Mire & Peat

This mod adds a renewable energy source: peat. You craft Mire Soil first using dirt, moss blocks and water, then place them near water source, and then wait for Mire Soil to mature. Harvesting mature Mire Soil gives peat and dirt.

TIP

Despite being renewable in this mod, peat is generally considered non-renewable energy source in real life, for it takes very long time for peatland to replenish its peat deposit, and its consumption is wat more faster.

Source Code

https://github.com/lksj-dev/lksj-ag-mire-and-peat

What Can I Learn From This?

• How to register a block?
• How to register the item form of the block?
• How to register a standalone item?
• How to mark my item as a valid furnace fuel?
• How to make shovel as the most efficient tool to mine my block?
• How to make Fortune enchantment affect your block drops?
• How to let my block “grow up” using random ticks?
• How to make my block model randomly rotates, like vanilla grass block?

History

A texture artist said he got free time and was available for commissioning textures for “anything organic”. With the recent work on Project Avant-garde, I recalled one thing from the Forestry for Minecraft mod: Bog Earth.

It was a simple feature to revive in modern Minecraft versions, and it was a perfect example for showing how to work with random ticks. So I contacted the said artist for textures for peat block and item, and quickly cobbled together a working mod.