AgriCraft is a mod which aims to bring crop breeding to Minecraft, this includes both improving your existing crops, or cross-breeding to mutate into new species of crops.
The mod has been entirely rewritten for 1.16.5, so for both the apprentice and the expert, it might be opportune to give this a quick read.
Usually, one allele is dominant over the other, the latter being called recessive.
For instance if we consider gene "A", with dominant allele A and recessive allele a, the following holds:
- Gene Pair A-A: both dominant, A will be the apparant trait;
- Gene Pair: A-a: A is dominant over a, so A will be the apparent trait;
- Gene Pair: a-a: both recessive, so a will be the apparent trait.
For instance for stats, a higher stat level is dominant, so a plant with Growth genes 8 - 3 will have an actual growth stat of 8.
When cross-breeding two plants, the child crop will inherit one of the two alleles from each parent, so for instance two 10 - 1 crops can have the following offspring:
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10-10: inherit the 10 from both parents: 25% chance
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10-1: inherit a 10 from the first and 1 from the second, or vice versa: 50% chance
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1-1: inherit the 1 from both parents: 25% chance
Now when this happens, sometimes a mutation can trigger, this means a random change in one of the genes, for instance an existing plant species might mutate into a new one, or a stat might go up or down randomly. Mutations are key to improving your crops and unlocking new ones.
Stats:
AgriCraft contains 6 stats by default:
- Growth: affects the growth rate of plants, meaning higher growth stat leads to plants reaching maturity quicker;
- Gain: affects the number of fruits that the plant will produce;
- Strength: affects where the plant can grow (see Growth Requirements);
- Resistance: affects how resistant the plant is to weeds (see: Weeds);
- Fertility: affects how likely a plant is to participate in cross-breeding to produce offspring;
- Mutativity: increases the likelihood of a positive mutation when cross-breeding;
Weeds:
Ugh, weeds, noone likes weeds.
Well they are back, but not as you know them, instead of randomly killing plants, they will now sprout on existing plants and grow in parallel, competing for precious resources and thus delaying the growth of your crops.
It is recommended not to let them mature, as when weeds reach maturity, they tend to constrict and eventually kill their host plant as well as spread to neighbouring crops.
Growth Requirements:
Plants will now have very specific requirements related to the soil, season, fluids and light. Each soil has certain properties such as humidity, acidity and nutrients, and some crops like very humid soils, while others prefer soils which have very little nutrients. Furthermore, if you have a mod installed that adds seasons, AgriCraft crops will recognize these, and grow only during their favourite seasons.
It is also rumoured that some crops must be cultivated under water to grow.
Irrigation Systems
AgriCraft adds Irrigation Systems to water and speed up the growth of your crops, check out some of the screenshots below:
Compatibility:
AgriCraft aims to be as compatible with as many mods as possible, by default the following mods are supported:
Crops, Soils and Mutations:
- Atmospheric
- Autumnity
- Botania
- Buzzier Bees
- Farmer's Delight
- Immersive Engineering
- Metal Bushes Mod
- Pam's Harvestcraft 2
- Quark
- Simple Farming
- Thermal Cultivation
- XL Food Mod
Growing, Harvesting and Planting:
- Better Weather: seasons
- Blood Magic: harvest ritual
- Botania: horn and drum of the wild
- Botany Pots: planting of crops in pots
- Create: harvesting
- Cyclic: harvesting
- Immersive Engineering: garden cloche
- Industrial Foregoing: harvesting
- JEI: Recipe browsing
- Serene Seasons: seasons
- The One Probe: on-HUD info
Configurability
Besides compatibility, AgriCraft aims to be as configurable as possible, with over a 100 config options and full json support for plants, soils, mutations and weeds, AgriCraft can be fully configured as you like it best.
Dedicated documentation for Mod and Modpack developers will be coming to the wiki soon.
Optifine :
I can not natively support Optifine as it is very invasive, closed source and a pain to set up in dev.
However, spare your lamentations as a third party patch exists: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/agricraft-optifine-compat
Json Configurability:
- Documentation for the jsons can be found on the wiki: https://agridocs.readthedocs.io/en/master/
- PackDevUtils (by WACriminal), a VScode extension, also features json schema validation for the AgriCraft jsons and can be found here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=PackDevUtils.packdevutils
It would be nice if you take a look at this crash log:
https://hastebin.com/batofusuqe.properties
A friend of mine was playing on my server and crashed, while I was doing just fine.
They went exploring and then came back, but when they came close to the home base, they crashed. And the game kept on crashing when they tried to log in to my server.
I had to destroy the irrigation tank to stop my friend from crashing. I'm on the latest version of AgriCraft.
In reply to d4zley:
We are aware and a fix is being prepared.
For now, try not to make tanks across chunk boundaries.
In reply to InfinityRaider:
So it's only breaking on chunk boundries? gotcha! Thanks for the info!
I might not understand this mod, but seeds just refuse to grow.
When I inspect them with the magnifying glass it says "This plant can not grow on a soil with this humidity", but I don't know what it wants from me? The soil is next to a water source, so it's "wet". Heck the same message appears also on the rice from "Farmer's Delight", which is submerged in water, so what is going on?
Like this message is saying nothing. Instead it could say "The soil is too wet/dry for this plant to grow". Also the journal isn't very helpful, unless there is a documentation on soils and crops that I dont see?
What am I supposed to grow rice on if the normal farmland submerged in water apparently isnt right? I need to tilt the land in order to put crop sticks on it, but theres only that many tillable soils and they dont seem to be correct?
In reply to d4zley:
Do you have JEI, if so you can directly check it in there? If not, the journal will tell you the required humidity, nutrients and acidity a seed needs. You can check the humidity, nutrients and acidity of soil blocks in the tooltip of the blocks. These stats are inherent to the blocks, they are in no way tied to if there is water next to them.
If you do not like how it is set up, you can adjust the values in the soil jsons.
In reply to InfinityRaider:
The journal only has arbitrary symbols with no real explanation. Only through trail and error i found out the rice needs clay as soil.
And berries need podzol.....
But now I'm facing another weirdness. Like I remember from Direwolf20 LPs that if you cross two of the same crops with this horizontal crop sticks, that stats improve and you can that way breed better crops. But now I'm trying it and it always stays 1 on each stat and doesnt improve no matter how much i breed them?
How do I improve the crop stats? They're stuck at 1 - 1?
I've tried the other, more recent method of improving crops, by letting them propagate to the next horizontal crop sticks, while they do propagate, their stats are not improving, they just stay at 1 - 1 at all traits. What am I doing wrong?
Also rice doesnt propagate at all for some reason.
In reply to d4zley:
You can not get them to improve by just letting them propagate.
You need to cross two crops together to have a chance at mutating.
In reply to d4zley:
That being said, this is valid critique, I will look into adding some introduction pages with explanations.
In reply to InfinityRaider:
I might have found the settings for that in the config.
Something about allowing clones to mutate or so.
I mean I get that it's supposed to be difficult, but having to crossbreed different crops to get a chance of improving the stats, and even then its likely the hybrid will turn out something entirely else... that just seems like too much grind imo.
And the weeds.... oof. They're just tedious and annoying to deal with. You're barely keeping up with removing them even in a small patch. I can see why most just disable them entirely. What would be nice is some kinda weedex mechanic. Like something you mix into the water in the irrigation tank that prevents weed from growing, but its expensive to maintain and really just a temporary system until your crops develop enough strengh or resistance (whatever is responsible for weed surpression), so that they dont need the weedex anymore.
Generally it would be nice to have a brief instruction to what each symbol means in the Journey and an explanation to each of the stats.
In reply to d4zley:
The point of the new system is, that once you have a very good seed, by clever selective breeding, improving others is almost trivial, they will crossbreed quickly (high fertility), and weeds won't be a problem anymore. That is why the early game is more challenging.
Of course you can make it all easier in the configs if your personal preference is different.
I agree that I need to add more clarifications in the journal: about crossbreeding, genetics and growth requirements.
There are plans to implement fertilizer and herbicide additives to the irrigation systems, but that is more of a long term goal.
In reply to InfinityRaider:
Hey, I have encountered another problem. The mod changes the behaviour of the crop hitboxes, which conflicts with auto harvesters from like Create. For example instead of harvesting only the fruit, the harvesters rip out the entire crop, even tho it should behave like a rightclick and not a leftclick.
Also for two block tall crops like rice and industrial hemp it "removes" the second hitbox above the crop which the harvesters cant even register anymore.
Is that on purpose or is it genuinly an oversight?
Or is there a config line I have to change?
There's an error occuring after a while playing with my friends. For some reason my irrigation tank causes a "stack overflow error: ticking block entity" on their site and their game crashes.
https://hastebin.com/batofusuqe.properties
Crash when Agricraft and MysticalAgriculture are in the same modpack ( 1.16.5 )
Hi I just added agricraft-3.0.5-hotfix.jar to my modpack and without editing any config file the game crashes due to a fiery-ingot-seed (from mystical-agriculture) rendering problem from agricraft.
Crash Log (hastebin) : https://hastebin.com/xisibarasi.rb
Do I have to change something in configs ? Did I something wrong ?
Thanks for answer :)
In reply to DrimoZzz:
No there is a bug there, it will be fixed in the next update.
For now you can disable the fiery ingot seeds by going into the config, find the fiery ingot plant json (in agricraft/mod_mysticalagriculture/plants) and set "enabled" to false.
This will disable the plant, and prevent the crash.
After the next update you can simply enable it again.
In reply to InfinityRaider:
Oh okay thank you ! I will do this ! Thanks for mod and answer : )
Came to post a crash log, but looks like there is a mix up with your Issues link so commenting on that here first:
Looks like your issues link for the mod page is: https://github.com/InfinityRaider/AgriCraft/pulls
I suspect on prior comments you've made pointing to issues, it should be: https://github.com/AgriCraft/AgriCraft/issues
In reply to Laney_Family:
Thanks for pointing that out, has been fixed.
https://haste.zneix.eu/uqyrelowej.rb Crashing due to agricraft? details are within the crash log
In reply to tindolt:
Have you downloaded the latest hotfix?
In reply to InfinityRaider:
That was on the latest version that curseforge had
In reply to tindolt:
Not the latest hotfix.
Download it again, manually if be.