Garden Trails

🌱 Garden Trails

A lightweight plant-focused mod introducing a variety of new flora, the Silk Moth and its unique silk crafting process, decorative potted plants, iron pergolas with climbing plant support, and a full food and brewing system built around crops.

This vanilla-friendly mod blends naturally into Minecraft and pairs especially well with Dawn of Time and Armor of the Ages. It combines exploration and discovery through new plants, creation and craftsmanship around silk production, and a growing ecosystem of cross-mod integrations.

Full-on compatibility

• ✔️ Dawn of Time : Silk unlocks new crafting recipes for decorative blocks. The Sake Bottle becomes a drinkable item when combined with Garden Trails ingredients.
• ✔️ Armor of the Ages : Silk is required to craft several armor sets, bridging plant farming with combat progression.
• ✔️ Critters and Companions : Silk recipes for Silk Lead and Grappling Hook.
• ✔️ Let's Do Vinery : compatibility with grapes and red grapes, red grape bag recipe & red grape seeds from DoT grapes.
• ✔️ Farmer's Delight : rice compatibility and bag of rice recipe.
• ✔️ Farmland compatibility : Aether, Farmer's Delight, and Immersive Weathering.

Silk cross-recipes for Dawn of Time

Result Ingredients Light Gray Futon Silk × 3 + Thatch Bamboo × 3 Small Tatami Mat Silk × 2 + Thatch Bamboo Slab Spruce Legless Chair Silk × 3 + Spruce Slab × 3 White Little Flag Silk × 2 + Stick × 2 White Cushion Silk × 2 + Feather

Silk cross-recipes for Armor of the Ages

Result Ingredients Raijin Chestplate Silk × 4 + Diamond Chestplate + Redstone Block × 2 + Gold Block Raijin Leggings Silk × 4 + Diamond Leggings + Red Dye × 2 Pharaoh Chestplate Silk × 4 + Gold Chestplate + Gold Block × 2 Pharaoh Leggings Silk × 3 + Gold Leggings + Gold Block Japanese Light Helmet Silk × 3 + Leather Helmet Japanese Light Chestplate Silk × 4 + Leather Chestplate + Leather × 3 Japanese Light Leggings Silk × 3 + Leather Leggings + Leather × 2

These recipes are optional and can be toggled individually in the Garden Trails config.

Features

Plants

• 11 new plants (with their wild versions): Boxwood, Camellia, Commelina, Cypress, Geranium, Grapes, Ivy, Maize, Maple Sapling, Mulberry, Rice
• 8 potted plants: Camellia, Commelina, Cypress, Geranium, Grapes, Maize, Maple Sapling, Mulberry

Silk

• Find mulberries in flowery forests or taigas.
• When fully grown, a Silk Moth may spawn.
• Kill it to obtain silk eggs, then hatch them with mulberry leaves in the Drying Tray.
• Silk unlocks recipes in Garden Trails, Dawn of Time, and Armor of the Ages.

Food & Effects

Every edible plant now has a distinct identity with status effects on consumption :

Plant Effect Grape Speed Maize Strength Mulberry Regeneration Rice High food value

Drying and fermenting your crops unlocks stronger, longer-lasting versions of these effects.

Bamboo Drying Tray & Transformation Chain

The Drying Tray is the core of the crafting progression. It transforms raw crops into refined ingredients :

Input Output Maize Dried Maize Grape Dried Grape Cooked Rice Fermented Rice Mulberry Juice Fermented Mulberry Juice

Dried Maize and Dried Grape provide stronger and longer-lasting effects than their raw versions. Fermented Rice is the base ingredient for Sake. Fermented Mulberry Juice is used in the Mulberry Sake variant.

Sake System (requires Dawn of Time)

If Dawn of Time is installed, the Sake Bottle is no longer purely decorative. Combine it with Fermented Rice at a crafting table to unlock a drinkable Sake with a stacking mechanic, each bottle changes the effects. The rewards grow with each drink, and so do the consequences.

Three variants can be crafted using crushed ingredients :

Sake Variant Combat Buff Crafted With Sake — Sake Bottle + Fermented Rice Grape Sake Speed Sake Bottle + Crushed Grape Maize Sake Strength Sake Bottle + Crushed Maize Mulberry Sake Regeneration Sake Bottle + Fermented Mulberry Juice

Iron Pergola

The iron pergola handles the climbing plant feature. It supports Grapes, Ivy and Vines, place the plant at the base and let it grow.

Grapes

To harvest grapes, you have to place the fruit you can collect from wild grapes on the pergola. The fruit will grow until you can haverst it when it appears purple dots on the fruit texture, once they turn dark, you can collect the seed to plant it again.

Achievement tree

Full advancement tree with 2 branches:

• Exploration : Man vs. Wild, Master Botanist, Bon Appétit
• Crafting : The Science of Green, Where Do We Get Silk?, Two Seeds, One Pot, Serious Business, Sake-chan, Pitiless

Credit

• Development, models and textures by Poulpinou & TheGoldenWorld.
• Thank you to Knoxxturre for the Maple tree.
• ChatGPT has been used to wrap up this page in markdown.
• Retro Diffusion has been used to generate the logo of this page and Poulpinou reworked it.