• age models
  • multiple sizes
  • Flower on top before reaching max age
  • pop open when ripe
• used to grow crops
• should work like a crop: grow from a seed, then ripen, be removed upon harvest
  • drop a seed that contains correct nbt
  • drop harvest
• datapack system to control output count
• render resulting item on ripe rockbud
• crafting:
  • not grafted
  • either use alchemical sulfur of type makes it t2, or allow crafting without (makes it t1/t1.5)
  • could be crop in center and rocks around
  • might need to craft or obtain a rockbud seed first?
• Datapack
  • Data loading
  • Data generation
  • Data sync
• JEI
  • fillItemCategory
  • subtype interpreter
  • recipe category for output

Doesn't really fit the new direction of the mod, so I am closing this.
The whole idea of rockbuds is not really necessary because the goal - obtaining more food - will be achievable using the theurgy apparatus once sulfurs are implemented for crops.

Lavis ideas:

• hoe gravel or stone to turn it into "farmland", wet with water, then coat with seedpaste
• Rockbuds are entities instead of blocks you can grow them on any stone surface
• Worming? ic2 vibes for weeding
• cross pollination with other crops to generate materials other then wheat using bees!
• Decorative rockbuds! Wild ones recoil if approached or you move near them (observer detectable if a block?) but well cultivated ones don't recoil unless touched.
• little glowing green dots start to appear around your crops if you grow a lot of them :D