Edibles

Decarboxylation · the heat-driven step that turns THCA, the form the living plant makes, into THC. Raw cannabis eaten does close to nothing; smoking does this step by burning. In the game, the Decarboxylator does it for the kitchen, and Decarboxylated Hemp is the root of the edibles. → Cannabutter · Design Notes

Defoliation (also trimming) · cutting leaves off a growing plant so its energy and light go to the flowers. In the game, shear a growing plant in each of its two windows: each cut gives a Hemp Leaf on the spot and shifts the harvest one step from leaves towards buds. Skipping it is fine; the plant ripens either way. → Growing Hemp

Dry sift · see Kief.

Fan leaf · the big, many-bladed leaves cannabis is drawn with. In the game, the Hemp Leaf, which goes to the Decarboxylator or the Sifting Box. → Growing Hemp

Footbag · a small bag kicked back and forth between friends; invented in Oregon in 1972. In the game, a large sulfur cube that swallows a Hemp Bale (Minecraft 26.2 and 26.3). → Minecraft 26.x

Green-out · real slang for feeling sick, dizzy and pale after too much cannabis. In the game, a big dose carries a chance of losing the hit and spending a while nauseous instead; at a dose of three it also ends the high you had and keeps you from smoking for a minute. A single bud never does it, and the Redstone Vaporizer never does. → Smoking

H

Hash, hashish · the resin of the cannabis flower, separated from the plant and pressed; the word is Arabic for "grass". In the game, Kief pressed in a heated Hemp Press becomes Hashish, nine of which make a Hashish Bar you cut pieces off. Hash is smoked only, never eaten. → Hash and Concentrates

Haze · a family of tall, slow-flowering strains descended from equatorial plants. In the game, Lemon Haze is the tall, slow one that wants headroom. → Strains

Hemp · cannabis, the plant. In everyday use the word means the varieties grown for fibre and seed, which are low in THC; in Hempdustry it covers the whole plant, as it does in the mod's name. → Getting Started

Hemp hearts · shelled hemp seeds, sold as a health food. The advancement for eating anything made from hemp seeds is named after them. → Hemp Food

Hempcrete · a building material of hemp's woody core in a lime binder: light, insulating, and slow to burn. In the game, Hempcrete is made from hemp stems, and its powder block sets in water the way concrete powder does. → Building Blocks

Hemprepreneur · the mod's own word, as in its tagline: Minecraft for stoners and hemprepreneurs. Someone who makes a living from hemp, in all its uses.

Hydroponics · growing plants in water and nutrients instead of soil. In the game, the Hydro Tray: fill it with water, feed it bone meal, power its pump with redstone, and hemp grows at twice a field's pace. → Indoor Growing

I to L

Ice-o-lator · originally a brand of ice-water extraction bags, now the generic word for the method. In the game, the wash mode of the Sifting Box, which makes Bubble Hash. → Hash and Concentrates

Indica, sativa · labels cannabis culture sorts strains into, with the folk claim that one relaxes and the other energises; genetic studies find the labels predict little. Hempdustry never uses them in game. They survive in ids only: indica_* is Purple Kush and sativa_* is Lemon Haze. → Design Notes

Kief · the loose resin powder that falls through a screen when dried flowers are shaken or beaten over it (also called dry sift); from the Arabic kayf. In the game, the Sifting Box turns seven buds or about forty-seven leaves into nine Kief; sifted again it becomes Filtered Kief, and pressed it becomes Hashish. → Hash and Concentrates

Kif · the Moroccan word for cannabis, from the same Arabic root as kief; the Rif mountains are kif country. The advancement for harvesting Beldía is named for it. → Strains

Kush · from the Hindu Kush, the mountain range between Afghanistan and Pakistan where hashish-making is old. In the game, Purple Kush, the short, leafy strain. → Strains

Landrace · a traditional local variety, adapted to one region over generations of farmers saving seed, as opposed to a modern bred hybrid. In the game, Beldía. → Strains

M to R

Moon rock · a cannabis bud coated in concentrate and rolled in kief. In the game, a bud, a Rosin and a coat (any hash, kief or charas) crafted into one Moon Rock, which packs a whole bong bowl. Bong only. → Hash and Concentrates

Munchies · the hunger that follows smoking. In the game, everything you smoke gives vanilla's Hunger effect, rising with the dose. → Smoking

Retting · soaking or dew-rotting hemp stems until the glue that binds the fibre to the woody core breaks down, so the fibre comes away. In the game, a water cauldron rets a Hemp Stem into a Retted Hemp Stem, which gives more Hemp Fiber than a raw stem. → Hemp Materials

Rosin · a concentrate pressed out of hash or flower with heat and pressure alone, no solvent. In the game, the Hemp Press turns Filtered Hashish into Rosin, the most concentrated thing in the mod and the plainest to smoke. → Hash and Concentrates

S

Powdery mildew · a white fungal coating that cannabis grown indoors in still air catches. In the game, hemp under a roof can catch it (Minecraft 26.2 and 26.3); shears or sulfur gas clear it. → Minecraft 26.x

Schwag · slang for low-grade cannabis: seedy, stemmy, weak. In the game, Schwag is a bud gone wrong, rare from a healthy plant and common from a stressed one. Smoking it mostly just poisons you. → Growing Hemp

Scorched hemp · hemp that has had too much heat: still activated, but much weaker. In the game, Scorched Hemp comes out of a furnace (smelt a bud or a leaf) or a finished vaporizer bowl; the Infuser takes it at a quarter of the worth. → Cannabutter

Sea of Green · a way of growing many small plants packed close together under lights. In the game, grow blocks never crowd each other, so a tight grid of Hydro Trays under a Grow Lamp works; an advancement takes the name. → Indoor Growing

Siemieniotka · a Silesian soup of hemp seeds, eaten on Christmas Eve. In the game, Siemieniotka, a bowl of hemp milk, hemp flour and sugar, with nothing psychoactive in it. → Hemp Food

Space cake · slang for cake baked with cannabis. In the game, Space Cake, Space Cookie and Space Brownie are three of the six edibles. → Edibles

Spliff · a hand-rolled joint (in much of Europe the word implies tobacco mixed in; the game has none). In the game, the Spliff: one to three buds over as much paper, smoked in a single hit, no gear needed. → Smoking Gear

Strain · a named variety of cannabis. In the game, Purple Kush, Lemon Haze and Beldía; strains are data, so datapacks can change them or add more. → Strains · Custom Strains

Stress · real cannabis under stress (broken light cycles especially) can grow male flowers and seed itself. In the game, a flowering plant that loses its light or is neglected in its bed stresses: it looks it, yellow anthers show, it gives seeds in place of a bud, and its buds can spoil into schwag. → Indoor Growing

T to W

THC, THCA · THC is the compound that gets you high. The living plant makes THCA, its acid form, which heat turns into THC (see Decarboxylation).

Trichome · the tiny resin glands frosting the flowers, and the leaves near them, holding most of the plant's cannabinoids. Kief, hash and rosin are all trichomes, separated and pressed. → Hash and Concentrates

Vaporizer · a device that heats cannabis below the point where it burns, so the active compounds turn to vapour without smoke. In the game, the Redstone Vaporizer: one bud a bowl, a gentle level I effect that never greens you out, and the spent bud handed back as scorched hemp. → Smoking Gear

Wax · not a method but a texture: how some concentrates set. Rosin comes out waxy too. See BHO and Rosin.

See also: Design Notes · Items and Blocks · FAQ