Living Sponge

Living Sponge adds self-spreading sponge utilities for water and lava: drain fluid spaces, trace borders, and solidify areas into usable structures.

Main Uses

1) Drain and Clear

Use Neutral sponges when you want to remove fluid without leaving structural remains behind.

Best for:

clearing work areas
cutting into lakes or oceans
cleaning fluid spaces before building

Drain / clear showcase

2) Build Walls and Borders

Use Wall-Forming sponges when you want a colony to leave a border shell of Sponge Remains on old-age death.

Best for:

outlining basins
tracing perimeter walls
building underwater houses

3) Solidify and Fill

Use Solidifying sponges when you want colonies to leave Sponge Remains across the whole grown area.

Best for:

building platforms in fluid
filling underwater or lava-filled spaces

Result:

Sponge Types

Every living sponge is defined by four trait slots:

Growth Medium
- Water
- Lava
Spread
- Volume - spreads through the body of the fluid
- Flat - spreads only across exposed flat fluid surfaces
Output
- Neutral - leaves nothing on old-age death
- Wall-Forming - leaves border remains
- Solidifying - leaves remains everywhere
Radius
- Standard - 8
- Expanded - 16
- Huge - 256

Tooltips show these traits directly.

Also, by default, the mod adds a custom sponge recipe:

Any Wool + Kelp + Seagrass -> Sponge

Configuration

The mod is designed to be configurable without code changes.

Current configurable areas include:

lifecycle timings
spread timings and cooldowns
flat diagonal spread
radius values
creative sponge behavior
wall-forming shell thickness
custom vanilla sponge recipe toggle

Living Sponge

Main Uses

1) Drain and Clear

2) Build Walls and Borders

3) Solidify and Fill

Sponge Types

Configuration

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