BetterCopycats

BetterCopycats

Plant flowers on your copycat builds.

Create's copycat blocks take on the look of whatever block you put in them, but plants never treated them that way. A copycat wearing a moss or grass skin is still a copycat as far as the game is concerned, so flowers, grass and bushes refuse to stand on it. BetterCopycats changes that: a plant can be placed on a copycat whenever the skin it is wearing could normally hold that plant.

It works with Create's own copycats and with every copycat from Create: Copycats+.

What it does

• Plants on copycats. Flowers, grass, ferns, bushes and tall plants go on any copycat whose skin could hold them, like moss, grass or dirt. A copycat wearing stone still refuses them, the same as stone does in vanilla.
• Slabs look at the half you can see. On a Copycats+ double slab the top half counts, and on a single top slab its own skin counts. Stone below with moss on top takes flowers, moss below with stone on top does not.
• Half a block lower on bottom slabs. A plant on a bottom slab sits half a block lower so it stands on the slab instead of floating above it. The hitbox moves down with it, and you can target it from the side.
• Skin changes are handled. If you change the skin underneath to something that cannot hold the plant, the plant breaks and drops.
• Maps show the skin. Xaero's Minimap and World Map show the skin of a copycat instead of the plain copycat color, so a moss-skinned roof shows up green on the map.

How it works in practice

Copycat · Plant
Block wearing moss, grass or dirt · Can be placed
Block wearing stone · Cannot be placed
Double slab, stone below and moss on top · Can be placed
Double slab, moss below and stone on top · Cannot be placed
Bottom slab wearing moss · Can be placed, half a block lower
Top slab wearing moss · Can be placed

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.21.1 with NeoForge 21.1 or newer
• Create 6.0.8 or newer
• Create: Copycats+ is optional. Without it only the copycats from Create itself are supported, and there are no slabs.

Install it on both the server and the client.

Config

The config file is config/bettercopycats-common.toml.

Option · Default · What it does
lowerPlantsOnBottomSlabs · true · Place plants half a block lower on bottom slabs. When off, plants cannot be placed on bottom slabs at all
allowSaplings · false · Allow saplings on copycats. Growing trees replace the block below with dirt, which would destroy the copycat
allowCrops · false · Allow crops, stems and nether wart on copycats. They grow at the slowest rate because the block below is not farmland
plantBlacklist · [] · Block ids of plants that can never be placed on copycats
mapSupport · true · Show copycat skins on the Xaero's maps (client side)

Compatibility

• Tested with Sodium and Flywheel, and on a dedicated server with two players.
• The Xaero's support is written against Xaero's Minimap 26.6.0 and World Map 1.47.0. It hooks internal methods of those mods, so an update to Xaero's can stop it from working until BetterCopycats is updated.
• Maps pick up the new colors when Xaero's re-reads a chunk, so areas you already mapped may take a while to change. Regions rebuilt from the world save are not covered.

Known limitations

• Plants that have a collision shape, like pitcher crops and lily pads, are not lowered.
• Mushrooms are not supported.
• The hitbox of a lowered two-block-tall plant is the vanilla full block shape moved down, so it is larger than the plant you see.

License

GPL-3.0-only.