Croptopia in All the Mods 11

Croptopia is a farming and cooking mod, and this pack ships version 4.3.1. It adds a big set of new crops, plus drinks, ingredients and utensils that you craft into meals.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Finding crops

Crops are found around the world, and each one spawns only in specific biomes. Since 2.0.0, that spawning is controlled by datapacks and works off the biome's name rather than its category. Some crops also grow on trees. Right click a tree once it is fully grown to harvest it.^[6][7]

Salt is a world find too. It generates uncommonly in River and Ice River biomes and looks like a whiter version of sand.^[8]

What you can make

The in-game guide covers a wide range of food. That includes smoothies and juices, pizzas, sandwiches, salads, fries and chips, jams, and full dishes like Beef Wellington and Shepherd's Pie. There is also a mortar and pestle among the utensils.^{[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]}

Where it fits in the pack

Unverified The sources here do not show Croptopia in any quest chapter or group of the pack's quest book, and they do not show it on the ATM Star path. Check the quest book in game for where, or whether, it appears.

Welcome to Croptopia! Start by heading out into the world to find some wild plants. Here is the order I would go in.^[6]

Break wild plants for seeds

Crops can be found around the world, and each one spawns only in specific biomes. Which biomes is decided by the biome's name, so if a plant is missing where you expect it, try another biome. Breaking a wild plant gives you seeds, and the Croptopia advancement for it literally says to break a wild plant to get seeds.^[6][21]

The mod's seed tooltip tells you which biomes that seed will drop in, so check it if you are hunting for a particular crop.^[21]

Turn fruit into trees

Some Croptopia plants are trees with custom crops growing on them. Right click a tree when it is fully grown to harvest it. You can also gather some fruit and make a tree from it, which is what the sapling advancement asks for.^[7][21]

Saplings have crafting recipes in this pack. Here is the Apple Sapling as an example:^[22]

Apple SaplingMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any apple
• any apple
• any sapling

Recipe id: croptopia:apple_sapling

Grab some salt

Salt generates uncommonly in River and Ice River biomes. It looks like a whiter version of sand.^[8]

Move on to the utensils

Once you have crops and salt, the in-game guide has a Utensils chapter covering how to craft Croptopia's utensils. It also has a page for the Mortar and Pestle, and there is an advancement for making one. The Cooking Pot has its own crafting recipe in the pack:^{[5][19][21][22]}

Cooking PotMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

5 × Iron Ingot

Recipe id: croptopia:cooking_pot

This is the exact in-pack crafting recipe for the Cooking Pot.

The sources for this pack describe Croptopia as a farming and cooking mod: you find crops in the world, harvest trees, and craft food. They don't describe machines, power, fluids or multiblocks, so this section sticks to what they do confirm.^{[2][6][7][22]}

Finding crops in the world

Crops can be found around the world, and each one spawns in specific biomes. The mod's in-game guide says that since 2.0.0, crop spawning is decided by datapacks and goes by the biome's name rather than the biome 'category'.^[6]

Seeds also hint at where they belong: their tooltip says the seed will drop in biomes of a certain category. Breaking a wild plant is how you get your first seeds.^[21]

There are advancements that push you to explore each biome type. They ask you to gather all the seeds from the desert, forest, jungle, plains, savanna and swamp.^[21]

Trees and harvesting

You can find various trees in the world with custom crops growing on them. To harvest one, right click it once it's fully grown.^[7]

You can also start your own orchard. Saplings such as Apple Sapling have shapeless crafting recipes in the pack.^[22]

Apple SaplingMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any apple
• any apple
• any sapling

Recipe id: croptopia:apple_sapling

In this pack the apple sapling is a shapeless crafting recipe.

One of the mod's advancements describes this as gathering some fruit and making a tree from it. Others ask you to collect every sapling, with separate ones for forest, dark forest, jungle and plains trees. One more asks you to strip a cinnamon tree from your local jungle.^[21]

Salt

Salt generates uncommonly in River and Ice River biomes. It looks like a whiter version of sand, so keep an eye on the riverbed.^[8]

Crafting food and ingredients

Everything else is handled through crafting recipes. The pack's recipe dump lists both shaped and shapeless crafting recipes for Croptopia items, such as Butter and Beef Stew.^[22]

Beef StewMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Carrot	Empty slot	Carrot
Beef	any flour	Potato

Recipe id: croptopia:beef_stew

The mod's guide groups its content into crops, drinks, ingredients and utensils. Ingredients are crafted together and then used in other recipes, and the guide has a page on crafting the utensils.^[2][3][4][5]

The guide also has a recipe page for a mortar and pestle, and there is an advancement for making one. Another advancement asks you to make an All Purpose Food Press.^[19][21]

Some advancements reward cooking variety. One asks you to eat anything with five or more ingredients, and another asks you to craft any kind of drink.^[21]

Unverified Croptopia has no config files in the sources for this pack, so any tweakable values for crop spawning or growth are not shown here.

Croptopia doesn't have a formal tier ladder in this pack. The sources give no tier names or unlock order, so I won't invent one. What they do show is how the mod's in-game guide is organized, and that works as a natural order to play in.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]}

Unverified The sources here show no quests for Croptopia in this pack, so any quest-book order for the mod is unverified. Treat the stages below as a suggested way to approach the mod, not an official progression.

First: find your crops and trees

Everything starts in the world. Crops can be found around the world, and each one spawns only in specific biomes. The guide says that from 2.0.0 on, crop spawning is decided by datapacks using the biome's name rather than its category, so explore a few different biomes to collect a variety.^[6]

Trees with custom crops growing on them also generate in the world. Right click one when it's fully grown to harvest it.^[7]

You can also craft seeds and saplings. The pack has crafting recipes for things like Almond Sapling and Artichoke Seeds, so you can grow more once you've found a starting crop.^[22]

Almond SaplingMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any almond
• any almond
• any sapling

Recipe id: croptopia:almond_sapling

This is the pack's recipe for the Almond Sapling.

Next: ingredients and utensils

The guide describes ingredients as items that are crafted together and then used in other recipes. The pack has recipes for staples such as Flour, Dough, Butter and Cheese, so make these early.^[4][22]

DoughMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Cooking Pot
• any water bottle
• any flour

Recipe id: croptopia:dough

The guide also has a Utensils chapter for crafting the mod's kitchen tools. Craftable ones in the pack include the Cooking Pot and the All Purpose Food Press.^[5][22]

Cooking PotMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

5 × Iron Ingot

Recipe id: croptopia:cooking_pot

All Purpose Food PressMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Piston

Hopper

Piston

Recipe id: croptopia:food_press

Then: cooked dishes and drinks

Once you have ingredients, the pack has a wide range of dishes. Some are simple, like Buttered Toast and Avocado Toast. Others are bigger meals, like Beef Wellington, Fish and Chips and Cornish Pasty.^[22]

Drinks have their own chapter in the guide. Examples with recipes in the pack include Banana Smoothie, Chocolate Milkshake and Cranberry Juice.^[3][22]