Immersive Bonsai
by T0mt4ru
Immersive Bonsai lets Immersive Engineering Garden Cloches grow trees, so tree automation can run inside a cloche.
What it does
A bonsai can be made in the crafting grid from a vanilla sapling, using pair shears, and then placed in a Garden Cloche. Once growing, a bonsai produces four logs of its wood type about every 2.5 minutes. Some bonsai variants, such as the oak, have a chance to drop extra items like apples. Immersive Bonsai requires Immersive Engineering, and it is not limited to one cloche type: the mod is designed for players who want trees inside a controlled machine rather than in a large farm.
The mod runs on NeoForge 1.21.1 only. It is a client and server mod, so the server and every player need it. Its license is the MIT License, and the project is not open source. The current file is 1.0.0 for 1.21.1, first published and last updated on 2025-12-10.
Key features
Bonsai from saplings
A vanilla sapling and pair shears are combined in the crafting grid to make a bonsai ready for a Garden Cloche.
Timed log output
A growing bonsai yields four logs of its wood type roughly every 2.5 minutes.
Extra drops by species
Certain bonsai types, such as the oak, can produce bonus items like apples at a set chance.
Faster growth with rich soil
When a food mod supplies rich soil, that soil roughly halves the growth time of a bonsai.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
Use cases
Compact wood supply
A few cloches can supply logs in a small space where a full tree farm would not fit.
Pranking friends
Replacing saplings with sterile bonsai in a large farm makes the farm produce nothing, which suits prank setups among friends.
Who it’s for: Players who use Immersive Engineering and want wood from Garden Cloches, and server owners who run Immersive Engineering with a tree automation setup.
How it compares
Bonsai Crops is a NeoForge mod for 1.21 – 1.21.4, a client and server mod released under the BSD 3-Clause License, and it is not open source. Immersive Engineering: Better Cloche is a NeoForge mod for 1.21.1 that is also client and server and under the MIT License, but it changes the cloche itself rather than adding tree growth. Aetheric Roots is a Fabric and NeoForge mod for 1.21.1, client and server, under the MIT License.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Immersive Bonsai | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-12-10 |
| Bonsai Crops | NeoForge | 1.21 – 1.21.4 | Client and server | 2025-04-08 |
| Immersive Engineering: Better Cloche | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-09-22 |
| Aetheric Roots | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-04-07 |
Questions
Does Immersive Bonsai require Immersive Engineering?
Does the server need Immersive Bonsai?
Does a food mod speed up bonsai?
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What the author says
Do you want to grow trees in your Immersive Engineering Garden Cloches? Garden Cloches are designed for small plants and crops, but that will not stop us! Using a pair of shears, you can turn any vanilla sapling into a bonsai in your crafting grid, ready for use in the Garden Cloche. Each bonsai generates 4 logs of…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/immersive-bonsai
- Owner
- T0mt4ru
- Published
- 2025-12-10
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-12-10
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15