The Garden Drone is the flying unit of the Garden Drone Station in the Ala Industrial mod for Minecraft 26.2 (Java Edition). On its own the item does nothing — its job is to sit in the station's drone slot and turn an empty dock into a working farm machine. A station without a Garden Drone stays inert and reports "No drone docked", so crafting this item is the first step toward automated farming. The recipe costs 4 copper ingots, 2 iron ingots, 1 Electronic Circuit, and 1 hopper: copper in the four corners of the 3×3 grid, the circuit in the center, and the hopper directly beneath it.

Once docked and powered, the Garden Drone lifts off the station and patrols every block within a 4-block radius — enough to tend a 9×9 field. Each flight ends with exactly one action: harvesting a ripe crop, planting a seed into empty farmland, fertilizing an immature crop with bone meal, or tilling a free dirt block, in that priority order. Every completed action draws 8 EU from the station's 4000 EU buffer, while an idle station costs nothing. The Garden Drone flies at 11 ticks per block and never leaves the station's zone: it is rendered by the station itself, not spawned as a free-flying entity, so it cannot wander off or be redirected. Tilling and harvesting also spend 1 durability point from the hoe in the station's hoe slot; planting and fertilizing need no hoe.