Has full support for Botany Pots
This mod is inspired by the proccess of phytomining, in which certain plants can extract metals from the soil and act as an organic ore for processing.
Long story short, this mod adds ore crops.
NEW BLOCK:
Nutrient Rich Soil: Will occasionally bonemeal whatever crop is growing above it. It also can support all the ore crops.
CURRENT PLANTS:
Rust-Root: Used to produce iron
Gold Brush: Used to produce gold
Copperwort: Used to produce copper
Quartz Vine: Produces nether quartz
Amethyst Vine: Produces amethyst
Blaze Shoots: Used to produce blaze powder
Glow Shoot: Used to produce glowstone
Redstone Shoot: Used to produce redstone
Dragon Vine: Used to produce dragon's breath
Also added the ability to craft glow lichen from vines and glowstone.
OBTAINING THE PLANTS:
Naturally Occuring Plants:
Rust-Root: Grows on podzol in jungle and taiga biomes.
Gold Brush: Grows in savanna biomes.
Quartz Vine: Grows on Netherrack in the Nether.
Copperwort: Grows in deserts, badlands and stony peaks and beaches.
Mutated Strains:
Some plants can be modified by playing them in a brewing stand and "brewing" them with a new material.
Amethyst Vine: Combine Quartz Vine and an Amethyst Shard in a brewing stand.
Blaze Shoots: Combine a Blaze Rod with Amethyst Vine in a brewing stand.
Glow Shoot: Combine Blaze Shoots with Glowstone Dust in a brewing stand.
Redstone Shoot: Combine Glow Shoot with Redstone Dust in a brewing stand.
Trading:
Wandering traders will on occassion, sell some of the available plants, in fact the only way to obtain Dragon Vine is from a wandering trader.
Rust-Root: 5 Emeralds
Gold Brush: 5 Emeralds
Copperwort: 5 Emeralds
Quartz Vine: 8 Emeralds
Dragon Vine: 8 Emeralds