FFCropEvaporation

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Overview

Crop growth can consume nearby water and require water access.

Features

• Configure evaporation chance, search radius, and weighted replacement blocks.
• Optionally prevent growth when suitable water is absent.

FFUtilities is included in this mod JAR; no separate library download is needed.

How evaporation works

• When a crop successfully grows, there is a chance that a nearby water block is replaced with a block picked from a weighted table.
• Optionally (on by default), crops refuse to grow at all when no suitable water is found within range of their farmland.
• Set trees.disable = false to enable tree water requirements and evaporation. Trees use independent settings and search around the soil beneath the sapling; farmland is not required. Natural growth and bone meal are covered. Water evaporates only after successful tree formation, not stage advancement or failed attempts. Vanilla-style saplings are covered on every loader; fungi, mushrooms and azaleas are unaffected.
• Splash particles show when water is replaced.
• Farmland and water are found through tags, so other mods and datapacks can opt in. See the Datapacks page.
• Crop coverage: on NeoForge and Forge, any crop that fires the loader's crop-grow events. On Fabric, vanilla-style crops and stems (wheat, carrots, potatoes, beetroots, torchflowers, melons, pumpkins, and modded crops built on them).

Default behaviour

The common config has separate [crops] and [trees] groups. Each starts with its master disable switch, which disables both water requirements and evaporation for that group. Crops are enabled by default; trees are disabled. All other parameter defaults match.

Configuration

Settings live in config/ffcropevaporation-common.toml. Crop and tree values can be changed independently. Keep trees.disable = true to turn off all tree features. Setting preventDryGrowth = false in an enabled group removes its water requirement while keeping evaporation active.

Upgrading: the old [growth], [evaporation] and [search] settings are replaced. Reapply custom values under [crops] and, if desired, [trees]. Old settings are not migrated automatically.

Shared temperature settings

[temperature] remains separate and scales each group's own evaporation chance. Defaults: scaleByTemperature = true, coldTemp = 0.0, hotTemp = 2.0, coldMult = 0.4, hotMult = 1.75. The multiplier interpolates between the cold and hot anchors; the resulting chance is capped at 100%.

Weighted replacement table

Each group's replaceTable uses entries like "minecraft:coarse_dirt,5". Higher weights are more likely. The crop and tree tables are independent.

Requirements and source version

Source version: 0.3.0. FFUtilities 0.2.15 is included in the 26.x jars and 0.2.8 in the others.

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