Macaws Biomes O Plenty Wiki & Guide

You don't need a special item or station to begin — the mod's blocks are crafted from vanilla crafting tables using Biomes O' Plenty wood types. Pick a wood you already have (such as Dead, Cypress, or another BoP wood), open the recipe book in your crafting table, and search for the furniture piece you want. From there you can chain-craft doors, trapdoors, roofs, and furniture the same way you would with vanilla Macaw's mods.

The most common cause is missing the two dependencies: Macaw's Mods (the base library) and Biomes O' Plenty itself. This addon only adds recipes that use BoP wood types, so without BoP installed there are no valid ingredients and the recipes won't appear. Check your mods folder for both before troubleshooting anything else.

The mod covers the BoP wood sets, which is why you see names like Dead, Cypress, and others prefixed onto doors, trapdoors, roofs, and furniture. Each supported wood has its own matching set of blocks, so the same chair or door shape exists in multiple wood variants. If a wood exists in Biomes O' Plenty, expect a matching furniture line for it.

Each variant is crafted separately from its own wood type — there's no universal converter block. The practical approach is to pick the wood that matches your build, then craft the full set (door, trapdoor, roof, balcony, furniture) from that one wood so everything matches. If you want to switch woods later, you'll need to re-craft using the new wood.

They behave like vanilla doors and trapdoors — right-click to open and close, and they can be placed in the usual orientations. The difference is purely cosmetic: you get styles like barn, cottage, classic, beach, and glassed variants that vanilla doesn't have. Some styles, like the glassed doors, have transparent panels, so plan your walls around that if you want privacy.

Roofs and balconies are decorative building pieces meant to sit on top of or attach to the outside of a structure. You place them like normal blocks and orient them to follow the slope or edge of your build. They're the fastest way to give a BoP-wood house a finished silhouette instead of a flat vanilla roofline.

Hedges are thin, leaf-like decorative blocks used for garden borders and pathways, while bridges are structural-looking pieces with supports and stairs for spanning gaps. Both are cosmetic and don't add special collision or movement mechanics beyond their shape. Use hedges to line a path and bridges to cross a stream or ravine in style.

The bookshelf and drawer blocks are primarily decorative furniture pieces in the Macaw's style, not full storage containers with their own inventory screens. Treat them as visual storage — place them against walls to suggest a library or kitchen rather than relying on them to hold your items. For real storage, keep using chests and barrels alongside them.

It's designed to sit alongside the base Macaw's Mods and Biomes O' Plenty, so conflicts are rare when all three are on matching versions. The usual problem is a version mismatch — if BoP or Macaw's base updates and this addon hasn't, some recipes or textures may not appear. Keep all three updated together to avoid that.

The blocks are standard decorative blocks, so the performance impact is minimal on its own — the bigger cost comes from how many you place in a single area. Large builds with hundreds of furniture and roof pieces can add to chunk rendering load, especially with glassed doors and hedges. If you notice lag, break up dense decorative clusters rather than removing the mod.