Wild Crops

Wild Crops are the wild versions of the Farmer’s Delight crops, and you’ll find them growing on their own across the Overworld in small patches, mixed in with grass, flowers or Sandy Shrubs. Breaking them is the main way you’ll get your first Cabbage Seeds, Tomato Seeds, Onions and Rice, so they’re usually the first thing you’ll go looking for once the mod is installed.

There are seven of them, one for each of the mod’s four crops and one each for Carrots, Potatoes and Beetroot, plus the Sandy Shrub, which grows beside a couple of them on beaches. None of them will grow into anything by themselves, but you’re able to spread them with Bone Meal and pick them up with Shears to replant them somewhere else.

Finding It

Each Wild Crop has its own set of biomes, and some of them are a lot easier to find than others. Wild Rice is the most common by a long way, whereas Wild Carrots and Wild Onions are the rarest, so you might have to explore for a while before you come across either of them.

Where Wild Crops Grow

Plant	Found In	Grows On	How Common
Wild Cabbage	Beaches and Snowy Beaches	Sand	Common
Sea Beet	Beaches and Snowy Beaches	Sand	Common
Tomato Shrub	Deserts, Savannas and Badlands	Sand or Dirt	Uncommon
Wild Carrot	Mild biomes like Plains, Forests and Meadows	Dirt or Grass	Rare
Wild Onion	Mild biomes like Plains, Forests and Meadows	Dirt or Grass	Rare
Wild Potato	Cold biomes like Taigas and Windswept Hills	Dirt or Grass	Uncommon
Wild Rice	Swamps, Jungles and Beaches	Shallow water	Very common

Wild Carrots and Wild Onions aren’t tied to a list of biomes, as they’ll generate in any Overworld biome that isn’t too hot or too cold. That means most of the green biomes you’ll walk through, like Plains, Forests, Meadows and Swamps, whereas Wild Potatoes will only show up in the colder ones, like a Taiga, so you won’t see them in a snowy biome or a regular Forest.

Every patch will have another plant mixed in with it, which makes them a lot easier to spot from a distance. Tomato Shrubs grow with Dead Bushes, Wild Onions with Alliums and Wild Potatoes with Ferns, while Wild Carrots grow with Short Grass on a patch of Coarse Dirt, and Wild Cabbage and Sea Beet will share their beaches with Sandy Shrubs.

Wild Rice is the odd one out, as it’s a plant two blocks tall that only generates in water one block deep, with Dirt or Sand underneath and air above it. You’ll find it in the shallows of Swamps, Mangrove Swamps, Jungles and Beaches, and even though the name suggests otherwise, it won’t generate in Rivers at all.

Growing

Wild Crops don’t grow or spread on their own, so they’ll stay exactly as they generated until you do something with them. Using Bone Meal on one has an 80% chance to place a copy of it on an empty block close by, as long as the ground there is something it’s able to grow on, like Dirt, Grass or Sand.

Each patch is capped though, so once there are 10 of the same Wild Crop within a few blocks of the one you’re using Bone Meal on, it won’t add any more. That’s still plenty to break for seeds, and if you leave one or two behind, you’ll be able to spread them again later instead of hunting down a new patch.

Wild Rice works differently, as Bone Meal won’t spread it at all. It has a 30% chance to drop a Wild Rice item instead, which means you can keep collecting them from the same plant without ever breaking it, and those can be planted back in shallow water.

Bone Meal on a Sandy Shrub will always work, and it scatters a few more Sandy Shrubs onto the Sand around it, a bit like using it on a Grass Block. They’re not worth much as a crop, but it’s an easy way to fill out a beach or a desert build.

Harvesting

If you break a Wild Crop by hand, or with any tool other than Shears, it will give you its crop or its seeds, and Fortune will add to the main drop. Three of them also have a 20% chance to drop the vegetable itself as well as the seeds, while Wild Onions will throw in a few Alliums.

Wild Crop Drops

Plant	Drops	Bonus
Wild Cabbage	Cabbage Seeds	20% chance of a Cabbage
Tomato Shrub	Tomato Seeds	20% chance of a Tomato
Sea Beet	Beetroot Seeds	20% chance of a Beetroot
Wild Carrot	Carrot	None
Wild Potato	Potato	None
Wild Onion	Onion	1 to 3 Alliums
Wild Rice	Rice	None
Sandy Shrub	12.5% chance of Beetroot Seeds	30% chance of Straw with a Knife

If you break one with Shears, you’ll get the plant itself instead, which can be replanted on Dirt, Grass or Sand anywhere you like. Silk Touch won’t do this, as it only works with Shears, and Wild Rice will need to go back into water one block deep or it won’t stay put.

On a Cutting Board

You can also put them on a Cutting Board and use a Knife on them, which will give you the seed or the vegetable plus some Dye. You’ll need to pick the plant up with Shears first though, as you have to be holding it to put it on the board.

Wild Crops on a Cutting Board (Knife)

Plant	Result
Wild Cabbage	1 Cabbage Seeds, 50% chance of 2 Yellow Dye
Tomato Shrub	1 Tomato Seeds, 20% chance of a Tomato, 10% chance of Green Dye
Sea Beet	1 Beetroot Seeds, 1 Red Dye
Wild Carrot	1 Carrot, 50% chance of 2 Light Gray Dye
Wild Potato	1 Potato, 50% chance of 2 Purple Dye
Wild Onion	1 Onion, 2 Magenta Dye, 10% chance of Lime Dye
Wild Rice	1 Rice, 50% chance of Straw

Cutting them won’t get you any more seeds than breaking them would, so it’s only worth doing if you’re after the Dye. Wild Onions will always give you 2 Magenta Dye along with the Onion, for example, which is a lot easier than finding Alliums or Lilacs.

Uses

Six of them count as small flowers, so you’re able to use them in Suspicious Stew in place of a flower, along with a Bowl, a Red Mushroom and a Brown Mushroom. Each one gives its own effect for a few seconds, and three of them are helpful while the other three will only hurt you.

Suspicious Stew Effects

Plant	Effect
Wild Onion	Fire Resistance (0:06)
Sea Beet	Water Breathing (0:08)
Wild Cabbage	Strength (0:06)
Tomato Shrub	Poison (0:10)
Wild Potato	Nausea (0:08)
Wild Carrot	Mining Fatigue (0:06)

Every Wild Crop can also go into a Composter, with a 65% chance to add a layer, which is the same chance as the farmed vegetables, while a Sandy Shrub only has a 30% chance. Since they never grow, they’re handy as decoration too, though they’ll catch fire quickly if a fire gets near them.

Most of the time though, you’ll want them for the seeds, which start your first Cabbage, Tomato, Onion and Rice farms. Seeds can turn up in village chests and from the Wandering Trader as well, which is covered on the Villages and Loot page, if you’d rather not go searching.

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