Mana Generating Flowers

Mana Generating Flowers are the sole method of generating Mana for use in Botania structures and items. They are all crafted/created in the Petal Apothecary.

Generating Flowers

There are two different types of generating flowers, passive and active.

Passive flowers produce mana without any input, but have a set lifespan and decay into a dead bush after one hour (72,000 ticks). Breaking and replacing them does not remove this timer. Planting passive flowers on Enchanted Soil (made with Overgrowth Seeds) prevents passive decay, but it is better used to improve Active Flowers instead.

Active flowers require an input depending on the flower and do not decay. They generate much more mana than passive flowers.

All mana is measured in internal units. For reference, a mana pool can store 1,000,000 mana.


Flower	Generation Type	Mana Per Operation	Mana/t	Notes
Daybloom	Passive	6,000 mana/full life cycle	1/12	Requires daytime to produce mana. Total mana assumes 100% daytime.
Nightshade	Passive	6,000 mana/full life cycle	1/12	Requires nighttime to produce mana. Total mana assumes 100% nighttime.
Hydroangeas	Passive	36,000 mana/full life cycle	0.5	Consumes water source blocks in a 3x3 area around itself. Will not consume the water if at least two source blocks are around it. Produces double the mana during rain or thunderstorms.
Beegonia	Active	~100-650 mana/drone	1	Amount of mana depends on the quality of the drone, results may vary.
Endoflame	Active	Burn Time * 1.5 mana (48,000 max)	1.5	Can consume a maximum of 32,000 burn time at once per item; any burn time after that per item is voided. Does not work for items that have containers, such as buckets of lava or creosote.
Gourmaryllis	Active	Hunger^2 * 64 mana (max 8,000)	Varies Max ~70	The food calculation is based on the food values before Spice of Life's changes to food values, so mileage may vary. Saturation does not affect the gourmaryllis, only hunger. Takes hunger * 10 ticks to consume food and turn it into mana. The best possible value is achieved with food that refers 5.5 shanks, in GTNH these are Beans and Rice, Cucumber Salad, Curry Rice, Fried Chicken, Hash, Lamb with Mint Sauce, Leafy Chicken Sandwich, Loaded Baked Potato, Spaghetti and Meatballs, Spicy Greens, or Taco. Any reasonably high hunger food will work, although too high a value will decrease output as the cooldown is uncapped unlike mana generation.
Narslimmus	Active	820 * 2^Size	Highly variable	Eats one slime every 5 ticks. Can only eat naturally spawning slimes, powered spawners do not work. Larger slimes give more mana.
Rosa Arcana	Active	50 mana/xp	50-6,000	Does the first matching action in descending order every tick: Take 1 xp/tick from a nearby player's experience bar. Consume one whole xp orb entity. An xp orb of size 120 will instantly fill the Rosa Arcana's internal mana buffer. Works with xp orbs created by the XP Shower. Disenchant a nearby item, similar to the Grindstone in modern versions of vanilla. This removes all enchantments from the item and spawns xp orbs that can be consumed on future ticks. Any xp consumed that will overflow the mana buffer is wasted.
Thermalilly	Active	18,000 mana/lava source block	Active: 20 Overall: ~2.6	Consumes a lava source block to produce mana for 45 seconds at 20 mana/t, then enters a 300 second cooldown period. Average mana production is ~2.6 Mana/t.
Entropinnyum	Active	6,500 mana/TNT	6,500	Able to consume any entity that extends EntityTNTPrimed. Valid entities are: vanilla TNT, AE2 Tiny TNT, and GregTech Powderbarrels. Cannot consume IC2 ITNT or Dynamite, Tinkers Construct SDX, creeper explosions, machine explosions, or any other type of explosion. Must also contain zero mana, or it will fail to consume the TNT before it explodes!
Munchdew	Active	160 mana/leaf	40	Consumes a leaf block every 4 ticks. Has an 80 second cooldown if it fails to eat a leaf block 5 times in a row. Works best with vanilla leaves, though some modded leaf blocks work (needs testing).
Tainthistle	Active	30 mana/layer of flux goo/gas	1.5	Best used as a passive way to clean up flux. Produces the same amount of mana as an Endoflame while being a lot harder to supply fuel for. Not very effective for producing any notable amount of mana.
Kekimurus	Active	10,800 mana/cake	22.5	Eats one slice of (placed) cake every 80 ticks, making 1800 mana. Works with Pam's Harvestcraft and vanilla cakes Doesn't work with Blood Cakes (Blood Arsenal), Thaumic Cakes (Forbidden Magic), Experiment 115 (Twilight Forest), or Block of Cheese (GlactiCraft) despite them looking and acting like cakes.
Rafflowsia	Active	2,100 mana/flower	52.5	Only consumes placed Dayblooms, Nightshades, and Hydroangeas. Eats one flower every 40 ticks. Eating the same flower multiple times divides the amount of mana generated by the number of the same flower eaten in a row (the 5th daybloom given in a row only gives 420 mana). Giving a different flower resets the counter.
Spectrolus	Active	300 mana/wool	300	Consumes colored wool in item metadata order (white, orange, magenta, light blue, etc). Voids any wool that isn't in the correct order.
Dandelifeon	Active	Cellular Block's age * 150	Max: 90	Generates mana based on a pseudo-multiblock version of Conway's Game of Life. Can make a maximum of 50,000 mana per full game. Makes 45,000 from 8 Cellular Blocks using this design.
Asgardandelion	Passive	1,000,000	1,000,000	Produces effectively infinite mana, only gated by how fast it can be extracted from the flower.
Soarleander	N/A			Joke item, doesn't actually do anything. Yes, the quest lied to you.