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Hemp, cannabis and the FARMER profession: one harvest funnel, four routes into it, and a chain that runs from a foraged seed to a 1,700 coin block. The Garden has since grown a second layer beside it.

One harvest, four routes

Every hemp and cannabis harvest on the server passes through a single method. Four player routes and one NPC route call it, and none of them carries its own copy of the rules. If a rule changes, it changes for all of them at once.

The click is canonicalised first. Cannabis stands two blocks tall, and both halves are real plots, so clicking the upper one used to reach the funnel, fail a gate meant for orphaned tops and do nothing at all. The funnel now resolves whatever block it is handed down to the plant's lower block as its very first statement, so a hoe, a scythe sweep or an NPC burst harvests a two-tall plant from either half. An upper half whose lower half is genuinely gone is still refused, because harvesting an orphan top on its own would mint a plant.

After that the funnel runs the same list in the same order every time: resolve which plant this is from the plot's own record rather than from the block material, check maturity, check that you are allowed to modify that block, read the plot's genotype, work out the yield and grade the produce, roll a cross against the neighbouring plots, drop the produce and the returned seed, replant the plot at age 0 in one write, book the pollination, then pay FARMER experience and coins if you hold the job.

Most of those steps are new, and most of them do nothing to hemp and cannabis by default. The multiplicative yield terms the Garden brought are held off the two crops on this page unless an operator turns them on, so a hemp harvest is still 2 to 4 leaf and a cannabis harvest still 1 to 2 bud.

The order is what makes a duplicate harvest impossible rather than merely unlikely. A harvest only fires on a fully grown plant, and it replants to age 0 in the same block write. Any second call, from a re-fired event or from the scythe passing over its own centre, sees an age 0 plant and does nothing.

A refusal now says why. When the funnel resolves a real plant and then declines it, you get a line telling you what stage the plant is at, in the same words the ground readout uses, so the two surfaces cannot disagree. It is throttled per player per plot, so walking a field of unripe plants gives you one line rather than one per click, and a different plant still answers.

Explosions and pistons never produce custom produce, because they do not fire the funnel. A plant moved by a piston is still the same plant afterwards.

The Garden, the other growing layer

Hemp and cannabis are no longer the only things that grow. The Garden built a second and much larger growing layer on top of the same plot machinery: its own species with genetics and crossing, soils and amendments, a water rule, greenhouses, bees and pollination, seasons and blight, coffee and a cafe, garden ingredients in vanilla brewing, a Herbarium, a Codex and Garden Shows. It shares the harvest funnel above, and very little else.

Three pieces of that sharing reach this page, and they are the reason it needed rewriting at all. The two crops here now stand on blocks that garden species also occupy, so a block material no longer proves what is planted. The water rule applies to them like everything else. And the plot readout that tells you what you are looking at is the Garden's readout.

Everything past those three belongs to the Garden's own articles, and this one does not repeat them.

• Crops and food for the garden species, their produce and the quality grades.
• Soil, plots and water for soil kinds, amendments, the water rule in full and what a plot record holds.
• Plants as blocks for why a custom plant finally looks like itself instead of like wheat.
• The Garden update for the layer as a whole and where each part lives.

Planting, water and the place guard

Both crops sit on ordinary vanilla plant blocks that the plugin has taken over. Planting is a right-click with the seed onto ground the host block can actually survive on. Both hosts are crop blocks, so both need farmland, and both are light gated: below light level 8 the plant pops off, and hemp returns its seed when it does.

Those host blocks are what the plant is, not necessarily what you see. Since the Garden gave custom plants their own artwork, a planted plot is written to a reserved block state that the resource pack paints as the real plant, and a player without the pack, or on Bedrock, is sent the old crop block instead so their field looks exactly as it always did. No number changes either way. The mechanism is in the plants as blocks article.

Water. A custom plot needs water to advance. Hydrated farmland counts, and so does any water source, flowing water or waterlogged block within four blocks horizontally, from two blocks below the plot to one above it. Rain does not count and neither does ice, which is the deliberately conservative reading. A dry plot does not wither and loses nothing: it pauses, keeps its record and resumes the moment it is watered. A greenhouse does not exempt it, because glass suspends the season and not the need for water. The only exemption is a species whose climate is the Nether, where water cannot exist at all, and neither crop on this page is one.

The growth cap. Both hosts turn into something else if vanilla lets them grow past their harvest stage. A torchflower crop becomes a torchflower at age 2; a pitcher crop becomes a two-block pitcher plant. Growth ticks and bone meal that would cross that line are cancelled, so a plot stays one harvestable block for as long as you leave it standing.

The place guard. The raw goods sit on vanilla bases that would otherwise do something unhelpful in your hand. A hemp leaf is built on kelp and would be placed as a block; a cannabis bud is built on sweet berries and would be eaten or planted. A non-sneak right-click with one of the raw agriculture items is therefore refused in either hand. The guard is scoped to the agriculture items alone, so nothing else you carry is affected, and the edible end products are exempt from it so they can still be eaten.

That refusal used to be completely silent, which is indistinguishable from a broken item, and it is not silent any more: it names what you are holding and says what it is for, for example that a bud is not a seed and sells by sneaking. One line per player per ten seconds, so holding right-click cannot fill your chat.

A seed is only spent once the plant survives. Planting writes the host without letting vanilla run its own survival check, so a host the plugin allowed and vanilla rejects used to vanish on the next block update with the seed already gone. The block is now read back immediately after it is written, and a plant that did not survive is a refusal: nothing consumed, and you are told.

Breaking a plant before it is ripe uproots it and returns nothing by default. Custom seeds also cannot be used to breed chickens, because their vanilla right-click is what the guard denies. Use ordinary wheat seeds for that.

Reading a plot

The first node of the Farming discipline gives you a readout: right-click a plot or the ground and the server describes what is there. Two things about it were wrong until recently, and both are worth knowing because they made the feature look broken rather than missing.

It used to fire once per hand, so a single click produced the answer twice. It now gates on the hand, so you get one readout per physical click. And it used to resolve the block by material, so every custom plant came back as "not a crop". It now resolves the plant the way the growth path does, which means it is right on a shared host.

On a plant you get the species, the stage it is at out of the total, the soil moisture, whether water is in reach, the season or a note that it is under glass, whether it is blighted, and, if it is not growing, the reason in the growth path's own words. On bare ground you get the soil kind, the moisture and the water verdict, and if you happen to be holding a seed it says so and tells you where that seed will grow. It never answers "not a crop" any more, because a status that helps nobody is not a status.

Two further Farming nodes sit at tier 3 and read state that already exists rather than changing any number. Seed Sight shows a seed's genetics when you inspect it, which cannot be written into the item's own tooltip without splitting every seed stack the moment one player buys the node. Glasswise describes the greenhouse over a plot, and it is strictly read-only: it asks the greenhouse's stored values rather than running a detection, because a detection would stamp an owner, stamp the day and clear dormancy, which is changing the thing you asked about. Both answer at most once every five seconds per player. The tree itself is in the skills article.

Only what you planted counts as a field

A plant used to be identified by two things together: the block material, and a marker saying this position was planted. The marker still does its work. The material stopped being an answer, because the Garden moved in on both hosts: the torchflower crop now carries hemp and two garden species, and the pitcher crop carries cannabis and one. Guessing from the block would be wrong two times in three.

So the plot record carries the answer itself. The same number the marker already occupied gained two fields, a species code and a genotype, both written the moment the plugin plants from a Blacklight seed. It lives in the chunk, it survives restarts, and it travels with the world file. There is no separate save file and nothing to load at boot.

Resolving a plot runs down a short ladder, and what each rung does when it cannot answer is the part that matters.

The legacy rung sits above the single-tenant rung because of a collision: a garden species also claims the sweet berry bush, so asking the species list first would rename every un-migrated hemp field in the world to something else.

A row written before the species field existed reads as "nothing recorded" rather than as whichever species happens to land on zero, so an old plot needs no migration at all. It misses the first rung, falls to the ones below it, and behaves exactly as it did.

Why the rule exists. Hemp used to sit on the sweet berry bush. Under a model where the block material alone is the crop identity, that made every world-generated berry bush in every taiga into hemp, and a hired worker sweeping a radius would have turned a wild patch into an endless supply. Hemp has since moved to the torchflower crop, which generates in no vanilla biome, in none of the structure templates and nowhere in the shipped Terralith data. Cannabis never had the problem: a pitcher crop cannot generate naturally at all.

Migrating an older field. Stand in it and run /farm adopt [radius]. Radius defaults to 8 and is clamped to 1 to 16, with a vertical span of 4 blocks either way. It skips unloaded chunks, checks your build rights per block, and admits a plant only where the ground beneath is proof of cultivation: farmland, or, for a plant still on the old hemp host, ground you placed yourself. It reports how many plots it adopted, how many were already registered, and how many it skipped, with the reason. Run inside a natural taiga it registers zero, which is the point.

Adoption writes the genotype as well as the species. That sounds like a detail and is not: writing only the species left the plot recorded but with an empty genome, which reads as an all-recessive plant, a different phenotype and a different yield, produced by the one command whose entire job is to preserve an identity.

Plants left on the old hemp host keep working. They convert themselves in place the first time you harvest them, tilling the ground and swapping the host in the same write. The conversion refuses if the light is below 8, if the ground cannot be tilled, or if moving the plant would leave it standing on a shared host with nothing recorded, which would make it unidentifiable for ever; the plot then simply keeps running on the old host. Plots that were never registered at all need a re-plant; the command says so rather than leaving you to guess. Staff have a broader, audited version of the same tool for legacy fields.

Where seeds come from

Farming conserves seeds rather than multiplying them: each harvest returns exactly one seed, whatever the produce roll was. That makes a field self-sustaining once it exists, and it means the first seed has to come from somewhere else.

Mowing grass. Breaking short grass, tall grass, fern or large fern has an additive chance to drop a seed on top of whatever vanilla gives you. There is one roll per break: the cannabis band is checked first, then the hemp band, and you can never get both from the same block. Creative and spectator players are excluded, and claim protection is respected.

The biome weighting applies to cannabis only, and the warm list is matched by biome key: jungle, savanna, desert and badlands. Hemp is found at the same rate everywhere.

A third band. That same single roll now carries a third band underneath the two above it, for the Garden's own plants: a wild find of a bloom or a species seed, at 1.2% in ordinary ground and four times that inside a grove, restricted to what the climate you are standing in actually admits. A player may forage at most eight species seeds a day, and past that limit a wild find comes up as a bloom rather than as nothing. Because all three bands share one roll and the new one sits underneath, it does not make hemp or cannabis any rarer.

Buying and selling seeds. Both seeds are stocked by the server shop, hemp at 16 for 800 coins and cannabis at 8 for 6,000, which works out at 50 and 750 per seed before the shop multiplier. Both can also be sold back, at 4 and 12 coins.

Those numbers are deliberately far apart, and the gap is checked at startup rather than trusted. The check reads the live buy price, the live tax schedule and every active income booster, so it still holds if an operator retunes any of them. At the shipped values, even a seed sold under the maximum booster and at zero tax leaves a margin of 38 coins per hemp seed and 714 per cannabis seed in the shop's favour, so no circular buy-and-sell trade can form.

The Farmer NPC

The Village Farmer is a hired worker that harvests a bounded field and banks the yield in its chest. It handles ordinary vanilla crops, and it handles hemp and cannabis through the same funnel you use, with a collector list instead of dropping items on the ground.

The Farmer also runs a bone meal pass over its field, capped at 512 positions examined per burst so a large field cannot cost server performance, and it can craft bone meal from bones it holds.

The gate is strict and has no exception. A Farmer harvests marked plots only. There is no setting that loosens this for a worker, because a worker sweeps a radius on a timer and does not walk past a patch the way a person might.

It can see the new plants now. Its ripeness test used to ask whether the block was a vanilla growable, which skipped every plant standing on the reserved host, so a Farmer parked on a field of them found nothing to do. That test is now scoped, and a plant on the new host is seen, walked to and harvested like any other. Its multi-layer burst also resolves each candidate down to the plant's lower block, so it can no longer hand the same two-tall plant in twice from two heights.

Garden plots in a Farmer's field. A field can hold a garden species standing on a vanilla crop block, which used to read to the worker as plain wheat and got banked as plain wheat. There is a policy for that now, village.farmer.garden-plot-policy, and it ships on auto: the Farmer works the plot. Set to refuse, it leaves garden plots alone and reports once per burst rather than once per plot. The default is deliberate, because refusing would idle every Farmer whose field happens to sit on amended soil.

The Gardener is the same worker with a flag. Rather than a new hireable role, a Farmer can be assigned to tend garden plots with /npc assign <id> gardener. It walks a field box, works block by block and deposits into a linked chest, which is a Farmer exactly, so it rides the Farmer's existing interval in the bone meal slot and runs only on a burst that harvested nothing. Two plots per burst by default, a bounded scan, and the amendment it applies comes out of its own carry: the chest loses a real item and the plot gains a real application. No coins are involved anywhere in it.

The Farmer gets base drops only. No Fiber Hands roll, no Master Curer bonus, no crop yield buff, and no FARMER experience or coins. The Garden's yield multipliers are gated the same way, on a harvest that was actually credited to a player, so an automated sweep is not multiplied either. Those are player progression rewards, and paying them to a hired worker would mint yield nobody earned and make the best way to play the FARMER job "buy more NPCs". The Farmer increases how much ground you cover; it does not increase what a harvest is worth.

Processing: the station and the bench

Raw leaf and raw bud are the bottom of a chain of thirteen connected items. Drying and curing happen at a built structure; everything downstream of hemp fibre is ordinary crafting.

The Herbalist's Station is a smoker with a hay bale on both sides along one axis, a barrel on both sides along the other, and a dried kelp block underneath. Any rotation works. Right-click the smoker with an empty hand to open it, or type /farm process (or /farm station, alias /agri) while standing near one. Holding any item leaves the smoker completely vanilla, so the station never collides with the sell or plant gestures, and the block still works as a real smoker.

Each conversion costs 1 charcoal and no coins. The station has bulk buttons for 16, 32 and a full stack, and bulk is cheaper: the fuel for a batch is halved and rounded up, so a batch of 32 costs 16 charcoal instead of 32. A single click always pays the flat rate. The cost written on the button is the cost you are charged, and the buttons re-read the input slot on every refresh.

The bench recipes take it from there. All of them require the real item, not a lookalike.

Cured Cannabis is edible: it gives Regeneration for 6 seconds and Nausea for 8. The Joint is the stronger version, with Regeneration II for 12 seconds, a short Saturation on top, and 12 seconds of Nausea. Only three goods in the whole chain are consumable at all, those two and the Field Bandage. The intermediates are not: a plain right-click with Dried Cannabis or Hemp Fiber is refused rather than eaten, so you cannot waste one by accident, and both are sneak-sellable like everything else.

What everything sells for

You sell a herb good by sneaking and right-clicking with it in your main hand. The payout runs through the taxed sale funnel, you get a receipt in chat, and larger sales are written to the audit log. Everything is also listable on the player market for free.

Each processed tier is worth strictly more than the inputs it consumes, so refining is always the better choice. The hemp line is the utility line and it is long.

The cannabis line is shorter and steeper, and the money sits at the processed end rather than in raw bud, so it cannot be macro-farmed for coins.

Per unit of raw produce, cannabis is worth far more. The apex joint is 600 coins for 4 buds, so 150 per bud. The apex hemp block is 1,700 coins for 48 leaves, so 35 per leaf. Hemp is the utility crop and cannabis is the cash crop, and the ladder says so in numbers.

Two checks run at startup on the live prices. A step that pays less than the inputs it consumes is a hard fault and is named in the console with the percentage. A step that is profitable but thinner than the 1.20 floor is logged as a notice rather than treated as broken, so an operator can retune a price without a red boot line.

The FARMER profession

FARMER is the fifteenth profession and it is passive: there is no sneak ability to trigger and no cooldown to watch. You slot it like any other job and it pays you for harvesting.

It used to be the last one on the list. Six trades were added after it, and every one of them belongs to the Garden: Botanist, Florist, Beekeeper, Arborist, Barista and Chef. Twenty-one trades no longer fit on one screen, so the job menu is two pages now, fourteen on the first and seven on the second. FARMER did not move and nothing about how it earns changed.

Income and experience are awarded by the crop funnel itself, which means every one of the harvest routes pays the same way. The base rate is the common income tier, 10 coins per harvest before your job rank multiplier, and the experience is 4 per hemp harvest and 8 per cannabis harvest. Everything routes through the shared anti-exploit path, so idle time, repetitive patterns and diminishing returns all apply exactly as they do to every other job.

The company side did change shape around it. Twenty-two charters now cover twenty-one trades, because two of them anchor on the Barista, and one was added late for the Arborist, who would otherwise have been the one trade able to found a company whose funnel captured nothing. The Agricultural Company is still FARMER's, trading in food and herbs. The garden trades and their charters are in the garden trades article.

Fiber Hands

A counter trait in the style of the other threshold perks. Every hemp or cannabis harvest you make while holding FARMER increments the counter by one, and it never resets. Once the counter passes 50, each further harvest has a 30% chance to yield one extra unit of raw produce on top of the normal roll.

The bonus lands where the yield is calculated, not in a listener afterwards. That is what stops a single 5x5 scythe swing from multiplying it by 25.

Master Curer

The second counter trait, and it fires at the station rather than in the field. On a cure conversion, and only on a cure conversion, the counter goes up by one; past 25 the conversion has a 30% chance to produce one extra Cured Cannabis. In a bulk run the roll happens per conversion rather than once and scaled, so a batch of 32 has the same expected bonus as running 32 single conversions.

FARMER has no mastery paths. That is deliberate rather than missing, and the job menu skips the mastery prompt for it instead of offering an empty picker.

What the skill tree adds on top

The Farming discipline carries a few arms this chain actually reads: a flat produce bonus, a seed-return ladder, one node that widens the Harvest Scythe by a block, and one that lets you harvest by right-click with an empty hand. The produce and seed bonuses share a ceiling of 8 units per harvest, and that ceiling is on the total rather than on the bonus, so the top of the seed ladder is dead weight on a small harvest. The tree is in the skills article.

Hemp as equipment

Three hemp goods do something you cannot get any other way. This is the part of the chain that makes hemp worth growing even when you are not selling it.

Field Bandage

Two Hemp Cloth, shapeless. Eating one gives Regeneration II for 6 seconds, and it works at a full hunger bar, which is the state you are actually in after a fight. It is out of combat only: while you carry a combat tag the use is refused, and the refusal does not consume the bandage. A denied heal never costs you the item.

Hemp Rope

Three Hemp Fiber in a column. Its base is a lead, so every ordinary leashable mob already works through vanilla. What the rope adds is six mob types a normal lead refuses:

• Panda
• Goat
• Fox
• Turtle
• Axolotl
• Sniffer

The rope is consumed only after the leash actually attaches, so a refusal costs you nothing. There is one real trade-off: an untied or snapped rope comes back as a plain vanilla lead, so the crafting premium is lost on the round trip.

Reinforced Binding

Two Hemp Fiber and one iron nugget. Using one on a forged item restores 150 points of durability, and what makes it worth crafting is what it does not charge. No ingot, no coins, and none of the roughly 10% of maximum durability that an ordinary forge repair shaves off permanently. A forged tool repaired with bindings does not slowly degrade into a shorter-lived version of itself.

It consumes exactly one binding, from the slot it found it in, and it leaves the ordinary ingot repair untouched for everyone who does not carry one.