More Ornamental Plants v1.0
More Ornamental Plants — botanical decoration biomes for Minecraft
Short description
More Ornamental Plants brings the look and feel of Eastern gardens to Minecraft. It adds classic Chinese ornamental trees and flowers, 33 new biomes, and 6 new structures. Explore themed forests, flower seas, wetlands, caves, and plateaus filled with ornamental species and decorative details.
What the mod adds
– New tree types: Mei, Crabapple, Apricot, Peach, Pear, Purple-leaf Plum, Osmanthus, Ginkgo, Chinese Parasol, Sweetgum, Camphor, Dove Tree, Chinaberry, Desert Poplar.
– New plants: Herbaceous Peony, Chinese Rose, Chrysanthemum, Cymbidium, Lotus, Camellia, multiple Azalea varieties, Wintersweet, Cotton Rose, Crape Myrtle, Chinese Wisteria, Fountain Grass, Miscanthus, Mottled Bamboo, Black Bamboo, plus the Four Great Peonies.
– Crafting interaction: hold shears in main hand and a flower in off-hand, right-click to get cut flowers (works for some species like Herbaceous Peony and Chinese Rose).
– 33 new biomes across several categories, each with unique vegetation and ground cover.
– 6 new structures placed in specific biomes.
– New foods and fuels with gameplay uses.
Selected biomes and highlights
Flower forest biomes
– Red Mei Forest — snowy forest dominated by Red Bone Mei with Wintersweet on the ground.
– Fragrant Snow Sea — snowy forest with multiple Mei varieties and Fragrant Snow Petals on the floor.
– The Peach Blossom Spring — peach-dominated fairyland; pink-tinted sky and water; floating peach petals drift in the air.
– The Apricot Spring Plateau — plateau with Pink and White Apricot trees and Spring Petals on the ground.
– Penglai — mythical island mountain with various Weeping Mei, Crabapple, Peony, Herbaceous Peony, and Chinese Rose.
– Flowers Grove — weeping Crabapple and mixed flowering trees; dense understory of roses, peonies, orchids, camellias, azaleas, and grasses.
– Crabapple Grove — Crabapple-focused variant with peonies and herbaceous peonies underneath.
– Chinaberry Woods — open forest of Chinaberry and Camphor with lots of Fountain Grass.
– Snow Woods — flowering snowy forest with Pear and Camphor, and Lily of the Valley on the floor.
– Mount Mei — snowy mountain slopes with Green Calyx Mei.
– Camellia Valley, Pink Camellia Valley, Red Camellia Valley — valleys dominated by white, pink, or red camellias mixed with apricot and camphor trees.
Deciduous forest biomes
– Colored Forest — bright forest with Ginkgo, Chinese Parasol, Sweetgum, Osmanthus, and Purple-leaf Plum; yellow-tinged ground and Chrysanthemums below.
– Ginkgo Forest — dominated by Ginkgo with Golden Miscanthus on the floor.
– Sweetgum Woods — Sweetgum and Camphor canopy with Chinese Rose beneath.
– Purple Cloud — dominated by Purple-leaf Plum, with purple chrysanthemums on the ground.
– Desert Poplar Woods — desert area dominated by Desert Poplar trees.
Other forest biomes
– Evergreen Forest — Camphor-led forest with Chinese Parasol, Ginkgo, White Osmanthus, orchids, and Lily of the Valley.
– Longevity Forest — ancient variant with old-growth Camphor, Ginkgo, and Pine plus chrysanthemums and orchids.
Plain and meadow biomes
– Peony Sea — vast field of Peony with some Herbaceous Peonies and Upright Crabapple.
– Peony Meadows — dominated by Herbaceous Peony with scattered Peonies and Upright Crabapple.
– Chinese Rose Fields — wide fields of Chinese Rose with occasional vanilla Rose Bushes.
– Miscanthus Fields — plains full of Golden Miscanthus.
– Crops Green — mixed plain with Fountain Grass, Miscanthus, Chinese Rose, Autumn Cymbidium, and vanilla flowers, plus scattered Camphor and Chinaberry.
Plateau biomes
– Red Highlands — highland slopes rich in Red Azalea, occasional Red Bone Mei and Ornamental Peach.
– Azalea Forest — highland slopes filled with many azaleas and rhododendrons and various azalea trees.
– Ten-Mile Gallery — flower-rich highlands with colorful Osmanthus, azalea trees, and Black Bamboo.
Wetland and river biomes
– Furong Guo — wetland with Cotton Rose, Mottled and Black Bamboo, and abundant lotus leaves and flowers.
– Yunmeng Marsh — swamp with Double Pink Mei, Camphor trees, Summer Cymbidium, and lots of lotus.
– Spring River — river covered with floating peach blossoms and banks lined with Jiang Mei and orchids.
Cave biomes
– Ziying Caves — caves where Crape Myrtle and Chinese Wisteria grow.
– Suyu Caves — caves with White Crape Myrtle and White Chinese Wisteria.
New structures
– Little Iron Threshold Temple — small temple in Red Mei Forest.
– Peach Blossom Hermitage — small temple in The Peach Blossom Spring.
– Apricot Village — traditional Chinese-style village in Camellia Valley.
– Bamboo Garden — small garden in the Cottonrose Realm.
– Mount Mei Tudi Temple — folk temple on Mount Mei.
– XiangXue Pavilion — traditional pavilion in the Fragrant Snow Sea.
New foods and uses
– Bamboo Shoots — dig Mottled or Black Bamboo shoots to get them; in Minecraft 1.21.1 they can be fed to pandas.
– Lotus Root, Lotus Seeds — harvested from lotus; in 1.21.1 they can feed various farm animals.
– Bamboo Shoot Soup, Lotus Root Soup, Lotus Seed Soup — soups with animal-feeding uses in 1.21.1 (Lotus Root Soup can be fed to wolves and cats).
– Crabapple, Golden Crabapple, Enchanted Golden Crabapple — similar to apples with slightly different hunger/saturation and stronger golden effects on the enchanted variants.
New fuel
– Golden Miscanthus — burns long enough to smelt three items.
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