BOTANIA ADD-ON UPDATE!

A new update has been released for this add-on, with bug fixes, check them out below:

• Added recipe for Redstone Root.
• Added recipe for Spark.
• Manasteel and Elementium tools now break blocks at the correct speed.
• Fishing Rods can now be placed on the Runic Altar.
• Added recipe for Elven Getaway Core which made it impossible to make the Alfheim Portal in survival.
• Terra Shatterer can now be leveled up by adding mana to them via the mana pool. (A mana bar should appear in the item’s lore informing the player of the amount of mana).
• The Terra Shatterer’s abilities now function correctly, previously the Terra Shatterer could not be leveled up and functioned as a standard pickaxe. See the table below for the abilities:

Developer Note: Please continue reporting bugs if you find them in the comments of this post! Thanks for your help!

-= Getting Started =-

Initially, when the player starts the world for the first time he will receive a guide book called Lexica Botania.

By interacting with the book, you will access a page with quick tips for the mod, organized into categories:

Along with this item, the player will also receive an item called Trinket’s Inventory, which can be used to store the artifacts that the player will use. Each trinket can only be stored in one slot, the available slots are:
– Head
– Necklace
– Hand
– Belt
– Feet

-= Basics and Mechanics =-

To start, we have the Mystical Flowers, which are flowers that can be obtained by using a Floral Fertilizer on grass. These flowers are used to create petals, which are used in important recipes.

• Petal Apothecary

  The Petal Apothecary is a block that when filled with water can be used to create a wheat seed + special items to create flowers.

• Pure Daisy

A miscellaneous flower used to transform logs of wood into livingwood and stones into livingrock. There are other recipes as well, see Lexica Botania for more recipes.

• Runic Altar

A magical altar used to create runes or special items, it requires the use of mana for its recipes. (You can interact with the Wand of The Forest in “query mode” to be informed of the current stage of the recipe).

At the end of each altar recipe (Stage: 5/5) you must drop a Livingrock on top of the altar and interact with the altar with a Wand of The Forest to obtain the item to be created.

• Terrasteel

Terrasteel is an item crafted from the Terrestrial Gathering Pallet, and requires a small ritual to create it, along with Sparks and some mana items. See the Lexica Botania for recipe information. Here is a demonstration image of the ritual, done with Lapis Lazuli Block and Livingrock:

• Wand of the Forest

• Endoflame – Consumes fuel like Coal to generate Mana. Does not burn items with by products (e.g., Lava Buckets) and has a fuel cap to prevent inefficiencies. Ideal for automation using an Open Crate.
• Entropinnyum – Absorbs TNT explosions to generate Mana, nullifying damage. Must be empty before absorbing another explosion. Works best with ethically sourced TNT to maintain efficiency.
• Gourmaryllis – Consumes food for Mana production, favoring nutritious items. Prefers variety in diet; repeated foods yield diminishing returns. Mana output scales with food value (e.g., Steak > Apples).
• Hydroangeas – Absorbs still water in a 3×3 area for Mana. Functions slightly faster in rain but has a 3-day decay period. Not viable for long-term Mana generation.
• Kekimurus – Consumes Cake to produce Mana. A deliciously efficient way to sustain Mana generation.
• Munchdew – Eats nearby Leaves for high Mana output. Drops no saplings but requires a cooldown period before consuming again.
• Narslimmus – Absorbs Slimes from Slime Chunks, converting them into Mana. The larger the Slime, the greater the Mana yield.
• Rafflowsia – Consumes nearby man-made flowers to generate Mana. Yields diminishing returns for repeated flowers but rewards variety.
• Rosa Arcana – Consumes Experience to produce Mana. When this flower is planted, toss a coin…
• Shulk Me Not – Harnesses the force of Levitation to create Mana when a Shulker’s projectile strikes a nearby monster, eliminating both. Loot and experience are lost in the process. Entities must be within the flower’s range.
• Spectrolus – Loves Wool, but only in a precise color order. Starting from White, it cycles through the spectrum, producing Mana only when fed the correct color. Tossing Wool randomly is wasteful. Taste the Rainbow.
• Thermalily – Consumes Lava to produce Mana. Semi-automatable, but not without its challenges…

-= Functional Flora =-

Functional Flora are flowers that rely on mana to bring resources into the world. They look for a nearby Mana Pool, but you can set the Mana Pool using a Wand of The Forest in definition mode. These flowers are great for redstone factories.

• Agricarnation – Converts Mana into natural fertilizer, accelerating nearby crop growth.
• Bellethorn – A malevolent flower that uses Mana to harm nearby living beings (except players).
• Clayconia – Turns nearby Sand into Clay using Mana. Simple and efficient.
• Daffomill – Uses Mana to push items in front of it like a fan.
• Dreadthorn – A variant of the Bellethorn that only targets adult animals.
• Fallen Kanade – Emits a healing aura, using Mana to regenerate players and tamed pets nearby.
• Hopperhock – Picks up nearby items and places them into adjacent inventories.
• Hyacidus – Poisons nearby mobs, bringing them close to death for an easy finish.
• Jaded Amaranthus – Automatically grows Mystical Flowers when supplied with Mana.
• Jiyuulia – Prevents animals and monsters from entering a circular area.
• Marimorphosis – Transforms nearby Stone into Metamorphic Stone types based on biome.
• Medumone – Halts nearby non-player creatures with a powerful Mana-based slow.
• Orechid – Converts nearby Stone into random ores using Mana.
• Orechid Ignem – Like the Orechid, but for Nether ores. Works only in the Nether.
• Rannuncarpus – Places nearby placeable items on top of specific block types.
• Solegnolia – Disables Ring of Magnetization effects within its range.
• Tangleberrie – Prevents animals and monsters from leaving a circular ward area.
• Tigerseye – Scares Creepers, preventing them from exploding and making them flee.
• Vinculotus – Forces teleporting Endermen to its location using Mana.

-= Natural Apparatus =-

• Hovering Hourglass – A precise sand-based timer that hovers and flips by itself. Add up to 1 stack of Sand, Red Sand, or Soul Sand to set the delay. Emits a Repeater Pulse when empty, then flips and restarts. Can be locked with a Wand of the Forest.
• Open Crate – A simple crate that drops items straight down. Perfect for precise automation. Accepts items from Hoppers. When powered by Redstone, dropped items take longer to be picked up by flowers like Hopperhock or Rannuncarpus.
• Alchemising with Mana – Attach an Alchemy Catalyst to a Mana Pool to enable transmutation. Toss items into the pool to convert them using Mana! (Consult the Lexica Botania to find out which items can be transmuted).
• Animated Torch – A magical Redstone Torch that hovers and rotates. It points horizontally and rotates on right-click. Has 3 modes: Toggle (180°), Rotate (90°), and Random. Switch modes with a Wand of the Forest.
• Botanical Brewery – Brew powerful multi-effect potions (Brews) using Mana, a Brewery, and Vials. Add ingredients, power it with Mana Bursts, and collect your drinks.
• Conjuring with Mana – Use a Conjuration Catalyst below a Mana Pool to duplicate basic resources. Toss an item in, and Mana will replicate it. Mana-made magic! (Consult the Lexica Botania to find out which items can be transmuted).
• Livingwood Avatar – A humanoid construct powered by a Mana Diamond and a magical Rod. It casts spells automatically when supplied with Mana.
• Teru Teru Bozu – A cute amulet that reduces rain and snow duration. Right-click or toss in a Sunflower during bad weather to bring out the sun. Emits Repeater signals when storms are active.

-= Mystical Items =-

Mystical Items are tools that use mana for their use, they are capable of rebuilding your journey with their use. Get to know all these items:

• Floral Obedience Stick – A piece of Manasteel attached to Livingwood Twigs that strangely commands flowers. Using it on a Mana Spreader or Mana Pool binds all nearby Generating or Functional flowers to it. Can also be used with a Dispenser. Holding this while placing a flower prevents auto-binding.
• Manasteel Equipment – Tools and Armor with high enchantability and durability, similar to Iron. Repaired using Mana. The Pickaxe places torches, the Axe plants saplings, and the Shears can trigger tripwires.
• Terrasteel Armor – Stronger version of Manasteel Armor with durability comparable to Netherite. Repairs itself using Mana.
• Crystal Bow – Crafted with Dragonstone, this bow generates arrows from Mana like Infinity, and shoots harder than a wooden bow.
• Elementium Equipment – Elementium Armor may summon Pixies when taking damage. Tools have unique effects: the Pickaxe voids common blocks, the Shovel clears falling blocks, the Axe decapitates mobs, and the Sword boosts Pixie summoning.
• Equestrian Virus – A mysterious virus that mutates horses into Zombie or Skeleton Horses with enhanced abilities.
• Extrapolated Bucket – An Elementium bucket that causes liquids to disappear upon placement. Ideal for cleanup.
• Horn of the Wild – Blows to uproot vegetation and instantly harvest crops. Can be tuned to target Leaves or Snow.
• Livingwood Bow – A Mana-repairable bow made from Livingwood. More durable than a regular Bow.
• Mana Blaster – A portable Mana Spreader that fires Mana Bursts using 3/4 of a normal Spreader’s Mana.
• Manaweave Cloth – Used to craft Manaweave Robes, which reduce Mana costs of rods and tools when wearing the full set.
• Pasture Seeds – Converts Dirt into various grass-like blocks, such as Golden Grass, Vivid Grass, and more.
• Rod of the Bifrost – Summons a rainbow bridge for 30 seconds. Can be used by a Livingwood Avatar to create bridges automatically.
• Rod of the Depths – Similar to the Rod of the Lands but places Cobblestone instead.
• Rod of the Hells – Creates a 5-block-wide ring of fire that burns all inside, including the caster.
• Rod of the Highlands – Like the Rod of the Lands, but allows Dirt to be placed in midair.
• Rod of the Lands – Places Dirt blocks using Mana.
• Rod of the Unstable Reservoir – Fires Divine Missiles.
• Rod of the Molten Core – Instantly smelts blocks when right-clicked, like turning Cobblestone into Stone.
• Rod of the Plentiful Mantle – Highlights ores through walls for a short time.
• Rod of the Seas – Places Water blocks using Mana. Can also refill Buckets.
• Rod of the Shaded Mesa – Picks up and launches mobs or items using a Mana-powered force.
• Rod of the Shifting Crust – Swaps blocks in the world with ones from your inventory using Mana. Sneak + click to select the block type.
• Rod of the Skies – Launches the player into the air and prevents fall damage temporarily.
• Rod of the Terra Firma – Flattens terrain to match the player’s current elevation using Mana.

-= Trinkets =-

Like mystical items, these trinkets also require mana to function. In order to use these items and have their abilities applied to the player, you must equip them in the Trinket’s Inventory, where you can equip one item from each slot. The trinket’s slot is specified below its in-game name.

• Benevolent Goddess Charm – A Charm-slot Trinket that uses Mana to prevent explosions from damaging nearby blocks.
• Charm of the Diva – Causes mobs that attack the wearer to turn against other nearby hostile mobs. Powered by Mana.
• Cirrus Amulet – Amulet-slot Trinket that grants a second jump, negating fall momentum and fall damage.
• Cloak of Virtue – Negates all damage from a single attack. Activates on hit and enters a 10-second cooldown.
• Cloak of Sin – Reflects damage back to all nearby hostile mobs when the wearer takes damage. Has a 10s cooldown.
• Cloak of Balance – Splits incoming damage evenly between the attacker and wearer. Prevents fatal hits. 10s cooldown.
• Crimson Pendant – An upgrade to the Pyroclast Pendant. Grants full immunity to fire and lava damage.
• Globetrotters Sash – A powerful movement Trinket that massively boosts speed and mobility using Mana. Upgrades the Sojourner’s Sash.
• Invisibility Cloak – Worn in the Body slot. Consumes Mana to render the wearer and their Trinkets invisible.
• Nimbus Amulet – Grants a triple-jump using Gaia energy. Worn in the Amulet slot. An upgrade to the Cirrus Amulet.
• Planestriders Sash – Grants increasing speed the longer the wearer runs, resetting when stopping. No base speed boost.
• Pyroclast Pendant – Extinguishes fire on the wearer, provided they’re no longer in contact with fire or lava.
• Ring of Chordata – Grants water breathing, better underwater vision, mobility, and mining speed. Consumes Mana.
• Ring of Correction – Automatically switches to the correct tool for blocks being broken, as long as Mana tools are in inventory.
• Ring of Far Reach – Extends the wearer’s block interaction reach by about 5 blocks.
• Ring of Magnetization – Attracts nearby items. Disabled while sneaking or near a Solegnolia. Delay applies to self-thrown items.
• Ring of the Mantle – Applies Haste. Each action consumes a small amount of Mana.
• Snowflake Pendant – Freezes still water into ice and places snow as the wearer walks. Grants immunity to Powder Snow. Deactivates while sneaking or underwater.
• Sojourner’s Sash – Boosts movement speed, jump height, and fall resistance. Allows stepping up 1-block gaps. Consumes a small amount of Mana.
• Tainted Blood Pendant – Stores one Brew and continuously applies it using Mana. Doesn’t work with Instant or multi-effect Brews. Made in a Botanical Brewery.
• Tectonic Girdle – Completely negates knockback and cancels Mana Blaster recoil.
• The Spectator – Highlights containers holding the same item as the one in your hand with colorful particles.
• Third Eye – Causes nearby mobs to glow and display a “!” through walls. Consumes Mana when worn in the Body slot.

-= Alfhomancy =-

Alfhomancy are rare items/mobs/blocks added by Botania. Beta: Each player can only have 1 artifact, if another player takes your artifact they will take damage and die. If while using your artifact, you die and lose it, you will not be able to obtain it again, so it is not a good idea to walk around with it.

• Portal to Alfheim – The Alfheim portal is a connection between the overworld and the elven world, where the only way to interact between these worlds is through the exchange of items, you send an item to them, and they give you something in return. To build the portal you can access a hologram available in Lexica Botania, where you will need the blocks: Livingwood (any type), Glimmering Livingwood (any type) and an Elven Getaway Core. You will also need 2 Natura Pylons with mana pools with mana below them near the Elven Getaway Core to activate the portal. (The exchanges available for this portal can be found in Lexica Botania as well).

With the structure assembled, you can interact with the Elven Getaway Core holding a Wand of The Forest to activate the portal. If it does not activate, check if there is mana in the 2 Mana Pools (a generous amount) and if they are within the radius informed above.

Portal activated:

• Key of the King’s Law – Summon glowing magical projectiles from thin air! Hold right-click to charge up to 20 projectiles, then release to fire them. Explosive, powerful, and majestic! (In this version it can only be obtained in creative mode).
• Eye of the Flügel – Sneak-right click to bind it to a position. Hold right-click to consume Mana and teleport back to that location. Cannot teleport across dimensions. (In this version it can only be obtained in creative mode).
• Ritual of Gaia – Summon the powerful Guardian of Gaia using a Beacon, Gaia Pylons, and a Terrasteel Ingot. A tough boss fight that drops Spirits of Gaia used for high-tier crafting. Be prepared! (Mana is not required to activate the ritual).

You can access the hologram of the ritual structure through Lexica Botania:

The ritual cannot be activated in tight or obstructed places. A warning will be sent if you try to perform the ritual in any of these situations.

A Guardian of Gaia cannot be summoned near another, players who enter the arena after activation will also be included in the battle and will not be able to leave the arena.

Known bugs:

• If the player leaves the world during battle, the battle will reset.
• Battle music may not play for all players in arena.

Good battle!

• Ritual of Gaia II – A harder version of the Gaia Ritual. Sacrifice a Gaia Ingot to summon a deadlier Guardian with improved loot, more Spirits, and rare treasures. Harder, faster, stronger… and purple!