Nature Reclaims

🌿 Nature Reclaims

Every build you leave behind slowly gets taken back by nature.

Walk away from your old base, and the world doesn't stand still. Cobblestone grows moss, bricks crack, vines creep up the walls, torches burn out and grass swallows the paths. Come back after a while and see what's left.

Features

• Moss & cracks: cobblestone and stone bricks turn mossy, bricks crack.
• Vines: they climb building blocks and slowly hang down over walls and windows.
• Moss carpets: they spread over floors and roofs.
• Cobwebs & glow lichen: they appear in dark corners and under ceilings.
• Grass, ferns & saplings: plants sprout, paths grass over, and young trees take root (matched to the biome).
• Torches burn out, campfires go cold and untended farmland turns back to dirt.
• Glass can shatter (optional, off by default).
• Wire Brush: a new tool to clean your build up again.

🕰️ How it works

1. The mod remembers when a player was last near each chunk.
2. If nobody comes back for a while (by default 40 minutes of play time, which is 2 Minecraft days), the place counts as abandoned and nature starts moving in.
3. Chunks that are unloaded don't miss out. When you return, all the decay that happened while you were away is applied at once, so you walk into a place that has visibly aged.
4. As long as you stay nearby, your base is maintained and nothing decays.

🌍 Your world stays safe. Chunks no player has ever visited are never touched, and natural terrain isn't changed. Only crafted building blocks decay; the only thing that grows on natural ground is plants.

🪥 Wire Brush

Right-click with the brush to scrub moss and cracks off blocks and scrape away vines, moss carpets, cobwebs and glow lichen.

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⌨️ Commands

⚙️ Configuration

Everything can be tweaked in game: open Mods → Nature Reclaims → Config.

• Turn every effect on or off individually
• How long until a place counts as abandoned
• Decay speed
• Maintenance radius around players
• Performance limit for background decay

You can also edit config/naturereclaims-common.toml, which also lets you choose which dimensions are affected (Overworld only by default).

📋 Info

• Minecraft: 1.20.1
• Loader: Forge (47.x)
• Side: required on both client and server (it adds the Wire Brush item)
• Performance: background decay runs within a strict per-tick budget, so it won't cause lag spikes

Build something, walk away... and let nature do the rest. 🌱