I am trying to figure out the best way to have foliage that people can walk through. I first tried farming and putting wheat which looked great but the animals trampled it. I than tried saplings which again worked well until they grew into trees. My question is is there something out there that would work great for me, or is there a mod out there that will make it so my saplings won't grow (without blocking sunlight that is)?
you can prevent animal trampling by having a small patch (like 5 or 6 wide) around your crops. animals only spawn on grass, so if you can keep the grass away and put up a fence around the crops followed by a small barrier to keep the grass away, your crops should be fine. as for saplings. if you keep them around this very same path, you can also put "arches" up and over the path and at least 5 blocks maximum above the sapling. a sapling needs 6 total blocks vertically to grow into a tree (or instead of arches, you can make lampposts via making a 4 high pole with fences, at the top put a wooden plank and 1 more fence. have a torch attached to the wooden block and have a fence above the torch. the fence above the torch is at the maximum allowed height before the tree will grow.
edit: actually, a quick test, trees also wont grow through torches, so the top 2 fence pieces are unecessary
edit: actually, a quick test, trees also wont grow through torches, so the top 2 fence pieces are unecessary
Also, painterly pack has great shrubbery replacements for flowers. It looks pretty neat.
that's what reeds are now. Otherwise we wouldn't have cake.