Plant Fibers

Plant Fiber + Grass Tier

Plant Fiber + Grass Tier is a lightweight survival utility mod for Minecraft 1.20.1 (Forge). It enriches the early game with plant-based crafting: harvest fiber from vegetation, patch yourself up with grass bandages, work your way up a primitive material chain into paper and rope, and sleep on a custom grass bed — all without overhauling vanilla. Everything is tag-driven, data-pack friendly, and toggleable in config.

Features

🌿 Plant Fiber

Breaking grass and other vegetation has a chance (default 25%) to drop Plant Fiber. The source list is the plantfiber:vegetation block tag, so modpacks and data packs can add or remove plants freely. Fiber is the backbone of every recipe in the mod.

❤️ Healing Consumables

• Grass Bandage — right-click to apply Regeneration I with a short cooldown.
• Grass Plaster — a stronger patch granting Regeneration II for a longer duration, with a longer cooldown.

Both items show their regeneration level, duration, and cooldown in the tooltip, and every value is configurable.

🧱 Grass Fiber Block

A decorative, flammable building block crafted from Plant Fibers. Mineable with a hoe and fully reversible — break one block back down into 9 Plant Fiber.

🛏️ Grass Bed

A custom 3D grass-mound bed built from JSON block models (no vanilla bed renderer). It features a scattered horizontal grass overlay, a raised pillow hump on the head, and a dedicated hand-held item model. Sleeps and sets your spawn just like a vanilla bed.

🛡️ Grass Armor

A full grass-tier armor set (helmet, chestplate, leggings, boots) — leather-level protection at reduced durability, repairable with Plant Fiber. Disposable starter gear that gets you moving toward iron. Toggleable in config.

🧵 Material Progression

• Plant Mesh — press Plant Fibers around a Water Bucket (PPP / W) into a woven sheet; the bucket is returned. Plant Mesh dries into vanilla Paper via furnace smelting or campfire cooking.
• Reinforced Fibers — combine Plant Fiber + String into a sturdier cord, the ingredient for Rope.

🪢 Rope

A climbable, self-supporting hanging Rope crafted vertically from 3 Reinforced Fibers (yields 3 Rope):

• Climbable like a ladder or vine (via #minecraft:climbable) — no solid block needed behind each segment.
• Extend downward by right-clicking an existing Rope with Rope in hand; the column grows to the bottom of the connected chain.
• Tie it to a fence — side-click any block in #minecraft:fences to wrap a rope knot around the post; the Rope starts one block outward and then hangs down.
• Support cascade — Rope must hang from a valid anchor or connected Rope; lose support and the unsupported Rope below breaks, cascading downward.
• Optional waterlogging, flammable, destroyed by pistons, and drops itself.

Configuration

Every feature can be tuned or disabled in the mod’s common config (config/plantfiber-common.toml):

• drops — enable Plant Fiber drops; set the per-block drop chance (default 0.25).
• bandage — enable; regeneration duration, amplifier, and cooldown.
• plaster — enable; regeneration duration, amplifier, and cooldown.
• grass — enable the Grass Bed; enable Grass Armor; armor durability multiplier vs. leather (default 0.5).
• crafting — enable the Plant Mesh → Paper recipes; enable Reinforced Fibers crafting.
• rope — enable Rope; allow fence ties; break unsupported Rope; whether broken Rope drops; allow waterlogging; allow Rope to replace plants when extending.

Compatibility

• Tag-driven — vegetation sources (plantfiber:vegetation), fence anchors (#minecraft:fences), and climbing (#minecraft:climbable) are all tags you can extend from a data pack.
• Plays nice with other mods — fiber drops use a Forge global loot modifier with replace: false, so it stacks alongside other mods’ loot modifiers instead of overriding loot tables.
• Server-safe — all rendering code is client-gated; the mod runs cleanly on dedicated servers.
• Update-safe — no existing registry IDs, recipes, tags, or loot tables were changed between versions, so older worlds load unaffected.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.20.1
• Minecraft Forge 47+

Installation

1. Install Minecraft Forge for 1.20.1.
2. Get the mod through the CurseForge app, or download the .jar from the Files tab.
3. Place the .jar in your .minecraft/mods/ folder.
4. Launch the game.

License

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