Sturdy Farmland

The mod modifies farmland for the purpose of making it more builder-friendly. Crop trampling is disabled, so a player can walk over planted soil without losing the crop. Random ticking is turned off on farmland, which means it no longer decays into dirt, and water source blocks near it no longer affect it. Solid blocks can be placed on top of the default farmland without the soil being lost.

Four optional watering mechanics are added. Using a water bucket or a glass bottle of water on a farmland block wets a small area at once, a splash potion can do the same, and ordinary water that falls short of this waits for rain. The author describes these methods as a more immersive way to tend crops, with the aim of reproducing the overnight drying and morning watering seen in Stardew Valley. Sturdy Farmland is a server-side utility, so only the server needs it, and single-player worlds still work with it.

The mod is part of the Dew Drop project, and Dew Drop Mod Compat is an optional dependency that works alongside it. Bot's Lib is required. Files are published for Forge only, for 1.20.1, with version 1.1 as the latest file released on 2024-07-21. The mod is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 license and is not open source, but its source code is public.