Verdant
With Verdant installed, the plants, grasses and mushrooms that fill each biome come from the mod, and the world generates them with the existing terrain.
What it does
Verdant reworks vegetation in the overworld. Jungles gain denser underbrush, caves swap plain grass for mossy sporophytes, and tundras receive patches of color. The additions aim to give biomes a clearer identity, and the mod includes built-in compatibility through biome mod tags.
Moonlight Lib is required on every loader, so it must be installed next to Verdant. Verdant is published for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge. Its builds cover 1.20.1 – 1.21.1, with files for 1.20.1 and 1.21.1, and the license is the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only, which makes the code open source. Client and server both need the mod, since the environment is client and server.
Source code and an issue tracker are public, and the first release dates from 2024-12-19. The latest file for Fabric and NeoForge is 1.21.1-0.2.0, published on 2026-03-20, and the latest Forge file is 1.20.1-0.1.2, from 2025-01-25.
Key features
Biome vegetation
Dense grass, grass edging, jungle fern and dune grass change the ground cover in biomes across the world.
New ground cover and shrubs
Groundcover, shrubs and a set of new plants such as aloe vera and saguaro cactus are added to the terrain.
New flowers
Torch lily, grape hyacinth, azalea flowers and flower crown are placed in biomes alongside the vanilla flowers.
New mushrooms
Conk fungus, pale stinkhorn, phosphor fungus and large bubcap mushrooms grow in caves and other damp areas.
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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.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
Use cases
Vegetation in new worlds
A player starting a new world gets jungles, caves and tundras with the extra plants and grasses already generated.
Who it’s for: Players who want more varied vegetation in their worlds, and server owners who want biomes to look distinct from one another.
How it compares
Dynamic Trees - Dense Trees is an open source Forge and NeoForge tree mod for 1.20.1 – 1.21.1, released under the MIT License and used on both sides. Gyara's plants is a Forge and NeoForge plant mod for the same range, also under the MIT License and not open source. Wild Flora is Forge only and targets 1.20.1 alone, with the same environment and license.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verdant | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-03-20 |
| Dynamic Trees - Dense Trees | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-01-12 |
| Gyara's plants | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2024-12-29 |
| Wild Flora | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-10-09 |
Questions
Does Verdant need Moonlight Lib?
Which loaders can run Verdant?
Does the server need Verdant installed?
In the catalog
Verdant is one of 8,515 World generation mods on ModsFinder, and one of 4,027 World generation mods for Fabric. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
Unique plants for a unique world. # What's Verdant? Verdant fills your world with thoughtful, beautiful flora. Biomes gain much-needed additional identity, with jungles gaining a dense, rich underbrush, lush caves replacing simple grass with mossy sporophytes, and tundras getting bursts of color with dogwood and i…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/verdant-mod
- Owner
- Silversmith Mods
- Published
- 2024-12-19
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-03-20
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15