Mystical Agriculture: Growing Resources with Crops

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Mystical Agriculture lets you grow almost any resource as a crop, from ores to mob drops. This guide covers the essence system that makes it work.

Essence and Prosperity

The foundation is Inferium Essence, the base magical material, and Prosperity Shards. Combining essence with a Prosperity Seed Base and the target resource creates a seed for that resource — plant it, and it grows a crop that yields essence of that material.

Essence tiers

Essence climbs a tier ladder, and higher-tier crops need higher essence to craft: Inferium, Prudentium, Tertium, Imperium and finally Supremium. You upgrade essence up the ladder, and better seeds require the stronger tiers, so progression is about climbing this chain.

Getting started

Start by farming Inferium, craft your first resource seeds (common ores and materials), and use the essence to climb toward the higher tiers. With over 130 resource crops available, Mystical Agriculture can eventually grow nearly any ingredient, ore, or mob drop you need — the farming and gear guides cover speeding up farms and the mod's tools and armor.

The size of what you are starting

Mystical Agriculture is one of the largest recipe sets on this wiki: 192 infusion recipes, 136 reprocessor recipes, 589 crafting recipes on 1.21.1, plus enchanter, awakening, soul extraction and soulium spawner categories on top.

You do not need to understand all of it. The chain is narrow even though the list is long — grow essence, reprocess it, infuse it into the next tier.

The first three things to build

A reprocessor, because it recovers essence from what you harvest
A scythe, which harvests a wide area on right-click and leaves crops standing rather than uprooting them
Mystical Fertilizer, which instantly grows a crop or sapling, resource crops included

Those three turn the mod from tedious to automatic more than any machine further up the tree.

Version differences are real

Crafting is 589 recipes on 1.21.1 and 306 on 1.20.1, and a whole shaped-no-mirror category holds 278 recipes on 1.20.1 and zero on 1.21.1. The infusion and reprocessor lists are identical on both at 192 and 136, so those are the parts of any guide that transfer safely between versions.

What comes later

The Master Infusion Crystal has infinite durability and is the item the mid-game is aimed at — it removes the recurring cost from every infusion you run afterwards.