Flyiron's Drugs Plugin — v1.3 Release Notes

v1.3 introduces Villager Weed Workers, a new automation system for cannabis farming that uses Farm Controllers and assigned villagers while preserving existing strain genetics logic.

Players can now automate weed farming with villagers using a farm controller workflow:

- Place a Farm Controller (BARREL item).
- Open controller GUI to:
- Define Farm Area (selection wand)
- Start/Stop Farm
- Get Work Contract
- Show Farm Info
- Bind villagers to the farm using contracts.

Core behavior

Assigned villagers will:

- Harvest mature weed plants (large fern) in the region
- Replant weed (small fern) in valid region spots
- Follow existing cannabis placement/harvest logic for strain metadata
- Respect performance cycle caps and scheduled processing

Balance and limits

- Max farm area: 16x16
- Max workers per farm: 5 villagers
- Throughput scales by reachable workers (up to 5x configured per-cycle base values)
- Breaking a farm controller removes the farm and unassigns workers
- Assigned workers are set to Farmer profession

Reachability + worker validity

- Villagers must be able to reach work targets to contribute output
- Dead/invalid villagers are pruned from farm assignments automatically

Crafting / items

- Added craftable Farm Controller recipe in recipes.yml
- Farm Controller is now shown in the /drugs crafting menu

Commands

- /drugs give now supports farm-controller
- /drugs give <player> all includes farm controller items


Config and data

mechanics.yml

New persistent data file

- weed_farms.yml stores farm controllers, regions, enabled state, and assigned villager UUIDs.


Notes for server admins

- Existing cannabis strain systems remain intact; v1.3 automation reuses the same internal logic used by player interactions.
- If you tune farm output, adjust max-harvest-per-cycle, max-plant-per-cycle, and worker-tick-interval together.