Ore Bushes

Grow your own treasure.

“Why mine when you can just shake a bush?” — a very lazy, very rich farmer

🌱 What is this mod?

Ore Bushes adds a whole garden of resource-bearing plants to Minecraft. Plant a starter, tend it through four growth stages, and right-click a ripe bush to harvest real loot — from humble coal to a genuine diamond or an almost mythical netherite.

Every bush is a hand-built 3D model with its own silhouette, pixel-art materials, sparkling particles, and an original little harvest plink. No two bushes look or feel the same. Your pickaxe is officially on vacation.

• 23 unique plants across the Overworld, Nether, and End.
• Four growth stages (rooted → juvenile → budding → ripe) plus a spent state.
• Finite, honest yields — every plant wears out eventually, so it never trivially replaces mining.
• Rare wild spawns — the rarer the resource, the rarer the bush.
• An automation machine — the Ore Harvester — for when your green thumb gets tired.

🌿 How bushes work

1. Find or plant one

Bushes can be discovered naturally — but very rarely — growing in the wild. Wild bushes always start ripe, so a rare find can be harvested right away. The reliable way to grow your collection is to plant a starter seed on the right block, in the right dimension, and let it mature.

2. Watch it grow

A planted bush advances one stage at a time: rooted → juvenile → budding → ripe. Growth only happens when the conditions are right:

• Correct dimension — Overworld, Nether, or End.
• Correct substrate — grass, farmland, moss, deepslate, amethyst, sculk, netherrack, soul soil, basalt, magma, end stone, purpur, or obsidian (see the tables below).
• Correct depth for a few fussy plants (diamond, echo shard, netherite, ancient debris).
• Optional light — only if the server enables that rule.

Higher tiers grow more slowly. There is no real-time cooldown; it is a per-random-tick chance, so impatient farmers should bring a book, a snack, or a faster world.

3. Harvest the good stuff

Right-click a ripe (age 3) bush to harvest. Here's the twist that keeps things balanced:

• The bush stays ripe — no waiting to regrow between harvests.
• Every harvest permanently ticks up its lifetime counter.
• When the counter runs out, the plant becomes spent: no more drops, no more particles, no more luck. Time to plant a new one.
• Breaking a plant always returns a starter seed, at any age, so you can relocate your garden freely. Breaking a ripe, non-spent plant also drops one resource.

4. Help it along (a little)

• Bone meal only helps tier 1 plants, and only when their growing conditions are valid.
• Fortune can add a little extra on lower tiers — but it can never inflate the rare tier 3–4 resources.
• Some plants give you a small bonus effect when harvested by hand (see the traits table).

Bushes are walk-through

They gently slow you down when you brush through them, but you won't get stuck on invisible cubes. They're plants, not walls.

⭐ Tiers at a glance

Every plant belongs to a tier. Higher tier = rarer resource, fewer lifetime harvests, slower growth. Tier 1–2 plants can occasionally yield a couple of resources per harvest (capped at 3); tier 3–4 always give exactly 1, because a diamond does not come in a buy-one-get-one bundle.

All harvest limits are configurable (capped at 15). Talk to your server owner if 4 feels criminal.

🌍 The Overworld collection (13 plants)

🔥 The Nether collection (5 plants)

🌌 The End collection (5 plants)

✨ Special plant traits

Some plants are show-offs. Here's what makes them special:

Handy for lighting a base by farming. Yes, that's allowed. No, we won't tell the torch.

🤖 The Ore Harvester

When hand-harvesting 23 bushes becomes a full-time job, build the Ore Harvester: a chunky steel-and-bronze machine that automatically harvests ripe plants in a configurable radius around itself. It respects every lifetime limit, so it can't milk a bush forever either.

Machine states

Storage & handling

• 36 internal storage slots (4 rows of 9), plus your inventory in the machine's screen.
• It fills its own storage first, and only pushes overflow into a container directly above — so a chest on top is optional.
• Hoppers and pipes can extract from any side, but cannot insert. The machine is a giver, not a taker.
• While working, particles trace only the perimeter of its active harvesting square, so you can see exactly what it covers.

Upgrades (place blocks below the machine)

Tip: a block one below the machine changes speed; a block two below changes range. Go on, make a diamond-block throne for it. It has earned it.

⚙️ Server-friendly configuration

Everything important is tweakable without touching the code:

Mining is overrated. Let nature do the heavy lifting — one bush at a time.
Ore Bushes: bringing nuggets and smiles since the first seed.