Mods / NDL ExpandedGrowth (Coral Growth Module)

Tags:
Worldgen Utility Crafting QoL Tweak
Author:
NateDoesLife
Side:
Both
Created:
Oct 22nd 2025 at 8:43 AM
Last modified:
Jun 22nd at 3:45 AM
Downloads:
4563
Latest release (for Vintage Story 1.22.0 - 1.22.3, potentially outdated):
ndlcoralgrowth_2.2.0.zip  1-click install

About Module:
This is the coral growth module for the Expanded Growth mod series. This module adds a method for growing/harvest coral chunks to allow for crafting of coral cobblestone without destorying your coral reefs!

 

How To Guide (Also in the handbook in game, just search NDL or NDL-ExpandedGrowth!):

Adds:
     - Coral Growth
     - Coral Grown
     - Coral Harvestable

To Use:
     - Start by breaking "Coral Reef" blocks
          - These will drop you 3 "Chunks of Coral" of the given color

     - Grow a "Coral Growth"
          - Place a Chunk of Coral (of any color) into a barrel full of water (50L)
          - Seal the barrel and wait 48hours to get a "Coral Growth"

     - Place the "Coral Growth" down
          - It must have a SOURCE WATER block ABOVE it and ON it to actually stay
               - Note - Water flowing above to on top of it DOES NOT count, both layers must be a SOURCE WATER to count.
          - After 5 in game days (regardles of being loaded or not) the Coral Growth will change into Coral Grown
          - After another 5 days in game the Coral Grown will change into a Coral Harvestable


     - Harvest the Coral Harvestable (with a knife)
          - This will supply you with 3 chunks of coral of that color
               - Your Coral Harvestable will downgrade to a Coral Grown and you will have to wait another 5 days to get another Harvestable Coral
               - If you break the Harvestable Coral it will drop a Coral Growth to replant and 3 chunks of coral
                    - the downside to this is that you now will have to wait 10 days for the coral to grow fully back instead of 5.....so harvest unless you are looking to move your coral farm!
          - Store the chunks of coral or make another coral growth and grow your farm!!!

This method is soley to supply a sustainable way to create Coral Cobblestone, I didnt want to have to completely destory reef systems in order to get a lot of this block, and I thought coral was cool to grow/farm!!!

 

Planned Workings:
     - None

 

Feedback/Suggestions/Support:
I livestream on Twitch or Youtube (ad-free) monday-thursday (6pm est - 10pm est) Typically I play vintage story but on occasion might dive into a random game. I welcome suggestion and feedback on the mod in chat there or you can leave a comment below.

    - You can also join my personal discord channel via - https://discord.gg/6qQZYPU
    - Please use the channel #ndl-expandedgrowth for any comments/chat regarding this mod! (going to be at the bottom of the channel list, in the VS-MODS Category)

 

Other Modules:

Flower Growth Module NDL ExpandedGrowth (Flower Growth Module) - Vintage Story Mod DB
Berry Growth Module NDL ExpandedGrowth (Berry Growth Module) - Vintage Story Mod DB
Tree Growth Module NDL ExpandedGrowth (Tree Growth Module) - Vintage Story Mod DB
Grass Growth Module NDL ExpandedGrowth (Grass Growth Module) - Vintage Story Mod DB
Mushroom Growth Module NDL ExpandedGrowth (Mushroom Growth Module) - Vintage Story Mod DB

 

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Mod Version Mod IdentifierFor Game version Downloads Released Changelog Download 1-click mod install*
2.2.0 ndlcoralgrowth
1.22.0 - 1.22.3
594 Jun 22nd at 3:45 AM ndlcoralgrowth_2.2.0.zip 1-click install

New Features:
- None

 

Updates:
- Coral only grows in saltwater now
     - this is actually how coral works in real life
     - as far as I have seen in testing, coral that is already placed prior to this update in freshwater will continue to grow and be harvestable

Bug Fixes:
- None

2.1.0 ndlcoralgrowth 1069 Apr 29th at 5:28 PM ndlcoralgrowth_2.1.0.zip 1-click install

THIS IS A RESTRUTURED RELEASE!!!!
IT IS NOT BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE WITH OLDER VERSIONS OF THIS MOD!!!!!
YOU WILL NEED TO REPLACE YOUR CORAL GROWTHS!!!!!!!!

New Features:
- Coral Growth Recipe
     - You no longer craft coral growths via chunks/knife
     - Now you place the coral chunk in a barrel filled with water (50L) and seal it for 48hrs

 

Updates:
- Restructured the coral growth blocks (I've learned since I first created this mod =p)
     - They were independent blocks but I merged them into one each as variants of each other
          - Due to this any blocks from this mod (coral growths, coral growns, and coral harvestables will need to be replaced!!!!)

- Cleaned up some logger notification spam
- Adjusted some timers to be less resource intensive

Bug Fixes:
- None

2.0.0 ndlcoralgrowth 319 Mar 9th at 6:01 PM ndlcoralgrowth_2.0.0.zip 1-click install

Updated to 1.22
     - I tested everything quite a bit but bugs might of slipped through, please let me know if you stumble across anything
Recompiled in .net10

New Features:
- None

 

Updates:
- None

Bug Fixes:
- None

1.0.0 ndlcoralgrowth 2581 Oct 22nd 2025 at 9:12 AM ndlcoralgrowth_1.0.0.zip 1-click install

New Features:
- Mod Release!

 

Updates:
- None

 

Bug Fixes:
- None


5 Comments (oldest first | newest first) (threaded | flat)

Nebux, Jun 21st at 7:20 PM

Love the mod just a suggestion have the recipe require salt water instead.

NateDoesLife , Jun 21st at 7:59 PM (modified Jun 22nd at 3:45 AM)
@Nebux: Love the mod just a suggestion have the recipe require salt water instead.

Hmmm yes I like this idea, I ment to do this originally but had just done normal water to get it going and just never made the switch.

Will update to salt water next update.

edit: Updated in 2.2.0 to no longer work in freshwater, it always worked in saltwalter but now it only works in saltwater! Thank you for mentioning!

Nebux, Jun 25th at 4:56 PM
@NateDoesLife: Hmmm yes I like this idea, I ment to do this originally but had just done normal water to get it going and just never made the switch.Will update to salt water next update.edit: Updated in 2.2.0 to no longer work in freshwater, it always worked in saltwal

i think it was a bit of missunderstanding, i was talking about the recipe to make coral growth in a barrel require salt water. i always put coral in sea so i didn't knew that it worked in fresh water

Nebux, Jun 25th at 8:07 PM
@NateDoesLife: Hahahah, ok I didnt even think about that one either. Ill do that as well in next update.

take your time it doesn't really matter too much just a thing that can be done whenever!