PnK SpecialCrops
As of: mc1.12.2-4.0b7 (Sep-2018)
Albino Melon plants are an uncommon seedling generated when you apply Pinkly Poo to a dirt or grass area. Albino melon plants grow like and appear similar to regular melon plants, except their stems and melons have no color and when you harvest the melon it produces 2-4 Rainbow Slices rather than regular melon slices.
To obtain the seed of an albino melon plant for farming, you MUST allow the original seedling to mature fully and produce at least one melon; otherwise, breaking the plant just destroys it with no seed dropped. Bonemeal has no effect on albino melon plants and you cannot silk-touch harvest the melon blocks. Harvesting albino melons with a Fortune III enchanted tool makes a significant difference in drop quantity and quality.
(On Left) Melon seedling found after spaming a grass area with pinkly poo. (On Right) An albino melon farm.
TIP: Because of their lack of color, the generated seedlings can be very difficult to spot in their early growth stages. However, the seedlings emit bright light during this stage. Just check the area where you've applied the fertilizer as it gets dark; any block that is now hosting a melon seedling will be lit and easy to spot. Plant a marker near the seedling so you don't accidentally destroy it before it's grown enough to be clearly visible.
Rainbow slices are the edible fruit drops of an albino melon plant. Every slice restores 5 hunger points(
) immediately, has a very high saturation value, and a 2 min saturation buff (which restores even more hunger and health). There are several types of rainbow slices as indicated by their different colors. When eaten, some types have additional beneficial effects such as instant health, regeneration, or good luck. These special slices are always edible and their bonus effect is shown in their tooltips. Note that a bonus effect's duration depends on the type of the effect; the duration can also vary based on what potions are in effect when a player eats the rainbow slice.
Some rainbow slices have a special "(++)" marker next to their names; these are amplifier slices-- when consumed, they will increase the strength of an active potion of the same type by one level to a max of level IV. While most amplifiers work against a single effect, there is a generic amplifier slice named the "PowerUp!" slice. When consumed this slice boosts the strength of every effect by one level, up to a maximum of level V each.
TIP: You should harvest the melons with a tool that has at least a Fortune II enchant to have a good chance of getting special amplifier slices. Fortune also increases the number of slices dropped per harvest so it's worth getting on your harvesting tool as melon plants have a limited lifetime and cannot be silk-touched.
You can convert many enhanced rainbow slices into their equivalent potions. Just put the rainbow slice into your brewing stand with some prepared Awkward potion. Plain rainbow slices will always brew into simple saturation potions. To disable the brewing feature, set the rainbow_slice_brewing config option to false.
There is one particular rainbow slice that you should be a little cautious about consuming: it is the sparkly multi-colored slice with the "Suspicious Brew..." effect. Suspicious slices do not have a fixed standard potion or other buff associated with them. Instead, when you eat them they will give you a random effect from the set defined by the lottery_potions_types config option. By default the lottery set includes some positive effects from the Vanilla Food Pantry, Rustic, PotionCore, and Cyclic Magic mods. You can alter this list to include other mod potions including negative effects, or just empty the list to disable the lottery feature entirely.
Albino Melon plants have a limited lifespan. When planted on dirt, regular farmland, or compost blocks, each plant typically produces between 5-10 harvests before it dies. On rare occasions you can get up to 18 melons per plant. There is one way to extend an albino melon's life indefinitely-- use Blessed Earth as its growth medium instead of dirt or compost. The blessed earth will perpetually replenish the melon stems and they will produce melon harvests as long as the underlying blessed earth is present and viable.
Wild Potato plants are a random seedling generated when you apply Pinkly Poo to a Dirty Dirt area with a water source nearby. All wild potatoes are more nutritious and hardy than standard potatoes and they come in a variety of sub-types natural to different biomes. Some wild potatoes provide unique extracts you need to craft or farm other mod items. Most wild potatoes are unsafe for direct consumption raw as they can be poisonous; you'll need to prepare these potatoes with some Edible Clay before eating them.
Please note that in the table descriptions "generating" refers to the generation rate for farm-planted wild potato crops. Wild potatoes are not part of normal Minecraft biome generation and you must use Pinkly Poo to obtain your original plantlings.
| Icon | Name | Natural Biome | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 |
Wild Gold Potato | Temperate Forests | An uncommon wild potato generating 15% of the time in its natural biomes. No special properties at this time; keep them as that will change in a future update. |
 |
Wild Blue Potato | Extreme Hills, Cold Taiga, Mushroom | An uncommon wild potato generating 20% of the time in cold mountainous or mushroom biomes and 2% of time in other biomes. Only natural source of Altitude Dust. |
 |
Wild Red Potato | Jungles, Swamps | The rarest wild potato, generating 10% of the time in its natural biomes and 2% of time in other biomes. Only natural source of Fecundity Dust, the super fertilizer enhancer. |
 |
Wild Potato (Poison) | All of the above biomes | The most prolific and common wild potato. Poisonous; should be prepared with Edible Clay for roasting. Excellent replacement for standard potatoes in recipes using foodPotato. Use to create Wilder Potato Mash and SunFrost Dried Potatoes for Miner's Stew. |
Farming wild potatoes effectively takes a little planning but you'll want to setup one or two Wild Potato Farms as soon as possible to build up your stocks of the rarer most valuable potatoes.
Albino Pods are found growing under the bark knots of normal Beanstalks. Beanstalks are the only natural source for these pods and you cannot farm them by other means. When harvested, albino pods drop Rainbow Seeds and very rarely, they will reveal a hidden Lost Bean. A single pod will drop one rainbow seed typically, but if you harvest the pod with at least a Fortune III enchanted axe you have a good chance of getting more seeds.
Beanstalk Albino Pod...harvest for rainbow seeds.
Rainbow Seeds are dropped by the Albino Pods found growing on normal Beanstalks. However, you don't need Albino Pods to obtain rainbow seeds; pods are just an abundant source for them. You can also produce rainbow seeds from Albino Melon seeds, Fecundity Dust, and Vermicake using the following craft recipe:
Use rainbow seeds to plant a tilled area up to 5x5 with a random assortment of crops or fungi (use a mycelium patch instead of tilled earth to get mushrooms). The choice of crops and fungi is not biome-dependent but does depend on the set of crop-supplying mods present. PinklySheep relies on Vanilla Food Pantry mod integration to automatically support Harvestcraft, Natura, and Plant Mega Pack crops and plants if those mods are active. Other mods or modpack makers can register other crops using one of the Green Litter Registry lists.
Toxic crops result when you apply some form of poison or infestation to a regular crop such as potatoes or carrots. In general you do not want to eat any of these crops. When harvested, a toxic crop will produce its own custom drop and usually enough toxic seeds or replant tubers for some level of reproduction via farming. By default, the initial way to obtain toxic crops is to spam a field of regular crops with Sludge Renew! anti-fertilizer; however, the mod also has a config option to install a set of easy crafting recipes for these crops so you have a way to obtain them in large quantities; see quick_crafting.
Stunted CarrotsToxic version of a regular carrot. When harvested drops multiple stunted carrots so is easily reproduced via farming once you've created one or two carrots from direct poisoning. These carrots are an easy, abundant source of potion ingredients for tipped arrows and soaked squishy ammo. Brew stunted carrots to create potions of weakness from water or potions of harming from awkward potion. Stunted carrots also have the modifier effects of fermented spider eye on other potions.
Under normal circumstances you should not eat these carrots; however, you can eat a stunted carrot if you have at least four(4) potion buffs in effect. A buff is is a positive potion effect like strength or speed. Combining that many buffs with a stunted carrot will trigger "The Crazies" potion overload debuff which can actually improve the effectiveness of certain weapons like the Drunken Crystal sword and the Slurried Slicer.
Blighted WheatToxic version of regular wheat. Difficult to reproduce via farming due to typical infestation of blight grubs which afflicts the host plant preventing it from maturing properly. When harvested, drops Blighted Seeds very rarely but occasionally will drop one or two juicy Blight Grubs if its been really infested. Blight grubs are an excellent nutrition source and fish trap bait especially for salmon. You can create large amounts of blighted wheat quickly by poisoning a field of regular wheat directly.
You can grow toxic crops on farmland like other crops.
Toxic PotatoesToxic version of a regular potato. When harvested will drop a poisonous potato and most times a toxic potato replant tuber so you can use a toxic potato farm as a reliable source of poisoned potatoes which are required to make the drying agent used to create food powders and wild potato enzyme powders. A toxic potato farm will be difficult to sustain solely on replant tubers as they are dropped only ~80% of the time. The best way to create large amounts of toxic potatoes is to poison a field of regular potatoes directly. Brew toxic potatoes to create potions of poison from water or awkward potion.
Toxic version of regular beet root plants.
Tainted Souls Wart grows spontaneously from very slurry-saturated soul sand blocks called Darkened Soul Sand sludge. Harvesting aged darkened soul sand for warts is a little dangerous, but if you can obtain at least one wart, you can create your own farm with any darkened soul sand that is slurry-soaked but not too toxic; read Farming Tainted Souls Warts to learn how to do this safely.
- To craft Darkened Eyes to create Impressed Bones from "mob thwacking"
- To farm Tainted Souls to repair a Grim Reaper sword, for villager breeding, or as a source of experience
- To brew Harming and Withering potions for tipped arrows, soaked squishy ammo, or a Thirsty Crystal Sword