Farming Tutorial

## Overview

Arathia makes use of two main plugins that make farming more interesting. The first being our seasons plugin which allows the Minecraft world to cycle through seasons. This cycle is currently one real life week for each season. Crops will not grow in winter, meaning that you have a three week growing period to prepare for the winter.

The second plugin Arathia features makes farming more challenging and immersive. Our plant growth plugin is configured so that different crops grow well in some biomes but poorly in other. The full growth table can be found below, showing which biomes are best for growing which crops.

## Biome Groups:

First we need to look at the biome groups. Biome Groups are groups of biomes that are configured together in the plant growth plugin's configuration.

##### DESERT

    - DESERT\_HILLS

    - DESERT\_LAKES

    - BADLANDS

    - BADLANDS\_PLATEAU

    - ERODED\_BADLANDS

    - MODIFIED\_BADLANDS\_PLATEAU

    - WOODED\_BADLANDS\_PLATEAU

    - MESA\_CLEAR\_ROCK

    - MESA\_ROCK

    - MESA

###     Jungle:

    - BAMBOO\_JUNGLE

    - BAMBOO\_JUNGLE\_HILLS

    - JUNGLE

    - JUNGLE\_EDGE

    - JUNGLE\_HILLS

    - MODIFIED\_JUNGLE

    - MODIFIED\_JUNGLE\_EDGE

###     Swamp:

    - SWAMP

    - SWAMP\_HILLS

###     Mushroom:

    - MUSHROOM\_ISLAND

    - MUSHROOM\_SHORE

    - MUSHROOM\_ISLAND\_SHORE

###     Highlands:

    - ROOFED\_FOREST

    - ROOFED\_FOREST\_MOUNTAINS

    - BIRCH\_FOREST\_HILLS

    - FOREST\_HILLS

    - TAIGA

    - REDWOOD\_TAIGA

    - REDWOOD\_TAIGA\_HILLS

    - TAIGA\_HILLS

    - EXTREME\_HILLS -highlands

    - EXTREME\_HILLS\_WITH\_TREES -highlands

    - SAVANNA

    - SAVANNA\_ROCK

    - STONE\_BEACH

###     Snowy:

    - SNOWY\_BEACH

    - SNOWY\_MOUNTAINS

    - SNOWY\_TAIGA

    - SNOWY\_TAIGA\_HILLS

    - SNOWY\_TAIGA\_MOUNTAINS

    - SNOWY\_TUNDRA

    - COLD\_BEACH

    - FROZEN\_RIVER

    - ICE\_FLATS

    - ICE\_MOUNTAINS

    - TAIGA\_COLD

    - TAIGA\_COLD\_HILLS

## Growth Rate Chart

30% | 2% means that the crop will grow at 30% of the vanilla speed and that each crop will have a 2% chance of death per growth tick.

To see these rates in game you can hold the crop/seeds in your hand and left click the soil where you want to plant it.

## Fertilizer

Fertilizer is made out of bone blocks and will bump up the speed of some crops in certain areas, but be careful if you crop does not need fertilizer, it will actually slow down. Its effectiveness is up to players to discover.

## Weed Killer

Weed killer is used to keep your crops form dying. Its effectiveness is up to players to discover.

## Animal Disease

Arathia also uses a Animal Disease plugin for farming livestock. This plugin causes livestock to get sick if they are too tightly packed in a small pen. having 20 animals inside of a 15X15X15 cube will cause the cube to be at capacity. If any more animals are introduced to that area, it has a very high chance of getting sick. This sickness can spread to your other animals and ultimately kill off a large portion of your livestock if you are not careful. so carefully monitor your animals and take care of any sick animals before they spread disease.