Botania: Basics! Bit-by-Bit in Minecraft 1.12+

Welcome to the mischief I’m Valen and this is betánia basics the lexical Betania tutorial video forum welcome to Betania a mod 5 ascii in order to get started in Betania you’re going to want to craft yourself a book plus any old sapling should do make yourself a lexico Patania you can

Also find these books sometimes in Dungeon chests or other type glute tables and once you open this book you should have access to many different things a nice welcome page that you can then page through by either clicking the arrows here or you can use your scroll

Wheel on your mouse to go forward and backwards plus you can always go back an entire section just by pressing this arrow at the bottom here there are many keys on your keyboard that can also be used in a similar fashion if you go back far enough you’ll be able to see this

Item selection menu here where you can choose the different chapters and research just about anything you want about this mod but there are also other features that this book will offer you and that is the shownotes option here where you can actually type in different

Notes as you need fit and save them for future use on top of that you can hover over the different items here and choose them as you’d like plus you can also change your Betania options access the advancements which you can see here are similar to the minecraft advancements as

Well or you can choose this little challenges option at the bottom here and choose any number of different challenges on how to actually accomplish different tasks in kind of a Skyblock style where you’ll have some sort of tasks that you need to use betánia and vanilla minecraft in order to complete

On top of that you can change the scale so that it can best be seen by you in this case I’ve got it at full magnification just so you guys can see it easier I highly recommend that if you have any questions about this mod that

You go to the lexicon index click on here and you can then start searching through the different topics or you can start searching different items I can type in sword and therefore I see something up here now if I press shift while on a topic it will give you a brief image of

The things inside and the number of pages it contains whenever you can see there are many mana steel equipments in here different items tools weapons and armours on top of that this book will also help you identify things if I press left shift on top of an item

It will tell you that it is a grass block in this case carpet and anvil it will even identify certain items from Betania now if I choose something from Betania specifically and while holding shift I right click it will then open to that page directly if I choose something

That is non Betina related for instance like Minecraft here and I right click it will take me to a Minecraft Wiki equivalent page on my web browser for further description of the book itself if I choose something in here and you’ll notice some of these are in italics

While others are not the items in italics are recommended the basics things you should know before moving further into this mod and then also a small feature you notice the title here says lexical Betania 347th edition you can access an anvil of course put it in

Here you can change it to something else rename it and it will also keep that book on the cover itself the edition number that you see here 347 is the current mod version that you are using which will change as you update Patania to the latest mod let’s move on to

Mystical Flowers something a little bit more interesting as you can see behind me here in order to tell the difference between betánia flowers and vanilla flowers the difference is going to be obvious one is shiny one is not they come in two different heights your normal one block height as well as your

Two block height but you should know that if you want to harness any of the two to block Heights you will require a set of shears in order to do so other flowers you can just access by punching them like so and I can pick it up they

Come in a variety of colors 16 to be exact and you can also create them should you have difficulty in locating them in order to make them you’ll just need a few basic ingredients to make floral fertile vizor in order to craft floral fertilizer which will allow you to grow

More of those flowers from Betania you can actually craft it in one of two ways your more vanilla method is going to be dandelion yellow plus rose red and some bonemeal will make you one floral fertilizer alternately you can actually take some of the existing flowers and make more with it using floral

Fertilizer on the ground will produce a few nearby Patania flowers that you can then harness and keep for yourself taking these flowers into an inventory will therefore give you puddles in return each of these can be used in order to create more flowers or be used in making other ingredients as well as

Powders as you can see here I’ve turned all of my flowers into petals and I can further that by taking a bowl some planks and a stick to make pestle and mortar combine this pestle and mortar with any of these flowers and you’ll get yourself some purple powder in this case

Because I have some purple leaves I can also do this with brown cyan green etc I have multiple uses for each of these first and foremost a pebble planted in the ground will create a small shimmer area where it was planted if you then take some bonemeal you can further

Produce more flowers albeit at a double height and therefore you will need your shears in order to harvest them properly then you can turn them into even more petals therefore propagating your flowers at an infinite rate now something like the powders you can use to color things like

Carpet or in this case well in any number of colors according to those that you have here now some of these may be a bit much to fill up ones inventory in which case you’ll probably want to craft a flower pouch which is simply made with some wool and another petal inside of

One of these pouches is 16 different slots for the 16 different single height flowers so if you’re collecting the double-height flowers it will not fit into here but it will then place up to one stacks worth of flower in here as you pick them up now if you

Notice here I have a pink mystical flower I throw this on the ground and I just walk over it it will go into my inventory because I’m holding on to the pouch if I’m not holding on to the pouch and walk into it it will then go

Directly into the pouch whether it’s in my inventory or on my hotbar there it is as a side note you should know that you can also take a pestle and mortar and any number of these shimmering mushrooms you may find in the world and create all

Sorts of powders from those as well next we’ll be making a pedal apothecary pedal apothecary is a simple tool that is going to be used in order to make further items allow me to demonstrate simply made with some cobblestone and another one of the flower petals here

Grab that and you can then place it down in the world simple enough next you’ll need yourself at least one bucket of water in order to get things going now there are multiple ways that you can proceed with this you can actually decorate it a little bit if

You so desire and in this case we have our standard petal apothecary you take a bit of water fill it up and you now have an apothecary ready to receive different petals for your different mystical incantations for instance I’ll be using for mystical white petals by throwing

Them out of my inventory and one seed and I created a pure Daisy which is a strange and mysterious flower that is going to help you on your way that did use up the water in here but not to worry things can be automated with this because if there currently is any water

In a petal apothecary it will give off a redstone signal from a comparator on top of that you can further customize your path carry by just taking things like vines to give it more of a mossy effect or turn it into the ultimate trash can

Put a bit of lava in there you won’t get injured by walking around on this the sparks around it will not damage any of your terrain but anything that you throw inside of it will get destroyed once again you can always remove any of the water from

The Apothecary with a bucket and it will of course change your comparator reading put it back in and if you put something inside of it that you did not mean to for instance mystical sigh on pedal oh I just put that in there and did not want that give it back

Well in order to do that you press shift and right click with an empty hand and the last item put in will go back into your inventory now if I have a lot of recipes to create perhaps I want to make a whole lot of pure daisies 1 2 3 4

Throw in a seed to finish the recipe and I get that back if I grab another bucket of water fill this back up and right click with an empty hand it will add in the same recipe over again just like that then all I need to do is add in a

Seed and you have a 20-second time limit in order to accomplish that now I already have been making pure daisies what is a pure Daisy a pure Daisy is going to be a catalyst for making more materials that you’ll be needing for other items first and foremost you’ll be

Needing living wood and living stone as you can see here I have all of the traditional vanilla minecraft woods and I place this down you’ll see that it starts giving off a lot of particles same thing with the stone here each one will generate over time a bit of magic

About these items now I can of course still put them down it’s in a one-block radius completely around the flower so if you look here when I look at the flower it actually highlights some of the area that you can still see now if you wait long enough you’ll notice that

Everything will start changing by itself it does take a bit of time so have some patience as you notice I place this one log down a little bit later than the rest so it will end up transforming a little bit later once you’ve transformed these things you can harvest them with your traditional

Tools living wood obviously would be harvested with an axe and living rock with a pick now that’s not all that pure daisies are good for obviously they are going to make living wood and living rock which are going to be necessary in a lot of uses going forward but they can

Also transform some other strange things for instance I have here netherrack soul sand ice water these can all be transformed into another item simply by putting down a pure Daisy it will turn into cobblestone sand packed ice and snow next thing you’ll want to craft is

Going to be a wand of the forest in order to make one of these you’ll need to take some of your living wood and make yourself some twigs living wood twigs that is once you’ve got three of those you can then put them in a crafting grid with some petals of your

Preference make yourself a wand of the forest the petal will actually change visibly on here craft it up and you now have the wrench tool or key to this mod you can change modes just by simply shift right-clicking in the air you’ve got function mode and binding

Mode binding mode will allow you to link to mana producing or absorbing items whereas function mode will simply allow you to better arrange things you can also shift right-click things that can be rotated like this anvil for instance or different chests and such but primarily bind mode is going to be the

Most common use so that you can shift right click on something and shift right click on something else in order for them to be linked to these different items as you can see with the little rainbow effect that is happening as I link these together you’re probably

Wondering what a lot of these things might be but not to worry first we’re going to learn about mana mana is the power of this mod it is a liquefied form of it as well but it doesn’t do anything by itself you’ll need to use it to power different flowers machines whatever

You’d like to call them as this is a tech mod in disguise generating flowers flowers that generate mana like this hydrangea here or these endow flames here these will generate mana which you can store in a mana pool these are three different types that I have here one

That is a standard mana pool a diluted mana pool and of course the creative one that I have just for creative uses but the diluted one will only hold a very small amount the mana doesn’t just appear in each of these pools though it needs to be placed there not by the

Flower but by something called a mana spreader as you see here on occasion you’ll notice a small green beam shoots from the mana spreader into one of the pools like so and if I take my wand of the forest and look at this hydrangea right click on it I can see that the

Internal mana buffer is empty because it is currently powering the mana spreader when I right-click on the mana spreader I will get an update as to how much mana it currently has stored in its buffer and it will therefore launch into this mana pool because that’s where it’s

Currently aiming so this is kind of a power network this is generating power this is your power pipes and this is your battery now if you want to see how the status is currently going with your power network just hold down the right-click on something like the mana

Spreader and you can see the mana is currently building inside of it once it gets to a certain size it will then start teleporting it across the network to where it is pointing it can also be used to power different items that you might carry on you for instance I

Currently have a sash that is using that as well as a tiara that allows me a limited amount of creative flight now what else can mana pool x’ be used for besides just storing things they are also a way of transforming some items in this chest here I have a large list it

Looks a bit disoriented but everything on the left here iron ingots blocks of iron diamonds blocks of diamonds in other courts can all be when dropped into a mana pool turned into a mana equivalent iron turns into mana steel block of iron turns into a block of mana

Steel yes and so on and so forth you can also turn glass into mana glass and a pearls into mana Pearl’s cookies into biscuits of totality string into mana and few string and a glass bottle can be filled with mana on top of that you can also take sugar redstone gunpowder

Glowstone or any number of the different colored powders drop them in any kind of mana pool and provided you have enough mana you should be able to turn any of the items into their mana equivalent in this case man a powder I’m going to take an iron ingot here and just demonstrate how

It’s done as this is a very small diluted pool it used up a considerable amount you notice that a good chunk is missing if I obtain another iron ingot and toss it into this one here you’ll notice that it is about two-thirds of the way full throw it in very little is

Used because this is the much larger version now on top of that you’ll notice that I have a comparator hooked up to the mana pool depending upon how full it is as it may be with chests it will also give out a redstone reading if I take

This creative mana tablet which is also a portable version of storing mana throw this in here it will then start filling even further and you can see that it is currently extending even more and allowing for an either even bigger redstone signal last but not least if

You don’t care for how these things look you can always take a little bit of your powder and change the color of the pool itself now that we know about these batteries let’s learn about how to transport them a mana spreader is made simply with a bit of living wood a gold

Ingot and some sort of either petal or mushroom of magical make crafting it up you can then place it down on the ground and wherever you place it it should face generally in the direction that you are standing if you look on the other sides you’ll notice that all of the sides are

Currently just kind of solid with a small greenish pattern and you’ll have this little eye rotating on one side that’s the side that it’s going to shoot the beam out from these can be directed with your wand to the forest by right-clicking on it you will update its

Current mana inventory which in this case it’s empty you can also link it if I want this mana spreader to aim at this mana pool then shift right-click the mana spreader and shift right-click the mana pool and it will aim directly at that block now if there is something in

The way it can prove difficult if I want this mana spreader to aim at this manna spreader it shouldn’t have too much of a problem provided that there isn’t something in the way if one of these levers blocks it there is another way of manually changing the direction that it’s aiming

At currently you can see that it is highlighting when I look at this mana spreader the other mana spreader is in fact receiving a signal on top of that if I change to function mode and I shift right click and hold down the right-click I can then while aiming

Change where it is currently going to launch and you can see if it’s actually hitting something that can accept the mana it will then like that source up allowing you to better a m– because otherwise it’s going to aim directly at the center of a block now you’ll notice

That I have a couple of different looking mana spreaders here a pulse mana spreader and a standard one currently we’re going to look at the regular mana spreader if you look while I’m holding onto the wand it shows kind of a laser beam of where it can shoot mana if I

Hold nothing or something else besides the wand itself it goes back to normal minecraft and if I hold my wand of the forest again you’ll notice that there is a spark down at the end here this represents where the mana will start fading away you’ll start getting less

Returns it will lose some of its mana on its way to its final destination down at this end here so if you want to make sure that you can get your mana from one point to another it’s best to have it within range now you’ll also notice I

Have a lever here currently this mana spreader is full but it is not depositing the mana inside at that mana pool that it is currently linked up to now if I were to just right-click this turn it on it will then start launching its contents into the pool at the end

And you can see it is currently just kind of shooting the mana down into the pool which is barely getting any in there because it’s at the very extreme end of it flick the lever and it will stop doing any more now normally though

I would be able to do that but if I want this to aim let’s say at this block here I flick the lever nothing happens the reason being is that this block does not accept mana so therefore it will not launch anything at it but in the case of a pulse mana spray

It will so if I pull the lever it will still launch the mana regardless of if there is a man accepting object at the other end of that beam for example if I have multiple of these down here I can then turn this on each one of these can

Then launch mana now in order to deposit mana from a pool into a mana spreader you just need to simply have a mana spreader backed up to a mana pool it just needs to be next to it and then it will launch out you can see in this case it is

Currently launching a lot of this mana around in a circular fashion now let’s say that you’ve got a lot of these going it’s getting a little bit annoying you don’t want to have to worry about any of this noise not to worry you can get yourself a little bit of wool just about

Any color and put it them on the respective mana spreaders and change them to a quiet quiet version oh and in this case much more decorative in order to remove the covers simply just right-click with an empty hand and it comes back off you may have noticed that

When I look at some objects an outline will appear this is due to a mana seer monocle which is made simply with a little bit of gold nuggets mmm is steel ingot and mana glass put that in your bauble slot and you can then see the affected area by multiple different

Flora now let’s get into generating flora generating flora our flowers that will basically create mana for you whether they be passive manual or automated a passive example is going to be the hydrangea oh something’s happened here that’s not good the hydrangea that was in here expired that’s right it’s a

Passive flower that can give you mana for a short time then it expires and turns into well in this case a couple of sticks but a hydrangea is intended on being used for absorbing water in this case if I were to grab a bit of these

And eliminate those it eats the water as you saw there and it will turn it into mana it currently is linked if you see here when I look at the flower while holding my wand it is linked to that mana spreader the mana spreader then shoots the mana

Into the mana pool and it will do so for about one real-life hour and then it will expire and turn into sticks something that’s a little bit less passive and a little bit more manual is going to be this the end of flame the end of flame is something that will eat

Objects like a furnace does for example you can throw coal wood or other burnable materials at the end of flame and it will produce mana in a similar fashion to the hydrangea the only differences are if you have something like a bucket of lava it will not

Function with that because there is a side item on there or rather a byproduct of the bucket so it will not function with something like a lava bucket but as long as it’s a burnable producer of fuel up to and including four times that of a coal block it should still function or

Less at least now hydrangea and an endo flame can both be created in a petal apothecary that’s been filled with water simply by adding in a few mystical pedals or shimmering mushrooms of the appropriate color then following it up with a seed should yield you one of the

Appropriate flower in the end of flames case it’s going to be a couple brown one light gray and one red now these should get you started and well into the beginnings of betánia a hydrangea as I said has a limited lifespan and can only last for about an hour

Spamming these is not going to be that productive endo flames on the other hand can be automated and temporarily manually used therefore just by throwing some fuel on there for instance I have a little bit of tiny coal throw that on here and it will eventually eat that

Burnable material and turn it into mana which it then puts in the mana spreader that is then used in this mana pool now that could take a lot of time and effort because if I throw down a whole couple of these you’ll notice that it doesn’t eat both

It’ll only eat one which did take a little bit of time for it to get to the second so if I throw an entire stack of coal on this it could D spawn before those start going away so in this case I have a very simple early game setup you’ll want to

Create yourself an open crate which is made simply with some living wood planks which is just made with a piece of living wood placed in a crafting grid and place it above a wooden pressure plate three pieces of redstone and a hopper facing in I have the hopper

Filled with some kind of fuel and I’ve got a lever on the side to turn this entire correct contraption on and off you place them down as such hold the lever and it will deposit out one piece of fuel for it to work now if you notice

I have a highlighted area currently the end of flame is going to eat anything that is flammable or burnable in this entire area and in this case it’s right next to it so it will therefore produce manna at a constant rate constantly dropping one piece one piece one piece

And not spamming the entire world with all sorts of contrived drops now be sure when you’re done with this to turn it off so that you don’t leave things running all the time now for an example of functional flora something like this clay Sonia here this clay Sonia is a

Unique item it is designed to turn sand into clay allow me to grab a bit out of here I’ve got a bunch of sand I also have a hopper hawk a hopper Hawk is something that is going to pick up any items nearby if I throw down a little

Bit of an item here it’s going to pick those up unless they are specified on this chest that is next to in this case clay so to start with the clay Sonia which is being powered currently if I look here hovering over the clay Sonia you can see that that power that that

Pool is currently highlighted it is gaining mana from that mana pool in order to turn sand into clay just like that I just place it down turns into clay really cool anywhere in the area that is highlighted now you notice that I made a big mess well that’s where the

Hopper hawk comes in it’s currently set up with an option to turn it on and off and it will then pick all these items up and place them in a nearby chest some of these plants will have the option of being able to be turned on and off like the hopper Hawk

And for example the way to find that out is by looking at its recipe if its recipe involves a redstone root then it can be turned on and off by some sort of lever or redstone activation next we get into the runic altar runic altar is

Useless on its own it’s made simply with some living rock and a little bit of either a man a pearl or a man a diamond and a crafting grid place it down and it will do absolutely nothing for you unless you power it and add ingredients it’s kind of a makeshift brewing station

Slash crafting table it also reacts with a comparator as you would with some of the other items in this case I have runes it’s a runic altar it uses runes it also makes rooms for instance a rune of water is going to be made with a man powder

Manna steel ingots bonemeal sugar cane and a fishing rod will get you to and in this case I have a whole bunch of ingredients I’m going to make myself a rune of air which is made simply with feather manna steel ingot manna powder white carpet and a piece of string now

There are ways of making this that are sometimes easier sometimes less but first and foremost you should know that it requires mana being fed into it so you will have to have one of your manna spreaders hooked up to a pool feeding it mana and with that you can either throw

The items on top or you can just right-click them and you can add them to the entire item you’ll hear that when you know that things are currently working properly and you’ll get this little demonstration of time going by as it progresses now you’ll notice I’m

Getting a signal of one power when it finished it went to two therefore this can be automated as well as it is also one of the challenges but here’s the problem though in order to retrieve the rune that I’m trying to make you’ll need to actually I recommend standing on top

Of it toss down a piece of living Rock then take your wand and right-click before you pick it back up you then get two rooms of air in this case and as before I can also right click with an empty hand to put all the same stuff

Back in and have the whole process start over again now the different types of runes are going to be your different elemental ones water earth fire and air which are relatively simple to make then you’ve got your runes of autumn spring summer and winter which often will use

The previous level of runes in their creation then you’ve got your top tier once the rune of pride greed Envy sloth wrath lust gluttony and last but not least the rune of mana these ones down here are your top tier ones which will often require multiples of the previous

Tiers each of these can be used in the creation of making all sorts of different devices and items if you need to make an item or another room using the runic altar that involves a rune in the recipe for instance the rune of autumn requires a rune of fire and a

Rune of air they will not be used in the process or rather used up they will be used but you’ll get them back if used in other methods like in a peddle apothecary it will not be refunded and there you have it this completes the first and most basic steps of Betania

There’s plenty more to do and learn and the lexical Patania can be your guide I hope you enjoy be sure to LIKE comment subscribe and spread the mischief if you think others will enjoy this content until next time see ya