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Photosynthesis

by Zuiron · for Minecraft

It's all about the crops, seasons, animal care and the world of food!

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13 mo agoLast updated
MITLicense
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About Photosynthesis

From Modrinth

It's all about the crops, seasons, animal care and the world of food!

Photosynthesis

Enhance your Minecraft world with the Photosynthesis Mod and explore new horizons in farming, cooking, and survival. Whether you're a seasoned farmer or a Minecraft newbie, this mod will add depth and excitement to your gameplay.

Description:

Immerse yourself in a whole new level of farming and survival in Minecraft with the Photosynthesis Mod! This comprehensive mod introduces a variety of tools and systems to enhance your agricultural endeavors and create a more immersive gameplay experience.

Key Features:

  • New Culinary Tools: Take your culinary skills to the next level with tools like the cooking pot, skillet, mixing bowl, cutting board, mortar and pestle, milk separator, gravity press, drying net, and more.
  • Cooking and Automation: Experiment with new recipes, and automate your cooking process by slot-locking certain tools with a wrench.
  • Fluid Processing: Extract liquids like sunflower oil, canola oil, and olive oil with the fluid press. Create mead in kegs and satisfy your thirst with a dynamic thirst system.
  • Animal Care and Enhanced Meat Drops: Keep your livestock alive by providing them with food and water, and in return, they'll reward you with a variety of meat cuts, including ham, ribs, brisket, and more.
  • Leather Processing: Leather is no longer a simple drop. Process and cure it by salting and drying, transforming raw hides into usable leather for crafting.
  • Seasonal Changes: Embrace the changing seasons as crops, trees, and foliage adapt to spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Witness unique tree textures, seasonal crop growth, and frozen biomes in the winter.
  • Enhanced Tree Generation: Explore expansive, towering forests with completely overhauled tree generation. Easily navigate lush woodlands and experience the grandeur of larger, taller trees.
  • Extensive Variety: Plant 92 new crops, including 14 flower crops, and cultivate 52 different tree types, each bearing fruits or nuts.
  • Crop Mutation/Breeding: To get new crop species breed them with cropsticks. check REI for which crops to breed together!

Mod Compatibility:

  • Enjoy seamless compatibility with the Create mod, allowing for expanded crafting possibilities.
  • RightClickHarvest should also work without issues.
  • WTHIT will show you useful info on crops and animals.

Incompatible Mods

In-Game Guides:

  • Install the Patchouli mod to access detailed in-game guides for information on tools, recipes, seasonal changes, meat processing, leather curing, and more.
  • REI mod provides an easy and swift way to access and view recipes.

Configuration Options:

Customize your gameplay experience with configurable options. Disable the thirst system, seasonal changes via the configuration settings.

Conveniently adjust your configurations in-game using Mod Menu.

You can now also disable/enable animal hunger and thirst. This only affects Pig, Cow, Sheep, Chicken, Horse & Goats, all other animals work as normal/vanilla.

All settings except client settings are synced between server and client upon connecting.

Known Issues:

You can only view "custom" recipes with REI. (JEI is currently not supported)

Modpacks:

Feel free to use this mod in your modpack. You have my permission.

Highlights

From source data

Game versions

Built for Minecraft 1.20.1.

Loaders

Runs on Fabric.

Footprint

Rated a light load on a server.

What kind of mod it is

From the catalog
Listed on Modrinth as “Mods”

Creatures & NPCs

Adds or changes creatures, NPCs and how they behave.

Runs on your server

From source side support

Modrinth lists Photosynthesis as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Compatibility

Game
Minecraft
Loaders
Fabric
Runs on
Serverrequired on the server
Game versions
1.20.1

Verified at the source

  • ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
  • ✓AuthorZuiron, as published on Modrinth
  • ✓LicenseMITFree

Photosynthesis, answered

Generated from the mod’s own source data.

Do my players need to install Photosynthesis?

Modrinth lists Photosynthesis as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Which loaders does it support?

Fabric.

Is it free?

Yes. Photosynthesis is free to download from Modrinth. Its license is MIT.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

Use “Add to a server” on this page, or open NxLabs from your dashboard. We install it, restart your server and switch it on.

NxLabs

Run Photosynthesis on a Minecraft server.

Deploy in about a minute from $4.20 a month, then add Photosynthesis in one click.