Zen Garden


Compost wood or spoilage into artificial grass tiles that consume pollution and support all tree seeds. Build Zen Towers for compact wood production on Nauvis and Gleba, or Zen Gardens for any surface. Plant diverse trees with 8+67 unique seeds and create pollution-filtering decoratives.

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Version: 0.3.3
Date: 10. 23. 2025
  Features:
    - New active decorative: Cherry-bonsai.
  Graphics:
    - Fixed south pipe connection for Zen-bonsai.
  Optimizations:
    - Changed crude wood processing recipe ordering
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed base tree-seed tile restriction for 'artificial-grass'
Version: 0.3.2
Date: 10. 23. 2025
  Features:
    - Redesigned Zen-tree's so their pollution filtering is visible in the statistics.
Version: 0.3.1
Date: 10. 22. 2025
  Balancing:
    - Lowered Gear-garden crafting cost. artificial-grass 32 -> 20, tree-seed 20 -> 10
    - Gear-garden no longer consumes electricity, only water.
    - Reduced Gear-garden collision-box so character can squezee through.
  Features:
    - New active decorative: Zen-bonsai.
Version: 0.3.0
Date: 10. 21. 2025
  Locale:
    - Updated fuel pollution overhaul locale
  Balancing:
    - Increased Crude wood-processing yield from 0.8 to 0.9
    - Zen garden and Gear garden is now fire proof.
    - Zen trees no longer have negative fire resistance.
Version: 0.2.9
Date: 10. 20. 2025
  Balancing:
    - Increased technology price for Zen-tower-mk2 from 500 -> 2500, Time: 45 -> 60 and added utility-science-pack to the mix.
  Graphics:
    - Updated icons: Zen-tower, Zen-tower-mk2
    - Updated techs: Zen-tower, Zen-agriculture
  Info:
    - Updated some options description.
Version: 0.2.8
Date: 10. 19. 2025
  Graphics:
    - Updated icons: Zen-garden
    - Updated techs: Zen-garden, Charcoal-burning
  Balancing:
    - Combined base tree seeding variations into a single technology.
Version: 0.2.7
Date: 10. 17. 2025
  Optimizations:
    - Fixed Zen-tower-mk2 technology locale and prerequisites
  Features:
    - Wood now pollutes 50% less when used as fuel and coal pollutes 50% more (optional, default=true)
Version: 0.2.6
Date: 10. 16. 2025
  Minor Features:
    - Updated spoilage flag in info.json
  Compatibility:
    - Quickfix for Farm Quality Plants compatibility
  Graphics:
    - Updated zen-tower-mk2 graphics to better match 6x6 size.
Version: 0.2.5
Date: 10. 10. 2025
  Compatibility:
    - Increased zen-tower output-slot back to default 2.
Version: 0.2.4
Date: 10. 10. 2025
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed artificial-grass placement restricitons, now only whitelisted to Nauvis and Gleba tiles (invasive-forestry).
  Balancing:
    - All wood-processing is now craftable on any sruface, planting restrictions are based on tiles.
    - Added option for invasive-forestry so Artificial-grass and Nauvis trees can be planted on Gleba (default = true)
Version: 0.2.3
Date: 10. 08. 2025
  Major Features:
    - Added zen-tower-mk2, a universal 6x6 agricultural tower, with bigger radius and compact planting.
Version: 0.2.2
Date: 10. 06. 2025
  Major Features:
    - Added zen-tower, a Nauvis only 2x2 agricultural tower for early tree seeding.
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed zen-tree entity icons appearing in upgrade planner.
Version: 0.2.1
Date: 10. 04. 2025
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed artificial-grass is no longer placable on oil-ocean or lava or aquilio tiles
Version: 0.2.0
Date: 07. 15. 2025
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed crude-wood-processing recipe to be available even if Zen-seed option is disabled.
Version: 0.1.9
Date: 07. 14. 2025
  Features:
    - Clean code restructure
  Compatibility:
    - Removed incompatibility with 'Quality Seeds'
Version: 0.1.8
Date: 06. 26. 2025
  Features:
    - Artificial Grass placement has 50% chance to remove decoratives.
    - Artificial Grass layer-group changed to ground-artificial for a cleaner grass experience.
    - Removed primitive wood-processing recipe
    - Fixed subgroups and ordering for tiles
    - Fixed Seed and Zen-tree ordering.
  Balancing:
    - Artificial Grass now recycles into itself instead of soil-mixing components.
Version: 0.1.7
Date: 06. 19. 2025
  Balancing:
    - Changed Compost recipe 100 Wood -> 50 Wood, 200 Spoialage -> 100 Spoilage.
  Features:
    - Changed Zen-trees from 3x3 to 2x2
Version: 0.1.6
Date: 04. 14. 2025
  Bugfixes:
    - Added incompatibility with 'Quality Seeds'
  Features:
    - Alien Biomes compatibility: More Zen-trees
    - Startup option: Easy Zen tree recipes: All zen tree recipes will use generic tree-seed, forced to True if Zen-seed is disabled.
Version: 0.1.5
Date: 04. 28. 2025
  Bugfixes:
    - Tree-seed tile restricitons
  Features:
    - Alien Biomes compatibility: More seeds! (Beta)
    - Startup option: Move artificial-tiles to Landscaping (default-true)
Version: 0.1.4
Date: 04. 23. 2025
  Features:
    - Startup options for seed variations
    - Startup options for zen-trees
    - Startup options for zen-garden
Version: 0.1.3
Date: 04. 16. 2025
  Balancing:
    - Garden's surface_conditions and heating_energy.
  Features:
    - Alien Biomes compatibility hotfix (allows to plant tree-seeds, on alien-biomes grass/dirt tiles)
Version: 0.1.2
Date: 04. 15. 2025
  Bugfixes:
    - Various minor icon size fix
Version: 0.1.1
Date: 04. 14. 2025
  Features:
    - Planting box shadow
    - Zen-garden Dome and shadow
Version: 0.1.0
Date: 04. 12. 2025
  Major Features:
    - Initial release