OreFlora – Grow Ores Above Ground (Fabric)

OreFlora is a Fabric mod that transforms ores into renewable plants. No more mining – simply craft ores with vanilla crops to grow your resources above ground. Supports a simple command to toggle seed drops from ore blocks.

🌱 Core Mechanics

Crafting Recipe

Place 8 of the same material in a ring around a central plant (seed, sugarcane, melon seed, sapling, etc.) in a crafting table.

For most ores (iron, gold, diamond, emerald, etc.): use the corresponding mineral (e.g., diamond).
For copper: use raw copper (8 raw copper + 1 plant).
For amethyst: use amethyst blocks.

Example: 8 diamonds + 1 wheat seed = Diamond Wheat.

Reverse crafting: An ore tree sapling can be crafted back into 9 of its corresponding mineral (e.g., diamond sapling → 9 diamonds; copper sapling → 9 raw copper; amethyst sapling → 9 amethyst blocks).

Note: Some saplings drop raw ores that require smelting (iron, gold, copper, ancient debris), while others drop finished materials (coal, diamond, emerald, redstone, lapis, quartz, amethyst blocks).

🌾 Plants & Behaviors

1. Ore Seeds / Ore Wheat

Grows on farmland like wheat. When fully mature and broken, it drops:

1 ore (vanilla ore block, e.g., diamond ore)
2–3 seeds of the same type

2. Ore Sugarcane

Grows near water like vanilla sugarcane. When harvested, you can break it down (crafting table / inventory crafting) to obtain the corresponding mineral (e.g., iron ingot, gold ingot, diamond, emerald, etc.).
Note: This produces minerals, not raw ore blocks.

3. Ore Melon

Grows on farmland like a melon stem. When fully mature, the plant directly yields the corresponding vanilla ore block (e.g., diamond ore).

4. Ore Tree

Planting: An ore tree sapling must be placed on top of the corresponding ore block (e.g., diamond tree sapling on a diamond block).
Exception: Ancient Debris tree sapling can be planted directly on an *ancient debris *.
Copper Special: Copper tree saplings can be planted on any oxidized of copper blocks . Other copper plants (wheat, sugarcane, melon) are planted on farmland as usual.

Growth: When fully grown, the leaves are harvestable ore blocks. The logs can be broken down (crafting) into 4 saplings of the same tree type.

Reverse crafting: As mentioned above, any ore tree sapling can be crafted back into 9 of its corresponding mineral. Special Case Amethyst(amethyst sapling → 9 amethyst blocks).

Tip: Ore trees provide both ores and new saplings, allowing infinite farming.

⚙️ Special Command

/oreflora dropSeeds <true/false>

true – When you break an ore block (e.g., diamond ore) in the world, it has a chance to drop the corresponding OreFlora seed/sapling/melon seed.
false – No ore blocks will drop OreFlora plants.

You can use this to balance your world or disable passive seed collection.

🎮 Getting Started

Since all OreFlora plants are craftable (8 materials + 1 plant), you don't need to find them in chests. Just mine a few ores, craft your first plant, and then farm forever.
The /oreflora dropSeeds command is optional – enable it if you want ore blocks to occasionally drop plants too.

🔧 Compatibility

Loader: Fabric (only)
No extra world generation required – everything is crafted.

🌐 Supported Languages

This mod supports the following languages:

English
Russian (Русский)
French (Français)
Traditional Chinese (zh_TW)
Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)

📸 Screenshots

📥 Download & Support

OreFlora is available on CurseForge (Fabric). Report issues or suggestions on the project page. Enjoy your farming adventure!

Thank you for checking out OreFlora – bringing the mine to your farm!