Unlike the Terrestrial Agglomeration Plate, the Mana Infuser requires a dominant spark augment to pull mana from sparks. Welcome to the Botania mod. II. There are four types of spreaders. 400 Mana. Type : Item Stackable : Yes (64) Mana Infused String is crafting component from Botania mod. As shown in the link, I have a mana spreader being fed by 8 or 9 dayblooms and an endoflame. Placing it underneath a Mana Pool will allow the pool to continue accepting mana after it is full, this deletes all. Berekhalf. It is the primary block for Mana storage in the mod and can store an extremely large amount of Mana inside (100x more than the Diluted Mana Pool, or 1,000,000 Mana). Screenshot. 8. The Mana Mirror functions the same way that Mana Tablet and Band of Mana do,. It would take 9. Mahou Tsukai. Spark (Botania) Corporea Spark, from the same mod. It can store up to 500,000 Mana, equivalent to a half of a Mana Pool. That's my go to anyway. D > C takes a bit of mana, and each subsequent level takes 10 x the previous amount. Loonium - Generates loot chest drops (mineshafts, dungeons etc. Houndie • 8 yr. Volcano Block หรือ มอดเเพ็คทะเลลาวา เป็นมอดเเพ็คเเนวเอาชีวิตรอด + เควสเนื้อ. Basically trying to get my portal setup, and have a system intelligently keep it open without wasting materials. no, it will give it 25% of the incoming mana (assuming 4 pools are connected) and any left over after it fills will be lost. When present in the player's inventory, it will provide Mana from the linked Mana Pool to Mana-using items in their inventory, similar to a Mana Tablet. The gaia mana spreader can hold 6,400 mana. 2. The pool fills up when I trow my band of mana in it and set it to "item -> pool". Creating a mana 'battery' is easy- point your generating flower spreaders to a pool with a. It is also used to activate the Runic Altar, change modes on. It is the primary basic means of producing Mana, the other being the Hydroangeas. INSTAGRAM - of Aura. ago. At this stage, I don't really need mana lens as this is sufficient, and should be pretty fast enough at the early game of Botania. ago. Each mana spreader will independently try to pull mana from the mana pool they are adjacent to. The blocks sending and receiving mana must be adjacent to and on opposite sides of the Mana Pump. Kekimurus, Entropynniums, Rosa Aracanas and Munchdews operate a bit differently - the speed at which they can produce mana is governed primarily by how. The Mana Spreader is used to transport Mana in Botania. It is notably different from. Having a full Pool does not cause Mana waste if there is at least one Pool not full. The main concept is to create magical flowers and devices utilizing the power of the earth, in the form of Mana. Next to the mana pool there's also a normal mana spreader, so that the pulse mana spreader has mana to send up to enable/disable the hovering hourglass. If any mana containing block gets mana when it's full, that mana is destroyed. They can produce a decent amount of mana (though they'll be Elven Knowledge once DW20 updates to the latest Botania). Don't try making the mana while the terrasteel is getting made. Type. Once a redstone signal is applied, the Tinkerer will switch the Augment applied to an. ChaosContrl • 2 yr. To fully open the portal you will need about a 5th of a mana pool distributed across at least two pools with natura pylon on top within range of the portal. A lot. (If you can get the mana out fast enough). It can be used to craft Alfsteel and Terrasteel. 2. Once you have a few flowers producing then you can justify upgrading to full pools. The Mana-Infuser is an upgrade to the Terrestrial Agglomeration Plate added by MythicBotany. I sat with the wand and spam clicked it while it drained. Black Lotus (Botania) Botanical Brewery. The most efficient system might be "teleported" (via a corporea network) mana tablets or rings. Like standard Mana operations,. I noticed that there is a mana bee in the list, but its combs don't seem to produce anything, and I couldn't find any information about them online, leading me. In addition to that, as the others already mentioned, there is a small mana fee to pay for each transaction. Additional comment actions. Generating Flora - flowers generating Mana. Type. Figuring out comparators is integral to a lot of botania automation. 19. 2. e. Mod. It is used to transfer Mana between Mana Pools and Minecarts with Mana Pool. Recipe . Edit: most productive flower as of 1. after about an hour of messing around in frustration I stumbled upon a post that said it’s the pressure plate and then it started working. You are looking at something on the higher end of the mana production spectrum, which gets really difficult with vanilla and Botania alone. Flowers are generally divided intoː Mystical Flowers - generated in world, raw material for crafting. Lower angle view, to make it. It is an upgraded version of the Mana Spreader and allows for Mana bursts to travel longer without losing Mana. Thenderick • 4 yr. Haven't needed mana for much yet other than a few mana diamonds, some manasteel, and odds and ends. ( Diluted Mana Pool This page provides an overview of Botania Flowers. Hope this helps! [deleted] Use your wand to link the flowers to the spreader. -Make sure the Endoflames are fueled - you can see little fire particles while it's working, and see Mana with the wand of the forest. The Portal to Alfheim is a multiblock structure added by Botania. Edit2: managed to exceed 130k per second with multiple flowers in base Botania 1. It's a mod. While Mana can be provided with Mana Spreaders, the Lexica. My ideas are using a tree farm as then you could get charcoal as well as leaves. Item. ago. At that point, just wait for the pool to get a bit of mana in it (level 2), then trigger a mana burst, and replace the now missing stone. You can use a Diluted Mana Pool, which is 1/100th the size of the regular pool, if you want to experiment better. If you are using only endoflames, be advised that you are dealing with one of the slowest mana producers available in the mod. The Lexica Botania describes it as "the general multi-use tool for a botanist. The Shimmerrock is a decorative block added by Botania. You will need roughly 1 million mana (1 full mana pool, not the. It allows for the transfer of mana between a Mana Pool and a Minecart with Mana Pool . The most efficient system might be "teleported" (via a corporea network) mana tablets or rings. You will need to attach a recessive spark augment to the collector for it to work. Alchemizing with mana requires the mana pool to be sitting on an Alchemy Catalyst. The placed items will be shown orbiting above the altar. Mana generation feeds into a single central pool with a Recessive Augment on it. It IS gaining mana, but the capacity of the. Automatic, totally safe mana minecart stations. Make sure it. the harvester will then chop any trees that grow. Set the torch between the two droppers, hourglass next to it for however long your food needs. Before we get into generating Mana we need to first explore how to store Mana, as you will need some kind of storage before you can put it to good use. The Black Lotus is the most valuable card in a standard. Heck, make an array of them. Ajreil • 2 yr. 2? I am playing on DW20 and I have a decent supply of resources and I have never used botania before. . The Mirror cannot accept Mana in any other way, and will not output Mana when dropped on a Mana Pool. It is a creative mana pool. Two Pylons placed one block away from the Enchantment Table will allow it to enchant items up to Level 30. How to make a simple mana battery in Botania with mana pools and sparks. Using All of Fabric 6 - Version 1. 5%) and the maintenance cost at 2 mana/tick/pool. 18 and managed to exceed 300k per second on 1. 2 HD U | 1 pre 4 into the mods folder of. The Wand of the Forest is an item added by the Botania mod. yeah usually all you do is place a mana spreader beside a mana pool with mana in it and then point it at the altar, then once the altar has all the ingredients it should start getting mana. 1. I know it's not much Botania's vision, but try to count how many fractions of a mana pool using the Orechid once costs. I've pretty much replaced my entire mana distribution system with sparks with the exception of long-range transport. The Dominant Augment will have the Spark pull any Mana from nearby non-augmented. Stackable. ) flowers bind to locations and not spreaders, moving spreaders with pistons will achieve the same effect as number 1 but by moving. Place a mana spreader next to the pool facing the altar. The The Everlasting Guility Pool is a block added by the Botania mod. Recipe . When you start the altar event, it will automatically push mana into the altar. Each ore generated is selected at random, with the likelihood of each ore appearing being affected by the frequency with which they spawn naturally in the world;. This mod - Botanical Machinery - will help you automate basically everything from Botania. , usually at the cost of mana. Within a minute or so, it should "pop" and convert to a block of Livingwood. The Spark Augment: Dominant is an item added by Botania. It is used to craft runes. When Mana Pools are placed adjacent to its four sides on the same Y-level, it will share any Mana bursts that it receives. Mana stored in the pool can be used to power other blocks in Botania that require Mana. When applied to a Spark on a Mana Pool, it will push Mana into other Mana Pools with Sparks (unaugmented or Dispersive) in a 25x25x25 area. Have a hopperhock set to pick up full tablets/bands to fill another (double) chest. The Mana in a Bottle is consumable, but it has more than one use. Bubbell. Its only use is crafting Terrasteel. a) You can create spark augments that change the way sparks gain or lose mana. Thus, an Endoflame produces 15 RF/t and 12,000 RF per coal (which is a fairly poor efficiency), and a. 2. ago. Consuming a source block will power it for 2 seconds. It is used to transport Mana like the standard Mana Spreader, except it will only emit Mana when a redstone signal is present. Reply reply Z0mb1eK1ll3r • There wasn't anything near by except for one that was like 6-12 blocks away. If the mod Garden of Glass is installed, the recipe uses a Livingwood instead of an item in the ingotGold OreDictionary tag. You have to let it time out before feeding more, I use a timer with 10 sec delay. It converts all Mana directed into it to Redstone Flux . Ajreil • 2 yr. When it receives a burst, the Mana Splitter will equally share all the Mana between the Mana Pools adjacent to it. Tune in next time where I exp. Munchdews have good generation but are individually slow because of. In the video, you will also learn about Mana Pool, Endoflame, and Wand of the Forest. 10. It's just slow and doesn't produce much Mana compared to how much it can hold. I don't believe you can currently unbind them from nearby pools, though, it would be a nice feature to have (and it SEEMS easy enough to add. The answer: The mana pool is actually huge, and holds quite a lot of mana. Maybe it works on single player. theroyalvoid • 4 mo. Hydroangeas produce very little mana. Learn Game Design on my main channel: about the Botania Mana Spreader. Effective way in term of resources: Mana Tablets through an Ender Chest. 0. My ideas are using a tree farm as then you could get charcoal as well as leaves. The Shimmerrock is a decorative block added by Botania. The Mana in a Bottle is an item added by Botania. And that a mana pool contains a LOT of mana so it takes a while for it to even show anything visually. Mana Pools National Park is a 219,600-hectare (543,000-acre) wildlife conservation area and national park in northern Zimbabwe. Mana can then instantly travel through to any outputs, such as a Mana pool, Runic Altar, Terrasteel Agglomeration Plate or anything else!. Place a mana spreader next to the pool facing the altar. A mana “battery” is just a large number of mana pools with sparks on them, then nearby one mana pool with a dominant spark for mana export (tie your mana mirror to this pool) and another. The Hydroangeas is a passive generating flower added by Botania. Extreme exceptions aside, gaia spreaders (potentially with a Velocity+Potency lens) should easily be handle to handle the output of "vanilla" Botania setups. The Mana Void is a block added by Botania. Normally you want more generating flower farms with automated self-sustained systems in order to produce mana constantly. i believe if you use the botania wand (the basic one) on a mana pool you can put it into drain mode so it will drain mana from items into the pool and you can set it to fill mode to put mana from pool into items, try switching that up so the mana is filled into the pool and drained from the bottles. Fair point, but since Botania tends to encourage decentralized mana generation for individual systems, that would be kinda unsuitable IMO This is also the mod where you can create a system pooling shittons of mana into a super mana battery to charge a pickaxe with 100 full mana pools. It is functionally identical to the regular pool, the only difference being the animated texture slowly changing colors. But what level would I need to set a redstone comparator to so that it will only output a signal when a mana pool contains enough mana to make mana dust Mana pools store a stupidly large amount of mana. The Hydroangeas is a passive generating flower added by Botania. It receives Mana from a burst emitted by a Spreader. Mana Fluxfield. Question about Botania in StoneBlock. It works like normal Mana Pool, but have endless amount of Mana, so it wasn't designed for survival mode. 30 Endoflames produce like 900 mana per second, so you're instantly filling the spreader and not moving the mana into the pool fast enough. Install Botania and it's dependencies onto a 43. As the others have mentioned, the simplest solution is mass Thermalilies. There will also be a "beam" from the spreader that shows precisely where it is aimed when you're holding the Wand of the Forest. There is an. This block empowers enchantment processes. Source pool (regular spark) -> Transfer pools (1 dominant, mana spreader to regular, dominant to 25 blocks away from source, regular up to 12 blocks away from that) -> Destination pool (dominant spark). Within range of this have the Mana pools used as storage all with Non-Augumented sparks attached. Please note that if the Mana Pool has an Alchemy Catalyst under it, Grass will be turned into Ferns instead of Pasture Seeds. rkreutz77 • 3 yr. When placed next to a Mana Pool it will show whether the pool is gaining or losing Mana over time, removing the need to repeatedly check a Mana Pool with a Wand of the Forest. For example Endoflames are easy to make, easy to make a lot of but in actual amounts they are very slow. The. I've already mentioned the comparator on the mana pool that controls the crafter, and the mechanism. No long chains, just simple automation at 2 ends of an ender chest: Bottom setup: Hopper/Dispenser activated by hourglass/animated torch pulls mana tablet from ender chest and fires it into the full pool (blocks placed as necessary to ensure it falls into the pool). Mana Distributor. Now if said mana pool were to share its mana with other mana pools, then you'd effectively have more than 1 pool of mana worth in capacity. You will need roughly 1 million mana (1 full mana pool, not the. Either moving mana around between mana pools or mana receiving device. Yeah Botania is a must have. It can be used to craft Alfsteel and Terrasteel. The main concept is to create magical flowers and devices utilizing the power of the earth, in the form of Mana. Registry name. Closest to a number you can get is by sticking a comparator next to get to get a 0-15 readout based on percent full. 8-249. Hover over each endoflame with a wand of the forest and look for a green check mark. Higher grade spreaders also helps. Install Botania and it's dependencies onto a 43. Also positioning the mana pool right on top of the mana spreader helps a lot. I'm using Botania's enchanting setup and have 2 mana pools that I want to use to power it. 12. I'm working on 1. Recipe. Mana Spreader Tutorial. It can be crafted by throwing an empty bottle in a mana pool. The eggs are retrieved by a hopperhock and piped via ExtraUtils pipes/transfer node to the RF Tools Crafter. As for the mana production itself, I recommend making a coal farm and place 8 endoflames on the four corners of your botania farm and automate it such that it throws a coal only after the previous one on the pressure plate is consumed. 2, Botania shaders enabled, nearby mana pool: 1. At this stage, I don't really need mana lens as this is sufficient, and should be pretty fast enough at the early game of Botania. It can store 500,000 Mana. Today we will covering everything you need to know when starting Botania!We shall cover petals,. Botania is a unique tech mod that uses mana and flowers to generate energy and build new machines. Botania:manaResource:23. Easiest way is spamming Endo flames with blaze rods. The main concept is to create magical flowers and devices utilizing the power of the earth, in the form of Mana. Botania is a magic tech mod based on nature. If the portal runs out of Mana, or a part of the structure is broken, the Portal will close. Zieg777 • 4 yr. Kekimurus, Entropynniums, Rosa Aracanas and Munchdews operate a bit differently - the speed at which they can produce mana is governed primarily by how. Since the orechid is relatively mana hungry, the pool should almost always be empty except when the flower runs out of stone to convert. It produces Mana from nearby Water sources, but will wither and turn into a Dead Bush after being placed for 1 hour. Only way to keep them from taking mana is to put it out of their reach. 2. Template:Navbox MythicBotanyBotania: Automating the Runic Altar Runic Altar . If you place more than one Hydroangeas on that, they will take all of the water, and then it won't be infinite anymore. Join. If you want any reasonable amount of mana, you'll need to. 8. The mana pool fill level does not render when optifine is installed. The Wand of the Forest is a tool added by Botania. The blocks sending and receiving mana must be adjacent to and on opposite sides of the Mana Pump. For example, Charcoal, which is used to smelt 8 items, is burned for 800 ticks (40 seconds. Hook them to the same Redstone pulse and put it on a timer to transfer to your battery. These pools will be filled by 2 mana spreaders which get mana from one MFR Fountain and 8 thermalilies (4 to each spreader). scratchisthebest. someone please help me, i need advice. If that Water source. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to. Many of the generating flowers are rate-limited anyway. Extreme exceptions aside, gaia spreaders (potentially with a Velocity+Potency lens) should easily be handle to handle the output of "vanilla" Botania setups. Mana Powder is an crafting component added by the Botania mod. ago. The droppper is where all the burnable fuels go (The Lexica Botania will give more info on what an endoflame eats/burns). There are two types of flora (besides the Pure Daisy and Mystical Flowers): functional and generating. It must be placed directly underneath a Mana Pool. They fill mana tablets or bands of mana in your inventory. ( Diluted Mana Pool •. . Bubbell. 400 Mana. If it wasn't clear, "safe" in this context means "without giving the pumps a chance to be Mana Voids Mk. It is used to power a wide variety of magical blocks and items in Botania in order to progress through the mod. Once a redstone signal is applied, the Tinkerer will switch the Augment. The mana should quickly drain from the pool and reset the system. Some events may occur. 2,500 Mana. The Orechid is a flower from Botania which turns nearby Stone into ores. Cons: Not incredibly compact - the base part is 14 blocks long x 5 wide (to allow for tree width), and there are a few extra parts that need to extend well outside that area. In the video, I will show you how to easily solve the problem of insufficient Mana Pool capacity. Normally they would spread equal amounts of mana. The Minecart with Mana Pool is a type of minecart added by Botania. You know, this reminds me that I should probably go into creative and experiment with the Creative Pool. 3-Hour Bike Tour of Victoria City & the Coastal Shoreside. Any Mana shot into the Mana Void will vanish and is unrecoverable. Liquify Inert Mana Blocks in a superheated Mixer and Basin to produce Inert Liquid Mana. Mana Pylon is a block added by the Botania mod. This mod - Botanical Machinery - will help you automate basically everything from Botania. Above that diluted mana pool, put a normal mana spreader pointing back the way you can from, at a diluted mana pool. The Spark Augment: Dominant is an item added by Botania. Also, mana pools are HUGE (100 times the size of a diluted mana pool). The Spreader is gaining mana and I'm getting the sound and the particle effect that it's transferring mana, but the mana pool shows that its not gaining any mana. If any of the. The more sparked pools you have, the faster the terrasteel will craft, reducing the chances that stuff despawns. I use build craft structure pipe which has an option to emit a Redstone signal when the mana pool is full. This creates a variable toggle with minimal space, just by changing the amount of. It is used to transport large amounts of Mana. Munchdews have good generation but are individually slow because of the cooldown, so you'd want multiple. ah, I love how reddit just shows me a 7 year old comment on how to do something in minecraft, and it. That matches the code on github that seemed to show the opening cost at 75000 mana/pool (7. The main concept is to create magical flowers and devices utilizing the power of the earth, in the form of Mana. The pump can face any of the four cardinal directions. 8. ago. One Gourmarylis can produce mana faster than a mana spreader can output it - meaning one flower is 8x faster than an endoflame in the early game, and even faster once you upgrade your mana spreaders with elven materials. This is an alternative to the portable mana storage items such as the Mana Tablet. In the video, you will also learn about Mana Pool, Endoflame, and Wand of the Forest. Please note that if the Mana Pool has an Alchemy Catalyst under it, Grass will be turned into Ferns instead of Pasture Seeds. Higher grade spreaders also helps. craft yourself a lexica botania and just start. One Terrasteel needs half of a mana pool, which is a huge amount. Recipe. Hope this helps! [deleted] Use your wand to link the flowers to the spreader. Recessive augments will push mana into other pools with sparks above them, using these you can theoretically move mana to anywhere, but for it. The Crafter makes scrambled eggs and fried eggs, which are piped to the appropriate dropper by filtered ExtraUtils pipes/transfer nodes. Shift right-clicking the Runic Altar with an. The. Maintenance in: Botania, Energy storage, Decorative, Mana (Botania) Fabulous Mana Pool Sign in to edit The Fabulous Mana Pool is a decorative variant of the Mana Pool. I think the functional flora, like most plants, are thirsty little buggers. Having the mana spreader and pool far away means a lot more time between bursts, and a much slower transfer. Plus a wand of the forest to link the dayblooms. Terra Catalyst - another catalyst for new and upcoming recipes. It can exist in liquid form, in which it is stored in Mana Pools and can be ingested as Mana in a Bottle, which provides highly randomized effects upon drinking. It gathers mana from nearby generating flowers or adjacent Mana Pools and transfers it through pulses to Mana. ago. When placed adjacent to a Mana Pool with a Spark, this block will allow for automated swapping of any Spark Augment . theroyalvoid • 4 mo. Scale up your production and you will see it go up. Sorry for the confusion everyone idk why it. It is used to provide certain items with a. The band can also be. This is a Mana Spreader tutorial for the Botania mod for Minecraft 1. 3%). I always make sure it’s at least 3/4 full because I’m a little paranoid and don. Step 4 Mana Generator When powered with SU, the Mana Generator consumes Inert Liquid Mana and adds Botania Mana to a mana pool when placed above the machine. Mana Pools National Park is a 219,600-hectare (543,000-acre) wildlife conservation area and national park in northern Zimbabwe. Mana Tide Bellows around a pool act as multiplies for that charge rate, similar to using multiple. (and post some feedbacks after you figured it out)As added by Botania Terrasteel is created via an infusion ritual atop a Terrestrial Agglomeration Plate. Shift. . To put it in units, the pool holds 1 million mana (which is 100 times what a diluted pool holds). The Elven Mana Spreader is an a block added by Botania. There are 2 ways you can use them. It receives Mana from a burst emitted by a Spreader. Miscellaneous flowers - they do not interact with Mana directly. If the. Hopperhock is restrained for 30 sec by the hourglass/animated torch. Search for the Portal to Alfheim. Generating Flora - flowers generating Mana. The Mana Spreader is used to transport Mana in Botania. Use Endoflames instead. The Spark is an entity added by Botania. Unlike most portals, the Portal to Alfheim cannot be travelled through; if the player were to stand in it, it would not teleport them anywhere. Single Mana Pool no Manatide Bellows. Awesome. These were deliberate design decisions, as Vazkii wanted to. Even several bursts will not show a change in the pools level due to just how much mana a pool can actually hold, and how small of an amount of mana is actually sent out in a mana burst, in comparison. Recipe . x version of Advanced Creation. 11. 9 and up. I've already mentioned the comparator on the mana pool that controls the crafter, and the mechanism. For moving mana with sparks, you could put a spark tinkerer by your generating pool and your transfer pool. This block is also utilized in the multiblock. Ring of mana can be used for awhile but the best set up for having mana in the vault is a mana mirror linked to a mana “battery” that is chunk loaded. Effective way in term of speed: Mana Tablets through a Corporea Network. if adding mods an option then check out Practical Logistics, although I'm not sure if it was updated to 1. At the default speed, a mana pool can empty its content into a single charged item in 50 seconds; if the pool would never empty, a Terra Shatterer would require 13 hours 53 minutes and 20 seconds of uninterrupted charging to reach SS rank that way. The Spark Augment: Recessive is an item added by Botania. I am up to the point where I have a mana pool and a little bit of mana from the Hydrangeas. Thanks, that's working great. The wand says that the flowers are supplying to the spreader and the spreader. 241 votes, 51 comments. . The Spreader is gaining mana and I'm getting the sound and the particle effect that it's transferring mana, but the mana pool shows that its not gaining any mana. 8 247) is a block added by Botania. Today we start playing with Botania 1. Consuming a source block will power it for 2 seconds. In the most recent version it will accept duped tnt in exchange for 3 mana, but you can circumvent that by not using slime or honey blocks (full amount) Dandelifeon is a D tier flower at best. Plus a wand of the forest to link the dayblooms. Thing is, with vanilla Botania, I've never had a mana gen setup that would keep it open, and doing so is certainly harder before one has elven resources. Flowers are generally divided intoː Mystical Flowers - generated in world, raw material for crafting. The Portal to Alfheim is a multiblock structure added by Botania. A functional flower that displays whether adjacent Mana Pools are operating on a profit or a loss of mana. This guide will talk you through Botania until you are equipped to make the Agricarnation. They generate an ok amount of mana per cycle, but only have one generating cycle every 5 minutes and 45 seconds (5 minute wait, 45 seconds worth of mana generation). place the pool > place the mana slreader spreader (the normal one) pointing to the pool > place a flower nearish to the spreader (it will automaticalli link) > it will work. It gathers mana from nearby generating flowers or adjacent Mana Pools and transfers it through pulses to Mana Pools, Mana Spreaders, and other mana accepting blocks. Car mana pool: Small version of the mana pool minecart from botania, works exactly the same. Normal Mana spreaders works, if placed at one block distance facing the pool, any try to bind it to the pool goes flat. If you can, make the half pools. In Botania's case, regarding the mana pools, there was a clear lack of "communication" (both via Lex and via lack of proper UX design), which led players to thinking their regular mana pools weren't working. Filling the mana pool from the flower is about emptying the plant asap. Livingwood is a block added by the Botania mod. The direction of the arrow has no effect on spreaders.