Botania Basics: Mystical Flowers to Mana Production
Botania is a tech mod focused on natural magic, centered around creating magical flowers and devices using Mana. It emphasizes ingenuity and thought, and can be played as a standalone mod or with others. The mod features in-world interactions and aims to provide engaging gameplay.
The Lexica Botania
The 
Lexica Botania is your guide to all botanical knowledge. If you sneak-right click a block with an entry in the book, it will open to that entry. Entries in italics are basic and contain core knowledge essential for playing Botania. The book's title and cover can be customized by renaming it in an Anvil.
Mystical Flowers
Around the world, you will find Mystical Flowers. These flowers glow faintly and sparkle, and come in 16 different colors. Pick the flowers for Mystical Petals, the base material behind the mod's tools and plants. Right-click a petal against the ground to plant it, and it will start giving off particles.
Mystical Petals can also be crushed into corresponding Dyes. By mixing Dye with 
Bone Meal, you can create 
Floral Fertilizer. This fertilizer will grow more Mystical Flowers in the nearby area. Depending on the soil, Shimmering Mushrooms may also grow.
Wand of the Forest
The 
Wand of the Forest is a crucial tool for manipulating flowers. It is crafted from Mystical Petals and 
Livingwood Twigs. The color of the wand depends on the petals used in its creation.
Two modes are available on the wand, one for binding and one for functions.
- Binding takes two sneak-right clicks: the first picks up a compatible block, the second names the block it should be tied to.
- Switch to functions and that sneak-right click is handed back for whatever else needs it. Sneak and right-click into empty air to swap between the two.
- In Function Mode, sneak-right clicking a block rotates it around the axis of the side clicked. This can reorient most blocks with directional properties. A Dispenser holding a wand will use it on the block it faces when triggered.
Pure Daisy
The 
Pure Daisy is a foundational flower. It purifies adjacent Wood and Stone blocks into 
Livingwood and 
Livingrock, which are important crafting materials. This process takes about a minute. Livingwood can be further processed into Livingwood Twigs.
The Pure Daisy can also purify other blocks:
- Netherrack becomes Cobblestone
- Soul Sand becomes Sand
- Blaze Mesh becomes Obsidian
- Water becomes Snow
- Ice becomes Packed Ice
- Packed Ice becomes Blue Ice
- End Stone turns into Cobbled Deepslate and puffs out a little Ender Air as it goes.
Petal Apothecary
The 
Petal Apothecary is used to craft various items using Mystical Petals and other components. It has many recipes, some examples include:
- Two
Mystical Lime Petals, one 
Mystical Green Petal, one 
Mystical Yellow Petal, one 
Rune of Spring, and one 
Redstone Root. - Three
Mystical Red Petals, two 
Mystical Cyan Petals, and one Redstone Root. - One
Mystical Orange Petal, two Mystical Green Petals, and one Redstone Root. - Two Mystical Cyan Petals, two
Mystical Light Blue Petals, two 
Mystical Blue Petals, one 
Rune of Water, one 
Rune of Summer, and 
Pixie Dust. - Two
Mystical Light Gray Petals, one 
Mystical Gray Petal, one Mystical Cyan Petal, and one 
Rune of Earth. - Two
Mystical White Petals, one 
Mystical Brown Petal, one Mystical Yellow Petal, one 
Rune of Air, and one Redstone Root. - Two
Mystical Purple Petals, one Mystical Lime Petal, one Mystical Green Petal, one Rune of Water, one 
Rune of Fire, one Rune of Earth, one Rune of Air, one Redstone Root, and one 
Gaia Spirit. - Two Mystical Yellow Petals, one Mystical Orange Petal, and one Mystical Light Blue Petal.
- Three
Mystical Black Petals, two Mystical Cyan Petals, and one Redstone Root. - Two Mystical Brown Petals, one Mystical Red Petal, and one Mystical Light Gray Petal.
- Two Mystical Red Petals, two Mystical Gray Petals, two Mystical White Petals, one
Rune of Wrath, and one Rune of Fire. - Two Mystical Red Petals, one Mystical Gray Petal, one Mystical Light Gray Petal, one Rune of Fire, and one Rune of Summer.
- Two Mystical White Petals, two Mystical Yellow Petals, one Mystical Orange Petal, and one Rune of Spring.
- Two Mystical Light Gray Petals, two Mystical Yellow Petals, one Mystical Red Petal, one Rune of Fire, and one Rune of Summer.
- Two
Mystical Magenta Petals, one Mystical Purple Petal, one 
Mystical Pink Petal, one Rune of Wrath, and Pixie Dust.
Covers the mod’s in-game guide topics: Welcome To Botania Lexica Botania Mystical Flowers Wand of the Forest botania.entry.pureDaisy Petal Apothecary