Useful Hoe

Till, plant, bonemeal, and harvest larger areas with a single click.

模组 Fabric 农业实用

介绍

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A server-side Minecraft Fabric mod that makes hoes actually useful! Till, plant, bonemeal, and harvest larger areas with a single click.

Works with vanilla clients – no client mod required for multiplayer.

Features

Area-Based Actions – Till, plant, bonemeal, and harvest multiple blocks at once
Staged Actions – One click per action type (till all > plant all > bonemeal all > harvest all)
Auto-Plant – Hold seeds in off-hand to plant on farmland
Auto-Bonemeal – Hold bone meal in off-hand to fertilize growing crops
Auto-Harvest – Harvest mature crops with automatic replanting
Sweet Berry Harvesting – Pick berries without breaking the bush
Vertical Crop Harvesting – Sugar cane, bamboo, cactus, and kelp – harvest all above base
Fortune Support – Fortune enchantment on hoe increases crop drops
Visual Preview – Colored particles show affected area when holding a hoe
Reach Enchantment – New enchantment to increase hoe area (5 levels)
Rain Growth – Crops standing out in the rain get extra growth rolls; nothing under a roof is affected
Fully Configurable – JSON config for area sizes, durability costs, action toggles and rain growth

Area Sizes by Reach Level

All hoes work the same way. Area size is determined by the Reach enchantment:

Reach Level	Area Size
None	1×1
I	1×3
II	4×4
III	4×9
IV	9×9
V	9×18

These are the defaults. All sizes are configurable.

How to Use

Tilling – Right-click on grass/dirt with a hoe to till the area
Planting – Hold seeds in your off-hand and right-click farmland
Bonemealing – Hold bone meal in your off-hand and right-click crops
Harvesting – Right-click farmland with mature crops to harvest and replant

Actions happen one stage at a time in priority order: Till > Plant > Bonemeal > Harvest

Hold Sneak to use vanilla single-block behavior.

Visual Preview Colors

Brown – Blocks that will be tilled
Green – Farmland that will be planted
White – Crops that will be bonemealed
Gold – Mature crops that will be harvested

Rain Growth

A crop that can see the sky while it rains gets extra growth rolls each time the game random-ticks
it (one by default). Each extra roll is the crop’s own random tick, so light, moisture and spacing
still decide whether it grows: rain makes the roll come round more often, it does not make a crop
in the dark grow. Snow does not count.

What counts is the block tag #useful-hoe:rain_grown: vanilla crops (#minecraft:crops), sugar
cane, bamboo, sweet berry bushes and cocoa. Another mod adds its own crops by shipping a tag file,
with no dependency on this one.

Durability Cost

Area actions cost 1 base + 1 per affected block durability (configurable). Creative mode does not consume durability.

Configuration

A config file is created at config/useful-hoe.json on first run. With Pandorical installed, the
switches, the durability costs and the rain growth settings are also on the Useful Hoe page of the
mod menu, for ops, and a change there takes effect at once; a change to the file needs a server
restart.

Field	Default	Description
`reach0` – `reach5`	See table above	Area `[width, depth]` per Reach enchantment level (max 32)
`durabilityBaseCost`	`1`	Flat durability cost per area action
`durabilityPerBlock`	`1`	Additional durability cost per affected block
`particlePreviewEnabled`	`true`	Show colored particle preview when holding a hoe
`particleTickInterval`	`4`	Ticks between particle updates (higher = less frequent)
`tillEnabled`	`true`	Enable area tilling
`plantEnabled`	`true`	Enable area planting
`bonemealEnabled`	`true`	Enable area bonemealing
`harvestEnabled`	`true`	Enable area harvesting
`rainGrowthEnabled`	`true`	Crops standing in the rain get extra growth rolls
`rainGrowthBonusTicks`	`1`	Extra growth rolls per random tick in the rain (0-8)

With Other Mods

Dirt Slab – The area tills dirt, grass, path and coarse dirt slabs the same way a single right-click on one does
Village Quests – A farmer takes apprentices: five lessons on the Reach enchantment, the off-hand, replanting and Fortune, berries and column crops, and what the wide swing costs a hoe, plus a sixth on the emerald hoe when Emerald Tools is installed. Finishing gets you sixteen bone meal