Ecological

Puddles form in the open during rainy weather. Walking through one slows the player slightly. Once the rain has lasted long enough, the puddles begin to evaporate, and a player can also collect the water with empty bottles or buckets to clear them sooner. Crops are reworked too. Grass no longer drops wheat seeds and drops mixed seeds instead. Most mixed seeds grow nothing except grass, with a small chance of sprouting a regular crop. Following a wild plant, a player can gather seeds and try again for a better result. Wild Wheat, Wild Potatoes and Wild Carrots are added as the plants involved.

The mod aims to make the world feel more alive, with inhabitants and environmental changes that accumulate over time, instead of a world that stays as it was at creation. Several features are still unimplemented, and the planned ones may change the mod further as development continues. Ecological requires Fabric API on Fabric and Quilt, Forgified Fabric API on Forge and NeoForge, and Sinytra Connector to load Fabric builds on NeoForge. The server and every player need the mod installed. Files cover 1.21 – 1.21.8 across Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, and the code is open source under the Mozilla Public License 2.0.