Alex's Crop Genetics
Alex's Crop Genetics adds a breeding system to farming, where seeds carry three stats that players can raise over generations of crops.
What it does
Crops in Alex's Crop Genetics carry genetic traits that can be bred. Each seed holds three unique stats: growth speed, harvest yield and food value. Breeding higher tiers raises these stats, and a tier system scales them from a -50% starting point at Tier 0 up to +200% at Tier 10. Past +100%, further gains become exponentially harder to reach.
Breaking crops in the wild gives boring baseline seeds, but a rare chance exists to find naturally mutated seeds with stats up to +50%, which can start a breeding program. High-tier mutations occasionally roll the Drought Resistance trait, letting crops reach maximum speed without water nearby. Servers that run it need every player to install it too. Files are published for Fabric only, across 12 release versions, under All rights reserved and not open source.
Key features
Genetic crop traits
Crops grow from seeds that carry speed, yield and food value stats, which change when seeds are bred.
Tier-based breeding
Stats scale through ten tiers, so higher-tier crops produce faster growth, more harvest and better food.
Wild seeds and mutations
Rare natural seeds with boosted stats give breeding a starting point, and mutations can add Drought Resistance.
Vanilla-style bundle
A bundle item works much like the vanilla bundle for carrying harvested crops and seeds.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
1.21.x12 of 12 versions with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 2
How it compares
Grow A Crop is a Fabric mod for 1.21 – 1.21.8, released under the Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives 4.0 license and not open source, with its environment on client and server. CropCycle is server-side only for 1.21.11 under All rights reserved. Ez Crops runs on client and server under the MIT License and is not open source.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex's Crop Genetics | Fabric | 1.21 – 1.21.11 | Client and server | 2026-08-25 |
| Grow A Crop | Fabric | 1.21 – 1.21.8 | Client and server | 2025-09-13 |
| CropCycle | Fabric | 1.21.11 | Server-side only | 2026-02-16 |
| Ez Crops | Fabric | 1.21 – 1.21.11 | Client and server | 2026-05-09 |
Questions
Does Alex's Crop Genetics need Fabric API?
Does the server need the mod?
Which game versions are supported?
In the catalog
Alex's Crop Genetics is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,715 Food mods for Fabric. 19,862 mods support Minecraft 1.21.11.
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What the author says
Crop Genetics is a lightweight farming expansion that introduces a dynamic genetics and mutation system for all crops, rewarding careful breeding with higher yields, faster growth, and better food!
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/crop-genetics
- Owner
- 1MinuteMinecraft
- Published
- 2026-08-25
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-08-25
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15