Better Farmlife
Better Farmlife adds small farming quality-of-life features for animals, crops, and farm HUD info.
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About this Mod
Better Farmlife adds small farming quality-of-life features for animals, crops, and farm HUD info.
Features:
- Animals can walk to and eat dropped breeding food
- Valid dropped animal food lasts longer before despawning
- Fully grown crops can be harvested and replanted with a hoe
- Right-click hoe harvesting for mature crops
- Sneaking disables hoe auto-replant
- Replanting can play a sound and show subtle particles
- Sugar cane can be bone-mealed
- Crop growth HUD when looking at crops
- Animal breeding cooldown HUD when looking at animals
- Chicken egg timer HUD
- Config options for all major features
Supported crop HUD examples include wheat, carrots, potatoes, beetroots, nether wart, melon stems, pumpkin stems, sugar cane, cactus, and other vanilla crop-like plants.
Supported loaders:
- Fabric
- Forge
- NeoForge
Available Versions
How to Install Better Farmlife on Your Server
Order Server
Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).
Set fabric Loader
In the panel under "Egg", select the fabric loader and matching Minecraft version (26.1.2).
Install Mod
Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Better Farmlife". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.
Compatibility
Mod Loaders
Minecraft Versions
26.1.2, 1.21.1
Server-side
✓ RequiredRecommended RAM
4 GB(min. 3 GB)Frequently Asked Questions
Better Farmlife server crashes on startup – what to do?
Most common cause: wrong fabric version or insufficient RAM. Check the server log (latest.log) for "OutOfMemoryError" or "Mixin" errors. With Mado Hosting: ensure at least 3 GB RAM is allocated and the loader matches the mod version (26.1.2). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.
Is Better Farmlife compatible with fabric and forge and neoforge?
Better Farmlife officially supports fabric, forge, neoforge for Minecraft 26.1.2, 1.21.1. Note: Forge and Fabric mods are NOT cross-compatible – pick one loader and stick with it. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.
Server lagging with Better Farmlife – how to optimize performance?
Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Better Farmlife consumes the most tick time. Common fixes: reduce server view-distance to 8-10, install "performant" or "starlight" as supplementary mods on Forge. With Mado Hosting, your server runs on NVMe SSDs with dedicated CPU cores for minimal latency.
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