Mystical Agriculture Farming: Accelerators and Harvesting
Once you are growing resource crops in Mystical Agriculture, the next step is farming them efficiently. This guide covers speeding up and automating harvests.
Faster growth
Two tools speed crops along: Growth Accelerators, placed beneath farmland to push crops to grow faster, and 
Watering Cans, which boost growth in an area when used. Stacking Growth Accelerators under a plant multiplies the effect, turning slow resource crops into a steady supply.
Harvesting tools
For manual harvesting, Scythes and Sickles clear crops over an area rather than one at a time. To remove the work entirely, the 
Harvester automatically gathers a field of crops, making a hands-off resource farm.
Better processing
Mystical Agriculture also adds upgradable 
Furnaces to process resources more effectively, and its seeds and essences integrate with automation so a mature farm produces materials continuously. Combine accelerators, a harvester and processing to turn resource crops into a self-running supply of ores, ingots and mob drops.
The tools that make farming bearable
Two harvesting tools change the scale of what you can work:
- Scythes harvest a large area on right-click, and crucially they take the crop without uprooting it, so a scythed field regrows without replanting.
- Sickles clear large areas of plant material, which is the destructive counterpart for grass and foliage rather than for crops.
Alongside them, 
Mystical Fertilizer instantly grows a crop or sapling and works on resource crops too, and Essence Watering Cans are the upgraded watering cans made with essences and fertilizer.
Where the recipes live
Farming sits inside a very large recipe set: 192 infusion recipes and 136 reprocessor recipes on both versions, plus 589 crafting recipes on 1.21.1. The reprocessor is the one to build early, since it is what turns harvested essence back into usable material.
A serious version split
The two builds are not equivalent. Crafting runs 589 on 1.21.1 against 306 on 1.20.1, and a category called shaped-no-mirror holds 278 recipes on 1.20.1 and none on 1.21.1 — recipes were reorganised between the lines rather than simply added.
Counts that stay identical across both are the safe ones to rely on: infusion at 192, reprocessor at 136, and the 76 damage-transfer recipes.
Order of work
Get a reprocessor running, then a scythe, then fertilizer. The scythe is what makes a large field practical, and the fertilizer is what makes it fast.
Seeds