# 🌲⚙️ Immersive Forestry — Forestry CE Fork ⚙️🌲
**Immersive Forestry** is an unofficial industrial-style fork of **Forestry: Community Edition**, focused on bringing the classic Forestry experience forward with a stronger immersive, technical, and automation-friendly direction. 🐝🌳🏭
Build forests. Breed bees. Process resources. Automate nature. Expand industry. ⚙️🍯🌲
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## 🌟 What is Immersive Forestry?
Immersive Forestry keeps the spirit of classic Forestry alive while pushing the project toward a more modern NeoForge ecosystem. 🧬🐝🌿
This mod focuses on:
🌲 Forestry systems
🐝 Bees and genetics
🌳 Tree breeding and arboriculture
🦋 Butterflies and natural life
🏭 Industrial machines
🧪 Fluids and processing
📦 Storage and logistics
⚙️ Automation-friendly gameplay
📘 In-game documentation
🔧 Future immersive industrial expansion
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## 🐝 Bees & Genetics
Raise, breed, analyze, and optimize bees through Forestry’s classic genetic systems. 🐝🧬
Features may include:
🐝 Bee species
👑 Queens, princesses, drones
🧬 Genetic traits
🍯 Honey production
🌺 Flower requirements
🔥 Environmental effects
🧊 Climate adaptation
📊 Analysis and progression
🏠 Apiaries and advanced bee housing
Create powerful production chains using natural life and careful genetic planning. 🌼🍯⚙️
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## 🌳 Trees & Arboriculture
Grow, breed, and manage trees as a real industrial resource. 🌳🧬
Forestry-style tree systems may include:
🌱 Saplings
🌿 Leaves and fruits
🍎 Fruit production
🌲 Tree genetics
🪵 Wood resources
🌍 Biome adaptation
🌦️ Environmental traits
🧪 Analysis and controlled breeding
Turn forests into renewable, managed, productive ecosystems. 🌲♻️🏭
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## 🦋 Butterflies & Nature
Immersive Forestry also preserves the natural side of Forestry with butterflies and wildlife-inspired systems. 🦋🌼
Explore, collect, breed, and document natural species while building your industrial ecosystem. 📘🦋🌿
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## 🏭 Machines & Processing
Forestry is not only about nature — it is also about machines. ⚙️🏭
Classic machine systems may include:
🪚 Carpenter
🌀 Centrifuge
🧪 Fermenter
🔥 Still
🧃 Squeezer
💧 Bottler
🌧️ Rain Tank
🔍 Analyzer
📦 Crates
🎒 Backpacks
📬 Mail systems
⚡ Engines and power systems
Process natural resources into useful industrial materials. 🌲➡️⚙️➡️📦
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## 🪵 Immersive Industrial Direction
The long-term goal of Immersive Forestry is to expand Forestry with heavier industrial forestry gameplay. 🌲🏭⚙️
Planned immersive-style systems may include:
🪚 Industrial Sawmill
🌲 Resin Tapper
🧪 Biomass Fermenter
🪵 Bark and sawdust processing
⚙️ Mechanical Tree Feller
♻️ Sustainable forest automation
🛢️ Biofuel and biomass chains
🏭 Optional immersive machine integration
Nature becomes industry — but still renewable. 🌱⚙️♻️
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## 📘 Documentation
Immersive Forestry aims to include clear in-game documentation for machines, genetics, production chains, and progression. 📘🔍
Learn systems step by step:
🐝 Bee breeding
🌳 Tree breeding
🧬 Genetics
⚙️ Machine usage
🧪 Fluids and recipes
🏭 Automation loops
📦 Storage and logistics
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## 🔌 Compatibility Goals
Immersive Forestry is designed with modded Minecraft ecosystems in mind. 🔌⚙️
Possible compatibility targets:
⚙️ NeoForge
📘 Patchouli
🍳 JEI / EMI-style recipe viewers
🏭 Immersive Engineering-style automation
🛢️ Immersive Petroleum-style fuel chains
🌲 Forestry CE ecosystem concepts
📦 Modpack-friendly datapacks and tags
Compatibility may vary by version. Always check the changelog. 📜🔎
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## ⚠️ Important Notice
⚠️ **Immersive Forestry is an unofficial fork/project.**
It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially maintained by the original Forestry team, Forestry: Community Edition maintainers, Immersive Engineering, or any related project maintainers.
🌲 Forestry and Forestry: Community Edition belong to their respective creators and contributors.
🙏 Full credit goes to the original Forestry developers and Forestry CE contributors for the foundation of this project.
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## 📜 License
This project is based on Forestry / Forestry: Community Edition code and must respect its original open-source license. ⚖️
📜 License: **LGPL-3.0**
🔓 Source availability required
🙏 Original copyright and attribution preserved
🛠️ Modified fork with additional work and maintenance
Do not redistribute this project as closed-source or All Rights Reserved if it contains Forestry-derived code. ⚠️
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## 🚫 Installation Warning
⚠️ If this build keeps the original `forestry` mod ID, it is a replacement fork.
That means:
❌ Do not install it together with Forestry CE
❌ Do not install two Forestry forks at the same time
✅ Use only one Forestry-based implementation per modpack
Installing duplicate Forestry versions may cause registry conflicts, crashes, missing recipes, broken worlds, or corrupted saves. 💥📦
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## 🧪 Status
This project may be experimental depending on the version. 🧪⚙️
Before using in a long-term world:
✅ Read the changelog
✅ Backup your world
✅ Check dependencies
✅ Test your modpack
✅ Report bugs with logs
Useful reports include:
📄 latest.log
💥 crash-report
📦 mod list
🧪 reproduction steps
🌍 world/server context
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## 🌲 Why Immersive Forestry?
Because forests should be more than decoration. 🌲
Because bees should be more than passive mobs. 🐝
Because nature and industry can create deep automation loops. ⚙️
Because classic Forestry deserves a modern future. 🧬
Build smarter forests.
Engineer better bees.
Automate natural production.
Expand your industrial ecosystem. 🌲🐝⚙️🏭
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## 🙏 Credits
🙏 Original Forestry developers mezz
🙏 Forestry: Community Edition contributors and developers thedarkcolour
🙏 Open-source modding community
🙏 NeoForge ecosystem maintainers
🙏 All testers, pack makers, translators, and bug reporters code contributed by CovertJaguar, Player, MysteriousAges, Binnie, RichardG, cpw and others.
This project exists thanks to the work of the original Forestry community. 🌲🐝💚
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## 🏷️ Tags
🌲 Forestry
🐝 Bees
🧬 Genetics
🌳 Trees
🦋 Butterflies
🏭 Industry
⚙️ Automation
🧪 Processing
📦 Storage
🔧 NeoForge
📘 Modpack Friendly
♻️ Renewable Resources
