Ecologics

Ecologics refreshes vanilla biomes with additions designed to fit Minecraft’s familiar style, including new wildlife, plants, structures, building materials, foods, and environmental interactions. On beaches, coconut trees produce falling coconuts that can yield food or Coconut Crabs; crab claws can be cooked or used as shears, while coconut slices remove the player’s status effects and leave husks usable in recipes or compost. Seashells can be crafted into sandcastles that shelter turtle eggs from hostile mobs without stopping them from hatching, and a tropical music disc can be found in buried treasure. Deserts gain rideable, tamable camels that can carry two players and a chest, prickly pears growing on mature cacti, and Desert Ruins containing loot-filled pots. The pots store up to nine items, can be carved into different designs, and interact with redstone by signaling their contents and registering newly added items. Penguins inhabit snowy and icy biomes, gather in huddles that grant regeneration when at least four are nearby, hunt fish, and raise eggs that hatch into young penguins; adults shed feathers used to brew a Potion of Sliding. Thin Ice cracks under a jump and breaks beneath someone standing on it, dropping them into the water, while Snow Bricks and Ice Bricks add building options. Plains gain walnut trees and squirrels that can learn to trust players, then collect and plant nearby saplings; trusted squirrels can also be bred with honeycomb. Lush caves receive Azalea and Flowering Azalea wood, craftable into planks and decorative blocks, along with harvestable Azalea flowers and Surface Moss that can be layered on block sides; Moss Carpet stacks like snow layers. Maple trees can grow in several forest biomes and provide wood or sap, which players collect from tapped logs using Spiles and buckets, then boil in a cauldron over a heat source into syrup for bottling, sugar, and sweet foods. Nearly all features are configurable, with gameplay options available through a config file and world-generation features and many other settings adjustable through datapacks. Every Compat can extend Ecologics wood types to craft blocks from mods including Quark, Decorative Blocks, Architect’s Palette, Macaw’s Mods, and Another Furniture.