This plugin aims to provide a completely vanilla Minecraft experience of improved farming. No commands for users to use! Just drop the plugin onto the server and let everyone enjoy the new mechanics of the already present tools. Read below, what the plugin actually does or check the features page.


Since hoes were added to the game, they were always used for just tilling the dirt to farmland and hoes only differed in durability. For this reason, golden hoes made no sense - they tilled no faster but got used up more quickly. This plugin redesigns the usage of hoes and makes them a tool, which players will be happy to use similarly to axes, pickaxes, shovels, and swords.

• Plants seeds on a 3×3 area at once from offhand.
• Harvests fully grown crops of 3×3 area at once.
• Tills 1 block of dirt into farmland at once.
• Suffers 1 durability damage after every 3 planted seeds or 3 harvested crops.
• Durability: 60 | 132 | 251 | 1562

• Plants seeds on 5×5 area at once from offhand.
• Harvests fully grown crops of 5×5 area at once.
• Tills 3×3 area of dirt into farmland at once.
• Breaks weeds above dirt/grass while tilling.
• Suffers 1 durability damage after every 5 planted seeds or 5 harvested crops.
• Durability: 33

Plant Seeds
Hold the hoe in the main hand and the seeds in the offhand, then right-click on empty farmland.

Harvest fully grown crops
Left-click with the hoe held in the main hand.

Sythe - harvest sugarcane/bamboo
Use hoe as scythe and harvest sugarcane or bamboo on an area with the same range as crop planting and harvesting. (golden 5×5, others 3×3)

Stage: published ( 1.1.0)

Stem Detachment - separate the stem from the product
Right-click with the hoe on the stem or the product to disconnect them, allowing the stem to produce another melon or pumpkin onto another nearby block. Not very useful, but needless features make the world a bit more diverse and fun.

Stage: published ( 1.0.2)

Hoe in Creative Mode - hit only weeds and leaves
While in creative mode, hoes do not take damage from any action. Furthermore, in creative mode hoes do not break any blocks, but only leaves and weeds, like grass, tallgrass, flowers, fern, etc.

Stage: published ( 1.0.2)


Upcoming Features - things yet to come

Away Growth (experimental) - your plants grow while you're away

It's a planned feature to calculate plant growth based on the gametime and not on player presence.

This will be implemented in a light-weight way; when a chunk gets unloaded, the current gametime will get saved for it. Upon reloading the chunk, the time difference will be given, and so crops will be grown according to this time difference.

Stage: experimental (under work, not yet available)


If you liked the plugin, found a bug, or have a great idea which you think would fit the style of the plugin, please let me know in the comment section. If you would like to see this plugin on given servers, make sure the owners know about this awesome plugin!


As for development, I have more than 10 years of experience and had tons of Bukkit projects of my own. Download this plugin knowing, that I care about writing professional quality, bug-free code, that will hardly ever cause any errors whatsoever. I don't plan on making localization, because commands will be used only by server administrators and not by users.