Trellis
alaindustrial:trellis
Summary
The Trellis is a support for climbing plants and the mod's first crop. Cotton grows on it today, and it is the farming answer to hunting spiders for fibre: grown in a field instead of being knocked out of mobs. The name is deliberately generic — the support is meant for future plants too.
The trellis stands two blocks tall — the plant climbs it. Place it on tilled soil, then right-click it with cotton seeds.
From there the plant lives in two phases:
- Rooting — the long phase, and it is walked through once in the plant's life. The cotton slowly climbs the support until it wraps both blocks.
- Fruiting — a short cycle that repeats forever. The bush fills with bolls, you pick them with a right-click, and it fills again.
The point: harvesting never destroys the plant. Right-clicking a ripe bush takes the cotton and returns it to its grown, boll-free state — patience is the price of the plant itself, not of every harvest.
Growing
Both phases only advance under two conditions:
- tilled and moist soil under the lower half (farmland next to water);
- enough light, as for vanilla crops.
If the soil dries out or the light goes, growth pauses: the stage is never lost, the plant never dies and never reverts to a seed. Restore the water and it continues from the same stage. This is deliberate — walking away from the game must not wipe out a plantation.
Bone meal speeds growth up, but buys strictly one stage per use, so it cannot turn a bare trellis into a ripe bush on the spot.
Plants can be packed as densely as you like: the trellis does not tick like a machine, so a large plantation costs the world nothing.
Harvesting
| Action | Result |
|---|---|
| Right-click a ripe bush | 1–2 cotton fibre, 35 % chance of cotton seeds; the bush stays and fills again |
| Right-click an unripe bush | nothing happens, the state does not change |
| Break the trellis | the trellis comes back, plus the seed if something was planted |
| Break tall or short grass | 5 % chance of cotton seeds (not while shearing — the same rule vanilla applies to wheat seeds); Fortune raises the count |
Grass is the entry point into the chain: clearing a plain finds the first seeds in the same place wheat seeds come from. After that the plantation sustains itself, since harvesting returns seeds too.
Block properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Height | 2 blocks (lower and upper half) |
| Appearance | a wooden four-post frame with crossbars; a leafy bush that climbs it, yellow flowers when in bloom, white cotton bolls when ripe; grown foliage reaches past the block edges to X/Z ≈−6..24 px |
| Selection and collision | central column X/Z 3..13, Y 0..16 in each half; a simplified shape makes harvesting between branches easier |
| Base | tilled soil (#minecraft:supports_crops) |
| Hardness | 0.2 — breaks instantly by hand |
| Sound | grass |
| Collision | yes — the trellis blocks movement like a fence post |
| Piston | does not move it (half a multiblock must not be torn from its pair) |
| Breaking | both halves go together; the trellis drops exactly once |
Recipes
The seven visible states are a bare support (0), sprout (1), young bush (2), climbing plant (3), adult bush without fruit (4), flowering with closed bolls (5), and white cotton (6). Harvesting returns 6→4 while keeping the adult branches and leaves.
The trellis is sticks tied with string:
| Ingredients | Result |
|---|---|
| 4 × stick + 2 × string | 1 × trellis |
Progression
Cotton fibre is the feedstock for the coming Fluxweave line: it gives the farmer the same route the spider's string gives the fighter.
Cotton fibre also ties into white wool: four fibres in a 2x2 square, mirroring the vanilla recipe made from spider string. The choice between a trellis and a spider farm becomes a matter of taste rather than a locked door: a farmer gets wool without ever meeting a spider.
Related
- Incubator — seed duplication by irradiation (cotton to be added later).
- Rubber — an example of one spec covering several ids through an alias.
Crafting
Shaped Crafting
▶
Trellis