EverCrops

Vanilla crops only tick while their chunk is loaded, which means a farm visited once a week effectively never grows. EverCrops instead records when each crop was last ticked and, after a chunk reloads, advances the crop based on how much game time elapsed. Crops placed after the mod is installed are stamped with the current game time, so the catch-up applies from the moment they are planted. The end result matches a chunk that stayed loaded the whole time, without simulating growth in unloaded chunks.

The mod covers plant leaves, melon and pumpkin stems including their fruit, along with the berry bushes, wart and pod crops that grow in the Nether and jungle. It introduces custom blocks and block entities and uses only Inject, Accessor, Invoker and Overwrite mixins. Existing crops in a world keep working as vanilla when the mod is removed.

EverCrops is open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only, and it is published for Forge and NeoForge on 1.20.1 and 1.21.1. It runs on the server only, so players join without installing it. Its admin and debug commands under /evercrops require operator level 2 and target a block at a given position, intended for server administrators and modpack debugging.