
Better Botany
Better Botany Made by 8bitdino with 100% human trial & error :3 Description This datapack lets you duplicate small flowers and other plants with Bone Meal…
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Better Botany
Made by 8bitdino with 100% human trial & error :3
Description
This datapack lets you duplicate small flowers and other plants with Bone Meal in a Crafting Table, fixes a bug where Jungle Saplings have the incorrect drop rate, allows Dead Bushes to be renewable via smelting, and has Tall Grass and Large Ferns drop themselves when sheared!
This is designed to work with my Better Non-Renewables Collection!
Affected Blocks/Items
- All Small Flowers (except Golden Dandelion, Torchflower, and Wither Rose)
- Spore Blossom
- Sugarcane
- Cactus
- Cactus Flower
- Vines
- Nether Wart
- Chorus Flower
- Small Dripleaf
- Jungle Sapling
- Dead Bush
- Tall Grass
- Large Fern
Recipes Added
I plan to update this datapack in the future to make Bone Meal work on the included plants outside of crafting. Dead Bushes are not duplicated via Bone Meal, but instead by smelting existing bush-adjacent plants.
Loot Tables Altered
Jungle Leaves now drop their saplings at the same rate as every other leaf block (5% of the time instead of 2.5%)
IMPORTANT
This datapack makes Spore Blossoms, Dead Bushes, Tall Grass (item), and Large Ferns (item) renewable when they are not normally!
Tall Grass and Large Ferns are renewable in block form by bone mealing Short Grass and Ferns respectively, but the items themselves are normally only able to be acquired via generated loot in chests.
More
I haven't figured out a good way to make modular datapacks, so don't be afraid to go into the file and delete any .json files in the [loot_table] or [recipe] folders you don't want!
Please let me know if any bugs/issues arise by submitting a report through the dedicated Google Form!
Credits
Made by 8bitdino
Made with help from Misode's Datapack Generators
Search Tags bone meal, bug fix, minecraft, vanilla, vanilla like, vanilla tweaks, datapack, fix, tweak, better minecraft, 8bitdinoRecipe Gallery images made with destruc7i0n's Crafting Recipe Generator
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 26.1, 26.1.1, 26.1.2
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.
- Downloads as 8bd_better_botany.zip
- Download size: 63 KB
- Download link checked 24 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.