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Crops

crops.yml in plugins/MythicSeasons/ speeds up, slows down or stops vanilla plant growth in each season. /ms reload reads the file again.

  • Whenever the file loads, the twelve shipped crops get back a missing enabled: true and a block for each loaded season that has none. So a deleted shipped crop comes back: set enabled: false instead. Crops you add are never filled in.
  • A YAML error prints crops.yml could not be read and keeps the previous settings, or the shipped values after a server start.

How growth speed works

Each growth step follows the world's current season. Plants grow at vanilla speed:

  • In worlds without a season, the Nether and the End, so NETHER_WART only reacts in overworld-type worlds.
  • In chunks where a land plugin turns season effects off: WorldGuard season-effects denied or a permanent-season naming a loaded season, or GriefPrevention claimed-areas.seasons-enabled: false.
  • For plants and seasons without an enabled entry.

Everywhere else:

  • With requires-constant-block-light: true, nothing grows while the block light above the growing position is below light-level. Daylight does not count.
  • The outdoor speed applies when the growing position sits directly on the highest block of its column (by the server's highest-block lookup), the indoor speed everywhere else.

The growing position is the plant itself for wheat, beetroots, carrots, potatoes, stems, cocoa, sweet berry bushes and nether wart, and the empty block where the new part appears for sugar cane, cactus, bamboo, melons and pumpkins. Speeds are not blended between seasons.

growth-speed Effect on each step
0.0 or below Always cancelled.
above 0 and below 1 Cancelled with a chance of 1 minus the value (0.8 skips 20 percent).
1.0 Vanilla growth.
above 1 The plant gains the whole part of the value in stages, plus one more with a chance equal to the decimals (1.2: 1 stage, 20 percent chance of 2). Never past the last stage.

Plants without growth stages only react to values below 1, see Shipped crops.

Options

Option Default What it does
seasonal-growth-speed.enabled true Master switch. false leaves all growth vanilla.
seasonal-growth-speed.<CROP> the twelve shipped crops One block per plant, named after the plant block's material in upper case.
<CROP>.enabled true for the shipped crops false keeps the plant vanilla. A crop you add is ignored without enabled: true.
<CROP>.seasons.<season> spring, summer, fall, winter One block (not a single value) per season id, any letter case, with the keys below. A season without a block gives vanilla growth.
<season>.outdoor.growth-speed spring 1.2, summer 2.0, fall 0.8, winter 0.0 Speed multiplier outdoors. Missing inside a season block, it counts as 0 and growth stops.
<season>.indoor.growth-speed summer 1.4, the others 1.0 Speed multiplier indoors. A missing key counts as 0.
<season>.light.requires-constant-block-light winter true (false for NETHER_WART), the others false true: the plant only grows with enough block light (torches, lanterns, glowstone), indoors and outdoors. A missing key counts as false.
<season>.light.light-level 8 Block light needed while the light requirement is on, 0 to 15. Above 15, growth stops. A missing key counts as 0.
  • Use the plant block name, not the item: BEETROOTS, CARROTS and POTATOES. The item names BEETROOT, CARROT and POTATO load without a warning and never match.
  • Keep crop names in upper case: a lower-case wheat block gets an upper-case WHEAT block with default values next to it, which wins.
  • A name that is not a material logs crops.yml seasonal-growth-speed.<name> is not a known material, skipping it. A crop without seasons logs crops.yml seasonal-growth-speed.<name> has no seasons block, skipping it.
  • A season you add later gets its blocks at the next start or reload: both speeds 1.0, no light requirement, light-level 8.

Shipped crops

All twelve crops ship with the season values above.

Crop Above 1.0 Below 1.0
WHEAT, BEETROOTS, CARROTS, POTATOES, COCOA, SWEET_BERRY_BUSH Extra stages Growth steps are skipped
MELON_STEM, PUMPKIN_STEM The stem gains stages, the fruit is not sped up The stem skips steps and places fruit less often
SUGAR_CANE, CACTUS No effect New segments are skipped
BAMBOO No effect Spreading is skipped
NETHER_WART Extra stages Growth steps are skipped (on soul sand in overworld-type worlds only)

Examples

seasonal-growth-speed:
  SUGAR_CANE:
    enabled: false

Goes inside the existing SUGAR_CANE block.

seasonal-growth-speed:
  CARROTS:
    seasons:
      winter:
        outdoor:
          growth-speed: 0.25
        indoor:
          growth-speed: 1.0
        light:
          requires-constant-block-light: false
          light-level: 8

Outdoor carrots skip three of four winter growth steps and need no torches.

Updated Nov 11, 2026