Plant Fibers
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A lightweight survival mod that introduces Plant Fibers as a natural resource dropped from vegetation, letting players craft string without spiders and unlock a simple grass-based early-game tier.
The latest update adds a variety of new items! Including Plant Mesh (cookable to paper), and reinforced fibers which can be used to make a climbable rope.
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Description
Plant Fiber + Grass Tier
Plant Fiber + Grass Tier is a lightweight survival utility mod for Minecraft 1.20.1 (Forge). It enriches the early game with plant-based crafting: harvest fiber from vegetation, patch yourself up with grass bandages, work your way up a primitive material chain into paper and rope, and sleep on a custom grass bed — all without overhauling vanilla. Everything is tag-driven, data-pack friendly, and toggleable in config.
Features
🌿 Plant Fiber
Breaking grass and other vegetation has a chance (default 25%) to drop Plant Fiber. The source list is the plantfiber:vegetation block tag, so modpacks and data packs can add or remove plants freely. Fiber is the backbone of every recipe in the mod.
❤️ Healing Consumables
- Grass Bandage — right-click to apply Regeneration I with a short cooldown.
- Grass Plaster — a stronger patch granting Regeneration II for a longer duration, with a longer cooldown.
Both items show their regeneration level, duration, and cooldown in the tooltip, and every value is configurable.
🧱 Grass Fiber Block
A decorative, flammable building block crafted from Plant Fibers. Mineable with a hoe and fully reversible — break one block back down into 9 Plant Fiber.
🛏️ Grass Bed
A custom 3D grass-mound bed built from JSON block models (no vanilla bed renderer). It features a scattered horizontal grass overlay, a raised pillow hump on the head, and a dedicated hand-held item model. Sleeps and sets your spawn just like a vanilla bed.
🛡️ Grass Armor
A full grass-tier armor set (helmet, chestplate, leggings, boots) — leather-level protection at reduced durability, repairable with Plant Fiber. Disposable starter gear that gets you moving toward iron. Toggleable in config.
🧵 Material Progression
- Plant Mesh — press Plant Fibers around a Water Bucket (
PPP/W) into a woven sheet; the bucket is returned. Plant Mesh dries into vanilla Paper via furnace smelting or campfire cooking. - Reinforced Fibers — combine Plant Fiber + String into a sturdier cord, the ingredient for Rope.
🪢 Rope
A climbable, self-supporting hanging Rope crafted vertically from 3 Reinforced Fibers (yields 3 Rope):
- Climbable like a ladder or vine (via
#minecraft:climbable) — no solid block needed behind each segment. - Extend downward by right-clicking an existing Rope with Rope in hand; the column grows to the bottom of the connected chain.
- Tie it to a fence — side-click any block in
#minecraft:fencesto wrap a rope knot around the post; the Rope starts one block outward and then hangs down. - Support cascade — Rope must hang from a valid anchor or connected Rope; lose support and the unsupported Rope below breaks, cascading downward.
- Optional waterlogging, flammable, destroyed by pistons, and drops itself.
Configuration
Every feature can be tuned or disabled in the mod's common config (config/plantfiber-common.toml):
- drops — enable Plant Fiber drops; set the per-block drop chance (default
0.25). - bandage — enable; regeneration duration, amplifier, and cooldown.
- plaster — enable; regeneration duration, amplifier, and cooldown.
- grass — enable the Grass Bed; enable Grass Armor; armor durability multiplier vs. leather (default
0.5). - crafting — enable the Plant Mesh → Paper recipes; enable Reinforced Fibers crafting.
- rope — enable Rope; allow fence ties; break unsupported Rope; whether broken Rope drops; allow waterlogging; allow Rope to replace plants when extending.
Compatibility
- Tag-driven — vegetation sources (
plantfiber:vegetation), fence anchors (#minecraft:fences), and climbing (#minecraft:climbable) are all tags you can extend from a data pack. - Plays nice with other mods — fiber drops use a Forge global loot modifier with
replace: false, so it stacks alongside other mods' loot modifiers instead of overriding loot tables. - Server-safe — all rendering code is client-gated; the mod runs cleanly on dedicated servers.
- Update-safe — no existing registry IDs, recipes, tags, or loot tables were changed between versions, so older worlds load unaffected.
Requirements
- Minecraft 1.20.1
- Minecraft Forge 47+
Installation
- Install Minecraft Forge for 1.20.1.
- Get the mod through the CurseForge app, or download the
.jarfrom the Files tab. - Place the
.jarin your.minecraft/mods/folder. - Launch the game.
License
All Rights Reserved.
The Plant Fibers Team
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