Plants Plus Mod! Filling your world with Tons of Beauty and Color! (looking for advice/help with coding)
NOTE: Currently, I am very new to modding, a lot more of the complex stuff I will most likely wait until it I
feel comfortable getting into deeper development. I am however aiming to get plants, trees, and possibly crops
as the first wave of things in the mod. I would love some help, not really with coding, but just explaining or
even pointing me in the right direction for how to go about doing certain things...such as not even being sure how
to add plants in (I'm ashamed, I can't find tutorials on what plants fall under. I can find TONS of them on making crops, however) as well as overworld generation for things that arent ores.
Please be patient with me, there is a 99% chance I will be starting the mod in 1.10.2 if I do start eventually, and be support for that and beyond only.
Ideas and suggestions would be absolutely wonderful! Thank you in advanced!
What would "Plants Plus" do?
Plant's plus would be a mod that brings tons of beautiful plants, flowers, trees, and foilage (and hopefully crops)
into minecraft. After one of my favorite mods discontinued development, I felt my world was so empty. Wanting to bring back
a much wider variety of ways to landscape, I decided I wanted to give a shot at learning mod development and put something lovely
back in my world. Current plans are not set in stone, but I want the mod to be grand and vast, giving players a reason
to explore and find all the plants.
Plans would include the following (still in WIP for planning):
- New and custom made flowers and Plants in a wide assortment of colors and sizes (1-2 blocks tall and beyond (very tall plants are a future plan)
- Custom trees with unique leaves, wood and planks
- Tons of Crops and new Fruit trees with unique growing (IE greenbeans and cucumbers would use trellis) styles? (Future plan)
- Gardening Related Blocks and Items that would accent the mod nicely
IDEAS
WORLD GEN/VILLAGERS
- Botanist and Gardener - Villagers who buy and sell things from mod
- New Village structures? (greenhouse and market?)
- World gen structures - abandoned farm/silo/overgrown orchard
-
ITEMS/TOOLS/BLOCKS:
- Nourished Soil -Plant crops without water (possible config for faster growth OR make 2nd soil type)
- Composter - Craftable Bin for various extra greens (Upgradeable?)
- Worms - Can be found randomly by digging in dirt, help speed up compost/higher yield?
- Flower basket - Possibly placable, but when inventory will pick up plants, grass, seeds, leaves, ect. Maybe multiple types of baskets?
- Spinning wheel - higher yeild of string from wool (6-8?) can be used to make string from cotton
- Fruit picker - Tool used on fruit trees to pull the crop off of the tree without destroying leaves
- Watering can - Simple way to water crops?
- Rake -Way to clear grass off of dirt, higher chance of seeds
- Tappers - Way to get maple syrup/Oak Resin/ Pine Sap for crafting
- Garden Shears - Last longer then standard shears, specifically for getting double of plants and leaves.
DECORATIONS:
- Create saturated colored hardened clay (surround dye with corresponding dye = wool colored clay)
- Decorative paths and fences
- Useable trellises and pots
- Stylized blocks suitable for greenhouses
Possible Textures for some of the plants (Note: yes, I know MC uses 16x16 textures standard, the images were copied onto a sprite sheet for easy viewing):
Cool! Decorations! My gardens and orchards haven't looked the same since Wee! Flowers! and Plant Mega Pack went out of business. If I may offer these requests: flowering vines, glow flowers, and flowering trees. Impatiently waiting for downloads. One person you may consult is Pam Collins of Pam's Mods. She taught herself mod coding and Java. Maybe she can give you some advice.
Cool! Decorations! My gardens and orchards haven't looked the same since Wee! Flowers! and Plant Mega Pack went out of business. If I may offer these requests: flowering vines, glow flowers, and flowering trees. Impatiently waiting for downloads. One person you may consult is Pam Collins of Pam's Mods. She taught herself mod coding and Java. Maybe she can give you some advice.
To add to that, 10pak of Plant Mega Pack has come back to minecraft. Put this WIP mod with that, and I'll have the most beautiful gardens.
10pack is back? WOO HOO! Hey, Erinbutt, here's another one you can ask for advice. One of the things you could specialize in, perhaps, is flowering mosses or spreading ground cover. Imagine castles and mansions with colorful variations of Mossy Cobblestone and Mossy Stone bricks. Spreading plants like climbing roses, honeysuckle, trumpet vine, wisteria, flowering clover could grow on fences. Creeping alyssum, edelweiss, common spreaders like Iris, daffodil, daisy, day lily, most come in all different colors, and make gorgeous variegated fields and manor yards. Plus they haven't been made yet, so no competition with other mods or possible ID conflict. We could also do with colorful trees like scarlet maple, desert Willow (or any weeping willow), or at least some kind of vine like cover that can be added to common trees as a flower decoration. These won't have to grow. But they will make pretty orchards. Flower seeds are another thing Pam got me addicted to. And separating the different flower and food beds with glow flowers make spectacular night scenes. In the end, it's your mod. Minecraft is the only place I can make flowers grow. I'm not kidding; in real life I kill the un-killable plants. XD
I kinda put down working on development of the mod after reaching a rendering issue while adding my blocks. From what I've seen/read forge has changed significantly, so I might have been using old methods of adding what I need into the code. Your interest has given me the desire to give it another go, Thank you!
I am going to poke a few devs who are working on mods in 1.10.2+ to see if they might be able to tell me where I am going wrong. 10pak is working hard on his so I will leave him be I think until he makes his initial release. I know there is the Plants mod, so I might PM that dev and see if he could give me a hand.
10pack is back? WOO HOO! Hey, Erinbutt, here's another one you can ask for advice. One of the things you could specialize in, perhaps, is flowering mosses or spreading ground cover. Imagine castles and mansions with colorful variations of Mossy Cobblestone and Mossy Stone bricks. Spreading plants like climbing roses, honeysuckle, trumpet vine, wisteria, flowering clover could grow on fences. Creeping alyssum, edelweiss, common spreaders like Iris, daffodil, daisy, day lily, most come in all different colors, and make gorgeous variegated fields and manor yards. Plus they haven't been made yet, so no competition with other mods or possible ID conflict. We could also do with colorful trees like scarlet maple, desert Willow (or any weeping willow), or at least some kind of vine like cover that can be added to common trees as a flower decoration. These won't have to grow. But they will make pretty orchards. Flower seeds are another thing Pam got me addicted to. And separating the different flower and food beds with glow flowers make spectacular night scenes. In the end, it's your mod. Minecraft is the only place I can make flowers grow. I'm not kidding; in real life I kill the un-killable plants. XD
Great ideas!
I have a major list of plants, vines, tree and such that are on my list! Many of the plants you listed are planned to be in the mod. I however did not consider adding glowing plants! I love the idea and would love to. Perhaps adding a glow forest with various glowing and shimmering plants and vines would be a good thing to consider for the future. Vines on fences might be tricky because I believe that would involve poking the Vanilla code, unless I make separate blocks (I was thinking right clicking with a vine would be a neat feature, but might not be east to do D:). Trees are going to be a fairly major chunk of the development I think. I will be focusing on making different states (variants now? Forge???) for the stages of growth for fruiting trees: bare, blossom, unripe, and ripe fruit. Flowering trees and colorful leaves is definitely on my list :)!
Cool! Decorations! My gardens and orchards haven't looked the same since Wee! Flowers! and Plant Mega Pack went out of business. If I may offer these requests: flowering vines, glow flowers, and flowering trees. Impatiently waiting for downloads. One person you may consult is Pam Collins of Pam's Mods. She taught herself mod coding and Java. Maybe she can give you some advice.
Thank you! Unfortunately it might be a while before you get a playable download. But seeing some life here I will try hard to give you guys something to play around with! Pam I know is a very busy woman and I would like to give her an ask but I might hold off.
Just checking in to see if you're still alive. As some one who lives with that four letter word (WORK) I understand slow progress at times. One of my favorite adages is: Life is what happens if you made other plans. Keep up the good work.
Plants Plus Mod! Filling your world with Tons of Beauty and Color! (looking for advice/help with coding)
NOTE: Currently, I am very new to modding, a lot more of the complex stuff I will most likely wait until it I
feel comfortable getting into deeper development. I am however aiming to get plants, trees, and possibly crops
as the first wave of things in the mod. I would love some help, not really with coding, but just explaining or
even pointing me in the right direction for how to go about doing certain things...such as not even being sure how
to add plants in (I'm ashamed, I can't find tutorials on what plants fall under. I can find TONS of them on making crops, however) as well as overworld generation for things that arent ores.
Please be patient with me, there is a 99% chance I will be starting the mod in 1.10.2 if I do start eventually, and be support for that and beyond only.
Ideas and suggestions would be absolutely wonderful! Thank you in advanced!
What would "Plants Plus" do?
Plant's plus would be a mod that brings tons of beautiful plants, flowers, trees, and foilage (and hopefully crops)
into minecraft. After one of my favorite mods discontinued development, I felt my world was so empty. Wanting to bring back
a much wider variety of ways to landscape, I decided I wanted to give a shot at learning mod development and put something lovely
back in my world. Current plans are not set in stone, but I want the mod to be grand and vast, giving players a reason
to explore and find all the plants.
Plans would include the following (still in WIP for planning):
- New and custom made flowers and Plants in a wide assortment of colors and sizes (1-2 blocks tall and beyond (very tall plants are a future plan)
- Custom trees with unique leaves, wood and planks
- Tons of Crops and new Fruit trees with unique growing (IE greenbeans and cucumbers would use trellis) styles? (Future plan)
- Gardening Related Blocks and Items that would accent the mod nicely
IDEAS
WORLD GEN/VILLAGERS
- Botanist and Gardener - Villagers who buy and sell things from mod
- New Village structures? (greenhouse and market?)
- World gen structures - abandoned farm/silo/overgrown orchard
-
ITEMS/TOOLS/BLOCKS:
- Nourished Soil -Plant crops without water (possible config for faster growth OR make 2nd soil type)
- Composter - Craftable Bin for various extra greens (Upgradeable?)
- Worms - Can be found randomly by digging in dirt, help speed up compost/higher yield?
- Flower basket - Possibly placable, but when inventory will pick up plants, grass, seeds, leaves, ect. Maybe multiple types of baskets?
- Spinning wheel - higher yeild of string from wool (6-8?) can be used to make string from cotton
- Fruit picker - Tool used on fruit trees to pull the crop off of the tree without destroying leaves
- Watering can - Simple way to water crops?
- Rake -Way to clear grass off of dirt, higher chance of seeds
- Tappers - Way to get maple syrup/Oak Resin/ Pine Sap for crafting
- Garden Shears - Last longer then standard shears, specifically for getting double of plants and leaves.
DECORATIONS:
- Create saturated colored hardened clay (surround dye with corresponding dye = wool colored clay)
- Decorative paths and fences
- Useable trellises and pots
- Stylized blocks suitable for greenhouses
Possible Textures for some of the plants (Note: yes, I know MC uses 16x16 textures standard, the images were copied onto a sprite sheet for easy viewing):
Looks awesome! Cannot wait to play it! Would be very nice to play with my world that I am creating.
Cool! Decorations! My gardens and orchards haven't looked the same since Wee! Flowers! and Plant Mega Pack went out of business. If I may offer these requests: flowering vines, glow flowers, and flowering trees. Impatiently waiting for downloads. One person you may consult is Pam Collins of Pam's Mods. She taught herself mod coding and Java. Maybe she can give you some advice.
To add to that, 10pak of Plant Mega Pack has come back to minecraft. Put this WIP mod with that, and I'll have the most beautiful gardens.
http://10paksmods.net/
10pack is back? WOO HOO! Hey, Erinbutt, here's another one you can ask for advice. One of the things you could specialize in, perhaps, is flowering mosses or spreading ground cover. Imagine castles and mansions with colorful variations of Mossy Cobblestone and Mossy Stone bricks. Spreading plants like climbing roses, honeysuckle, trumpet vine, wisteria, flowering clover could grow on fences. Creeping alyssum, edelweiss, common spreaders like Iris, daffodil, daisy, day lily, most come in all different colors, and make gorgeous variegated fields and manor yards. Plus they haven't been made yet, so no competition with other mods or possible ID conflict. We could also do with colorful trees like scarlet maple, desert Willow (or any weeping willow), or at least some kind of vine like cover that can be added to common trees as a flower decoration. These won't have to grow. But they will make pretty orchards. Flower seeds are another thing Pam got me addicted to. And separating the different flower and food beds with glow flowers make spectacular night scenes. In the end, it's your mod. Minecraft is the only place I can make flowers grow. I'm not kidding; in real life I kill the un-killable plants. XD
Wow!! Much thanks for the support folks!
I kinda put down working on development of the mod after reaching a rendering issue while adding my blocks. From what I've seen/read forge has changed significantly, so I might have been using old methods of adding what I need into the code. Your interest has given me the desire to give it another go, Thank you!
I am going to poke a few devs who are working on mods in 1.10.2+ to see if they might be able to tell me where I am going wrong. 10pak is working hard on his so I will leave him be I think until he makes his initial release. I know there is the Plants mod, so I might PM that dev and see if he could give me a hand.
Great ideas!
I have a major list of plants, vines, tree and such that are on my list! Many of the plants you listed are planned to be in the mod. I however did not consider adding glowing plants! I love the idea and would love to. Perhaps adding a glow forest with various glowing and shimmering plants and vines would be a good thing to consider for the future. Vines on fences might be tricky because I believe that would involve poking the Vanilla code, unless I make separate blocks (I was thinking right clicking with a vine would be a neat feature, but might not be east to do D:). Trees are going to be a fairly major chunk of the development I think. I will be focusing on making different states (variants now? Forge???) for the stages of growth for fruiting trees: bare, blossom, unripe, and ripe fruit. Flowering trees and colorful leaves is definitely on my list :)!
Thank you! Unfortunately it might be a while before you get a playable download. But seeing some life here I will try hard to give you guys something to play around with! Pam I know is a very busy woman and I would like to give her an ask but I might hold off.
Another screenshot of the Updated sprite sheet
Just checking in to see if you're still alive. As some one who lives with that four letter word (WORK) I understand slow progress at times. One of my favorite adages is: Life is what happens if you made other plans. Keep up the good work.