Productive Farming in All the Mods 11

You do not craft your way into this mod. Seeds come from farmer villagers and from village farm plots, and everything else follows from planting them. In ATM11 the quest chapter is called Productive Farming and sits in the same group as the other Productive mods.

Seed trades share the farmer's normal trade pool, so a given villager shows only a couple of them. Break and replace the composter to reroll a farmer you have not traded with yet.

The crops come in eight growth forms. The form decides where a seed can go and what a harvest leaves behind, so it is the first thing to check when something refuses to plant.

Every seed and every planted crop carries four traits. They travel with the seed, they pass to whatever the crop mutates into, and they climb by one step at random as the plant keeps ripening.

How traits climb

Each time a crop reaches full ripeness there is a 7% chance that one of the four traits, picked at random, goes up a level. A roll that lands on a trait already at its cap is wasted. On average that is one point every 14 ripenings, about 170 ripenings to reach Very High Yield, and about 320 to max everything.

A right-click harvest, and the Farm Controller, keep the same plant in the ground, so its traits keep accumulating. Breaking the crop drops seeds stamped with the plant's current traits.

Crops from other mods

Vanilla wheat, carrots, potatoes and beetroot gain traits too, along with Mystical Agriculture, Croptopia and the Silent Gear flax and fluffy plants. All of those are in ATM11. Mystical Agriculture seeds climb more slowly the higher their tier.

A cross needs two crops and a bee. One crop is the target, the plant that changes. The other is the pollen donor. When it works the target is marked with a mutation, and harvesting it gives seeds of the new variety that carry the target's traits.

With a hive

Every time a bee returns to its hive and delivers nectar, the hive scans a cube reaching four blocks in every direction. If both halves of a recipe are inside, it picks one matching recipe at random and rolls its chance against the target. A Productive Bees advanced hive reaches two blocks further per Range upgrade.

Because the hive picks one recipe per visit, a hive surrounded by several possible crosses spreads its attempts across all of them. One hive per cross is faster.

By hand

The Pollen Sieve upgrade, a Productive Bees item this mod adds, gives an advanced hive a 2% chance per bee visit to bottle Pollen from a random crop in range. Use Pollen on a ripe target crop to roll the cross yourself. The Pollen is used up whether or not it takes.

The odds

Chance equals the recipe's base chance times 1 + 0.5 for each Mutability level on the target. A Crop Duster bee from Productive Bees multiplies the result by five, and does the same for the sieve.

Collecting the result

Jade shows the pending mutation on the crop. Right-click a ripe mutated crop to harvest it safely: you get the new seed and the plant returns to normal. Breaking it works as well.

The Farm Controller turns a walled bed into a machine. It right-click harvests everything on the bed, pulls the drops into its own 27 slots, and if there is a fish tank under the bed it fertilises from that too. It handles this mod's crops, vanilla crops, Mystical Agriculture and the fruit on Productive Trees.

Building rules

• Walls form one closed rectangle with the controller somewhere in it. The smallest farm is a 3 by 3 ring around a single block.
• The inside of the ring, at the same height as the top of the wall, is your soil. Crops are harvested in the two blocks above it.
• Wall blocks are any stone bricks, any glass, hoppers, and the brick blocks listed below. You can mix them.
• Right-click the controller. It either reports the farm as assembled or names the block that broke the shape.
• Pipes can pull items from the controller and push Nutrient Water into it.

Size limits

The mod's defaults allow a wall loop of 200 blocks, an inside volume of 1024 blocks and walls 20 blocks deep. ATM11 ships no override for these, which makes a 32 by 32 bed the largest single-layer farm.

Cycle time

The controller works once every 264 ticks with no upgrades. It has four upgrade slots that take Time, Time II and Stability upgrades from Productive Lib. Each Time upgrade counts once and each Time II counts twice.

Stability upgrade

Produce with different traits does not stack, and a farm of slowly improving plants fills its 27 slots with one-item stacks. A Stability upgrade strips the traits from everything the controller collects, so it stacks again. It strips seeds as well, so keep your breeding bed on a separate controller without one.

Full output

When no slot is free the controller stops harvesting and leaves ripe crops standing. Nothing is destroyed.

Fish farm and Nutrient Water

Build the walls at least three blocks tall and the space under the soil becomes a tank. The controller breeds the fish in it, culls the surplus into drops, and makes Nutrient Water.

• Each fish adds 50 mB of Nutrient Water per cycle. The controller holds 10,000 mB.
• Each 50 mB is spent as one bone meal on one growing crop, or on one Productive Trees fruit tree.
• The tank supports one fish for every two blocks of the farm's footprint. Beyond that the controller culls, always leaving two of each species.
• Cod, Salmon, Tropical Fish, Pufferfish, Squid and Glow Squid all count, as does any other mod's fish.
• Nutrient Water can be bucketed out of one controller and into another, or piped.

Two troughs automate a pasture. Both act once a minute on animals within four blocks sideways and one block up or down, and both take Range and Time upgrades. A Range upgrade adds one block. A Time upgrade shortens the interval by 5%.

The mod adds 18 wild flowers and 3 flowering vines, and gives 14 vanilla flowers a version that can hold any colour. A flower's colour is a real value, and bees mix it.

When a hive has two different kinds of flower in range, each bee visit has a 15% chance to plant a new flower of the first kind nearby. Its colour is a blend of the two parents, somewhere between 30% and 70% of the way from one to the other. Put any coloured flower alone in a crafting grid and you get the dye nearest to its colour. Tall flowers give two.

ATM11 includes Dyenamics, so its eighteen extra dyes are in play. Great Lobelia already gives Ultramarine and Zinnia gives Amber without any breeding.

All 168 crops in the jar, plus the four vanilla crops that gain traits, with where each comes from and what a planter makes of it. The mark beside a name matches the map: a ring is sold by farmers, a filled dot is cross only, a square is vanilla. Open a row for the rest.

Crafting, smoking, crosses, villager trades, planter outputs and storage blocks in one list. Type an item name to see every way it is made or used.

The details that change how you build. Each one is drawn from the jar or the source, not from play-testing, so check anything surprising in a test world before you commit a base to it.

Open reports on the mod's tracker that affect ATM11 players, checked in October 2026. Follow the links for current status before assuming any of them still apply.

Where this guide and the quest book part ways

• Farm size: the book says 2 by 2 up to 10 by 10, the code says 3 by 3 up to a volume of 1024. See section E.
• Watering Trough: the book says faster babies, the code shortens adult breeding cooldown. See section F.
• Flowers from bone meal: off by default. See section G.

Where they differ, trust what you see in your own world, and tell the mod author or the pack team which one was wrong.

This is an unofficial, fan-made reference. All credit for the mod and the pack belongs to the people who made them. Please download both from their official pages, which is how their authors are paid.