🌱 Garden Trails

A lightweight plant-focused mod introducing a variety of new flora, the Silk Moth and its unique silk crafting process, decorative potted plants, iron pergolas with climbing plant support, and a full food and brewing system built around crops.

This vanilla-friendly mod blends naturally into Minecraft and pairs especially well with Dawn of Time and Armor of the Ages. It combines exploration and discovery through new plants, creation and craftsmanship around silk production, and a growing ecosystem of cross-mod integrations.

Full-on compatibility

• ✔️ Dawn of Time : Silk unlocks new crafting recipes for decorative blocks. The Sake Bottle becomes a drinkable item when combined with Garden Trails ingredients.
• ✔️ Armor of the Ages : Silk is required to craft several armor sets, bridging plant farming with combat progression.
• ✔️ Critters and Companions : Silk recipes for Silk Lead and Grappling Hook.
• ✔️ Let's Do Vinery : compatibility with grapes and red grapes, red grape bag recipe & red grape seeds from DoT grapes.
• ✔️ Farmer's Delight : rice compatibility and bag of rice recipe.
• ✔️ Farmland compatibility : Aether, Farmer's Delight, and Immersive Weathering.

Silk cross-recipes for Dawn of Time

Silk cross-recipes for Armor of the Ages

These recipes are optional and can be toggled individually in the Garden Trails config.

Features

Plants

• 11 new plants (with their wild versions): Boxwood, Camellia, Commelina, Cypress, Geranium, Grapes, Ivy, Maize, Maple Sapling, Mulberry, Rice
• 8 potted plants: Camellia, Commelina, Cypress, Geranium, Grapes, Maize, Maple Sapling, Mulberry

Silk

• Find mulberries in flowery forests or taigas.
• When fully grown, a Silk Moth may spawn.
• Kill it to obtain silk eggs, then hatch them with mulberry leaves in the Drying Tray.
• Silk unlocks recipes in Garden Trails, Dawn of Time, and Armor of the Ages.

Food & Effects

Every edible plant now has a distinct identity with status effects on consumption :

Drying and fermenting your crops unlocks stronger, longer-lasting versions of these effects.

Bamboo Drying Tray & Transformation Chain

The Drying Tray is the core of the crafting progression. It transforms raw crops into refined ingredients :

Dried Maize and Dried Grape provide stronger and longer-lasting effects than their raw versions. Fermented Rice is the base ingredient for Sake. Fermented Mulberry Juice is used in the Mulberry Sake variant.

Sake System (requires Dawn of Time)

If Dawn of Time is installed, the Sake Bottle is no longer purely decorative. Combine it with Fermented Rice at a crafting table to unlock a drinkable Sake with a stacking mechanic, each bottle changes the effects. The rewards grow with each drink, and so do the consequences.

Three variants can be crafted using crushed ingredients :

Iron Pergola

The iron pergola handles the climbing plant feature. It supports Grapes, Ivy and Vines, place the plant at the base and let it grow.

Grapes

To harvest grapes, you have to place the fruit you can collect from wild grapes on the pergola. The fruit will grow until you can haverst it when it appears purple dots on the fruit texture, once they turn dark, you can collect the seed to plant it again.

Achievement tree

Full advancement tree with 2 branches:

• Exploration : Man vs. Wild, Master Botanist, Bon Appétit
• Crafting : The Science of Green, Where Do We Get Silk?, Two Seeds, One Pot, Serious Business, Sake-chan, Pitiless

Credit

• Development, models and textures by Poulpinou & TheGoldenWorld.
• Thank you to Knoxxturre for the Maple tree.
• ChatGPT has been used to wrap up this page in markdown.
• Retro Diffusion has been used to generate the logo of this page and Poulpinou reworked it.

🌱 Garden Trails

A lightweight plant-focused mod introducing a variety of new flora, the Silk Moth and its unique silk crafting process, as well as decorative potted plants and upcoming iron pergolas and lattices with climbing plant support.

This vanilla-friendly mod blends naturally into Minecraft and pairs especially well with Dawn of Time. It combines exploration and discovery through new plants, with creation and craftsmanship around silk production — and more features to come in future updates.

Full-on compatibility

We made sure the mod plays nice with these mods :

• ✔️ Critters and Companions : works with Silk & recipes for Silk Lead and Grappling Hook
• ✔️ Let's Do Vinery : compatibility with grapes and red grapes, red grape bag recipe & red grape seeds from DoT grapes
• ✔️ Farmer's Delight : rice compatibility and bag of rice recipe
• ✔️ Farmland compatibility : Aether, Farmer's Delight, and Immersive Weathering

Features

Plants

• 11 new plants (with their wild versions): Boxwood, Camellia, Commelina, Cypress, Geranium, Grapes, Ivy, Maize, Maple Sapling, Mulberry, Rice
• Silk feature: Silk Moth entity, Drying Tray block, Stick Bundle block, Silk items (including silk itself!)
• 8 potted plants: Camellia, Commelina, Cypress, Geranium, Grapes, Maize, Maple Sapling, Mulberry

Iron pergola block

The pergola is back in a new formula : the iron pergola! This block is now going to handle the climbing plant feature we removed from wooden pergola in Dawn of Time. We decided to make it in iron to avoid the Everycompat variations multiplying the amount of blockstates (saturating the ram). The block got reworked and optimized!

• The pergola support the Grapes, the Ivy and the Vines. Use the plant at the base of the pergola and let it grow!

How to obtain silk ?

• Find the mulberries in the flowery forest or taiga.
• When the mulberry is fully grown, there is a chance that a Silk Moth spawns.
• Kill it to obtain silk eggs that you can hatch with mulberry leaves in the drying tray.
  You can collect mulberry leaves by hitting the base of the plant.

Upcoming Features

• Iron Pergola & Iron Lattice with climbing plant support
• Color variants for Geraniums
• Biome-adaptive foliage colors (e.g., Cypress adapting like vanilla leaves)
• Bridge compatibility between Dawn of Time and Armor of the Ages: shared crafting recipes using Garden Trails resources & cross-mod integration for items and plants
• Biome generation compatibility for modded worlds (e.g., Biomes O’ Plenty, Terralith, etc.)

Our mods

Credit

• Development, models and textures by Poulpinou & TheGoldenWorld.
• Thank you to Knoxxturre for the Maple tree.
• ChatGPT has been used to wrap up this page in markdown.
• Retro Diffusion has been used to generate the logo of this page and Poulpinou reworked it.