This Swamp Expansion adds a few more vanilla features to the swamp biome. Those are both Decorative and useful expansions.
The New Wild Rice and It's crop variant:
(Bonemeal use as of now is not functional for the new rice crop but I am planning to fix this in the future.)
If you are visiting the swamp with this mode enabled, you'll now come across a new wild plant type called wild rice. If broken, the plant will have a chance of dropping new rice seeds wich can be grown on farmland. Simmilar to Wheat, Rice has 7 growth stages and when ready for harvest (final stage looks golden), the rice crop in question will drop 1 Rice. This Rice bundle item can then also be crafted in a crafting bench to get 4 more seeds. (At this time you can't get seeds from the final crop stage but the seed drop upon the final stage may be implemented later.)
How to cook the rice and make nice meals from it:
To cook the rice you'll first have to add it to a water bucket in the crafting bench by putting the rice above it. Once in the bucket, put it in any oven and let it cook. when done it'll give you a pile of cooked rice ready to be eatenor processed further into other meals.
Other rice related recipes:
- Sushi (You'll need 3 cooked rice, raw salmon, a carrot and dried kelp)
- Dango: (You'll need a stick, 1 cooked rice, and a pile of sugar)
- Fried Rice: (You'll need a bowl, 1 cooked rice, 1 cooked chicken and 1 carrot)
Cattail and it's edible Root:
Cattail is another new decorative plant that is 2 blocks high and breaks like grass but with a special twist! If broken, cattail has a random chance of droppingit's root wich just like in real life, can be eaten both cooked and raw. To cook it, you just have to use any furnce but the campfire also works and while it doesn't have to be cooked for safe consumption, it does benefit you more to cook it before eating due to it's increased saturation and hunger values when cooked.
The new Swamp specific Mushrooms:
On your journey to the swamp you'll also come across 4 types of new mushrooms. Collecting all 6 Mushrooms now and crafting them with a bowl will now give you a special new food item called: Perfect Mushroom Stew. (Gives you no potion effects as of yet.)
Those are:
- The Blue Mushroom (Emits natural light and serves as a new decorative light item if crafted into the new Blue Mushroom Jar.)
- The Purple Mushroom (Emits only a little amount of natural light.)
- The White Mushroom
- The Orange Mushroom
About the New Mushroom Jar item and the Mushroom Basket:
Both items can be placed as fully modelled 3D items in the game if you put them on any surface. The Blue Mushroom Jar is a decorative new light source and the Mushroom Basket is a decorative functional Basket Item that can also be opened with a right click and mushrooms can be stored inside of it (Only when placed on ground as of yet) just make sure to sort them right ;) .
Plans for the future:
As of now, the mod only features the above stated features. But I am planning to implement a willow tree to partially replace Oak in the Swamp for future versions as well as a feature to bonemeal the Rice crop and maybe giving the new mushrooms a big variant as well but I'm not sure about that yet.More news about that will come in future updates.
Do you have any suggestions?
If you have ideas to further add to this swamp expansion feel free to list them in the comments. If I like your ideas I may add them in future updates. :)
