Growing Crystals

The mod is a Forge utility that increases the growth speed of budding blocks and the crystal buds they produce. Growth normally follows the vanilla rate, and this mod raises it. Each growth step on a budding block has a 1 in 30 chance to succeed, which averages roughly one growth every 30 seconds. Server owners can tune that chance through the config file, so the speed suits their world.

Crystal growth is boosted by a crystal catalyst, which must be crafted before it can be placed. Players place the catalyst around a budding block; the effect covers a square of 23 blocks centered on the catalyst, and one catalyst placed near the center of a geode is enough to raise the growth speed there. The catalyst needs a crystal core, which comes from two amethyst clusters and four emeralds, and the catalyst itself is only found through trading with a cleric villager who has reached the journeyman level.

Growing Crystals works with vanilla amethyst geodes and with modded geodes, and the author lists Geode O Plenty, Infernal Geode and More Geodes Reforged as compatible worlds. Forge is the only loader covered, and the mod runs on client and server, so the server and every player need it. Files exist for 1.18.2 and 1.19.2, and the mod is released under the MIT License. It is not open source.