Root & Ripe

Root & Ripe makes farming and food storage feel more meaningful by adding freshness, spoilage, seasons, preservation, and composting systems to crops and natural foods.

Inspired by cozy farming games like Stardew Valley, the mod is designed to make farming feel more intentional without making survival overly complicated.

Instead of food lasting forever, fruits, vegetables, legumes, grains, mushrooms, nuts, and other natural ingredients now age over time. Each food shows its freshness directly in the tooltip, letting you know when it was harvested and how long it has before spoiling.

To help preserve your harvest, Root & Ripe adds the Food Crate, a special storage block that slows down food decay and helps preserved foods become ready faster.

The mod also includes a season system. Crops, seeds, saplings, and some harvests can be restricted by season, giving farming a stronger sense of timing and planning. For players who want more flexibility, Fertilizer can be used to create Sheltered Farmland, allowing crops to grow outside their normal seasons.

Spoiled foods and Unripe Fruit can be processed in the Compost Bin to create Fertilizer, giving unwanted harvests a useful purpose instead of making them completely worthless.

Root & Ripe is currently in development, and more features are planned for future updates.

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Features

- Food freshness and spoilage system
- Tooltip information showing harvest age and remaining freshness
- Spoiled food can no longer be eaten
- Spoiled crops cannot be planted
- Spoiled foods can be composted into Fertilizer
- Food Crate storage that slows food decay
- Preservation Jar system for creating long-lasting preserved foods
- New food with temporary Regeneration and Absorption effects
- Preserved foods with multiple servings shown through a durability-style usage bar
- Preserved foods need time to rest before becoming ready
- Food Crates help preserves rest faster and last longer
- Salt item used for preservation recipes
- Improved AppleSkin support for preserved foods
- Support for vanilla crops and natural ingredients
- Compatibility with Croptopia, Hearth and Harvest, and Neapolitan
- Simple, lightweight, and survival-friendly design
- Season system with configurable season lengthsn
- Seasonal planting restrictions for crops, seeds, and saplings
- Compost Bin block for turning spoiled food and Unripe Fruit into Fertilizer
- Fertilizer item used to create Sheltered Farmland
- Config options for freshness, preservation, seasons, and seasonal restrictions
- Sheltered Farmland allows planting outside normal seasons
Root & Ripe is perfect for players who want farming to matter more, food storage to feel like an actual part of survival, and seasons to make crop planning more rewarding.