Alex's Crop Genetics
Crop Genetics is a lightweight farming expansion that introduces a dynamic genetics and mutation system for all crops, rewarding careful breeding with higher yields, faster growth, and better food!
🌱 Features
- Genetic Traits: Every crop seed now has three unique stats:
- Growth: Speeds up how fast the crop matures.
- Yield: Multiplies the number of crops dropped when harvested.
- Saturation: Increases the food value when eaten.
- Dynamic Breeding: Mature crops will naturally spread to adjacent empty farmland. The new offspring inherits the median stats of its surrounding parents, with a 20% chance to mutate (either improving or worsening).
- Tier System: Crop stats start at -50% (Tier 0) and can be bred all the way up to +200% (Tier 10). Be warned: breeding past +100% becomes exponentially harder!
- Wild Seeds: Breaking crops in the wild no longer guarantees boring baseline seeds. You have a rare chance to find naturally mutated seeds (up to +50% stats) to kickstart your breeding program.
- Drought Resistance: High-tier mutations have a small chance to roll the coveted Drought Resistant trait, allowing crops to grow at maximum speed without requiring water nearby.
🎒 The Seed Bag
Managing hundreds of mutated seeds can clutter your inventory. The Seed Bag is a new tool specifically designed for farmers:
- Functions similarly to a Vanilla Bundle.
- Holds up to 256 items, but restricts storage to one exact type and genetic tier at a time.
- Perfect for storing your "perfect" genetic strains.
🛠️ Compatibility
- Vanilla Friendly: Seamlessly integrates into vanilla crop mechanics and item tooltips.
- Jade Integration: Highly recommended! If you have Jade installed, you can see the exact genetic makeup of a crop simply by hovering your crosshair over it in the world.
