
Hydrofarm
Water-tech and farm automation: clustering tanks, smart pipes, sprinklers, hydroponic crop and tree beds, animal pens, and water power — a focused set of machines, not a whole tech tree. Fabric + NeoForge from one codebase.
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About this Mod

Hydrofarm is a compact farming-tech mod: move water, grow crops and trees, keep animals, and turn the results into items, XP, and energy. Every machine earns its slot — no sprawling tech tree, no mandatory progression grind.
Available for Fabric and NeoForge, Minecraft 26.1.x.
💧 Fluids & logistics
- Liquid Tank — stackable storage with a visible, glowing fluid level. Adjacent tanks merge into one shared pool. Holds water, lava, milk, and Liquid XP.
- Liquid Pipe & Item Pipe — auto-connecting networks that grow a port wherever they touch an inventory. Right-click a port to make it a terminal with per-face extract/insert modes and whitelist/blacklist filters.
- Liquid Siphon — slow area extraction from vanilla water; source blocks regenerate, nothing is drained dry.
- Sprinkler — ~2.5× crop growth and auto-hydration across a 9×9, fed by pipes or tanks.
- Cauldrons connect to pipes as fluid sources and sinks, on both loaders.
🌱 Growing
- Hydroponics Bed — four planter quadrants per bed, each growing the crop you configure from the cluster's shared water pool. Harvests collect automatically and trickle Liquid XP.
- Tree Farm Bed — the same idea for saplings: logs and saplings without the chopping.
- Adjacent beds form a cluster — shared water, items, and XP, managed from one GUI with cluster-wide rates.
- Works with Farmer's Delight and Croptopia crops out of the box.
🐄 Animals
- Animal Capture Net — scoop up an animal, item and all, and carry it home.
- Husbandry Bed — housed animals produce wool, eggs, milk, and honeycomb on feed-and-water cycles.
- Butcher Bed — a breeding pair sustains a steady drip of that species' slaughter loot and Liquid XP. The stock itself is never consumed.
⚡ Energy & utility
- Hydroelectric Generator — water in, energy out. Team Reborn Energy on Fabric, FE on NeoForge — plays nice with the usual tech-mod cables and machines.
- Energy Pipe & Energy Cell — simple distribution and a multiblock power bank that merges visually as it grows.
- Autocrafter — energy-powered template crafting from piped-in ingredients, with the recipe displayed on its sides and the result floating above.
- Mending Station — repairs gear with Liquid XP and energy; fully pipe-automatable.
- Monster Repulser — an energy-upkeep field that stops hostile spawns inside it.
- XP Drain — sneak on it to bank your levels as Liquid XP into an attached tank; right-click to take them back. Liquid XP also bottles into XP bottles at any bed or tank.
✨ Decoration
- Glowcubes — 17 dye-colored light blocks with a slow internal swirl.
🔌 Integrations
- Jade — cluster and bed overlays out of the box.
- ModMenu (Fabric) / Mods screen (NeoForge) — in-game config button.
- Defers to the standalone Capture Net mod when it's installed.
⚙️ Configuration
config/hydrofarm.properties (hand-editable, self-healing) or the in-game screen: render distances and toggles for bed crops and pen animals, sprinkler particle tuning, and per-bed-type Liquid XP output toggles.
Requirements
- Minecraft 26.1.x · Java 25
- Fabric: Fabric Loader 0.18.4+ and Fabric API (Team Reborn Energy is bundled)
- NeoForge: 26.1.2+
Required on both client and server.
Available Versions
How to Install Hydrofarm 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 "Hydrofarm". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.
Compatibility
Mod Loaders
Minecraft Versions
26.1.2, 26.1.1, 26.1
Server-side
✓ RequiredRecommended RAM
4 GB(min. 3 GB)Frequently Asked Questions
Hydrofarm 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 Hydrofarm compatible with fabric and neoforge?
Hydrofarm officially supports fabric, neoforge for Minecraft 26.1.2, 26.1.1, 26.1. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.
Server lagging with Hydrofarm – how to optimize performance?
Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Hydrofarm 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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