Infinite Generators

The ra_infinite module adds blocks that grow their own material in front of themselves, forever. Point a Block Breaker at one and you have a self-feeding farm.

• Namespace: ra_infinite
• Give all: /function ra_infinite:items/give_all
• Runtime architecture: How It Works

Building one

A generator takes two halves: a Generator Casing, which is crafted, and a Core, which is gambled for on an enchanting table.

1. Craft a Generator Casing — eight copper grates around one netherite scrap.
2. Throw stone, netherrack or poppies on an enchanting table. Each item has a 1% chance of coming back as the matching Core; the rest are consumed. See Enchant Crafting.
3. Put the Casing and the Core in a crafting grid.

Core	Sacrifice	Generator it builds
Mineral Core	minecraft:stone	Mineral Generator
Nether Core	minecraft:netherrack	Nether Generator
Poppy Core	minecraft:poppy	Poppy Generator

Recipes

Result	Recipe
Generator Casing
Mineral Generator
Nether Generator
Poppy Generator

The three generator recipes are shapeless — the pictures put the casing and the core side by side, but any two slots will do.

Base items, and why they are odd

Vanilla recipe ingredients match by item id or tag and nothing else — components are only available on a recipe's result. So the casing and the three cores each sit on a different block item that no survival player can obtain or place:

Item	Base	Looks like
Generator Casing	minecraft:repeating_command_block	copper grate
Mineral Core	minecraft:jigsaw	deepslate diamond ore
Nether Core	minecraft:structure_block	ancient debris
Poppy Core	minecraft:chain_command_block	flowering azalea

All four are GameMasterBlockItems: placing one needs creative and permission level 2, which is the same reason an Item Crate is a command block. Because the ids differ, the three generator recipes tell each other apart on their own, a bare netherite scrap cannot stand in for a casing, and no advancement guard or intermediate item is needed. The Item Crate keeps the plain command block to itself, so no recipe here can ever swallow a loaded crate.

What they grow

Generator	Period	Grows
Mineral Generator	100 ticks	stone 57%, coal ore 20%, iron ore 14%, redstone ore 7.5%, diamond ore 1.2%, emerald ore 0.3%
Nether Generator	100 ticks	netherrack 69%, magma block 30%, ancient debris 1%
Poppy Generator	80 ticks	poppy, dandelion, cornflower, azure bluet, oxeye daisy, allium, blue orchid, lily of the valley — even odds

At those rates a Mineral Generator averages a diamond every seven minutes or so and an emerald every half hour, and a Nether Generator a piece of ancient debris every ten minutes. Netherite blocks are deliberately not on the nether table — four ingots out of one cycle would undo the material.

All three are real minecraft:dropper blocks, item and block alike, so the face they grow from is obvious at a glance. They carry no block skin: a block_display samples the light level at its own position, that position is inside the opaque block it is covering, and the result renders black. Skins that do still exist elsewhere in the pack now set brightness to work around it.

A dropper's redstone ejection is harmless here — a generator never stores anything in its own inventory and never reads redstone.

Behaviour

• A generator grows into the block in front of it, and only when that block is in #ra_infinite:growable — air, cave air, grass, ferns, dead bush or snow. Until the last one is taken away, nothing happens.
• The period is data.properties.cooldown, in ticks: 100 — five seconds — for the mineral and nether generators, 80 for the poppy generator. Edit it with the Data Handler.
• data.properties.enabled set to 0b stops a generator without breaking it.
• Redstone is not involved at all — a generator runs whenever it is loaded.

Poppy modes

Shift+right-click a Poppy Generator with the Wrench to cycle data.properties.mode:

Mode	Effect
single	One flower in the block in front
patch	The 3×3 around that block, each cell rolling its own flower

Flowers need something to stand on: #ra_infinite:flower_ground — grass block, dirt, coarse dirt, rooted dirt, podzol, mycelium, moss, pale moss, mud, muddy mangrove roots, farmland. Providing it is your job — the generator plants, it does not terraform.

That tag lists block ids rather than borrowing #minecraft:dirt, and it has to. 26.2 narrowed #minecraft:dirt to dirt, coarse dirt and rooted dirt, moving grass blocks into the new #minecraft:substrate_overworld. A tag that borrowed #minecraft:dirt therefore excluded grass on 26.2 while still including it on 1.21.10 — the Poppy Generator refused to plant next to a grass block and said nothing. Referencing #minecraft:substrate_overworld instead would break the other end of the supported range, since that tag does not exist in 1.21.10.

In single mode it searches the 3×3 around the block in front and plants in the first spot that takes a flower, checking three heights in each cell:

Cell	Flower goes
Empty, with soil one below	In that empty block
Is the soil — a grass block it stares at	On top of it
Empty, and the one below it empty too, with soil two below	One block down — a generator on a pedestal, planting on the ground it overlooks

Insisting on the one block dead ahead is what made this look broken: a generator facing slightly off, or with its soil beside rather than in front of it, planted nothing and said nothing. patch mode still fills the whole 3×3 rather than stopping at the first hit.

Mind which way it faces. A block placed while looking down faces up (dir_type:2, pitch ≥ 45), and a Poppy Generator facing up targets the block directly above itself, where the only thing under the target is the generator. It will never plant there. Place it looking level so it faces sideways, either at a grass block or across ground it can plant on.

The Goggles say which case you are in: a Ground line reading ok or none tells you whether either of those two spots is plantable.

Goggles

Wearing the Goggles shows each generator's period and enabled flag, plus the mode and a Ground line on a Poppy Generator — ok when one of the nine cells it searches can take a flower, none when none can.

/function ra_infinite:debug/poppy prints the same thing in more detail for every Poppy Generator loaded: marker position and rotation, facing, cooldown, what the block in front is, and the ground verdict.