Garden of Glass

Garden of Glass is an addon for Botania that enables Skyblock gameplay features in Botania. It is intended to allow Skyblock-type gameplay without relying on any other mods. It adds a skyblock world type, and also modifies Botania gameplay significantly to allow players to survive and thrive in a void world. It can be downloaded from the official Botania website.

The GardenOfGlass.jar file required to play this mode is actually just an empty mod, but its presence is detected by the base Botania mod which then enables the (built-in) Garden of Glass features. One benefit of this approach is that is impossible to have a version conflict between Botania and the Garden of Glass jar.

Features
With this addon installed, players are able to access a new Garden of Glass world type when creating a world. The player will spawn in the void standing on a 3x3 grass platform with three layers of dirt underneath. There is also a water source and some root blocks which will drop Living Roots when broken. Living Roots can be converted to Floral Fertilizer (crafting 1x1) or turned into a sapling (crafting 2x2). Living Roots also function as bonemeal. The player spawns with a Lexica Botania in their inventory, allowing them to immediately access Botania.

Players can shift-click on dirt with an empty hand in a Garden of Glass world to search through the dirt for pebbles, which can be crafted 2x2 to create cobblestone. Another addition is a method to allow players to create Obsidian without a cobblestone generator, allowing travel to the Nether.

Full details of the changes in the Garden of Glass world type are available in-game in the Lexica Botania.

Additions and changes
When Garden of Glass is enabled, the following changes to gameplay occur:


 * New Garden of Glass void world type starting with around 30 Dirt blocks, one Water source block, one Bedrock, one Mana Flame, and 11 Living Root blocks.
 * Living Roots dropped from Living Root blocks, which can be turned into Floral Fertilizer and Oak Saplings, or used like Bone Meal.
 * Pebbles for crafting cobblestone, dropped from shift-right clicking on Grass Blocks, Dirt, Grass Paths and similiar blocks.
 * Bowl of Water for gathering water without draining the water source block and filling the Petal Apothecary.
 * A quarter of Seeds dropped from Grass are replaced with Pumpkin Seeds or Melon Seeds.
 * A number of recipes are added or changed:
 * The Floral Fertilizer recipe using dyes creates three fertilizer per craft instead of one.
 * Blaze Mesh requires blaze powder instead of rods, but has its burn time halved.
 * Mana Spreaders require Livingwood instead of a Gold Ingot in their recipe.
 * Cocoon of Caprice requires a Manasteel Ingot instead of Manaweave Cloth and Pixie Dust.
 * Orechid's recipe is replaced with 8 Mystical Petals.
 * Slimeballs can be made with Magma Cream and a Water Bucket.
 * Mana infusion can be used to make Sugar Cane from Hay Bales, and with Alchemy Catalyst, Prismarine Shards from Nether Quartz, Prismarine Crystals from Prismarine Shards and Heart of the Sea from Nautilus Shells.
 * End Portal Frames can be made with Obsidian and Gaia Spirits.
 * Petal Apothecaries cannot be emptied with empty Buckets.
 * Orechids run much faster and use much less Mana
 * Using a sapling on a Mana Flame will turn it into a Lexica Botania if the player does not carry one, as a way to recover it if lost.

Trivia
The name "Garden of Glass" is a reference to a song from the Japanese multimedia project Love Live!.