Hempdustry 2

Hemp is one of the oldest crops people grow, and most of what it was grown for was rope, cloth, food and building material. Hempdustry 2 puts that into Minecraft the way vanilla would: a crop with three varieties, a building set, a cloth chain that can replace leather and wool, a small kitchen industry, an indoor growing setup and a resin workshop.

It's a complete rewrite in Java. Version 2.1.0 runs on Fabric and NeoForge, for Minecraft 26.3, 26.2, 1.21.11 and 1.21.1, and on Forge for Minecraft 1.18.2 and 1.16.5, where it opens a Hemp-Craft or GanjaCraft world and keeps it. A world from any Hempdustry 2 version opens on it with nothing to do. The 26.x builds have a few extras of their own, listed below.

• NeoForge. Same mod, same blocks, same numbers, now on both loaders.
• Minecraft 26.2 and 26.3, with a footbag, powdery mildew and a few more things only the new Minecraft can do. Details below.
• Minecraft 1.18.2 and 1.16.5 on Forge, so a Hemp-Craft or GanjaCraft world can be kept and played on. Details below.
• Growing indoors. A Grow Pot, a Grow Lamp, and a Hydro Tray that grows the plant twice as fast as the best field.
• Beldía, a third variety. A landrace from the Rif mountains that grows on sand by water.
• The resin workshop. A Sifting Box, an ice-water wash, and the Hemp Press. Details below.
• The Redstone Vaporizer, a gentler way to use the flowers.
• Water pipes in every colour of glass, and you can set them down on a table.
• Furniture. A Hemp Bed, a Hemp Shelf, Hemp Parquet, canvas bundles and a Hemp Harness for the happy ghast.
• A hemp leaf banner pattern and a new painting, Marley.
• 42 advancements, up from 24.

Three varieties, PpK, LHz and Beldía, which differ in shape and in what they give you. PpK is short and leafy, two blocks tall. LHz grows three blocks tall, takes longer, needs headroom, and pays out in stems where PpK pays out in leaves.

PpK turns up wild in jungles, swamps and on the moss of lush caves. LHz grows in savannas and thins out toward the badlands. Seeds also drop from tall grass and sit in a few exploration chests, so you can stumble into the mod without looking for it.

Beldía is the odd one. It's the old landrace of northern Morocco, and it won't grow on farmland at all: it wants sand with water close by. You'll find it wild on desert riverbanks and shores, and its seeds in desert temples and in the suspicious sand of wells and pyramids. Its flowers are the most resinous of the three.

A growing plant can be trimmed with shears twice. Each cut hands you a leaf and moves that plant's harvest from leaves toward flowers. Ignoring it is a perfectly good way to play. Bees pollinate hemp, parrots and chickens eat the seeds, goats eat the leaves, and the odd creeper likes to wander through a grown field, so light yours.

The Grow Pot is a hemp-brick planter. Water it with a bottle, feed it bone meal, and a plant in it grows half again as fast as in a good field. Pots can be packed wall to wall.

The Grow Lamp hangs from the ceiling on copper chains and switches on like a redstone lamp. Every plant under it gets two extra flowers at harvest. The plant remembers its light, though: lose the lamp while it's flowering and it gets stressed. A stressed plant looks it (the colour drains out and the old leaves go brown) and gives less, and its flowers can come off spoiled. The old-timers have a word for that stuff: schwag. It's not worth much.

The Hydro Tray is the fast option. Fill it with a water bucket, add fertiliser, give it a redstone signal for the pump, and hemp grows twice as fast as the best field. A sight tube on the front shows the water level. It's unforgiving: let it run dry and you'll pay for it.

Most of a hemp flower's punch sits in its sticky resin glands. 2.1 adds the traditional ways of getting them off the plant, and none of them involve solvents.

• The Sifting Box is filled like a composter. Shake flowers or leaves over its screen and it hands back a fine powder. Sift that again for a cleaner grade.
• Fill the same box with water and pack ice on all four sides, and it runs an ice-water wash instead. Blue ice gives the best yield. Plain ice melts if you light the room.
• The Hemp Press is a heated screw press. It turns the powders into pressed bars, and the cleanest grade into rosin, the strongest thing in the mod. A press can pour into a chest, or into a second press.
• Shear a ripe plant and you might rub a pinch of hand-rolled resin off it, the Himalayan way. The plant stays standing.
• Coat a flower in rosin and powder and you get a moon rock.

Hempcrete, plus a powder form that sets in water like concrete. Hemp bricks. A full hemp plank set: stairs, slabs, doors, trapdoors, fences, signs, hanging signs, boats with or without a chest, and now a shelf and a parquet floor. Like crimson and warped, hemp planks don't burn.

The Hemp Bed is made from hemp wool and works like any bed, villagers included. It does burn, being wool. The Hemp Harness goes on a happy ghast. Canvas makes bundles. Put a hemp leaf in a loom and you can paint it on a banner or a shield.

Stems become fibre, fibre becomes canvas, canvas becomes hemp wool, and wool becomes carpet. Every step can be undone. A water cauldron rets stems into fibre at a better rate than the crafting grid. Canvas works where vanilla uses leather and hemp wool where it uses wool, so books, item frames, paintings and a bed are within reach without a cow or a sheep.

The outfit is a beanie, a shirt, harem pants and flip-flops. Since 2.1 it lasts as long as leather, the shirt and pants take dye, and the beanie keeps you out of powder snow. It still isn't good armour.

A three-step chain you can watch happen. The Decarboxylator is a hemp-brick oven with three trays. A water cauldron rinses what comes out (optional, but it decides how good the batch can get). The Infuser is a tub with no fuel slot that takes its heat from whatever sits under it, and turns milk into infused butter graded on strength and quality. The butter goes into a handful of baked goods.

Plain hemp food too: toasted hemp seeds, a hemp seed bar, a bucket of hemp milk and siemieniotka, the Silesian hemp-seed soup eaten on Christmas Eve. Hemp milk works anywhere cow's milk does.

Some things made from the plant carry status effects. Each one is a trade-off, a buff paired with a debuff, and the stronger versions raise both. Overdo it and you lose every buff and get Nausea instead. Beldía makes you invisible for a moment. The vaporizer is the gentle option and never overdoes it.

One switch in the server config turns the whole system off and leaves a farming and building mod.

Minecraft 26.1 and 26.2 brought sulfur cubes, potent sulfur, named times for /time and armour cut to a baby's size. The 26.x builds put all of it to work, so these come with the 26.2 and 26.3 downloads only, on Fabric and NeoForge.

• The footbag. Feed a hemp bale to a large sulfur cube. It stops bouncing, floats, and a punch pops it up about two blocks instead of away. Get a few friends and keep it in the air. Shears take the bale back.
• Powdery mildew. Hemp under a roof, glass included, can catch it: white powder, drifting spores, and it spreads to the plant next door. A quarter of a sick plant's flowers come out as schwag. Fields never get it. Shears clear a sick plant in a trim window, or put Minecraft's own potent sulfur under water and no plant its gas reaches catches mildew. Gas a plant while it flowers, though, and a tenth of its flowers turn to schwag anyway, so take the water away once they show. A config switch turns mildew off.
• Jelly legs. Overdo it and the ground goes out from under you: your feet slide when you stop and a hit sends you further. Standing still is safe. A cliff edge isn't.
• 4:20 on the clock. /time set hempdustry:four_twenty, right next to day, noon and night.
• The Munchies, advancement number 43: eat something while you're under Hunger and too hungry to sprint.
• Baby sizes. A baby zombie, husk, drowned or piglin that picks up the hemp outfit wears it cut to its own size, dye and all, like it does with leather.
• Other mods' farmland. Any soil another mod puts in Minecraft's crop tags takes hemp seeds and grows them like it grows wheat. Nothing to set up.

On NeoForge 26.2 a footbag gets about half the kick, and jelly legs slide without the extra knockback. On 26.3 NeoForge matches Fabric. A world moved up from 1.21.11 to 26.2 or 26.3 keeps everything it had.

• 42 advancements covering the whole progression (43 on 26.x). Some are worth finding on your own.
• Seven paintings, Marley the newest.
• Two music discs, Moonlight and Robadob, written for the mod by Nefuß. Creepers drop them.
• Recipe pages in JEI and REI, and EMI on 1.21.1, including an "In the World" page for everything that has no recipe. JEI works on every build; REI on every build except NeoForge 26.2 and Forge 1.16.5.
• Twelve languages: five English, three French, three German and Russian. The Russian translation hasn't caught up with 2.1 yet.

Install it on both client and server. On NeoForge and Forge it needs nothing else. The 26.x builds need Java 25, like Minecraft 26.x itself; REI on NeoForge 26.3 wants Architectury API 22.0.5 or newer. The 1.21.1 builds have everything except what that Minecraft version can't hold: the Hemp Shelf, the Hemp Harness and canvas bundles.

The 1.18.2 build runs on Java 17, with JEI 10 or REI 8 (REI wants Architectury API and Cloth Config; there is no EMI), and datapacks for it use pack_format 9, resource packs 8. It has the same ids, config file and keys as the newer builds, and copper, amethyst, the tinted bong, goats and the wild hemp of lush caves are all there. It goes without what Minecraft 1.18.2 itself doesn't have: the hanging sign, the chest boat, the Hemp Shelf, the Hemp Harness, canvas bundles, hemp in archaeology and trims on the outfit. To move a Hemp-Craft or GanjaCraft server over, take the old jar out of mods and start the server: the world converts as it loads, and each player's inventory when they first join.

The 1.16.5 build runs on Java 8, with JEI as its one recipe viewer, and datapacks and resource packs for it use pack_format 6. It has the same ids, config file and keys as the newer builds. Besides what 1.21.1 lacks, it goes without what Minecraft 1.16.5 itself doesn't have: the hanging sign, the chest boat, the tinted bong, trims on the outfit, hemp in archaeology and the wild hemp of lush caves. Recipes that ask for copper take iron, and the Grow Lamp takes purple stained glass instead of amethyst. To move a GanjaCraft server over, take the GanjaCraft jar out of mods and start the server: the world converts as it loads, and each player's inventory when they first join.

• Settings live in config/hempdustry.json, written with comments on first run, and /hempdustry reload re-reads it. Crop and machine speed, the effects switch, the loot additions, the wandering creepers.
• Pipes and hoppers reach every machine. The Infuser and the Hemp Press pour into anything with storage, AE2 included.
• Varieties are a datapack registry, and the Decarboxylator, Infuser and Hemp Press run on datapack recipes, so KubeJS and CraftTweaker can rebalance them. Grow beds read the shared #c:fertilizers tag.
• Addon events on both loaders.
• From 2.0.2 on, a world opens on every later version with nothing to do. No ids get renamed or removed. A 1.16.5 world moves up to NeoForge 1.21.1 and newer. A world isn't promised to move between Fabric and NeoForge.
• A client-side update notice tells you once when a newer version is out. client.updateCheck: false turns it off.
• Putting it in a modpack is fine, monetised or not.

From Hemp-Craft or GanjaCraft: your world comes with you. GanjaCraft was the original, a Forge 1.16 mod made with MCreator, and Hempdustry 2 is the same mod by the same author, rewritten from scratch. Hemp-Craft was NotTyzo's Java rewrite of it that carried it to the 1.18 versions under a new name. Hempdustry 2's Forge builds for Minecraft 1.18.2 and 1.16.5 open those worlds and convert them as they load. Crops keep their stage, blocks keep their shape and the way they face, signs keep their text, and every old item becomes its Hempdustry equivalent. What has no equivalent becomes the nearest Hempdustry or vanilla item, so nothing you owned just vanishes.

1. Back up the world.
2. Take the Hemp-Craft or GanjaCraft jar out of your mods folder.
3. Put the Hempdustry jar for your world in its place and open the world. There's no separate tool to run.

Every GanjaCraft build for 1.16.5 opens: the original BETA v0.4 to v0.5.1 and the 1.0.0 to 1.0.6 rewrite. Hemp-Craft and GanjaCraft for other Minecraft versions don't. A few things arrive changed: packed spliffs, bongs and pipes hold one bud, and stacks of empty bongs and pipes become single items. From GanjaCraft, golden cannapples and cannarots lose their effects and hemp villagers lose their trades. From Hemp-Craft, the Hemp Farmer becomes a vanilla Farmer: one that had traded keeps its level and trades, one that never did goes back to no profession. On CurseForge, the old 1.16.5 and 1.18 files further down this page are GanjaCraft and Hemp-Craft themselves.

From 1.16.5 the world can go on up to NeoForge 1.21.1, 1.21.11, 26.2 or 26.3, straight there or one version at a time. Use Hempdustry 2.1.1 or newer on the new Minecraft: 2.1.0 opens the world but leaves the smoking gear packed on 1.16.5 empty. Moving a 1.18.2 world on to a newer Minecraft hasn't been tried yet, so keep the backup until it has.

📖 What every old item becomes, and everything that doesn't come through: Minecraft 1.18.2 and Hemp-Craft and Minecraft 1.16.5 and GanjaCraft on the wiki.

From Hempdustry 2.0: swap the jar and open your world. Since 2.0.2, a world from any Hempdustry 2 version opens on every later one with nothing to do (Updating from 2.0.x).

🎵 Music discs

• Moonlight and Robadob, written for the mod by Nefuß. Listen on Bandcamp: Moonlight · Robadob

🌍 Translations

• German and Swiss German: Gülps'sch420
• Russian: MargoxaTheGamer
• American English and French: Warlon Mhite
• British, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand English, Canadian and Swiss French, and Austrian German were adapted from those with a language model, and no native speaker has checked them yet. Corrections are welcome: Translating.

🎨 Textures and art

• Warlon Mhite: most of the textures, the music disc art, the paintings and the mod icon.
• A commissioned pixel artist, who asked not to be named: some of the textures.
• A few textures are recoloured vanilla ones and stay Mojang's.

🛠️ Code

• Warlon Mhite.
• Large language models (Anthropic's Claude) helped with parts of the code, debugging, documentation, balancing and some placeholder textures.

📜 Licences

• Code and data: AGPL-3.0-only.
• Art and music: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
• Who made what, in full, and what each licence allows: CREDITS.md.

🔗 Links

• Project site: every item, block and mechanic in more detail
• Wiki
• Source code and bug reports
• Discord: questions, screenshots and feedback

Not an official Minecraft product. Not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.