Plantations

Plantations

Plantations adds the ability to cultivate wild resources through seeds and spores, with growing seedlings, recurring harvests, a planting grid, and area harvesting.

Pickable Cultivation System

Each plantation is planted with the cultivator using its seed or spore. It starts as a small seedling and grows into an adult plant.

Once mature, the plant can be harvested repeatedly without removing it. Its resources regenerate after the configured production time.

With this system, Plantations provides:

• Cultivable wild resources
• Seedlings that grow into adult plants
• Recurring harvests without removing the adult plant
• Individual configuration for harvest amount, seed amount, seed chance, and production time
• The same configured time for initial growth and resource regeneration
• Optional seed drops from equivalent vanilla pickables
• Grid planting and area harvesting

Available Plantations

Plantations includes the following cultivable plants:

• Dandelion
• Mushroom
• Yellow Mushroom
• Raspberry Bush
• Blueberry Bush
• Thistle
• Cloudberry Bush
• Smoke Puff
• Fiddlehead

All plantations are planted with the Cultivator and appear alongside the vanilla cultivator recipes.

Seedlings need cultivated ground and enough room to grow. Plants can be removed using the cultivator, and their interaction colliders allow players to walk through them.

Harvest and Seed System

Each adult plantation produces its main resource when harvested and can also generate an additional seed or spore according to its configured amount and chance.

Harvesting preserves the adult plantation so it can produce resources again.

The configured production time also controls the seedling's initial growth. For example, a setting of 60 minutes means 60 minutes to mature and 60 minutes between harvests, provided the plant has suitable growing conditions.

Planting Grid

The planting grid places multiple plants in a square arrangement using the cultivator. It supports Plantations seedlings, vanilla crops and saplings, and compatible plants from other mods available through the cultivator.

Available sizes are 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, and 5x5, with a maximum of 25 plants per placement. The grid starts at 3x3 each session.

Controls

| Default Control | Action | |-----------------|--------| | F8 | Enable or disable the planting grid | | F9 | Cycle through 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, and 5x5 | | F10 | Enable or disable snapping to existing plants |

Keyboard shortcuts can be changed in the configuration. Set a shortcut to None to disable it.

Placement and Preview

• Displays a preview of the plants before placement.
• Highlights the main placement ghost.
• Uses gold lines for rows, turquoise lines for columns, and violet lines for snapping.
• Snaps new grids to existing plants.
• Skips invalid positions while allowing valid positions to be planted.
• Calculates spacing for Plantations seedlings using their adult colliders to preserve room for growth.
• Provides configurable extra spacing for larger plants or compatibility adjustments.
• Preserves native growth conditions: nearby obstacles can still prevent a plant from growing.

Resource Costs

Seeds and other recipe resources are consumed for each plant placed.

The build interface can display the total resource cost to the right of the vanilla cost. For example, 2 (18) means 2 seeds per plant and 18 seeds for a 3x3 grid. The displayed total represents the full selected grid.

Stamina and cultivator durability consumption can be enabled or disabled for additional plants. The first plant retains its normal vanilla cost.

Area Harvesting

Hold Left Shift or Right Shift and interact with a ready plant to harvest nearby pickables. The default shortcut is Shift + E; if the game's interaction key has been changed, use Shift with that key.

• Default radius: 6 metres, configurable.
• Area harvesting can be enabled or disabled independently of the grid.
• Uses native harvesting and multiplayer RPCs.
• Preserves the recurring harvest behaviour of Plantations adult plants.
• Does not automatically replant harvested vanilla crops.

Compatibility with Vanilla Pickables

Plantations can optionally extend seed drops to equivalent vanilla pickables.

When enabled, vanilla resources such as Dandelion, Mushroom, Raspberry Bush, Blueberry Bush, Thistle, Cloudberry, Smoke Puff, and Fiddlehead can also use the same extra seed drop chance.

This affects only the extra seed-related drop. The main vanilla drop is not replaced or modified.

If vanilla seed drops are disabled for a given resource, an external method of obtaining that seed will be required.

PlantEasily is incompatible with Plantations. Install only one of them to avoid overlapping grid planting systems.

Timer Interface

Plantations includes a timer interface for growth and regeneration.

Plantation Seedlings and Pickables

Plantations can display:

• Remaining time until a seedling matures
• A warning when growing conditions are unsuitable
• Ready state
• Remaining time until harvested resources regenerate

Optional Support for Vanilla Plants

The timer interface can also be optionally extended to vanilla crops such as:

• Carrot
• Onion
• Turnip
• Barley
• Flax

This makes it easier to track crop growth during regular farming.

Features

• Individual Plantation Settings