Botania

Botania is a mod by with art by  based around the magical energies created by flowers and other natural plant life. It is inspired by other magic-based mods like and. There is an in-game documentation book that explains nearly everything within Botania called the (commonly referred to as the "lexicon"), and has many articles on the concepts, blocks, and items added by the mod.

is the energy system Botania features, used for powering magical utilities. It is created very easily but mostly in small amounts, but through mod progression the player can acquire and build devices to acquire larger amounts of Mana. Transporting Mana requires manual and automatic aiming and coordination, it can be transported using s and their variations.

A is a vital tool that the player can use in the mod to perform specific tasks and configure different things. It can be extremely customized.

Around the whole Minecraft world, many will spawn. These flowers are essential towards progressing and creating resources in the mod. They come in all of the 16 vanilla Minecraft colors.

Mystical Flowers spawn naturally in the player's world and are used to potentially create that generate Mana or perform tasks the player would perform themselves, using Mana to do so.

Botania also tweaks the vanilla Minecraft s to allow them to plant crops right in front of them, as well as being able to use a for certain specific tasks such as activating a.

This mod also implements a new feature called "Natural Shedding", where s, s, s and certain other mobs will occasionally drop something associated to them. For example, a Skeleton would drop a now and then. This is also documented in the Lexica Botania.

In later versions for Minecraft 1.7, Botania introduces a boss monster, the, which can be summoned by performing the. When killed, it will drop 8 s which are vital for many crafting recipes the mod includes. This boss is considered a mid-game to end-game goal, as the ritual requires end-game content and the boss is difficult to defeat without the correct equipment and approach.

A Pig is also added into the Botania creative tab. When right-clicked with a mob spawn egg Monster Spawners will be configured to spawn that mob. This is only available for players in Creative mode and the Spawner can only be configured by players in Creative mode.

As of version beta-22, Botania requires the API. Baubles comes packaged with, so if that is installed, Baubles will not be necessary. This and other update notes can be found in the, or on the Botania website.

During the transition from Minecraft 1.7.10 to 1.8, Vazkii decided to discontinue the mod due to a lack of inspiration. It was re-continued by under the name Botania Unofficial. No changes were made, except for minor tweaks and bug fixes. In September 2016, Vazkii decided to re-continue the mod initially under the name BotaniaV2, based off of williewillus' port for Minecraft 1.10. Later Vazkii decided not to stick with the "V2" title and decided to bump the version to R9 instead.

In-game Commands

 * /botania-download-latest (version) - Downloads the Botania version specified.