There’s a lot of discussion about this in here
I mentioned in another thread, crops tick once per day (already a much longer period than say minecraft) and if we wanted a crop to have guaranteed growth time we have to store a counter of how many days since planted to be ticked every day. For say a 1 (real) day crop (60 game days) that’s already 8 bits, and we also have fertilizer and grades of fertilizer that take up bit space, and without using a huge number of block-ids (hundreds, thousands) we dont have that many bits
Essentially it boils down to the bits needed to count the unsuccessful attempts. There’s not enough space in the block metadata to do it in an efficient manner.
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