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Crops

Grape and hop bushes behind a barley field

Four crops of ours feed the drinks: Red Grapes for red wine, White Grapes for white wine, Hops for both beers, and Barley for ale. The other ingredients are vanilla: Sweet Berries for sweet berry wine, Wheat for wheat beer, Apples for hard cider and Honey Bottles for mead.

A fenced vineyard of ripe grape bushes, with lantern posts at the row heads.
A fenced vineyard of ripe grape bushes, with lantern posts at the row heads.

Plant Red Grapes, White Grapes or Hops on grass, dirt or farmland, just like sweet berries. The bush grows through 4 stages at the sweet berry bush’s pace. Red and white grapes grow the same way; only the ripe fruit tells them apart.

Red grape bush
  1. plantedplanted
  2. growinggrowing
  3. floweringflowering
  4. riperipe
White grape bush
  1. plantedplanted
  2. growinggrowing
  3. floweringflowering
  4. riperipe
Hop bush
  1. plantedplanted
  2. growinggrowing
  3. floweringflowering
  4. riperipe
  • Harvest a ripe bush with a right-click: it gives 2 to 3 grapes (or 2 to 3 Hops) and drops back to its second stage, so it keeps fruiting. You don’t need to replant.
  • Bone meal moves it on by one stage.
  • Bushes catch fire as easily as sweet berry bushes, so keep campfires and lava away from the vineyard.

Sow Barley Seeds on farmland. Barley grows exactly like wheat, through 8 stages, and drops the same way: Barley when it’s ripe, plus extra seeds.

Barley
  1. 00
  2. 22
  3. 44
  4. 66
  5. riperipe
Wild red grapes, wild white grapes, wild hops and wild barley on grass

Your first seeds come from wild plants. They grow in patches, by biome and temperature, so they also show up in modded biomes that are tagged the usual way. Break one for produce, or use shears to take the whole plant home as decoration.

Wild cropGrows inDrops
Wild Barleyplains and savannas (temperature 0.3 or warmer); never in mushroom fields and caves. With Biomes O' Plenty also: Field, Pasture and PrairieBarley (20% chance)
Barley Seeds, more with Fortune
Wild Red Grapesforests and plains (temperature 0.6 to 1); never in mushroom fields and caves. With Biomes O' Plenty also: Mediterranean Forest and OrchardRed Grapes, more with Fortune
Wild Hopsforests and rivers (temperature 0.5 to 0.8); never in mushroom fields and caves. With Biomes O' Plenty also: Woodland and Seasonal ForestHops, more with Fortune
Wild White Grapesforests and mountain slopes (meadows, cherry groves) (temperature 0.4 to 0.6); never in mushroom fields and caves. With Biomes O' Plenty also: Lavender Field and Lavender ForestWhite Grapes, more with Fortune

Farmers and the wandering trader sell seeds too, and village chests sometimes hold some. See Villages & taverns.

  • Bees pollinate grapes, hops and barley and help them grow, as they do with vanilla crops.
  • Animals: Barley feeds and breeds cows, sheep and goats like wheat does. Horses and llamas heal and grow up on it just as they do on wheat, and on the Barley Bale as on a hay bale. Barley Seeds feed chickens and parrots, and you can breed foxes with grapes.
  • Foxes love grapes, red and white: they pick ripe grapes off the bushes, just like they raid sweet berry bushes. They leave vines on ropes alone, and they stop when mob griefing is off.
  • Farmers plant and harvest barley in their fields and compost spare seeds. Grapes and hops they leave to you.
  • Composter: every crop composts with vanilla’s chances.
ItemChance to add a layer
Red Grapes30%
White Grapes30%
Hops30%
Barley Seeds30%
Barley65%
Wild Red Grapes65%
Wild Hops65%
Wild White Grapes65%
Wild Barley65%
Barley Bale85%
Barley on watered farmland next to the hop garden, ready to harvest.
Barley on watered farmland next to the hop garden, ready to harvest.
Red Grape Crate, White Grape Crate, Hops Crate and Barley Bale

Pack nine of a crop into a Red Grape Crate, White Grape Crate, Hops Crate or Barley Bale, and unpack it again in the crafting grid. The Barley Bale is a hay bale in every way: it softens a fall, a campfire on top of it sends its smoke up high, and llamas and horses eat it.

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Red Grape Crate
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Barley Bale
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  • Pick, don’t break. Breaking a bush that isn’t ripe drops nothing, and the plant is gone. Breaking a ripe one drops its fruit (more with Fortune), but a right-click picks it and keeps the bush.
  • Walk right through. Grape and hop bushes don’t prick or slow you the way sweet berry bushes do.
  • Light and water: a bush only grows in good light. Water washes bushes away, and pistons pop them.
  • Grapes are a snack, like sweet berries.
  • More wild plants: bone meal on a wild crop often plants another one nearby, an easy way to get your first seeds. Wild barley mostly drops seeds; the grain is a lucky extra.
  • Farmland under barley never turns back into dirt, as with any crop.
  • Vines on ropes (with Farmer’s Delight) need light too: in the dark they break, and breaking a vine gives the rope back. You can climb a vine like a rope, and bone meal on a full-grown plant passes up to the vine above it.
  • Bees never make a bush climb a rope; only you can start that.

With Serene Seasons installed, the crops have their seasons: grapes, red and white, grow in autumn, hops in summer and autumn, and barley in spring and summer. See Compatibility.