✯ Farm Tales ✯ [LITE]

Note from the developer (JayMar921):

• Hey guys, I made this free version so you can try the plugin first before deciding if you want the premium one. I don’t want to sell something that doesn’t even work for you, so feel free to test it out.
• If you like it, a quick review would really help. If you run into any bugs, just reach out through Discussions or contact_developer and I’ll check it out.
• And if someday you have the budget and decide to support the premium version, it would honestly help me keep improving the project.

Grow it well, and it is worth more.

Farm Tales is a farming plugin where how you tend a crop decides what you harvest. This is the free edition: the same plugin, the same mechanics, a smaller catalog. Thirty crops and fruits, two animals, two quality grades, a nutrition system with 12 tags, seeds that drop from grass, trees you harvest by breaking a leaf, dishes, cooking and smoothies.

It is one plugin, it needs nothing else installed, and the same jar runs on Spigot and Paper from 1.16.5 upward. Every crop rides a vanilla item, so it works with no resource pack at all; with the pack, every one of them has its own sprite.

The paid edition, the complete catalog and the changelog live here -> Farm Tales

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What Lite has, and what it does not

Everything the free edition leaves out is still visible in it. The codex lists the whole catalog with the premium entries greyed and marked, so a player can see what the paid edition adds before anybody buys it.

- Catalog: 15 vegetables, 15 fruits and 4 meats. Premium has 100+ crops and fruits and 30 meats.
- Quality: Common and Good. Premium grades from Spoiled to Exquisite.
- Animals: cows and chickens. Premium tracks cows, pigs, sheep, chickens and rabbits.
- Fertilizer: none, watering only. Premium has three tiers.
- Illness: nutrition is tracked and shown, but nothing makes a player ill. Premium does.
- Storage: nothing rots or ages. Premium rots, preserves and dry-ages meat.
- Fermentation: smoothies only. Premium makes wine and beer.
- Admin menu: config is edited by hand. Premium edits it from a chest menu.

The free edition also shows one popup per session, after 45 minutes, listing the author's other plugins, and has a /farmtales plugins command that does the same. Premium has neither.

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Crops that remember how they were treated

Plant a seed on farmland and it grows on real elapsed time, not ticks. It needs water, and there is a Water Spray for that. Let it dry out and it slows; leave it ripe too long and it overripens. At harvest the plugin looks at how the plant was kept and rolls a grade that is on the item, in its name, its lore and its data, and changes what eating it is worth.

Three plant forms: an ordinary crop, a potted bush in a flower pot, and a fruit tree the plugin builds itself that you harvest by breaking a leaf that grows straight back. Seeds drop from breaking grass, ferns and leaves.

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Eat, cook, combine


Every Farm Tales item carries a nutrition profile across 12 tags. Eating fills them and time drains them. Dishes combine two to four ingredients and a bowl in a crafting grid and take the grade of their worst ingredient. Cooking keeps the grade rather than destroying it. A fruit, a glass bottle and a snowball make a smoothie.

Cows and chickens are tracked from the moment you feed one; feed it well and on time and its meat grades up.

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Yours to change

Every number is in config.yml with a comment above it, every message in language.yml, and a crop you add to catalog/ is read like the shipped ones. PlaceholderAPI is supported.


Support, bug reports and the full documentation: jhprojects.vercel.app/farm-tales