Earth Cube Crops

🌾 Earth Cube Crops

Grow your resources from the soil. Earth Cube Crops adds magical seeds that grow iron, gold, diamonds, the four elements, mob souls, potions and much more. Their harvest is refined into essences, then turned into the resources themselves, into infused tools and armour, and into decorative blocks.

Earth Cube Crops is an original mod for Minecraft 1.21.1 (NeoForge). It is inspired by the classic idea of "resource crops" made popular by mods like Magical Crops (Mark719) in the 1.7.10 era. All of its code, textures and models were made for this mod. It was created for the Regrowth: The New World modpack and works as a standalone mod in any pack.

🌱 72 crops

• Mod material crops switch on automatically through the common c: tags. If another mod adds tin, ruby or osmium, the matching seed becomes craftable and its essence gives that mod's item.
• Growth: magical crops grow in 8 stages on farmland and need light 9 or more. Bone meal does nothing on them; use the Magical Fertilizer to grow a crop to full in one go.
• Harvest: a mature crop gives its produce and its seed, with a chance of a second seed, some weak essence, and nature essence.
• Getting started: essence seeds drop from grass and ferns, and food seeds drop from tall grass. Essence ore generates in the Overworld and in the Nether.

✨ Essences and infusion

• 5 tiers of essence: Weak → Normal → Strong → Extreme → Master. You can combine them to go up a tier or split them to go down.
• 5 Infusion Stones craft the higher tiers and are never used up.
• The Essence Orb turns about fifty everyday blocks (dirt, sand, logs, leaves, wool, flowers…) into essence dust.
• Resource recipes: every essence crafts into its resource. Iron essence makes iron ingots, Diamond essence makes diamonds, Cow Soul essence makes leather and beef, and so on.
• Experience Drops give you 40 XP each, while you are below level 30.

⚔️ Tools, armour and charms

• Tier 1 and Tier 2 essence tools: pickaxe, axe, shovel and sword.
• Tier 3 tools are unbreakable:
  • the hoe tills 3×3;
  • the bow needs no arrows;
  • the sword places Essence Torches.
• Mark I, II, III and IV armour with passive effects. The full Mark IV set lets you fly; this can be turned off in the config.
• 5 charms: Wither, Poison, Flame, Ocean and the base charm.
• Infused crafting materials: infused diamond, ingot, feather and string.

🍓 Food and potions

• Produce, juices and stews made with a Juicer, plus a magical food.
• Raw and cooked lamb and squid, which drop when you kill sheep and squid yourself.
• Potions: 6 petals and 28 potions (fire resistance, night vision, regeneration, speed, strength, water breathing), each in several strengths.

🧱 Decorative blocks (150+)

• 12 essence colours for blocks, bricks, glass, animated lamps and bouncy clouds (no fall damage).
• Tinted blocks: stone bricks, chiseled stone, small bricks and planks.
• Obsidian-infused blocks (blast resistance 1200): bricks, terracotta, planks and wool.

🔌 Compatibility

• JEI: information pages for seeds, the torch, the ores and the catalysts, alongside every recipe.
• Jade: shows crop growth.
• English and French included.

⚙️ Configuration

The file config/eccrops-common.toml lets you change:

• the XP per Experience Drop;
• the Magical Fertilizer recipe;
• whether the Mark IV armour can fly;
• the weak essence drop and the crop particles;
• the second seed chance;
• which seeds drop from grass;
• Overworld and Nether ore generation.

Recipes are plain data, so a modpack can change any amount with a datapack or KubeJS.

✅ Originality

• All code is original. It was written from scratch for NeoForge 1.21.1, and no code from another mod was copied or translated.
• All textures and models are original. They are made by our own scripts, starting from vanilla Minecraft 1.21.1 textures recoloured for each material. No image from another mod is used.
• It works the modern way: materials come from the common c: tags, recipes are plain data, JEI and Jade are supported, and English and French are included.

🙏 Credits and inspiration

• Inspiration: the resource-crop gameplay of Magical Crops by Mark719 (CurseForge page). Earth Cube Crops is not affiliated with Magical Crops or its author, and contains none of its code or assets.
• Made by Earth Cube for the Regrowth: The New World modpack. Licence: MIT.