Effective Farmer
by HafnerMichl
Effective Farmer lets a player plant and harvest a 3x3x3 area of crops at once with a single click, using a new Scythe tool.
What it does
Effective Farmer is a singleplayer farming quality-of-life mod. It widens planting and harvesting from one block to a 3x3x3 cube around the selected block, for wheat, beetroot, carrots and potatoes. The goal is to make crop farming faster and less repetitive. Because the mod is aimed at singleplayer play, it is a small utility rather than a large content addition.
Planting uses ordinary crop items: each crop planted still consumes one matching item from the inventory, and seeds for wheat and beetroot work the same way as they do in vanilla. Harvesting is handled by a new Scythe tool, which harvests grown supported crops in the 3x3x3 area around the block clicked and loses durability for each crop it harvests. Holding Shift disables the 3x3x3 effect, so normal single-block vanilla behavior is kept when needed.
Effective Farmer is published for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge across five release versions, 1.20.1, 1.21.1, 26.1.2, 26.2 and 26.3, with 1.3.0 for 26.3 as the latest file. The server and every player need the mod installed. It is released under All rights reserved and is not open source.
Key features
3x3x3 planting
Placing a supported crop fills the 3x3x3 cube around the selected block on farmland, using the same crop item.
3x3x3 harvesting with a Scythe
The new Scythe harvests grown supported crops in the 3x3x3 area around the clicked block in one action.
Shift to use vanilla
Holding Shift turns off the 3x3x3 effect, so planting and harvesting behave as normal single blocks.
Supported crops
Wheat, beetroot, carrots and potatoes are covered, and planting consumes one matching item per crop from the inventory.
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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.
How it compares
AutoHarvest is client-side only and open source under the MIT License, with files for 1.20.4 – 26.3 on Fabric and NeoForge, so the server does not need it. Simply Harvesting is server-side only, open source under the Apache License 2.0, and published for Forge and NeoForge 1.19.2 – 26.3, so players join without installing it. Effective Farmer needs both sides and is not open source.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Effective Farmer | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-09-21 |
| AutoHarvest | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.20.4 – 26.3 | Client-side only | 2026-09-24 |
| Simply Harvesting | Forge and NeoForge | 1.19.2 – 26.3 | Server-side only | 2026-09-30 |
Questions
Does Effective Farmer need to be installed on the server?
Which loaders does Effective Farmer support?
How is the single-block behavior restored while crops are being planted?
In the catalog
Effective Farmer is one of 36,990 Utility mods on ModsFinder, and one of 25,772 Utility mods for Fabric. 8,071 mods support Minecraft 26.3.
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What the author says
Tired of farming being repetitive and time-consuming? Effective Farmer is a small singleplayer-only quality-of-life mod that makes crop farming faster and less tedious by expanding planting and harvesting to a 3x3x3 area around the selected block. When placing supported crops, Effective Farmer also plants the same…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/effective-farmer
- Owner
- HafnerMichl
- Published
- 2026-08-16
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-09-21
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15