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Hydroponic System B42 SP/MP

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Author: Ant

Last revision: 10 Jun at 23:48 UTC

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Description:
Hydroponic system for indoor growing, year round.

Ever wanted to grow plants indoors? Want to build an underground farm, greenhouse room, bunker grow-op, or indoor setup for your favorite modded crops?

This mod adds a simple hydroponics system for Project Zomboid that lets you grow crops indoors while still respecting much of the vanilla farming experience.

Hydroponics does not replace or overhaul the vanilla farming system. Crops planted in regular furrows still follow the normal vanilla farming rules, including seasonal restrictions. The hydroponic system is its own separate setup, designed to work alongside vanilla farming rather than overwrite it.

The goal is to make indoor farming possible without turning farming into a free, effortless food printer. You still need to build the system, connect the parts, supply water, manage lights, plant seeds, wait for growth, and harvest when the crops are ready.

Features

  • Grow crops indoors using hydroponic trays
  • Dedicated Hydro Controller to manage water, fertilizer, lights, and connected trays
  • Hydro Lights for powering indoor crop growth
  • Crops progress through growth stages similar to vanilla farming
  • Crops have health and growth tracking
  • Harvest crops when fully grown
  • Receive Farming XP from planting and harvesting
  • Harvested crops can return seeds, similar to vanilla farming behavior
  • Supports fertilizer to improve growth speed
  • Designed to work in multiplayer
  • Should work with crops added through the vanilla farming system

Buildable Items

Currently there are 3 buildable hydroponic objects:

  • Hydro Controller
  • Hydro Planter
  • Hydro Light

To build the Hydro Controller, you first need to find a Green Wheelie Bin. Right click it and collect it as a Hydro Controller shell.

All hydroponic buildables can be found under the Farming section of the build menu.

How to Use

  • Collect the required materials for a Hydro Controller, Hydro Planter, and Hydro Light
  • Build the parts from the Farming build menu
  • Right click each hydro object and use Connect to link it into the system
  • Add water to the Hydro Controller
  • Optionally add fertilizer to improve crop growth speed
  • Plant crops in the trays by right clicking them
  • Make sure your trays have connected lights and power
  • Wait for your crops to grow
  • Harvest when ready

Vanilla Farming Compatibility

This mod is built to mirror parts of the vanilla farming loop where possible. Planting, growth, crop stages, harvesting, seeds, and XP are all intended to feel familiar if you already use the vanilla farming system.

Hydroponics should work with any mod that properly integrates crops into the vanilla farming system.

Tested with:
HGO Expansion (42.17)

Known Bugs

  • If you pick up and place the Hydro Controller, you currently cannot rotate it
  • Hydro systems will have power anywhere while world utility power is still active

Planned Features

  • Crop disease / sickness chances
  • Climate requirements
  • More sandbox options
  • More balance tuning based on feedback

Translations:
  • Korean – ToFu_
Beta Notice

This is a beta release. Things may still change, and balance is not final. I wasn’t even going to release it yet, but, I’m busy on other projects. Any balancing feedback would be awesome.

Please report any bugs, issues, or suggestions. Feedback is appreciated, especially for multiplayer testing, modded crop compatibility, and balance.

Workshop ID: 3714267911
Mod ID: Hydroponics

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