Botania Minecraft Mod Setup Guide

Botania Overview

Minecraft flowers are useful for dyes, decoration, and the occasional iron golem friendship gesture. Botania gives them a much bigger job. This mod adds a flower-based tech system where mana acts as an energy source for machines, tools, automation, and resource production.

With Botania, functional flowers can move items, generate materials, replace some hopper-style workflows, and power more advanced setups. To use it properly, the mod needs to be installed on both the server and every player client connecting to that server.

Downloading Botania

Botania has different files for different Minecraft versions, so match the download to the exact version and mod loader your server uses. A mismatched file is one of the fastest ways to make Minecraft complain loudly.

1. Go to the Botania page on CurseForge.
2. Open the Files tab.

1. Select View All, then filter or browse for the Minecraft version you plan to run.

1. Press the download button for the correct file.

After downloading, you should have a `.jar` file with a name similar to `Botania.jar`. Keep this file handy, since the same mod file must be added to your Minecraft client and your server.

Installing Botania on a Server

Before uploading the mod, make sure the server is running Forge for the same Minecraft version as the Botania file.

1. Open your server panel.
2. Change the version selector in your panel to Forge.
3. Restart the server so Forge can generate the required folders.
4. Return to your panel and open the file manager, or connect with an FTP client.

1. Log in with your panel password.
2. Open the `mods` folder.
3. Upload the Botania `.jar` file into that folder.

Restart the server again after the upload finishes. Players joining the server will also need Botania installed locally in their own Minecraft `mods` folder, using the same Minecraft and Forge version.