Vanilla Minecraft experience of improved farming! No commands for users to use! Just drop the plugin onto the server and let everyone enjoy the new mechanics of the already present tools. Read the features below, or check the features page.

Golden Hoe - Better Hoe Usage

Since hoes were added to the game, they were always used for just tilling the dirt to farmland and hoes only differed in durability. Hence, golden hoes made no sense - they tilled no faster but got used up more quickly. This plugin redesigns the usage of hoes and makes them a tool players will be happy to use, similarly to the axes, pickaxes, shovels, and swords.

Wooden Hoe Stone Hoe Iron Hoe Diamond Hoe Netherite Hoe

Plants seeds on a 3×3 farmland area at once from offhand.
Harvests fully grown crops of 3×3 area at once.
Tills 1 block of dirt into farmland at once - same as without this plugin.
Suffers 1 durability damage after every 3 planted seeds or 3 harvested crops.
Durability: 60 |132 |251 |1562 | 2031

Golden Hoe

Plants seeds on 5×5 farmland area at once from offhand.
Harvests fully grown crops of 5×5 area at once.
Tills 3×3 area of dirt into farmland at once.
Breaks weeds above dirt/grass while tilling.
Suffers 1 durability damage after every 5 planted seed or 5 harvested crops.
Durability: 33

[] Plant Seeds
Hold the hoe in the main hand and the seeds in the offhand, then right-click on empty farmland.

[] Harvest fully grown crops
Left-click with the hoe held in the main hand.

Sythe - use hoe as scythe to harvest sugarcane/bamboo

Hoe can harvest sugarcane and bamboo on an area with the same range as crop planting and harvesting (golden 5×5, others 3×3)

Stage: published (1.1.0)

Stem Detachment - separate the stem from the product

Right-click with the hoe on the stem or the product to disconnect them, allowing the stem to produce another melon or pumpkin onto another nearby block. Not very useful, but needless features make the world a bit more diverse and fun.

Stage: published (1.0.2)

Hoe in Creative Mode - hit only weeds and leaves

While in creative mode, hoes do not take damage from any action. Furthermore, in creative mode hoes do not break any blocks, but only leaves and weeds, like grass, tallgrass, flowers, fern, etc.

Stage: published (1.0.2)

Upcoming Features - things yet to come

Away Growth (experimental) - your plants grow while you're away

It's a planned feature to calculate plant growth based on the gametime and not on player presence.

This will be implemented in a light-weight way; when a chunk gets unloaded, the current gametime will get saved for it. Upon reloading the chunk, the time difference will be given, and so crops will be grown according to this time difference.

Stage: experimental (under work, suggested NOT to enable it)

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