This mod allows to speed up the growth of trees, bushes, fruit (and other harvestables), hedges, grass, kelp, reed, flowers, trellises, herb planters, fields and to refresh foraging and botanizing for tiles that allow it. The default items for watering and fertilizing are water and ash, respectively.
Every action to start a task consumes a certain amount of a watering or fertilizing item. After the action is performed, a certain time span is required for the task to be performed. After the task has been finished, another task can be started for that tile/object. While there can exist only one task for a particular tile/object at a time, the number of simultaneous tasks for different tiles/objects is potentially infinite.
Possible tasks are (if enabled, actions use and increase either the forestry or gardening skill; the skill governing an action is indicated in parentheses):
- Make trees and bushes grow by watering them. (forestry)
- Make hedges grow by watering them. (gardening)
- Have trees and bushes grow fruit (or other harvestables) out of season by fertilizing them. (forestry)
- Increase the grass height on grass and tree tiles by watering the ground. (gardening)
- Grow (random) flowers on a grass tile by watering it when at maximum height. In contrast to conventional flower growth, all flowers have the same probability. (gardening)
- Make kelp and reed grow by fertilizing them. Note that there is no visual indicator of height for these tiles. (gardening)
- Refresh the ability to forage and/or botanize tiles that allow it by fertilizing them. (gardening)
- Make trellises grow by watering them. (gardening)
- Make trellises (except ivy) harvestable out of season by fertilizing them. (gardening)
- Make herb planters age faster by watering them to reach the age at which they can be harvested. (gardening)
- Make herb planters harvestable by fertilizing them when at the right age. (gardening)
- Make fields grow by watering them. (farming)
- Make underwater fields grow by fertilizing them. (farming)
Almost every aspect can be modified via the configuration file.
- Time required by tasks and polling interval (see below).
- Cost, time and item required for actions.
- Influence of skill, item quality and age on task time, action time and action cost.
- Failure chances and random time variations, optionally influenced by skill level and item quality.
Other options are:
- Block certain actions or tile/object types.
- Show status on examine if a task is enqueued for the examined tile/object.
- Enforce a cool down time for an object or tile after a task has been finished.
- Continuous growth until some age or height limit is reached (conventional step-wise growth after that).
- Age limit for trees and bushes.
- Gain skill for performing actions.
- Persistent task list when shutting down the server.
- Obey tile protection.
- Active protection against conventional server poll for tracked objects.
- Use the original growth functions with all related effects and chances.
- Optional deactivation of the vanilla timer-based field growth mechanics.
Task time can be defined by a base time and several multipliers for task type, object/tile type, species, age, modifier (normal, enchanted, mycelium), skill and item quality. The time required to grow a tree, t, is
TaskTime < t < TaskTime + PollInterval
where TaskTime is the time required for a task as specified by BaseTaskTime and a collection of multipliers.
TaskTime = BaseTaskTime
* task_multiplier
* type_multiplier
* species_multiplier
* age_multiplier
* modifier_multiplier
* skill_multiplier
* quality_multiplier
Multipliers can be tweaked separately for all kinds of conditions. For more information, see the mod's properties file.
Other information:
- Accelerated tree and bush growth ignores all related effects that otherwise would be invoked when a tree or bush grows.*
- Accelerated fruit/harvestable growth ignores seasons.
- Accelerated grass growth ignores seasonal growth rates.
* Such as tree death & self re-plant, mycelium decay, killing area checks for oaks and willows, sprouting to nearby tiles, mushrooms, etc. These effects still occur, but at a normal rate.
Planned features:
- What else could need acceleration? Any suggestions?
Requirements:
- Ago's Mod Launcher, version 0.43 (Wurm Forum page)
- Intended for Wurm Unlimited 1.9.1.5
As always with modded content, I rid me of all liability. Although the mod is non-invasive and can be removed at any time without any effect on the world, make a backup. Just to be sure.
Installation: Just extract the contents of the .zip file into the mods folder in your WurmServerLauncher directory. If you don't have a mods directory, you need to install Agos's mod launcher.