BotanyPots Trees
A Minecraft datapack that adds all vanilla tree sapling recipes for the BotanyPots mod — grow your trees compactly and automatically!
✨ Features
- 🌳 All Vanilla Trees Supported — Oak, Birch, Spruce, Acacia, Dark Oak, Jungle, Cherry, Mangrove
- ⏱️ Balanced Growth Times — 1200 ticks (60 seconds) per cycle, fair for all gameplay styles
- 📦 Automatic Drops — Each pot yields logs and a chance to regrow the sapling automatically
- 🪣 Dirt Soil Compatible — Works with any soil tagged as
botanypots:soil/dirt
- ⚙️ Fully Customizable — Edit the JSON recipe files to tweak growth times, drop chances, and quantities
- 🗂️ Plug & Play — No configuration needed out of the box, just install and reload
🌳 Supported Trees
- 🟫 Oak
- 🪵 Birch
- 🌲 Spruce
- 🏜️ Acacia
- 🌑 Dark Oak
- 🌿 Jungle
- 🌸 Cherry
- 🌊 Mangrove
📋 Requirements
- Minecraft: 1.21.4+
- BotanyPots Mod: Required for the growth mechanics to work
- No other dependencies!
🎮 How to Use
- Download and place the datapack in your world's
datapacks folder:
.minecraft/saves/[YourWorldName]/datapacks/
- In-game, run
/reload or restart the world
- Confirm it's active with
/datapack list
- Craft or obtain a Botany Pot from the BotanyPots mod
- Fill it with a dirt-based soil
- Plant any supported sapling
- Wait 60 seconds and collect your logs and saplings automatically!
⚙️ Customization
Each tree's recipe is a JSON file located in:
data/botanypots/recipe/minecraft/crops/
You can adjust:
grow_time — Growth duration in ticks (1200 = 60 seconds)chance — Drop probability (0.0 to 1.0)minRolls / maxRolls — Number of items dropped per harvest
🎯 Perfect For
- Survival Players — Compact and renewable source of wood without needing large tree farms
- Skyblock / Void Worlds — Grow trees in Botany Pots instead of relying on natural generation
- Modpack Creators — Lightweight, no-dependency datapack, easy to bundle and balance
- Server Admins — Simple installation, no server-side performance impact
📜 License & Modpacks
This datapack is released under the MIT License.
✅ You can:
- Include it in modpacks (credit appreciated!)
- Use it on servers
- Modify and redistribute it
❗ You need: BotanyPots mod installed for this to work — it has no effect in vanilla Minecraft.
📦 Download & Support
- GitHub: Source Code
- Report issues via CurseForge comments or GitHub Issues
- Suggestions are always welcome!
Happy farming! 🌳🪴
Made with ❤️ by Franchino961
