Botania

Botania is a mod by with art by. It revolves around generating and harnessing the magical energy produced by mystical flowers.

Botania's documentation book, the, displays crafting recipes and explains nearly everything about Botania in-game.

Mystical Flowers
Botania generates all over the Minecraft world. They come in 16 different colors. They can be crafted into, which can be further crafted into , or into a wide variety of generating and functional flowers in the.

Mana
is the energy system Botania features, used for powering nearly all of the mystical devices in the mod. It can be acquired through generating flowers such as the, , or , and can power a variety of functional flowers, armor sets, and other accessories from the mod.

Gaia Guardian
Botania's late-game boss, the, can be summoned by performing the. It drops, which are vital for crafting many end-game items.

Tweaks
Botania tweaks vanilla Minecraft in a couple of ways. When Botania is installed, vanilla s can plant crops on the block directly in front of them. Botania also adds a number of decorative banner patterns.

History
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 picked up the mod again, initially under the name BotaniaV2, based off of williewillus' port for Minecraft 1.10.