GlymeraSeedlings - Farm Your Own Animals!

Grow animals from seeds on farmland - plant, grow, harvest, repeat!

What is GlymeraSeedlings?

GlymeraSeedlings lets you plant animal seeds on farmland and watch them grow from tiny babies to full-sized animals. Harvest them for meat, hide, feathers and more! Each animal seed bag has its own color so you can tell them apart at a glance.

8 farmable animals: Chicken, Cow, Pig, Sheep, Goat, Turkey, Ram, Bison

How It Works

Planting

1. Craft an Animal Seed Bag at the Farming Bench
2. Right-click on tilled farmland (just like planting normal seeds!)
3. A tiny baby animal appears on the farmland block

Growing

Animals grow through 4 stages, getting visibly larger each time:
- Stage 1: 25% size (tiny baby)
- Stage 2: 50% size
- Stage 3: 75% size
- Stage 4: 100% size (fully grown - ready to harvest!)

Default growth time: ~2.5 minutes per stage (~10 minutes total)

Harvesting

• Hit a fully grown animal to harvest it. One hit is all it takes!
• Hit a growing animal to remove it early - you get your seed back.

Drops

Fully grown animals drop their natural loot plus a seed bag:

Bonus: There is a 20% chance to receive 2 seed bags instead of 1 on harvest!

Crafting Recipes

All seed bags are crafted at the Farming Bench in the Seeds category.

Installation

1. Place GlymeraSeedlings-1.0.0.jar in your server's mods/ folder
2. Start (or restart) the server
3. The plugin creates its config at plugins/GlymeraSeedlings/config.json on first run

That's it! No additional setup needed.

Configuration

The config file is located at plugins/GlymeraSeedlings/config.json and is created automatically on first run.

{
  "growthTimePerStageMs": 150000,
  "bonusSeedChancePct": 20,
  "maxPerChunk": 20
}

Changes require a server restart to take effect.

Admin Commands

Use /give to obtain seed bags directly:

/give AnimalSeed_Chicken
/give AnimalSeed_Cow
/give AnimalSeed_Pig
/give AnimalSeed_Sheep
/give AnimalSeed_Goat
/give AnimalSeed_Turkey
/give AnimalSeed_Ram
/give AnimalSeed_Bison

Good to Know

• Animals can only be planted on tilled farmland (Soil_Dirt_Tilled)
• Animals are immobile - they stay exactly where you plant them
• If the farmland below an animal is removed, the animal is removed too
• Animals persist across player disconnects - they keep growing even if you leave and come back
• Growth data is saved to plugins/GlymeraSeedlings/seedlings.json (do not delete this file!)
• Each seed bag has a unique color for easy identification in your inventory
• The chunk limit (default 20) prevents excessive animal farms that could affect server performance
• When the chunk limit is reached, the seed is returned to the ground and a message is displayed

Performance

GlymeraSeedlings is designed to be lightweight:
- Crop detection runs every 500ms but uses a fast chunk filter - 99% of chunks are skipped instantly
- Growth checks run every 5 seconds with simple time comparisons
- No entity scanning during normal gameplay - animals are tracked by position
- Immobile NPCs with no AI, pathfinding, or movement calculations
- Hundreds of seedling animals can be active without noticeable impact

Made with care by Glymera for the Hytale community