LifeCrops

LifeCrops 2.0.4-beta.1
Breed better crops, turn your favourite seeds into eternal plants, and use a clearer crafting progression.
Crop breeding
Normal crops now have three inherited traits: Growth, Yield and Propagability. Improve growth speed, harvest output or the ease of producing more seeds.
Use the new Clipping Sickle to inspect crops and take clippings from mature normal plants. The parent grows back after clipping.
Root clippings in a Bonsai Pot to produce seeds with their inherited traits. Clippings have a 25% chance to gain a mutation, with up to 10 total trait points.
Higher Propagability makes rooting faster and reduces its Life Essence cost. More valuable crops cost more to propagate.
Both tools have inexpensive recipes at Life Forge Tier 1, under Miscellaneous Item Forging.
Eternal seed progression
Breed a normal crop, then convert its seed at the Infusion Table to keep its traits in an eternal crop.
Mature normal crops can drop Eternal Essence, used for conversion. The default chance is 5%.
Unmutated seeds keep the base conversion cost. Each trait point adds 10% to the material cost, while the Eternal Essence fee stays the same.
Eternal crops benefit from Growth and Yield, but cannot produce clippings.
Upgrade the Infusion Table with Essence Jars to unlock higher-tier conversions.
Crafting and soils
Life Well: craft normal seeds.
Life Forge: craft tools, progression materials, soils and soil infusions using the standard crafting menu.
Infusion Table: convert normal seeds into eternal seeds.
Greater Infused soils now support both normal and eternal crops where their planting rules allow. Infused and Greater Infused growth bonuses remain 2x and 6x.
More supported crops
Breeding and eternal conversion now cover 120 normal/eternal crop pairs, including resource crops, food crops and Health, Mana and Stamina crops.
Added support for Concentrated Life, Demon Spellbook, Onion, Tomato and the remaining eternal food crops.
Wild Grass supports normal propagation only. Fruit trees and wild spreading mushrooms are outside this update.
Planting fixes and improvements
Eternal Blood, Azure and Storm crops can now be planted on crystallized dirt.
Normal Health, Mana and Stamina crops can also grow on regular, Infused and Greater Infused Misc soils. On these soils, they gain the category harvest bonus and do not need nearby walls, water or Gold blocks.
Planting those crops on crystal soil keeps their usual special requirements. Normal potion crops are still consumed when harvested, so take clippings first if you want to continue breeding them.
Fixed Infusion Table conversion and upgrade issues. Repeated conversions retain your seed selection, and compatible output seeds stack together.
Recipe entries have clearer names to help distinguish them from usable seeds, Essence Jars and Forge Cores.
Fixed several eternal crops referencing incorrect early-harvest drops.
Server settings
Server owners can customize propagation costs, conversion costs, table upgrades and Eternal Essence drop chance. Existing custom settings are preserved and may differ from the defaults above.
Beta for Hytale 0.7.4. Back up your world before updating and replace the previous LifeCrops JAR. Please report any planting, breeding or conversion problems you encounter.