Create: Mechanical Botany
Create: Mechanical Botany is a Forge and NeoForge addon for Create that automates plant growing through a Mechanical Insolator and a Mechanical Composter.
What it does
The Mechanical Insolator takes a plant, grows it in a basin that receives fluid through its bottom block, and outputs the harvest. Most plants need water, a few need lava, and some Nether and special plants use fluids the mod introduces. Wither Roses need Molten Liquid Compost, and Chorus Fruit needs Void Liquid Compost. Plants obtained from the Sniffer are handled the same way, and the Insolator consumes stress units from the Create network, so the kinetic input needs to be planned.
Liquid Compost is made by feeding compost into an Item Drain. Molten Liquid Compost comes from mixing Liquid Compost with lava in a heated basin, and Void Liquid Compost comes from mixing Liquid Compost with powdered obsidian in a heated basin. The Mechanical Composter turns crops and certain plants into compost, and nearly every recipe there has two outputs, one reliable and one chance-based, in the same way as the regular composter. The mod requires Create, and it has built-in compatibility with Aureate Shrub, Garnished Reworked and Elven Sweet Berries, as well as Sunflower Seeds and Sunflower.
Key features
Plant growing automation
The Mechanical Insolator grows plants in a fluid-fed basin, so farms can run without manual planting.
Fluid-based plant inputs
Different plants need water, lava or custom compost fluids, and each is set by the plant chosen for the Insolator.
Mechanical Composter
The composter converts crops and plants into compost, with a secondary chance output on most recipes.
Dried Dulse and Kelp Block
Dried Dulse and Kelp Block are among the plants that can be processed into compost in the mod's recipes.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
How it compares
Create: Reactive Stress (CRS) is server required with client support optional, under the MIT License and open source, for 1.20.1 – 1.21.1. Create Mechanical Chicken is a client and server addon, released under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only and open source, also for 1.20.1 – 1.21.1. Garnished Botany Pots covers Fabric as well as Forge and NeoForge, under the MIT License and open source, for 1.20.1 – 1.21.1.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Create: Mechanical Botany | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-05-17 |
| Create: Reactive Stress (CRS) | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Server required, client optional | 2026-05-06 |
| Create Mechanical Chicken | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-07-12 |
| Garnished Botany Pots | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Server required, client optional | 2026-02-12 |
Questions
Does Create: Mechanical Botany need Create installed?
Which loaders does Create: Mechanical Botany support?
Does Create: Mechanical Botany need to be installed on a server?
In the catalog
Create: Mechanical Botany is one of 3,545 Optimization mods on ModsFinder, and one of 1,441 Optimization mods for Forge. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
The Mechanical Insolator consumes a lot of stress units as it has a x16 kinetic stress impact, so you may wish to be careful when choosing which plants you want to automate in your factories. This block requires a fluid input through the bottom of the block in order to process the plant inside of it. Most plants…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/create-mechanical-botany
- Owner
- DakotaPrideModding
- Published
- 2025-05-31
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-05-17
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15