Growing Weed

A self-contained cannabis growing system for Arma Reforger. Plant seeds, tend the plant through visible growth stages, harvest the buds — no economy hooks, no roleplay dependencies, just a clean growing loop that fits into any scenario.

Features

• Two species with distinct visuals — Sativa (tall, lanky, green buds) and Indica (shorter, bushier, purple-tinged buds), each with its own seed item.
• Full plant-to-harvest loop — Empty pot → fill with dirt → plant a seed → wait through growth stages → harvest mature buds → replant. Each step is a proper in-world action, not a menu.
• Smokeable buds — Roll a harvested bud into a joint in hand, then smoke it. Both steps are in-hand inspection actions.
• In-game time growth — Plants advance through three stages using the game's day/night clock. Fast-forwarding time in Game Master makes plants grow instantly; slowing the day stretches the cycle.
• Live progress check — Look at any growing plant to see its exact growth percentage; a "Check Growth" action pops a hint with remaining in-game hours.
• Uproot with shovel — Any stage can be removed with the shovel demolition animation; the plant is destroyed.
• Shovel-gated actions — Filling the pot and planting seeds require an entrenching-tool-type item in hands (default patterns match the vanilla US ETool and Soviet MPL50). Configurable per prefab if you use a shovel mod with different naming.
• Bud visuals on mature plants — Stage 3 plants have 14 scattered buds hanging from branches, visually distinct from the vegetative stage so players can tell at a glance when a plant is ready.
• Plants sway in the wind — Leaves and stems use the same foliage shader as vanilla bushes and flowerpots, so they bend with the world's wind and keep a gentle idle sway when it's calm.
• Available in every arsenal — Empty pots, both seed packs, and both cannabis top items are pre-wired into the USSR, US, FIA, and CIV faction entity catalogs, so players can pull them from any vanilla arsenal without extra setup.

How to play

1. Pick up an Empty Plant Pot from any arsenal (or spawn one via Game Master).
2. Drop the pot on the ground, equip a shovel, and use Fill with Dirt — pot becomes a filled planter.
3. Have Sativa Seeds or Indica Seeds in your inventory. With a shovel still in hands, use Plant Sativa Seed / Plant Indica Seed on the filled pot — one seed is consumed, a seedling appears.
4. Check progress at any time with Check Growth.
5. When mature, Harvest Cannabis yields 2–4 species-specific cannabis tops into your inventory; the plant is replaced by a fresh filled pot ready for the next seed.
6. Uproot Plant at any stage removes the plant entirely (destroys the pot too).
7. Take a cannabis top in hands and inspect it, then use Roll Joint — the bud is consumed and a matching Sativa Joint / Indica Joint goes into your inventory.
8. Take the joint in hands, inspect it, and use Smoke Joint — the character drops into the game's smoking emote and the joint is consumed when it ends. Standing only.

Tuning

Everything is exposed as prefab attributes — no code edits needed:

• Growth duration — m_fGrowInGameHours on each stage's GW_GrowthComponent (defaults: 6 h → Stage 2, 8 h → Stage 3). Servers can override this without touching prefabs; see Server configuration.
• Harvest yield range — m_iYieldMin / m_iYieldMax on the Stage 3 prefab's GW_HarvestAction (defaults: 2–4).
• Species-specific yields — m_rYieldPrefab on each Stage 3 GW_HarvestAction points to the matching GW_CannabisTop_* item.
• Shovel matching — m_sShovelNamePatterns on plant/uproot/fill actions; semicolon-separated substring list (default shovel;etool;entrench;spade).
• Wind sway — set in the plant materials under Models/Plants/Data/ (Weed.emat for leaves, Stem.emat and BabySprout.emat for stems). WindStiffness controls how much the wind bends the plant; WindLocalBranchLength (0–0.3) and WindLocalBranchSpeed control the idle sway that runs even without wind.
• Action durations — Duration on each user action (defaults: 3 s for shovel actions, 2 s for harvest).

Server configuration

Server owners can change how fast plants grow without editing the mod. On first start the server writes GrowingWeed/GrowthConfig.json into its profile folder (the folder passed with -profile):

{
	"growthSpeedMultiplier": 1.0,
	"stage1Hours": 6.0,
	"stage2Hours": 8.0
}

Key	Default	What it does
growthSpeedMultiplier	1.0	Divides every stage's duration. 2.0 grows twice as fast, 0.5 half as fast. Must be above 0.
stage1Hours	6.0	In-game hours from seedling to young plant. 0 or less uses the prefab value.
stage2Hours	8.0	In-game hours from young plant to mature plant. 0 or less uses the prefab value.

The defaults match the shipped prefabs, so an untouched file changes nothing. Values apply to both Sativa and Indica. Edit the file while the server is stopped; it is read once when the first plant spawns. If the file can't be parsed, the server logs a warning and uses the defaults. Clients receive the resulting durations from the server, so the growth percentage players see always matches.

Dependencies

• Arma Reforger Data (base game), version 1.9 or later.

Fully self-contained — no other mods required.

1.9 renamed the loiter-item enum the smoking emote relies on (SCR_ELoiterItemID → SCR_EAnimationItemID) and moved its preset field to m_eItemPresetID. The current mod version is built against those names, so it will not compile on older game versions.

Credits

• Cannabis plant meshes and textures (all growth stages, both species) — "Cannabis Growth Stages Pack — Sativa and Indica" from CGTrader (Royalty Free license).
• Terracotta clay pot mesh and textures — from a "Terracotta Pots" pack on Sketchfab.
• Cannabis bud / nugget mesh and textures — "Weed Nug" (https://skfb.ly/pvnnT) by Skyler Young, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
• Scripts and integration — Melsom.