Faun & Flora - Regrowth

Faun & Flora - Regrowth adds a natural response to deforestation and a regrowth system for trees, wild plants, mushrooms, flowers, and bushes. The goal is to keep the world alive without turning the server into a heavy world-scanning system: the mod only records blocks that were actually harvested or broken and regrows them after the configured time. Available in all languages

The Faun

The Faun is a forest-bound creature. When a player cuts down many trees in a short time, the Faun may appear near that player as nature's response. By default, the Faun appears when a player cuts 15 trees within a 5 minute window. After appearing, there is a 1 hour cooldown to prevent repeated spawns in quick succession. When it dies, the Faun releases a burst of natural energy: nearby cut trees can return immediately by planting and accelerating saplings around the area where it died.

Faun Drops

When defeated, a Faun can drop:

• Organic_Fertilize: 3 to 5 unitsr

Organic Fertilizer

The Organic_Fertilizer item is a natural fertilizer for trees. It can be used on saplings and young trees to greatly speed up growth. It is useful for manually restoring forests or accelerating trees that were just planted by the mod's regrowth system.

 
Default recipe:

• 10x Ingredient_Poop
• 10x Ingredient_Life_Essenc
• 5x Vegetables resource
• Tier 3 farming bench

Tree Regrowth

When a real tree is cut down, the mod tries to detect whether it was actually a tree and not just wood blocks placed by a player. To do this, it checks the trunk, ground, canopy, and nearby leaves. This prevents cases like a manually placed vertical wood column creating a sapling after being broken. By default, the tree sapling appears after 60 real minutes. The system also ignores trunks placed by players, so wooden builds do not enter the regrowth system.

Wild Plant, Flower, And Mushroom Regrowth

Configured wild plants, flowers, mushrooms, and other harvestable blocks can grow back automatically after being harvested. By default, this regrowth happens after 60 real minutes. Food crops planted on tilled farmland are not treated as wild plants. The intent is to avoid interfering with the game's normal farming system.

Bush And Plant_Crop Regrowth

The mod also has a separate list for bushes and similar blocks, including IDs with Bush and Plant_Crop. By default, they grow back after 60 real minutes. If the support block below the plant or bush is removed, the pending record is discarded. This prevents the mod from repeatedly trying to regrow something in a location that no longer exists.

Sickle Use

If a player harvests or breaks plants, bushes, mushrooms, or flowers using any Sickle, that block is not added to the regrowth file. This allows players to clear areas with a sickle without everything growing back later. Trees are not affected by this rule.

Configuration Files

On first run, the mod creates configuration files in the plugin data folder. These files are only created if they do not already exist. If you edit any of them, the mod will not overwrite your changes on the next restart. Created files: config.json trees.json plants.json bush.json

trees.json, plants.json, and bush.json control which IDs participate in each regrowth system.

config.json

Default file:
{
  "treeRegrowthEnabled": true,
  "treeSaplingDelayMinutes": 60,
  "faunTreeCutThreshold": 15,
  "faunTreeCutWindowMinutes": 5,
  "faunSpawnCooldownMinutes": 60,
  "plantRegrowthEnabled": true,
  "plantRegrowthDelayMinutes": 60,
  "bushRegrowthEnabled": true,
  "bushRegrowthDelayMinutes": 60
}

Options

treeRegrowthEnabled  Enables or disables tree regrowth.
treeSaplingDelayMinutes  Time, in real minutes, for a sapling to appear after a valid tree is cut.
faunTreeCutThreshold  Number of trees a player must cut within the configured window for the Faun to appear.
faunTreeCutWindowMinutes  Time, in real minutes, during which the mod counts the player's cut trees to decide whether the Faun should appear.
faunSpawnCooldownMinutes  Cooldown time, in real minutes, after the Faun appears. Use 0 to remove the cooldown.
plantRegrowthEnabled  Enables or disables regrowth for wild plants, flowers, mushrooms, and other blocks listed in plants.json.
plantRegrowthDelayMinutes  Time, in real minutes, for wild plants to grow back.
bushRegrowthEnabled  Enables or disables regrowth for bushes and blocks listed in bush.json.
bushRegrowthDelayMinutes  Time, in real minutes, for configured bushes and Plant_Crop blocks to grow back.

Commands

/ff reload Reloads the files: config.json trees.json plants.json bush.json
Use this command after editing settings or ID lists, without restarting the server.

Server Notes

Timers are based on real time and continue working after a server restart. If a plant, mushroom, or bush was harvested and the server restarts before regrowth, the mod keeps the record and respects the remaining time. The system is designed to be lightweight: it does not scan the whole world. Only harvested block positions and actually cut trees are tracked.