mlieZen Garden Mod adds a wide range of zen and rock garden themed decorations, along with new trees, materials, flooring, and outdoor design elements. The mod expands decorative building options while also introducing orchard mechanics and a few compatibility integrations with other mods.
Zen Garden Features
There is also the add-on mod Zen Garden Plus Mod by velcroboy333, which lets you use the plants from Zen Garden Mod in additional food and beverage recipes.
Researching stonecutting unlocks everything added by Zen Garden Mod.
Materials and resources
- Cherry Wood: Pink colored wood.
- Ebony Wood: Black colored wood.
- Zen Cherries: Secondary resource of the Zen Cherry Tree.
- Persimmon: Secondary resource of the Persimmon Tree.
- Crabapple: Secondary resource of the Crabapple Tree.
Decorations, structures, and trees
- Border Path: A decorative border for placing along important paths, hallways, farms, and similar areas.
- Border Pond: A water-based variation of the border path.
- Border Path Pillar: A pillar designed to fit along a border path or border pond, and can also support roofs.
- Stacked Rocks: Decorative stacked rocks available in two sizes.
- Artificial Hedge: Decorative hedges that colonists can walk through.
- Tall Hedge: A hedge grown for decorative purposes.
- Dense Grass: Tall grass used to cover exposed dirt ground.
- Half Wall: A simple stone half wall that can be built with or without powered lanterns.
- Flower Arch: Decorative arch suitable for paths or wedding spots. Vines grow when temperatures are warm enough, and flowers bloom during spring and summer.
- Scenic Bench: A bench that gains beauty based on nearby plants, water, and rivers.
- Fountain: A decorative fountain available in two sizes.
- Standing Lantern: Decorative lantern for indoor areas.
- Pedestal Lantern: Powered outdoor lantern intended for garden areas.
- Zen Cherry Tree: A vibrant ornamental tree that produces zen cherries in spring and summer, and can also be chopped down for cherry wood.
- Persimmon Tree: A hardwood tree that produces persimmons in fall and winter, and can also be chopped down for ebony wood.
- Crabapple Tree: A colorful hardwood tree that produces crabapples in summer and fall, and can also be chopped down for wood.
Additional mechanics
- Orchard Zone: A growing zone that prevents full plant harvesting and instead allows collection of secondary resources.
- Rough Gravel: A cheaper gravel flooring type that cannot be raked and may also appear naturally in the world as paths.
- Gravel Floor: A gravel floor that can be raked into vertical, horizontal, or curved patterns, or left unraked.
Compatibility notes
Zen Garden Mod can be added to existing saves. As with any new mod, backing up your save is recommended before installation.
Known compatibility notes for Zen Garden Mod:
- Architect Sense: Groups all gravel floors together.
- Kura’s Extra Minerals Mod: Adds gravel floors for stone types that do not overlap with Cupro’s Stones Mod.
- Cupro’s Stones Mod: Adds gravel floors for stone types.
- Medieval Times Mod: Desk requires Cherry Wood, based on the description.
- Survivalist’s Additions Mod: Saguaro Cactus can be grown in an Orchard Zone to produce Prickly Pear, and Cherries, Persimmon, and Crabapple can be used to make Vinegar.
- SeedsPlease Mod: Adds seeds for orchard trees.
When troubleshooting the Zen Garden Mod:
- See if the error persists if you just have this mod and its requirements active.
- If not, try adding your other mods until it happens again.
- Always post your log using the Log Uploader.
- For best support, please use the Discord-channel for error-reporting.
- Do not report errors by making a discussion-thread, I get no notification of that.
- If you have the solution for a problem, please post it to the GitHub repository.
- Use RimSort to sort your mods.
Additional credits: cuproPanda, mantrasong
