MZK Utilities

Natural Progression Update

MZK Utilities - New Progression Update 🌱

This update greatly expands MZK Utilities with a new early-game progression system designed around the Growth Staff, the Void, and renewable natural resources.

🌱 Fake Grass

• Added Fake Grass, a special starting soil.
• Fake Grass cannot sustain plants.
• It cannot be converted into farmland or dirt paths.
• Right-clicking Fake Grass with empty hands has a 2% chance to drop a Soil Fragment.

🪨 Soil Progression

• Added Soil Fragment.
• 4 Soil Fragments can be crafted into a Soil Core.
• 4 Soil Cores can be crafted into a Nature Catalyst.

✨ Nature Catalyst & Life Spark

• Added Nature Catalyst.
• Throwing a Nature Catalyst into the Void transforms it into a Life Spark.
• The Life Spark flies back toward the player with glow and particle effects.
• Life Sparks can be used on Fake Grass to transform it into a normal Grass Block.
• Catalyst stack sizes are preserved during the Void transformation.

🌿 Wild Shrub

• Added the Wild Shrub, a unique golden plant.
• Using the Growth Staff on a normal Grass Block has a 15% chance to generate a Wild Shrub.
• Wild Shrubs cannot be collected as blocks.
• Breaking one drops between 1 and 5 Twigs.

🪵 Twigs & Arbor Catalyst

• Added Twig.
• 3 Twigs + 1 Life Spark can be crafted into an Arbor Catalyst.

🌳 Arbor Catalyst

• Throwing an Arbor Catalyst into the Void transforms it into a random vanilla sapling.
• The resulting sapling flies back toward the player with glow and particle effects.
• All available tree types have an equal chance:
  • Oak
  • Spruce
  • Birch
  • Jungle
  • Acacia
  • Dark Oak
  • Cherry
  • Mangrove Propagule
• Stack sizes are preserved during the transformation.

🪄 Growth Staff

• Expanded the Growth Staff functionality.
• It continues to provide its accelerated bone meal effect.
• Fake Grass is immune to the Growth Staff.
• Using it on normal Grass Blocks now provides a 15% chance of discovering a Wild Shrub.

The goal of this update is to create a progression loop where the player can slowly bring life and renewable natural resources into otherwise limited worlds — starting from nothing but Fake Grass and the Growth Staff.