FeRNS
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I searched the forums here and didn't find anything. I kind of thought: Why? Minecraft has them, why not Minetest?
Then I remembered how ferns look in Minecraft: they suck!
Thus, slowly but surely, I drew a plan...
Not only did I want to add something Minecraft already has. I wanted to do it better: with love, with detail, with realism... and more.
To accomplish my goal I did a lot of research on the webs, looked at ferns in real life, tried to implement some stuff I read or experienced and checked if it was still, or even more, fun afterwards.
Dunno if I succeeded.
Ye may decide.
However: a mod is never finished...
This mod is about those archaic plants belonging to the division Pteridophyta.
It has three types (genera) of ferns:
- Lady-Fern (Athyrium)
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But then I read something and I knew for sure this is the right one for this game:
"The abundance of this plant is an indicator of potential heavy metal-rich mines."
So , in this mod, if you see a bunch of these plants: chances are there's some iron, tin or silver nearby.
Take a look at the picture beneath:
- three different sizes
- near trees (woodlands)
- near rocks
- near ores
- Tree Fern (Dicksonia)
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- five different sizes
- two different leave shapes
- in jungles
- in oases
- at tropical beaches
- from the leaves of tree ferns you can get tree fern saplings.
- you can disable the spawning of these in SeTTiNGS.txt.
- if you cut the trunk, the whole tree will collapse
- Horsetail (Equisetum)
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- four different sizes
- you can eat the young ones (the smallest)
- you can disable the spawning of these in SeTTiNGS.txt.
- Giant Tree Fern (Dicksonia)
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- five different sizes
- in jungles
- in oases
- at tropical beaches
- you can disable the spawning of these in SeTTiNGS.txt.
- if you cut the trunk, the whole tree will collapse
I took into account: the circumstances under which the plants grow and what you can do with them.
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You can eat fiddleheads and fern tubes when you roast them.
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Credit
Codesuper_tnt (Destroying all cactuses in a column)
VanessaE (Plantlife)
Review
Evergreen
Inocudom
Neuromancer
Saszrael
Sokomine
Yingaya
Last, but not least
all whom I forgot to mention, who made Minetest, modding and this mod possible and those whom inspired me
Dependencies: plants_lib
Supports: moreores, stoneage, sumpf
Downloads (direct)
latest:ferns-0.1.2.zip
older versions:
ferns-0.1.1.zip
ferns-0.1.0.zip
ferns-0.0.9.zip
ferns-0.0.7.zip
ferns-0.0.5.zip
(for "prehistoric" stuff see archaeplantae of prehistoric-0.1.4 or earlier)
GitHub: https://github.com/Mossmanikin/ferns
License (ev'ryt'ing): WTFPL
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If you want some super duper space fern I might consider adding something like that.
If you want some more realistic stuff I will most likely add it.