📖 About the Mod
Farmer's Harvest & Realism introduces authentic botany and immersive agriculture to Minecraft. Instead of flat 2D crops, all plants feature detailed 3D block models that reflect how crops grow in real life from tomatoes climbing a wooden garden stake to heavy zucchini fruits resting sheltered on the soil. With right-click harvesting, natural light requirements, and hearty meals, your homestead feels truly rewarding.
🍅 Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)
- Cultivation Mechanics: In real agriculture, tomato plants require physical support (stakes) so the vine doesn't collapse under the weight of the fruit.
- Stage 0: Young seedling on farmland.
- Stage 1: A 3D wooden garden stake is driven into the soil as the vine begins climbing.
- Stage 2: Lush tomato foliage with yellow star blossoms and small, green unripe tomatoes.
- Stage 3: Full bush featuring 3D-modeled, bright red ripe tomatoes hanging from the stake and branches.
- Harvesting (Right-Click):
Picks 2–3 fresh tomatoes. The stake and bush remain at Stage 2—just like real tomato plants, it naturally produces new tomatoes throughout the season without needing to be replanted!
🥒 Zucchini (Cucurbita pepo)
- Cultivation Mechanics: Zucchini plants grow as broad, low-spreading umbrella bushes directly over the garden bed.
- Stage 0–2: Grows from a dual-cotyledon sprout into a spreading foliage bush with giant golden-yellow flowers.
- Stage 3: Fully mature bush with a substantial 3D dark-green striped zucchini resting safely on the farmland surface.
- Harvesting (Right-Click):
Harvests 1–2 zucchinis and resets the bush to Stage 2 (flowering bush) for continuous harvests.
🥬 Lettuce (Lactuca sativa)
- Cultivation Mechanics: Grows as a leafy rosette whose wavy outer leaves fold inward into a firm, dense head.
- Stage 0–2: Sprout and spreading open leaf rosette.
- Stage 3: A plump, round 3D head of lettuce (cabbage-style) with ruffled outer leaves and a crisp inner heart.
- Harvesting (Right-Click):
Harvests the head of lettuce and automatically replants the bed with seeds at Stage 0.
🌾 Flax (Linum usitatissimum)
- Cultivation Mechanics: Slender, upright fiber crop famous for its delicate sky-blue blossoms (flax flower), cultivated for durable linen fibers and nutrient-rich linseeds.
- Stage 0–2: Slender stalks that bloom into open sky-blue flower bells.
- Stage 3: Golden-green mature fibrous stalks crowned with round seed bolls.
- Yield: Drops Flax Fiber & Flax Seeds. Craft 2 Flax Fibers into standard vanilla String!
Light & Growth Rules
Crops follow natural growth mechanics just like vanilla wheat and carrots:
- Light Level for Growth: Requires at least Light Level 9 (
Light Level >= 9).
- During the day, crops grow at peak speed under direct sunlight (Light Level 15).
- At night or underground, growth halts unless you illuminate your greenhouse with torches, lanterns, glowstone, or sea lanterns.
- Survival: If the light level drops below 8 without open sky above, the plant cannot survive and uproots into a seed drop.
- Bone Meal: Bone meal only functions if the crop has at least Light Level 9 (no photosynthesis in total pitch-black darkness).
Hunger & Nourishment
Balanced nutrition with zero artificial potion effects:
| Food Item |
Hunger Shanks |
Nutrition |
Saturation |
Cooking / Description |
| 🍅 Tomato |
2 Shanks (🍗🍗) |
4 |
0.6 |
Fresh, juicy raw vegetable |
| 🔥 Roasted Tomato |
3 Shanks (🍗🍗🍗) |
6 |
0.7 |
Blistered & roasted in Furnace, Smoker, or Campfire |
| 🥒 Zucchini |
1.5 Shanks (🍗½) |
3 |
0.5 |
Mild, tender raw garden squash |
| 🍳 Roasted Zucchini |
3 Shanks (🍗🍗🍗) |
6 |
0.7 |
Grilled zucchini rounds with char grill marks |
| 🥬 Lettuce |
1 Shank (🍗) |
2 |
0.4 |
Crisp, refreshing leafy greens |
| 🥗 Garden Salad |
3.5 Shanks (🍗🍗🍗½) |
7 |
0.8 |
Wooden Bowl + Lettuce + Tomato |
| 🌾 Flax Seeds |
0.5 Shank (½) |
1 |
0.2 |
Healthy linseed snack |
- Village Farm Plots:
Newly generated villages (Plains, Desert, Savanna, Taiga, Snowy) have a 25% chance per farmland block to naturally spawn Tomatoes, Zucchini, Lettuce, or Flax in various growth stages!
- Chest Loot Tables:
- Village Chests: Pantry and house chests across all biomes contain seeds and fresh harvest.
- Simple Dungeons: Monster spawner chests contain seed packets.
- Abandoned Mineshafts: Minecart chests contain seeds.
Crafting & Cooking Recipes
- Roasted Tomato: 1x Tomato in Furnace / Smoker / Campfire $\rightarrow$ Roasted Tomato
- Roasted Zucchini: 1x Zucchini in Furnace / Smoker / Campfire $\rightarrow$ Roasted Zucchini
- Crafting String: 2x Flax Fiber $\rightarrow$ 1x String
- Garden Salad: 1x Wooden Bowl + 1x Lettuce + 1x Tomato $\rightarrow$ Fresh Garden Salad
- Extracting Seeds: 1x Tomato / Zucchini / Lettuce in crafting grid $\rightarrow$ 2x Seeds
