History VideoGame / Botania

** The ''Complex Brews'' entry details a special set of Brews. These have more varied ingredients and provide more complex effects. A comprehensive list of all the brews that the Lexica Botania describes: Brew of Overload[[labelnote:effect]]somewhat cheap, provides a set of buffs and a set of debuffs; cause for latter implied to be due to [[HeroicRROD the drinker's body being overexerted]][[/labelnote]], Brew of [[LifeDrain Crossed Souls]], Brew of Feather Feet[[labelnote:effect]]complete FallingDamage immunity[[/labelnote]], Brew of [[EncounterBait Crimson Shade]][[labelnote:effect]]makes hostile mobs spawn regardless of conditions such as light level in a 64 block radius[[/labelnote]], Brew of [[EncounterRepellant Vanity's Emptiness]][[labelnote:effect]]opposite of the Brew of Bloodthirst: prevents hostile mob spawns in a 64 block radius[[/labelnote]], Brew of [[GoodLuckCharm Marine Allure]][[labelnote:effect]]modifies chances in [[FishingMinigame fishing]], decreasing [[FishingForSole junk chances]] and increasing treasure chances[[/labelnote]], Brew of Absolution[[labelnote:effect]]removes all potion effects on the player, similarly to Milk, [[StatusBuffDispel including positive effects]], so be careful[[/labelnote]], Brew of [[SanityStrengthening Sane Thought]][[labelnote:effect]]provides ''VideoGame/{{Thaumcraft}}'' compatibility by applying the Warp Ward effect, requires Purifying Bath Salts from the mod[[/labelnote]].

* CommonplaceRare: Elven Knowledge uses this as an explanation for why Elven Trade is possible. Though Elven Trade resources are more powerful, Elves value Minecraftian resources very much for aesthetic purposes and because they're at least equally important for magic.

** Can be pushed [[spoiler:''even one tier beyond that'' with the Ring of Thor, one of the Relics of Aesir available from the [[BonusBoss Gaia Guardian II]], which increases a held Terra Shatterer's range tier by 1. If held with a Rank SS Terra Shatterer, this increases the area to '''11x11'''.]]

-->[[WhatDoesThisButtonDo Do not ever touch this value]] if not asked to. Possible symptoms of doing so include [[Film/TheExorcist your head turning backwards]], [[Manga/AttackOnTitan the appearance of Titans near the walls]] or you being trapped in a game of ''Manga/SwordArtOnline''.
** In the Lexica Botania, use your keyboard to type in the KonamiCode. [[spoiler:It used to play a snippet of ''Before my body is dry'', the first ''Anime/KillLaKill'' opening. Right now, it plays a snippet of ''[[Wrestling/JohnCena The Time Is Now]]''.]]

* SerialEscalation: One of the Terrasteel tools, the Terra Shatterer, is an upgradeable Obsidian-tier pickaxe. It features an AOE mode where it mines big amounts of terrain. At base level, this effect is unavailable and it needs to be unlocked by infusing Mana. There is a catch: there is a definite lot of Mana involved. The Terra Shatterer's AOE level is marked by a rank, starting at D for base level. Upgrading to Rank C (1x3 coverage) doesn't take a lot of Mana relative of how much was needed to produce the Terrasteel. Rank B (3x3 coverage), however, takes ''a whole Mana Pool'' to make. For every next rank, the cost ''increases tenfold'', culminating at '''''[[UpToEleven a thousand Mana Pools for]]'' [[RankInflation Rank SS (9x9 coverage)]]'''.

* SummoningRitual: Exactly one, in two flavors, needed for late-game: [[spoiler:the two-tier Ritual of Gaia. It needs a lot of Elven trade to perform and [[ThatOneBoss a combination of planning, great equipment and reflexes]] to fight. Summoned is the Gaia Guardian, who [[MirrorBoss looks like the summoner with a much darker skin]]. It can [[GetBackHereBoss and will teleport]], leaving behind Gaia Traps, gas clouds that inflict [[StandardStatusEffects Blindness and]] [[MakeThemRot fourth level Wither]]. It can also lift and drop the player to inflict large amounts of FallingDamage, as well as [[FlunkyBoss spawn gray Pixies to attack the player]]. It is frequently recommended that players summon the stronger [[BonusBoss Gaia Guardian II]] after their first Guardian kill, which is [[LightningBruiser even faster and stronger]], as the stronger boss's summoning takes 4 Gaia Spirits, but the upgraded boss drops 8 more Spirits and also drops [[RandomlyGeneratedLoot the Relics]].]]

* MagicalAccessory: The different belts, rods and amulets. Ostensibly called Baubles, which is not a botanurgist term, but rather a name taken from the prerequisite [[https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/baubles Baubles API]] made by Azanor, the creator of ''VideoGame/{{Thaumcraft}}''. Rings range from the simple Bands of Mana, which store Mana, to the [[ArtificialGill Ring of Chordata]], which boosts the OxygenMeter and also makes the wearer an OlympicSwimmer until taken off. Amulets are slightly less common, but a powerful one appears far into late-game - [[spoiler:the [[VideoGameFlight Flügel Tiara]]]]. There are also the belts, such as the [[SprintShoes Sojourner's Sash]].

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It is a magic mod commonly described as {{Magitek}} despite its core focus: magic from [[FlowerMotifs flowers]], sometimes known as botanurgy or botanism. ''Botania'' is often called an unique mod in the ''Minecraft'' modding community due to its unique design, almost complete reliance on in-world interactions and near-absence of [=GUIs=]. Almost all information that is needed to learn the mod is contained in the [[EncyclopediaExposita Lexica Botania]], which provides the player with item documentation, tutorials, challenges and backstory. The only world generation addition, other than dungeon loot, is the [[ColorMotif 16 colors of Mystical Flowers]], which can be harvested from the world and plucked for petals. While the petals can be ground down with a pestle and mortar to be used as dyes, which is [[BoringButPractical very helpful thanks to circumventing the difficulties of making dyes based on blue]], the most important use for the petals is to make the Petal Apothecary, where Mystical Flower petals can be arranged in water and combined with seeds, making new flowers for harvesting and gathering {{Mana}}.

The most basic flower is the Pure Daisy, the only functional flower that does not consume Mana - it slowly "purifies" stone and wood into Livingrock and Livingwood, basic materials for the mod's items. One of the most essential blocks is the Mana Spreader, made from Livingwood, any petal and gold. Mana is stored in Mana Pools, which can infuse items with Mana to create new ones, as well as provide Mana to functional flowers - flowers that use Mana to perform various functions - from heating furnaces and fertilizing plants to killing hostile mobs on sight and turning stone into ores. The mod also introduces three new metals - [[ElementalCrafting Manasteel, Terrasteel and Elementium]]. Manasteel is the simplest one to make - simply infuse iron with Mana in a pool. Terrasteel is far more difficult to obtain - it takes a Mana Diamond, a Mana Pearl, a Manasteel ingot and half a mana pool, but making at least one ingot is necessary to open a portal to Alfheim, the world of the elves. The link is too weak to allow transport of living beings, but items can go through, allowing for the trading of items between Minecrafters and Elves. As the player transfers their Lexica Botania through the portal, many descriptions of advanced technology and secrets of the universe's history unfold in newly added pages.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Some items in the mod mainly serve to make things more convenient for the player. The Assembly Halo functions like a portable crafting table that can save some recipes, The Slime in a Bottle helps you find slime chunks, the Soulscribe kills Endermen in two hits for getting ender pearls more easily, and the Worldshaper's Sextant makes it easier to make circles, to name a few.

* EasterEgg: They contain some of the notable shout-outs in the game.

** Vazkii has inserted this kind of detail in the technical parts, which most would consider the driest areas in mods. Modpack makers and savvy modded ''Minecraft'' players can spot this in the config next to a setting called "spreader.posShift".
-->Do not ever touch this value if not asked to. Possible symptoms of doing so include [[Film/TheExorcist your head turning backwards]], [[Manga/AttackOnTitan the appearance of Titans near the walls]] or you being trapped in a game of ''Manga/SwordArtOnline''.

* EverythingsBetterWithRainbows: Appears in many later-game items, signifying their power. For example, the Spectrolus generates a very fair amount of Mana if provided with all 16 wool colors equally, in sequence, by metadata order, which is far from an easy task to fully automate. Its head looks like a rainbow-colored funnel. Additionally, [[spoiler:the Gaia Spirits are used to make the mod's most powerful items and faintly glow the colors of the rainbow.]]

* GameplayAutomation: As with a good chunk of Minecraft mods - Botania automation, however, rather than providing "magic blocks" like many tech mods, requires a lot of design skill, ingenuity and Redstone. For example, a Drum of the Gathering wired to a weighted pressure plate and a set of Hopperhocks can be used to make a milk farm, useful for providing cake to the Kekimurus, an Elven-tier flower that generates Mana from cake, while later-game, a Bore spreader lens, Hopperhocks, Rannuncarpi, optimally a Warp lens (Elven tier) with a Force Relay and optionally an Agricarnation can be used to make an effective tree farm, which can be combined with Endoflames to provide renewable power.

** The Lexica is not omniscient, but it describes every non-secret feature of the mod. It comes closer to this trope when it is given to the Elves to fill out via an Alfheim Portal, as then it describes almost every single thing ''Botania'' provides. Being hidden until a fair bit through the mod (Terrasteel is a prerequisite for the Portal), a lot of Elven Knowledge is spoilers, including what makes this trope straighter in the Elven Tier - the Myth/NorseMythology-inspired backstory, as described in detail by the entry "Elven Lore: The Shattering".

* {{Mana}}: An uncommon variant - in ''Botania'', Mana seems to be a physical substance to an extent. It can exist in liquid form, in which it is stored in Mana Pools and appears in the item [[RandomEffectSpell Mana in a Bottle]], which provides highly randomized effects upon drinking. Mana is also implied to be in gaseous form when moving out of spreaders.
* MagicalAccessory: The different belts, rods and amulets. Ostensibly called Baubles, which is not a botanurgist term, but rather a name taken from the prerequisite [[https://mods.curse.com/mc-mods/minecraft/227083-baubles Baubles API]] by Azanor, the creator of ''VideoGame/{{Thaumcraft}}''. Rings range from the simple Bands of Mana, which store Mana, to the [[ArtificialGill Ring of Chordata]], which boosts the OxygenMeter and also makes the wearer an OlympicSwimmer until taken off. Amulets are slightly less common, but a powerful one appears far into late-game - [[spoiler:the [[VideoGameFlight Flügel Tiara]]]]. There are also the belts, such as the [[SprintShoes Sojourner's Sash]].
* MageMarksman: The Mana Blaster is essentially a Magitek gun. Normally, it functions like a portable mana spreader and does not deal damage, but you can add lenses to it to make it damage enemies, break blocks, or even cause explosions.
* {{Magitek}}: Despite Botania seeming like a magic mod, it provides a lot of functions usually seen in tech mods, such as many automated farming flowers and tools, wireless linking between inventories, or even remote requesting of items from distant inventories and requests for items to be crafted using the Corporea Index, similarly to Applied Energistics 2.

** [[spoiler: The Gaia Guardian disables creative mode flight, and confines you to a specfic area, making it harder to cheese than most bosses.]]

** The ''Complex Brews'' entry details a special set of Brews. These have more varied ingredients and provide more complex effects. A comprehensive list of all the brews that the Lexica Botania describes: Brew of Overload[[labelnote:effect]]somewhat cheap, provides set of buffs [[DoubleEdgedSword and set of debuffs]]; cause for latter implied to be due to [[HeroicRROD the drinker's body being overexerted]][[/labelnote]], Brew of [[LifeDrain Crossed Souls]], Brew of Feather Feet[[labelnote:effect]]complete FallingDamage immunity[[/labelnote]], Brew of [[EncounterBait Crimson Shade]][[labelnote:effect]]makes hostile mobs spawn regardless of conditions such as light level in a 64 block radius[[/labelnote]], Brew of [[EncounterRepellant Vanity's Emptiness]][[labelnote:effect]]opposite of the Brew of Bloodthirst: prevents hostile mob spawns in a 64 block radius[[/labelnote]], Brew of [[GoodLuckCharm Marine Allure]][[labelnote:effect]]modifies chances in [[FishingMinigame fishing]], decreasing [[FishingForSole junk chances]] and increasing treasure chances[[/labelnote]], Brew of Absolution[[labelnote:effect]]removes all potion effects on the player, similarly to Milk, [[StatusBuffDispel including positive effects]], so be careful[[/labelnote]], Brew of [[VideoGame/{{Thaumcraft}} Sane Thought]][[labelnote:effect]]provides ''VideoGame/{{Thaumcraft}}'' compatibility by applying the Warp Ward effect, requires Purifying Bath Salts from the mod[[/labelnote]].

* ReferenceOverdosed: As evidenced by the sheer amount of [[ShoutOut Shout-Outs]]. The mod's creator is a self-admitted {{Otaku}}.

* ShoutOut: They have their [[ShoutOut/{{Botania}} own page]].
* SummoningRitual: Exactly one, in two flavors, needed for late-game: [[spoiler:the two-tier Ritual of Gaia. It needs a lot of Elven trade to perform and [[ThatOneBoss a combination of planning, great equipment and reflexes]]. Summoned is the Gaia Guardian, who [[MirrorBoss looks like the summoner with a much darker skin]]. It can and [[GetBackHereBoss will teleport]], leaving behind Gaia Traps, gas clouds that inflict [[StandardStatusEffects Blindness and fourth level Wither]]. It can also lift and drop the player to inflict high FallingDamage, as well as [[FlunkyBoss spawn gray Pixies to attack the player]]. It is frequently recommended that players summon the stronger [[BonusBoss Gaia Guardian II]] after their first Guardian kill, which is [[LightningBruiser even faster and stronger]], as the stronger boss's summoning takes 4 Gaia Spirits, but the upgraded boss drops 8 more Spirits and also drops [[RandomlyGeneratedLoot the Relics]].]]

** The final tier, home to almost every InfinityPlusOneSword in the mod, is the Gaia tier, unlocked by [[spoiler:performing the Elven-tier [[SummoningRitual Ritual of Gaia]], slaying the Gaia Guardian and gathering Gaia Spirits. This unlocks items such as the [[VideoGameFlight Flügel Tiara]], the elusive Shard of Laputa [[FloatingContinent used to lift big amounts of landmass into the air]], top-tier Mana Spreaders and the most powerful generating flower, the Dande[[VideoGame/GameOfLife life]]on which can fill whole Mana Pools in a short time, but needs a [[ViewersAreGeniuses very, very]] [[UnconventionalLearningExperience brainy]] [[PuzzleGame player]] to be used effectively.]] Even further down this road, [[spoiler:performing the second-tier Ritual of Gaia allows getting the Relics, very powerful items that [[RandomlyGeneratedLoot drop by chance]] from the Gaia Guardian II, such as the Pinkinator (a gun that turns Withers pink and makes their stars easily harvestable, [[MythologyGag in reference to]] [[AprilFoolsDay Minecraft 2.0]]) and various rings named after Myth/NorseMythology gods that give the player lots and lots of abilities.]]

** Later-game, the [[spoiler:Flügel Tiara]] does this far more powerfully. [[spoiler:It provides the player with 30 seconds of creative flight time, allows gliding in a way that would be later replicated [[HilariousInHindsight by the Elytra in vanilla Minecraft]] and can recharge when the player is on the ground or gliding. In Minecraft, flight in Survival mode is somewhat disbalancing as discussed on the [[GameBreaker/WideOpenSandbox Game Breaker subpage for sandboxes]], so end-game materials are needed - Gaia Spirits and Ender Air]].
* ViewersAreGeniuses: [[InvokedTrope Invoked very well]] in a later-game flower (being Gaia-tier, it's a spoiler). [[spoiler:In the Gaia tech tier, the Dande[[VideoGame/GameOfLife life]]on is accessible. It is a powerful generating flower acknowledged by Vazkii as a GameBreaker. The flower works using the Game of Life. Cells are represented by the very fragile Cell Blocks that only the flower can move. Modified rules are used where cells have a set age based on idle time and parents' age. Cells that hit the 3x3 center die, making Mana - the older the cell, the bigger the payout. It's perfectly possible to find patterns on the Internet, but the flower is supposed to be locked away to only be accessed by intelligent players with the free time and knowledge to solve a complex cellular automaton problem.]]

''Botania'' is a ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' GameMod based upon the Forge API, made by the Portuguese modder Vasco "Vazkii" Lavos (stage name Lizbeth Vazkii).

** The ''Complex Brews'' entry details a special set of Brews. These have more varied ingredients and provide more complex effects. A comprehensive list of all the brews that the Lexica Botania describes: Brew of Overload[[labelnote:effect]]somewhat cheap, provides set of buffs [[DoubleEdgedSword and set of debuffs]]; cause for latter implied to be due to [[HeroicRROD the drinker's body being overexerted]][[/labelnote]], Brew of [[LifeDrain Crossed Souls]], Brew of Feather Feet[[labelnote:effect]]complete FallingDamage immunity[[/labelnote]], Brew of [[EncounterBait Crimson Shade]][[labelnote:effect]]makes hostile mobs spawn regardless of conditions such as light level in a 64 block radius[[/labelnote]], Brew of [[EncounterRepellent Vanity's Emptiness]][[labelnote:effect]]opposite of the Brew of Bloodthirst: prevents hostile mob spawns in a 64 block radius[[/labelnote]], Brew of [[GoodLuckCharm Marine Allure]][[labelnote:effect]]modifies chances in [[FishingMinigame fishing]], decreasing [[FishingForSole junk chances]] and increasing treasure chances[[/labelnote]], Brew of Absolution[[labelnote:effect]]removes all potion effects on the player, similarly to Milk, [[StatusBuffDispel including positive effects]], so be careful[[/labelnote]], Brew of [[VideoGame/{{Thaumcraft}} Sane Thought]][[labelnote:effect]]provides ''VideoGame/{{Thaumcraft}}'' compatibility by applying the Warp Ward effect, requires Purifying Bath Salts from the mod[[/labelnote]].

As of 2019/09/8, the mod's most recent version is r361, written for ''Minecraft'' 1.12.2. More info and downloads can be found at http://botaniamod.net.

* BlowYouAway: The Daffomill uses mana to use wind to push entities.

* DiscOneNuke: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] by Terrasteel equipment. While not early-game as the manufacture takes a lot of Mana, Terrasteel tools and armor are pre-Alfheim and very powerful - the Terra Shatterer is an Obsidian-tier pickaxe with broad mining (enabling 3x3 broad mining costs only half of what making the Shatterer costs in the first place), the Terra Truncator is a fast axe that can chop down whole trees and the Terra Blade is a sword with damage equivalent to a Diamond one and the ability to cast {{Sword Beam}}s. Terrasteel armor is even more powerful - a full set gives a 20% Mana discount on rods and [[MagicalAccessory Baubles]], boosted natural regeneration and passive Mana generation similarly to the Bands of Aura while providing Diamond-tier protection.

* MagicalAccessory: The different belts, rods and amulets. Ostensibly called Baubles, which is not a botanurgist term, but rather a name taken from the prerequisite [[https://mods.curse.com/mc-mods/minecraft/227083-baubles Baubles API]] by Azanor, the creator of ''VideoGame/{{Thaumcraft}}''. Rings range from the simple Bands of Mana, which store Mana, to the [[ArtificialGill Ring of Chordata]], which boosts the OxygenMeter and also makes the wearer an OlympicSwimmer until taken off. Amulets are slightly less common, but a powerful one appears far into late-game - [[spoiler:the [[VideoGameFlight Flügel Tiara]]]]. There are also the belts.

** The fourth tier is the Elven tier, which starts when the player creates a [[PortalDoor Portal To Alfheim]] and performs Elven Trade. This tier unlocks the next two {{Power Crystal}}s, Pixie Dust and Dragonstone, as well as Elementium. This allows wonders such as using Sparks to combine and manage Mana in Pools, creating many more items like the Rod of the Bifrost, utilizing wireless inventory connection via Red String or complex item networks not unlike those of ''Applied Energistics 2'' using the Corporea Index. By this point, as the items are only revealed by the Lexica Botania when filled with Elven Knowledge by trading, most things unlocked in the Elven tier are vaguely spoilers, though most modpacks already provide {{Interface Spoiler}}s thanks to NEI.

** The first tier starts when the player starts putting flowers to use and goes towards making the first portion of Mana, which requires Dayblooms or Nightshades to produce, Mana Spreaders (requiring gold) to transfer and Mana Pools to store.

* MagicalAccessory: The different belts, rods and amulets. Ostensibly called Baubles, which is not a botanurgist term, but rather a name taken from the prerequisite [[https://mods.curse.com/mc-mods/minecraft/227083-baubles Baubles API]] by Azanor, the creator of ''VideoGame/{{Thaumcraft}}''. Rings range from the simple Bands of Mana, which store Mana, to the [[ArtificialGill Ring of Chordata]], which boosts the OxygenMeter and also makes the wearer an OlympicSwimmer until taken off. Amulets are slightly less common, but a powerful one appears far into late-game - [[spoiler:the [[VideoGameFlight Flügel Tiara]]]]. There are also the belts

''Botania'' is a ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' GameMod based upon the Forge API, made by the Portuguese modder Vasco "Vazkii" Lavos (stage name Lizbeth Vazkii). It is a magic mod commonly described as {{Magitek}} despite its core focus: magic from [[FlowerMotifs flowers]], sometimes known as botanurgy or botanism. ''Botania'' is often called an unique mod in the ''Minecraft'' modding community due to its unique design, almost complete reliance on in-world interactions and near-absence of [=GUIs=]. Almost all information that is needed to learn the mod is contained in the [[EncyclopediaExposita Lexica Botania]], which provides the player with item documentation, tutorials, challenges and backstory. The only world generation addition, other than dungeon loot, is the [[ColorMotif 16 colors of Mystical Flowers]], which can be harvested from the world and plucked for petals. While the petals can be ground down with a pestle and mortar to be used as dyes, which is [[BoringButPractical very helpful thanks to circumventing the difficulties of making dyes based on blue]], the most important use for the petals is to make the Petal Apothecary, where Mystical Flower petals can be arranged in water and combined with seeds, making new flowers for harvesting and gathering {{Mana}}.

!This game mod contains examples of:

* OurElvesAreBetter: Little information is given on the elves. They live in their own separate world, called Alfheim. According to the Lexicon entry "Elven Lore - The Shattering", a massive event occurred a few millenia before the game's events, where worlds completely separated and got imbued with Mana. They are implied to be creative and artistically skilled. Their world's unique items are notably pastel and rainbow in coloration, most notably the pink metal Elementium.

* {{Magitek}}: Despite Botania seeming like a tech mod, it provides a lot of functions usually seen in tech mods, such as many automated farming flowers and tools, wireless linking between inventories, or even remote requesting of items from distant inventories and requests for items to be crafted using the Corporea Index, similarly to Applied Energistics 2.

* {{Magitek}}: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. While Botania is most definitely a magic mod, it provides a lot of functions usually seen in tech mods, such as many automated farming flowers and tools, wireless linking between inventories, or even remote requesting of items from distant inventories and requests for items to be crafted using the Corporea Index, similarly to Applied Energistics 2.
** It does come close to being played straight, as redstone is crucial to efficient automation of the mod's features.
** PlayedStraight if any RF-based tech mod is installed, which unlocks the Mana Fluxfield. If a spreader is aimed at the Fluxfield, the block starts generating RF power, therefore providing a novel way to power other mods' machines.

** In the ''Miscellanous'' section, there is an italicized entry called "Preventing [[{{Nerf}} Decay]]". If the player clicks on it, [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} the Annoying Dog absorbs the entry!]]]] As passive flowers generate Mana indefinitely from sunlight, moonlight and water, allowing effortless quick production for players with enough resources, there's a very good reason they decay. There is a way, however - if the Overgrowth Seed is found in a dungeon, Enchanted Soil can be made, which spreads to dirt like grass. It boosts flowers on it by a factor of 2 and prevents decay.

As of 2019/03/20, the mod's most recent version is r360, written for ''Minecraft'' 1.12.2. More info and downloads can be found at http://botaniamod.net.

* InterfaceSpoiler: Not by itself, but if Not Enough Items or any such mod is installed, all later-game items can be seen and the flowers' purposes can be guessed, due to [[HurricaneOfPuns how the flowers]] [[MeaningfulName are named]]. In recent versions of Botania, even one-sentence summaries of the Lexica Botania entries can be seen via NEI.

The most basic flower is the Pure Daisy, the only functional flower that does not consume Mana - it slowly "purifies" stone and wood into Livingrock and Livingwood, basic materials for the mod's items. One of the most essential blocks is the Mana Spreader, made from Livingwood, any petal and gold. Mana is stored in Mana Pools, which can infuse items with Mana to create new ones, as well as provide Mana to functional flowers - flowers that use Mana to [[CaptainObvious perform various functions]] - from heating furnaces and fertilizing plants to killing hostile mobs on sight and turning stone into ores. The mod also introduces three new metals - [[ElementalCrafting Manasteel, Terrasteel and Elementium]]. Manasteel is the simplest one to make - simply infuse iron with Mana in a pool. Terrasteel is far more difficult to obtain - it takes a Mana Diamond, a Mana Pearl, a Manasteel ingot and half a mana pool, but making at least one ingot is necessary to open a portal to Alfheim, the world of the elves. The link is too weak to allow transport of living beings, but items can go through, allowing for the trading of items between Minecrafters and Elves. As the player transfers their Lexica Botania through the portal, many descriptions of advanced technology and secrets of the universe's history unfold in newly added pages.

As of 2016/10/22, the mod's most recent version is r333, written for ''Minecraft'' 1.10.2. More info and downloads can be found at http://botaniamod.net.

* CommonplaceRare: Elven Knowledge uses this as an explanation for why [[spoiler:Elven Trade is possible. Though Elven Trade resources are more powerful, Elves value Minecraftian resources very much for aesthetic purposes and because they're at least equally important for magic]].

** In the ''Miscellanous'' section, there is an italicized entry called "Preventing [[{{Nerf}} Decay]]". If the player clicks on it, [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} the Annoying Dog absorbs the entry!]]]] As passive flowers generate Mana indefinitely from sunlight, moonlight and water, allowing effortless quick production for players with enough resources, there's a very good reason they decay. [[spoiler:There is a way - if the Overgrowth Seed is found in a dungeon, Enchanted Soil can be made, which spreads to dirt like grass. It boosts flowers on it by a factor of 2 and prevents decay.]]

* EverythingsBetterWithRainbows: Appears in many later-game items, signifying their power. For example, the Spectrolus [[spoiler:generates a very fair amount of Mana if provided with all 16 wool colors equally, in sequence, by metadata order]], which is far from an easy task to fully automate. Its head looks like a rainbow-colored funnel. Additionally, [[spoiler:the Gaia Spirits are used to make the mod's most powerful items and faintly glow the colors of the rainbow.]]
** The Elven-tier item called the Rod of the Bifrost flashes the colors of the rainbow. [[spoiler:In reference to [[Myth/NorseMythology the actual bridge Bifrost]], it can make rainbow bridges across gaps]]. It can also turn Alfglass, Livingrock and Mana Pools into their animated rainbow versions.

* GameplayAutomation: As with a good chunk of Minecraft mods - Botania automation, however, rather than providing "magic blocks" like many tech mods, requires a lot of design skill, ingenuity and Redstone. For example, a Drum of the Gathering wired to a weighted pressure plate and a set of Hopperhocks can be used to make a milk farm, useful for providing cake to the [[spoiler:Kekimurus, an Elven-tier flower that generates Mana from cake]], while later-game, a Bore spreader lens, Hopperhocks, Rannuncarpi, optimally a Warp lens (Elven tier) with a Force Relay and optionally an Agricarnation can be used to make an effective tree farm, which can be combined with Endoflames to provide renewable power.
* GeniusBonus: The multitude of references throughout the game takes someone very well-versed in pop culture, including Japanese culture, to fully appreciate. There are also science jokes, including the FlavorText "Full of C₉H₁₃NO₃" under the Brew of Adrenaline (applies Haste effect, thus increases mining and attack speed) - C₉H₁₃NO₃ is the chemical formula for the hormone epinephrine a.k.a. adrenaline

** The Lexica is not omniscient, but it describes every non-secret feature of the mod. It comes closer to this trope when it is given to the Elves to fill out via an Alfheim Portal, as then it describes almost every single thing ''Botania'' provides. Being hidden until a fair bit through the mod (Terrasteel is a prerequisite for the Portal), a lot of Elven Knowledge is spoilers, including what makes this trope straighter in the Elven Tier - [[spoiler:the Myth/NorseMythology-inspired backstory, as described in detail by the entry "Elven Lore: The Shattering"]].

* {{Magitek}}: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. While Botania is most definitely a magic mod, it provides a lot of functions usually seen in tech mods, such as many automated farming flowers and tools, wireless linking between inventories, or even [[spoiler:remote requesting of items from distant inventories and requests for items to be crafted using the Corporea Index, similarly to Applied Energistics 2]].

* Myth/NorseMythology: Draws upon this throughout the mod
* OurElvesAreBetter: Little information is given on the elves. They live in their own separate world, called Alfheim. [[spoiler:According to the Lexicon entry "Elven Lore - The Shattering", a massive event occurred a few millenia before the game's events, where worlds completely separated and got imbued with Mana.]] They are implied to be creative and artistically skilled. Their world's unique items are notably pastel and rainbow in coloration, most notably the pink metal Elementium.

* TakeThat: The FlavorText in the Mana Tablet's Lexica Botania entry says "Don't put it in your pocket, it might bend", referencing [[ScandalGate Bendgate]], the problem with how the iPhone 6 Plus tended to bend when put into skinny jeans back pockets or under pressure from sitting.

** The fourth tier is the Elven tier, which starts when the player creates a [[PortalDoor Portal To Alfheim]] and performs Elven Trade. This tier unlocks the next two {{Power Crystal}}s, Pixie Dust and Dragonstone, as well as Elementium. This allows wonders such as using Sparks to combine and manage Mana in Pools, [[spoiler:creating many more items like the Rod of the Bifrost, utilizing wireless inventory connection via Red String or complex item networks not unlike those of ''Applied Energistics 2'' using the Corporea Index.]] By this point, as the items are only revealed by the Lexica Botania when filled with Elven Knowledge by trading, most things unlocked in the Elven tier are vaguely spoilers, though most modpacks already provide {{Interface Spoiler}}s thanks to NEI.
** The final tier, home to almost every InfinityPlusOneSword in the mod, is the [[spoiler:Gaia tier, unlocked by performing the Elven-tier [[SummoningRitual Ritual of Gaia]], slaying the Gaia Guardian and gathering Gaia Spirits. This unlocks items such as the [[VideoGameFlight Flügel Tiara]], the elusive Shard of Laputa [[FloatingContinent used to lift big amounts of landmass into the air]], top-tier Mana Spreaders and the most powerful generating flower, the Dande[[VideoGame/GameOfLife life]]on which can fill whole Mana Pools in a short time, but needs a [[ViewersAreGeniuses very, very]] [[UnconventionalLearningExperience brainy]] [[PuzzleGame player]] to be used effectively.]] Even further down this road, [[spoiler:performing the second-tier Ritual of Gaia allows getting the Relics, very powerful items that [[RandomlyGeneratedLoot drop by chance]] from the Gaia Guardian II, such as the Pinkinator (a gun that turns Withers pink and makes their stars easily harvestable, [[MythologyGag in reference to]] [[AprilFoolsDay Minecraft 2.0]]) and various rings named after Myth/NorseMythology gods that give the player lots and lots of abilities.]]

* ViewersAreGeniuses: [[InvokedTrope Invoked very well]] in a later-game flower (being far down Elven Knowledge, obviously beware spoilers). [[spoiler:In the Gaia tech tier, the Dande[[VideoGame/GameOfLife life]]on is accessible. It is a powerful generating flower acknowledged by Vazkii as a GameBreaker. The flower works using the Game of Life. Cells are represented by the very fragile Cell Blocks that only the flower can move. Modified rules are used where cells have a set age based on idle time and parents' age. Cells that hit the 3x3 center die, making Mana - the older the cell, the bigger the payout. It's perfectly possible to find patterns on the Internet, but the flower is supposed to be locked away to only be accessed by intelligent players with the free time and knowledge to solve a complex cellular automaton problem.]]